[Don Scioli]

Just the opposite. I cut a couple of low profile videos on FCPX this summer, after going through a course on it, so I knew it fairly well. It was a learning experience…not as bad as I thought, not as good as I hoped. When a couple of bigger profile projects came in, I went back to FCP7 and it was like the cliched ” fit like a glove”, where everything felt right, smooth and I wasn’t hamstrung by the stupid new conventions of FCPX.
As far as the rendering time goes, FCPX still takes time to render, in the bkg, but you can’t leave the program either when background render is going on. On FCP7, it’s rarely more than a few minutes on my computer and I use that time to think about my next cut or check email and the internet.

[Don Scioli]

Tastes change. Whats relevant 50 years ago, looks ridiculous now.

50 years, gee, I guess we’ll throw out Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone wit the Wind, Casablanca, Doctor Zhivago, On the Waterfront, Marty, Paths of Glory, It Happened One night, It’s a Wonderful Life,
etc.

BTW, your spelling, writing and grammar…are you, a), a bad typist; b), illiterate or C) Foreign?

[Don Scioli]

I purchased one of the first XF 300’s last summer and have used it for a variety of shoots for the past year and give it 5 stars. I have also used the Sony a bit in this time and find the Canon far superior in image quality to the Sony. CApture to FCP7 is flawless and the lens on the Canon is superior.

Only very high end cameras have the 50mps codec, ie Alexa, red, CIne Alta.

[Don Scioli]

I don’t agree. I speent the summer playing around with FCPX, doing some cutting on small projects and it was a pain in the ass, fits and starts and I mastered the program as well as can be expected in that time. Then we got a big job, I jumped right back into FCP7, and it was smooth and painless, the final product was great, and my clients wouldn’t care if I cut it with a ginshu knife as long as it looks good. We’re doing a big congressional campaign next and FCP7 is the way to go all the way.

[Don Scioli]

Everyone- I just wanted to see how 1, everyone’s business was doing in this lousy economy and 2, is FCPX taking some of the low end business away from the “professional” by making crappy video cheaper and more attainable by the amateur.

[Don Scioli]

Prefs are set to auto background render with after 5 sec checked. It seems to stop if the clip in question is selected by not playing.

[Don Scioli]

Hi- I tried the effect as you had outlined in FCPX, though I use FCP 7 for all of my work. Even though I shot in 24p, and used a 24p timeline, the final result using optical flow in FCPX at 3% was excellent, not unlike what you did. I assume it would even look better shooting at 60i and down sampling at 24p then applying the slo mo filter.

The strobing is the standard speed change in FCP 7.
You can see it at 30 secs. in this YouTube video, https://youtu.be/3DryIEGSOAk

I did run a test and exported some clips to Motion in FCP7 using that version of optical flow, but it was not as good as FCPx’s.

Don

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[Don Scioli]

For Josephus- Your slo- mo footage is superb. When your subjects in the first video, belly dancer, goes into slo motion, they seem to blend into each from, there is no strobbing at all. How did you do this. I’ve shot a lot of footage with my Canon XF300, 1080i @ 50 MBS and at 5% I get stuttering, strobing, etc. Yours seems as if you some how blended stills . It’s really excellent.

Can you share some of your trade secrets.
Many thanks

Don

[Don Scioli]

Hitler or Einstein.

[Don Scioli]

I learned to edit at USC Cinema school using a crappy and clumsy Moviola, which didn’t stop us from winning the Academy Award for the student film FIELD OF HONOR. Then when the Kem tables and Steinbecks came out, I almost died and went to heaven (Spielberg still edits on one). Then video editing with CMX, then Avid, then a great NLE program called Cinestream, until FCP.

The key with all those systems was that the new one was always better, easier, awesome and made work go much quicker. Not with FCPx, it is a BIG step backward, as everything is slower, harder and not awe-inspiring.