[Greg Gilpatrick]

Based on what I see in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rSnqR1bs7s

FCP X and Motion 5 have the same basic Keyer but FCP lacks the Advanced options.

[Greg Gilpatrick]

There is a Keyer in the FCP X effects browser. I don’t have Motion 5 but it looks like it is the same one pictured on Apple’s Motion web page. Even if it is not, I think it does a pretty good job, at least for stand-in comps.

[Greg Gilpatrick]

Thanks everyone for all your comments.

I guess I hit a nerve here. Its good to see a constructive discussion on the subject of FCP X.

When I finally wrapped my head around the concepts of tagging, smart collections, and the timeline browser, I got really into it because of the ability to filter items items in the timeline based on their metadata and properties. Just changing the name of the item like you suggest Jeremy is okay but not really a solution. Consider a situation where you have to edit a version of your show for English and Spanish speaking audiences. Some of your sound effects might be applicable for both but some SFX that would be applicable for only one language or another (if there were crowd chanting in the soundbed, for example). They could both be given a tag of “SFX” but one version could also be given a tag of “English” and another could be tagged “Spanish”. And the great thing is that you could actually accomplish this today with the current version of FCPX, its just so frustrating to realize that you have to be super careful to tag everything before you edit it. Oh well. Time to fire up the “Send Feedback”….

Thanks for reading my ramblings….

[Greg Gilpatrick]

Thanks Liam for the reply (you have a great website, by the way)

I went ahead and bought FCPX and I’m pretty impressed overall. If anyone else is wondering if you can import image sequences into FCPX, you cannot – at least as far as I can tell. It really is a shame, I figured that since they put Image Sequence front and center as an export setting, you’d be able to import an image sequence. But, alas, I can’t. It would be great to be able to select a clip from your edit, export it as an image sequence, work on it in Nuke or whatever and then replace the clip in your timeline with a new image sequence without having to utilize the color-shifting devil that is Quicktime.

If anyone from Apple sees this, if you do decide to add this feature, please do it the way it is designed in Flame/Smoke and Nuke where a sequence can be collapsed into a single item in the file browser and not the lame way it is in After Effects where you see all the files in a sequence and select the first file.

[Greg Gilpatrick]

ahhhh… that would explain it. Thanks!

[Greg Gilpatrick]

Turns out the camera didn’t remember my 30p setting in the menu and reverted to 24p for some reason. Sorry to waste y’alls time.