James Culbertson
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[Tangier Clarke] “Is there any way in FCP X to hand off multiple clips and audio and it’ll “figure it out” in the way I described above?”
Yes, it works amazingly well. The key is to make sure all clips from the same camera or audio device have the same ReelID. Then you can just select everything and do a “make multicam clip” using the default settings and it will sync up just about anything.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I’ll miss the crazy urge to throw 3D objects around in a AE scene, but I’ll get over it. AE CS6 is an extremely mature, powerful product.”
Check out Video Copilot’s Element for bringing 3D elements into AE and animating them in 3D space (including Cinema 4D models). And yes you get a perpetual license for Element.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “So the creative cloud can get stuffed, bar premiere – thats the only one I care about as live software.”
I agree. Though for me the one tempting CS next app is AE. But really, AE CS6 will be fine for for now. I intend to avoid CC for as long as possible. Perhaps there will be other options that will appear now that a market is opening up.
Anyway, Aindreas, there’s still time to switch to FCPX… 🙂
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[Andrew Kimery] “Do you have an HDTV in the living room?”
I wouldn’t mind having one. But my wife doesn’t feel compelled to get one since the 13″ MacBook is good enough for her (and for most of the TV shows and movies we watch together it is good enough unfortunately). When I am watching obscure European films or whatever I am banished to my office… which I don’t mind as it has better audio in there anyway.
Tarkovsky’s “Sacrifice” or Wender’s “Wings of Desire” can really use an HDTV (since I cannot yet afford a movie theater in my backyard). But something like the TV show “Midsomer Murders” or “Doc Martin” is fine on a 13″ MacBook.
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[Andrew Kimery] “But once you’ve landed a job in the real world, have a steady relationship. etc., having multiple people curling up around the iPad to watch a movie just isn’t as cute as it was as a teenager, lol. Back in the day it was a TV or nothing but now there are more options.”
I have an HDTV in my studio office. But my wife prefers to curl up in our living room with me and watch TV shows streamed from Netflix on her little 13″ MacBook. We almost never view cable or broadcast anymore, but purely on-demand TV shows and movies. And most everyone I know in the Seattle area is similar (even if they do have an HDTV) in that many have jettisoned their cable service entirely in the same way they have cast off their land lines. But I agree theirre is a lot of variety in how people consume media at this time; options are good.
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[Walter Soyka] “My anecdotal experience is that editors who do not also produce motion graphics themselves are vastly more open to FCPX than those who do. I have no idea how true this may be elsewhere.”
I do a lot of Motion Graphics work with AE (though still primarily an editor), and I preferred FCP7 and now prefer FCPX as my NLE. I find I can do a lot of the simpler things I used to do in AE in FCPX directly (same for sound and color correction). For more complex motion graphics projects the time I spend interfacing between AE and FCPX is negligible. I can understand certain niche markets and certain project workflows needing Dynamic Link, but I’ve never found it to save all that much time over my current main workflows… especially if you make proper use of smart collections and auditions.
Doing more rather than less in my NLE directly has always been the holy grail for me.
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Judging by the history of NLE development, companies will continue to leap frog each other, and we will be alternately ooohing and aaahing for awhile yet.
I’m guessing Apple is at work on their own Apple Anywhere (and multi-user) solution as we speak. I mean they’ve been in the cloud for awhile now so it’s not really that big of a stretch.
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Moods looks interesting but I need numerical RGB entry for times when a DP wants me to dial in very specific adjustments (the kind that no-one else will see but him/her). 😉
Jeff’s suggestion of the color balance from Motion can work for that.
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Disregard. Just noticed the effects showed up in paste attributes when relevant.
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Honestly, I am perfectly happy with FCPX’s built in color correction for most of the things I work on. If I really need a higher end solution there is usually budget to send out to a colorist.
I just wanted the ability to dial in precise RGB values when I get a picky DP looking over my shoulder…