[Gary Huff]

[Jeremy Garchow]Select and remove effects from certain clips all at once? You just said you couldn’t. I have also been playing with CS5 and I don’t see that functionality.

You’re right. It’s not there in CS5 or CS5.5. Might be in CS6. Just as it might be in FCPX2.

[Gary Huff]

Craig, you’re still not answering my question. The whole idea is that the industry is evolving now and it’s about the single individual with the Mac or iPad, FCPX, and a decent way to capture video/audio. It’s about the YouTube generation, isn’t it? Content is king?

All that you need is available to start churning out videos like that now. My question is: why aren’t you? Or are those touting that as the future wrong on this?

[Gary Huff]

You’re right, you were touting these “future” abilities of FCPX that currently don’t exist. However, I can do that now.

Why should I wait? Why should I even care?

I also mentioned a 15″ iPad with Thunderbolt. That’s not here either.

And may never be. Not everything is a given.

[Gary Huff]

[Tom Daigon]Sorry bud, but when you make negative assumptions about my organizational skills with smart aleck lines like…

Tom, just to refresh your memory: a) you’re not the OP b) this is what you posted that I responded to.

[Tom Daigon]Its really a bitch when you are working on someone elses project with lots of folders and no familiarity with all the clip names 🙁

So you’re not even correct in this assumption. Seriously, you’re batting .0000 right now.

You better expect a little attitude back atcha.

Are you really this sensitive in real life?

Your use and experience is obviously different than mine.

How is it “obviously”? Based on this one post?

My recent implementation of PrP revealed limitations in its search / reconnect abilities compared to FCP.

And I gave my own experience that if you have everything organized under one primary project folder, that its far simpler than you’re apparently experiencing. I’m sorry if you feel that your assumed experience of mine doesn’t quite match up with your 30 years, but I reconnect media all the time with very complicated projects under Premiere and with CS5.5 I’ve only had to find one file for it to reconnect properly.

[Gary Huff]

Wait…so all those benefits you touted are where you see FCPX going and not anything you’re able to actually do yet?

Let me be clear, FCPX does not do this yet. I imagining some day it will and I will like it.

Yeah, and the NLE I can imagine that we might have one day is awesome too.

If you have 25 clips of “Gary” spread out all over the timeline, can you, with a click or two, find those clips of “Gary” and turn off or remove or add an effect(s)?

At first glance, that sounds impressive. But then:

This is how I envision the Index eventually being able to work.

Ah, yet another instance of a feature you’re touting in FCPX that doesn’t actually exist yet?

Wow.

[Gary Huff]

[kim krause]do me a favor and save this message. in 2 years time mail me back with an apology if what i’ve observed doesn’t come to pass.

I think you meant to say that we should e-mail you with an apology if you’re correct. I don’t think anyone will care one way or another.

[I] don’t know why people get so upset with me when i mention that things are changing.

Kim, here’s a helpful life hint for you: don’t toss around the idea of people getting “upset” simply because they don’t agree with your assessment. If they call you names or pull their hair out or start typing in all caps, then you might be correct in referring to it as that. But if you say, “I think the sky is red.” and someone says, “No, Kim, I think the the sky is blue.” and your response is along the lines of, “Why are you upset with me?!?! Is it because you know I’m right and don’t want to admit it?!” then that makes you look like a tool.

[Gary Huff]

So, Craig, why can you not just go to using the iPhone as the “A” camera. Isn’t it good enough?

[Gary Huff]

[Jeremy Garchow]In what program?

Adobe Premiere CS5.5 primarily.

Imagine being able to sort the timeline as you want

I never really need to “sort” a timeline in the way FCPX does it, but under Premiere/FCP7, I’m currently editing a mini-doc (in FCP7) and I have different segments of the interviews as nested sequences. I’ve been playing with the order and the clips that bridge them with ease. There’s not been another way I’ve wanted to sort the timeline outside of what I can already do.

being able to add/remove effects as you want,

Do this all the time. Click on a clip in Premiere’s timeline, select the “Effects” tab, I can delete it, adjust it, copy it or even turn it off temporarily if I need to speed up the response time of the NLE and it’s a CPU-heavy effect. I find Premiere is easier in this regard than FCP7, though about the same with FCPX (except for the copying aspect which is much quicker in Premiere as you can copy only selected effects).

export only what you want (by Role, or whatever)

I haven’t played around with Roles in FCPX yet, but I’ve constantly had to export either a screenshot of a frame, isolated audio, video segments, ect. Just select the range, go to export and adjust for the right format that I want. I fail to see how it could be substantially faster than what I already do. Only difference is that I do have to be organized if I want to, say, export only video or only motion graphics or whatnot, but I’m organized and so I can just turn off and on tracks to get what I need. I wouldn’t be surprised if assigning the Roles in the first place evens out the time spent with assigning by tracks.

arrange Roles in the order you want to export to other programs.

I have no idea what you mean by this. Off the top of my head it doesn’t sound like something I’ve needed a solution for.

[Gary Huff]

[Chris Harlan]Of course, what do we mean by editing? While I was Google-exploring whether or not FCP X could work on a MacBook Air, I came across a bit of video that somebody claimed to have edited with X/Air. In fact, they head-lined that fact on their blog. It was family footage with four or five cuts that went on for three or four minutes. So, I’m guessing iPad/X will be just fine for him.

That’s a good point. I would say “editing” in these modern times is not only cutting clips together, but also motion graphics/VFX (even if limited in fashion)/color correction. How many job postings looking for “editors” also want After Effects or even Maya experience as well? How often do you simply do a straight edit and leave it at that? It’s super rare for me to just edit.

[Gary Huff]

[Jeremy Garchow]Imagine being able to sort the timeline as you want and being able to add/remove effects as you want, export only what you want (by Role, or whatever), arrange Roles in the order you want to export to other programs.

I already do this.

I should also mention the speed increase in editing.

I’ve edited in FCPX. It’s different, not necessarily faster overall. But, then again, that’s simply your opinion and there’s really no way to verify that one way or another.