James Ewart
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From my point of a view it’s a wankel rotary engine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine ) in that it’s advantages when balanced against it’s disadvantages make the price of novelty a bit high for my tastes
Ah I remember the NSU RO80 “The car of the future” with a wankel engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSU_Ro_80Thy released it in Beta and nobody ever forgave them. Shame … it was a wonderful car. If only more people had seen its potential.
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Just wonder if they had stayed on course with FCP Legacy where would they stand now with Adobe?
I’m sure I read here some time back that Adobe’s Mercury Playback engine was the thing that made them throw in the towel.
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I would say that the negativity I experience towards FCPX (that echoes Legacy) is irrational and has an agenda. What could that agenda be?
I also know for sure that facilities and broadcasters with huge investments in Avid technology wanted FCP Legacy to fail that X represents an even greater threat to them. They have overheads to pay in expensive parts of town and old kit they do not want to renew until they absolutely have to. A new kid in town is an expensive option for them. They would rather it failed.
As for zero market penetration. No not zero. It’s certainly not zero. Not at the BBC anyway. Okay the BBC is tiny in context but over here people watch what they do. Like Walter Murch it’s seal of approval.
Read the forums and read the vitriol directed at FCPX from various quarters and tell me that does not smack of threatened. If not threatened then what is it please? Why would they care?
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I can’t disagree with anything you say Scott and maybe ‘best’ was the wrong word.
Biggest budgets maybe?
For sure I am pleased Apple decided to upset the apple cart (bad pun sorry) and what is strangest to me is how threatened a lot of people have become not just by FCP Legacy way back when but even more so by X recently. The response has been emotional more than rational. Why I wonder?
What’s the threat? Just learn it and use it.
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I’ve kind of given up with this.
I find Avid counter intuitive but the vast majority of broadcast and high end commercials, features and drama work in the UK is done with Avid and most of the top editors in the UK would probably pick Avid as their favourite tool. Most of the best work is being cut with Avid still.
Who am I to tell them they are wrong?
Sure we read about the exceptions.
Is the story in the USA so different?
Of course it’s a big world.
Is the story so different worldwide for the best work?
… this time next year perhaps?
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The original media is highly compressed and FCPX makes the files more manageable to edit with.
buy more storage or try not optimising media but I find this slows the edit down quite a lot.
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It’s such a odd problem. At first I thought your lips might just be disabled but clearly not. Or gone offline through not allowing the import render to complete but again not the case. I don’t think I’ve seen this anywhere before.
You’ve trashed the preferences and all that presumably?
Maybe a clean install of the software?
Regards
James
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Completely unhelpful for you but curious about the little yellow markers bottom corner of clips?
Never seen them this end.
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Could you post a screenshot? Are the files disappearing completely or are they appearing to be going offline/unlinked?
It does seem odd.
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I would export the Multicam clip and reimport and then sync and add my additional layers for split screen.
If you are using sync clips from the Multicam you could duplicate the master clip onto additional layers and introduce them as split screen as and where you see fit thus saving the hassle of resyncing from scratch.
Actually I’m not really sure you should bother with Multicam at all if they are complete takes. Just sync them up layer them and transform as and when you want to.
Any use?