Ethan Young
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OK, I have figured out the best workflow for this. After I complete a FCPX project for a client I follow this workflow on my Mac:
1. Export master file from FCPX
2. Use Compressor to encode it for a DVD but choose DISK IMAGE (Hard Drive) in the JOB ACTION>OUTPUT DEVICE setting instead of burning a disc. This creates a disk image (.img) file that I can store to quickly burn extra discs in the future.
3. Use compressor the same way for the Blu-ray version (create disk image)
4. Use Toast 11 to burn the discs. Toast has a feature that allows you to create a disc directly from a disk image.
I find this to be the easiest way to handle additional orders without needing to re-encode or anything.
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I love this plug in. Now even better, thanks for the continual refinements.
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Brendan, btw I’ve already used your power window blur/highlight effect in a pro project that is going to press today, really enhanced the shot.
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I agree, especially since they tend to become refined through several versions. It would be nice to have an inventory somewhere on here that stored all of the latest versions in a searchable index. It would be a shame to have people reinventing the wheel six months from now.
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FCPX just appears amateur and barren on the surface. The fact is the underlying platform upon which it is designed is what will make it the future of editing. Apple seems to realize that some incredible bells and whistles will be coming out in the form of plugins and third party hardware (which is already happening). FCPX and Motion 5 are very easy to design for.
Within 1 year it will eclipse Avid and Adobe. The only ones to suffer in the interim are the very high end post houses, they’ll come around.
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Very insightful, a definite must read for FCP7ers
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locked and loaded in my library.
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[Brendan Gibbons] “Now to think of the possibilities…. “
Yeah…I’m beginning to think that Apple knew exactly what they were doing when they released the seemingly amateur and barren FCPX, they knew that they had constructed the perfect platform that brilliant designers could add to with an array of possibilities. It will be fun to see what plugins emerge for FCPX in coming months.
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Wow Simon, that’s brilliant! I don’t know how you worked it all out, but this filter is packed with great controls, especially the OCS. After playing around with it I see all the panels can also be set to fade out together (offset control – that’s magical). Change width of gaps, scale image…I’m very impressed. Both you and Brendan’s filters will be very useful, thank you thank you thank you!
If you could easily output a 4 and 3 panel version that would be cool, too.
Cheers to both of you, I’ll be first in line to purchase your upcoming bundles of FCPx plugins!!
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I love that you can scale the entire image and it retains all of the filter effects, this is going to save so much time. The timings are perfect on the fades. A sister filter with a slower reveal time may be handy as well.
Also, I don’t know if it’s possible with the masks, but something that could really be useful is the ability to quickly place each gap where you want it to be (between people, objects) and have it retain its size, so all the gaps were always uniform. However, the controls you have now do the job fine with a bit of eyeballing.
I wonder if there is a way to assign the position of the right side of panel A and the left side of panel B in one control… These are definitely mathematics I am not qualified to contemplate!….on that note, can you set the original gap width a tiny bit smaller?
I really appreciate you and Simon for being so innovative and willing to share your talents. You guys are putting out some really good stuff.