Iain Anderson
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Good to see some AE/PP results. My colleague Ben Balser and I did some FCP X speed tests recently on all the Macs we had handy:
https://www.macprovideo.com/hub/final-cut/final-cut-pro-x-performance-test
He has a new Thunderbolt RAID and I have a slower homemade USB3 software RAID, which explains a lot of the differences, but some of the results are very interesting. But even the complex effects export was much faster than realtime on a modern Mac. A two minute 1080p24 sequence (ProRes HQ, output to ProRes, with Directional Blur, Rain, and Underwater effects applied) took just 21 seconds to export on the Mac Pro, and 41 seconds on a new iMac with a slower drive.
Also note: most of the time, it’s much faster if you don’t render before exporting.
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No, FCP X will do the right thing. If you store your media in an external location on your network, you can refer to it in as many different libraries as you want, and it won’t duplicate your media.
Managed Media, files stored directly in your Libraries, would be duplicated.
External Media, files stored in some other folder, would not.Open as many libraries as you want, drag the clips you need into your new library, and you’ll only be duplicating pointer files.
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Ah, got it. I guess if you’re really happy with the plug-ins you’d want to keep using them, but from the outside, them seem expensive for what you get. Clearly I’m biased, as I create promo and tutorial videos for CoreMelt, but CoreMelt Complete looks like it overlaps quite a bit. If you really can’t find what you’re looking for, the ability to roll-your-own FCP X effects/transitions/titles in Motion is incredibly helpful.
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GenArts already makes Sapphire for FCP X:
https://www.genarts.com/software/sapphire-edge/final-cut
Free trial if you want to give it a go?
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[Giorgio Palazzi] “It was when I tried to lock myself to music FCPX felt like a cold bath.”
FCP X tries to keep most things in “local sync”, such as sound effects with the clip they were attached to. This falls apart with a music video, where “global sync” is more important, and you may not want everything to ripple.
Still, it’s pretty easy. Add your music track as the Primary Storyline, and connect clips to it. If you want more typical FCP X rearranging abilities, select some/all of those connected clips and make them into a Secondary Storyline with Command-G. Connect all your edits (or drag them into that secondary storyline) and you’ll be fine.
Another way is to connect the music track to your first clip, then activate the Position tool to avoid rippling.
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The short answer is that FCP X’s Keyer now works just like Motion 5’s Keyer, with many more options for tricky keys.
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I’ve done one (for another site) that will be live in the next few weeks. Not sure if I can post the link here, though.
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I don’t have the same issues with responsiveness that you report; it’s always been fast and responsive, certainly much better than FCP 7. Though, if you don’t like skimming, you can turn it off. Shift-dragging moves clips up and down without moving in time, and V is enable/disable if you want that.
An interesting discovery someone made recently is that FCP X is quicker to render while exporting (as it uses the GPU) than if you let it render in the background (CPU only). If the render always happens when you are truly idle, that’s a net win, but if it’s getting in your way you might prefer to turn auto-render off.
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In the keyboard customisation window, you can assign a key to a command to copy the colour correction from one clip back, two clips back, or three clips back. Could be handy to avoid copy/pasting.
I have a feeling that there may be a hacky solution for pushing a screen output to a DV camera. Not sure if it’s worth the effort as the interlacing and colour could be lost in the process. Details here if you want to experiment:
https://www.udart.dk/2009/07/30/the-5-video-mixer-how-to-do-a-dv-screen-cast-through-firewire/
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One well hidden related feature is FCP 7’s old feature to copy a color correction to the next clip or the clip after that is present in FCP X. They are hidden in the custom keyboard editor, with no shortcut applied.