Ian Bailey
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Just to add to what Tom has said:
You can’t open legacy FCP projects in FCPX. It’s unclear, but supposedly someone, somewhere is building a widget to convert an XML from FCP7 into an XML for FCPX. You can however import QT movs and other media into FCPX.
There are no capture settings in FCPX. Plug the camera in, launch Camera Import and FCPX automatically understands you want to import DV via firewire. The settings in FCPX are mainly about analyzing video and audio for corrective and organizational purposes.
You can ‘Share’ for web and DVD directly from FCPX. Compressor gives you more options and I believe you’ll need it if you want to create DVDs that loop or have chapters. MPEG Streamclip is a free and very useful media converter and Miro Video Converter is another free converter that works well for a variety of web and mobile device formats.
You’ll probably find DVD authoring software on the App Store, but I doubt any offer the same features as DVD Studio Pro.
The whole idea of FCPX is that it now contains some of the features from Soundtrack Pro and Color. Presumably more will be added over time. If you have all your Soundtrack Pro media installed, you can access it from the Music and Sound Browser in FCPX, but loops can’t be extended as in Soundtrack Pro. I’m currently looking at GarageBand to provide audio features I need: creating music with loops, multi-take recording, etc.
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No advantage with the firewire 800 port, footage from tape is always imported in realtime. You will need a 4 to 9pin cable unless you are using a firewire hub or daisy-chaining via a firewire hard drive.
No specific settings required, but review your Import preferences. Create an Event, create a Project and click ‘Import from Camera.’ The import dialogue will default to your webcam, so choose your camera in the left-hand column and click Import.
The main purpose of Compressor is to export your finished project in different formats for different distribution purposes. Read all about it here: https://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/compressor/
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EPUB 3? What were they thinking? How the hell am I supposed to get that onto U-Matic tape? Damn you Apple, I hate you for hating us pros… etc… etc…
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I suspect you’re old enough and wise enough to make your own decision. Try running a project through the 30 day trial version:
https://www.apple.com/uk/finalcutpro/trial/You’ll probably need some free training to get started:
https://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/ -
As a MacPro user I have some concerns, but I’ve always believed the next model would ship without an internal optical drive and with Thunderbolt ports instead of PCI slots. Here are a couple of interesting snippets I found online:
Mac Mini used for pro video editing: https://bit.ly/qKcvLg
REDcine running on a MacBook Pro with a RED Rocket card in a thunderbolt enclosure: https://bit.ly/rG0TTs
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[Rafael Amador] “VHS and Betacam are compressed analog. Capture that as DV and you kill them.”
I’ll certainly breathe a sigh of relief when Blackmagic releases a Decklink plugin for FCPX. For our purposes importing VHS as DV is not an issue; importing Betacam and DigiBeta is however an entirely different matter.
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Our Canopus ADVC-300 works fine with FCPX. Connected the box to the Mac via firewire and plugged a VHS deck into the box. In the Camera Import window, FCPX correctly identified the Canopus and knew it was an uncontrollable device that supplied DV pictures.
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I would like to think that Logic Pro X will be a showcase of what can be achieved with FCPXML!
Obviously there has always been an overlap between NLE and DAW tools, so I don’t have a problem with more features from ST Pro making there way into FCPX in the future. It would be great to see a return of the Spectrum view along with looped recording and the Multitake Editor. I can imagine using Role assignments, or something similar, to create submixes.
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When you create your sparse image, don’t forget to set the maximum size in the Size field (see image a couple of posts back).
As an example: we use firewire drives that are 500GB in size. To allow for two projects on each, I create two sparse images with a max. size of 245GB each. When they are empty, they are around 300MB in size and obviously grow as media is imported.
I really prefer this way of working to having to set-up scratch disks. The student can go to any Mac in the building, plug in the hard drive, open the sparse image that contains their work and then launch FCPX.
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[Andy Neil] “If the students each have their own Rugged, then why do you have to do anything special for them to use FCPX? Why not just plug it in and let them build their projects on the Rugged drive?”
We consider there to be enough room for two projects on each Rugged. So creating the two sparse images allows them to keep the Events and Projects from each project completely separate.