Douglas K. dempsey
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Well that may be the prosumer aspect. The thinking, in building an NLE for “the rest of us” would be, default is easy, and those of us who tend toward pro use can figure out how to turn it off. Whereas Joe Consumer shouldn’t be expected to find and enable all the “easy-auto” functions.
Look at Apple’s dialogue boxes. Out of the box, many apps give you the simple box. Those that know better will click the triangle button and use the full navigation and save as window.
Another analogy is the prosumer video camera. Note the All Auto easy setting. Anyone can turn it on and shoot, auto focus, auto exposure, auto everything. THEN if you are ambitious, try Manual or Aperture preferred, etc.
It seems clear that FCPX will be VERY prosumer friendly out of the box; whether it has real depth, that’s what we’re waiting to learn.
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You will recall that Randy said nearly everything can be done by keyboard.
We must assume you can toggle Magnetic on and off with a keystroke, if the UI is to be user friendly, and not “user hostile.”
In which case, as Andy says, Magnetic is for swaps or for slapping together assemblies, dropping in clips and whole sequences (a la “Compound Clips”).
But I agree that manual control during fine cutting is NOT A CHORE and in fact is your final crack at rhythm and timing. And 3-point fit-to-fill is a beautiful thing!
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Hey Juan. We met thru Leitner.
Consensus seems to be this is a stand-alone app, new license and serial #, that happens to be priced same as the old FCP upgrades AND Final Cut Express (no doubt to be discontinued now), to make it attractive to FCP users AND newbies. Only reason to upgrade to FCP7 at this point would be to keep a copy of old FCS as a “legacy” app in your toolkit. -
That’s my point re: Murch. He does like to tack up frame grabs on the wall — but that doesn’t mean he still doesn’t rely on the current FCP Viewer for all of it’s own advantages.
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Are you referring to Murch’s method of tacking up printed frame grabs from each shot and significant moment, on pasteboards around the room? If so, that not the equivalent of seeing a VERY limited number of tiny thumbnails representing a fraction of the film. And regardless, concerns over the missing Viewer have mor to do with a large side by side comparison of shot in Viewer bs shot in Canvas. And previewing a shot at full size for focus etc before cutting into the show. I love the organizational aspects of keywording, etc, and along with that, filmstripping is better than the old Browser, which I have said on Ken Stones forum, “is really just a crappy version on the Mac Finder.”. So the new interface is good. BUT we still wonder if we can easily preview a shot at healthy size, and compare to a second shot, without a lot of steps involving gathering shots into “Audition” and them cutting them into a fake sequence….and STILL not seeing them side by side. It’s a valid concern.