James Mortner
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Say you needed to conform a 40min programme cut in Avid, master and send to smoke for final legalise and titling. Variety of tape, DVD rips and media files to sort out. Would FCPX be equal to the task ?
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That looks mega-sweet i like
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All true, my issue is more that yes I can learn and get faster. Yes, I can probably do many things quicker than FCP 7. However, outside of very specific workflows it seems FCPX is worse than useless.
There’s no getting around the central issue that I can spend my time far more effectively exploring PPro, Smoke, Hiero or AE to HELP me produce better work faster. Why bother with a broken bit of software that works in some ways and falls down desperately in others ?
This also means its impossible for me to convince anyone to invest in FCPX, no matter how enthusiastic I am ! None of my bosses or engineering people are remotely interested. Maybe this will change over the next few years, Id be surprised if there aren’t a few more tricks up Apple’s sleeve…
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Interesting stuff, look forward to hearing more about this. The facility seems to be self-contained right ? Apart from audio
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[Braden Storrs] “A pretty quick way to do this is to command A to select all clips in your timeline, create a compound clip, set markers at your in and out points, drag to ends of the comp. clip to the markers and export. Then just either undo those steps or drag the the ends back out and break apart the clips and you’re back to normal.”
OK, so just to make sure, I downloaded the trial of FCPX and attempted your instructions.
I can’t honestly see this as “quick”. It’s actually shockingly hard for an operation that used to take around half a second to accomplish. Plus the fact that you have to use undo’s to get back to where you were is just laughable. I know I would get faster the more I used this, but why ? Why on earth bother when many other things are so broken and awful ?
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[Michael Belanger] “As if right on cue I just got a Promedia Academy email entitled “FINAL CUT PRO X IS A HIT !!!”
From the same people offering $3000 final cut server training ?
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Cool, shall go and check those out !
And yes, I agree with your point about availability. I was being a bit pedantic about the 90% part i suppose !
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[T. Payton] “Fast forward to today, and an App that accomplish about 90% of what Illustrator can do can (today’s Illustrator that is) can be purchased on the iPad for a mere $4.99.”
Which app is this then ? Im intrigued. Also, the last 10% tends to mean angry clients and 3 am deadlines…
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Realistically, editing is a verb – it has to encompass amazingly broad applications. FCP did that fantastically well.
The critics of FCPX are not the stodgy fuddy duddy’s, or the luddites: they comprise near precisely the entire body of creative editing raised on FCP.”
EXACTLY !! And thank you
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To think, all those years I thought my work “meant something”…