Eric Susch
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How different FCPX is is irrelevant. What matters is how business works. Businesses can’t just jump off a cliff with no connection to the past. They need to do their work the way the client wants, and many times that means building on what they’ve done with the client before. Apple really doesn’t understand business. I can’t believe how wrong they got this release. Didn’t they talk to any editing professionals before this release?
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[Chris Messineo] “Final Cut Pro X 1.0 is the beginning of a road, not the end”
Wow. We all fought for YEARS trying to convince the professional editing community and our clients that FCP was a professional product. It was a long uphill battle. For the past few years it has finally been accepted. Now Apple wants to throw that all away and start over? I can’t tell you how insulted I am by this email.
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I’m surprised no one’s mentioned this but why don’t you just shoot the whole event without starting and stopping the cameras. One sync mark (hand clap, drum beat, flash, whatever) at the beginning of each tape means you have only six shots to sync at the end of your six hour event. Easy.
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Wow!
I took your advice David and I watched videos of the sneak peek. I was very, very impressed with what I saw. Audio tracks that move out of the way, tagging only a small range in a clip, dragable audio fade-in/out, trimming while being able to see the hidden parts of the clips… I have to say the presentation reminded me of Larry’s demo of edit 6.0 at the discreet edit NAB meeting from back in the day. (IIRC You were arrested at that meeting 😉
Seeing FCP X actually work in the live demo gives you a lot more information that any text description. Of course this was just a short demo of what I’m sure are the coolest new features and the real question is how it will work day to day. Some of the hype made me a little nervous like “You won’t ever have to worry about going out of sync ever again!” Really? But that type of reality distortion field is to be expected in any Apple presentation. There’s still some big questions too like integration with Motion, can you have multiple timelines, etc.
Overall though I’m just blown away. I’m really looking forward to upgrading and trying it out. I’m sure it will be a grind to get used to it at first and there will be bugs (it’s essentially version 1.0 after all) but I’m game.
Here’s the second part of the video I watched in case anyone else is interested. It’s the part with the live demo.
https://youtu.be/gAXL7L9fToQ?hd=1
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All ya discreet editors are forgetting the very best thing about the edit undo. Every timeline and bin had it’s own SEPARATE undo history so you could go back to a timeline you cut long ago and still have relevant undo.
One thing that bugs me about FCP undo is that it counts changing the timeline zoom as an event but doesn’t visually change the zoom when you press CMD-Z. You end up having to undo what are essentially phantom events to get to the relevant event that you are looking for. It ends up being a brain teaser …”did something change or do I have to push it again? Where the hell am I in the undo/redo.”
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[Michael Gissing] “The quality of dynamics control that I am used to with professional mixing systems like Fairlight are better than Levelator…”
I’m not sure what your point is Michael. Levelator is designed to be entirely automatic. It has no controls. To say something else is better because you have more control is kind of missing the point. Different tools for different jobs.
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Levelator is amazing. I met one of the engineers that developed it at a conference a few years ago, Podcast Academy I think. It’s entirely automatic. There aren’t any controls so no tweaking which could be good or bad depending on what you are trying to do. It works surprisingly well.
Here’s a direct link from the people that developed it that has downloads for all platforms.
https://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator
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I’ve never actually had a master tape rejected (knock on wood) but I have gotten phone calls about “problems.” Sometimes the QC people flag the strangest things. I remember once on a film project I had a tail sync pop flagged as a “frame not rendered.”
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Select all the video clips in your final FCP timeline and go up into the menu: Sequence / Nest Item(s)… This will “nest” all your video into ONE clip on the timeline. Drag your one nested clip to the viewer and add: Effects / Video Filters / Color Correction / Color Corrector – 3 way (or whatever filter you want.) This allows you to color correct your entire timeline all at once. That way you can set your contrast BEFORE exporting and only export once.
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