Jamie Franklin
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[Peter Chamberlain] “Minimum system requirements
• Mac OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite”I hope this really means “recommended” minimum requirements?
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I have found recently I get pretty poor performance on my mobile rig with that card in resolve when splitting. So I went back to my GT120 and Q4000. I’m locked into mountain Lion though and have a boatload more ram.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Seriously? So you have R11 with lousy playback, “brutal” as you put it, lousy dissolves, crappy titles”
Yes. Seriously.
Thought it was rather self evident from my first. I don’t like the timeline. Shocking I know.
[Scott Witthaus] “and you don’t understand compound clips.”
Ah the internet. Sigh. And I guess you don’t understand how Resolve generates clips. It’s quite obnoxious. Compound clipping is obnoxious. There are work arounds and sometimes it just requires a “right-click”. But when you are gapping breaks, filling holes, after 12 hours in a timeline you pine for a past life of ease in fc7 with a drag and drop.
[Scott Witthaus] “Oh, and a mixer, which personally I never used in FCP7 and hated in MC so I guess I don’t miss it in X. ;-)”
Interesting how it becomes all about you. The mixer is there. Its a good start. I can monitor levels. Assign and it did a smash up job going to SR. Which is still a deliverable in the broadcast world.
[Scott Witthaus] “And how much color correction do most projects need that X or X and plugins can’t handle?”
Not sure what that has to do with anything I said. But enjoy that coffee my friend.
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Already a better nle than fcx will ever be. Tracks.
Mastered to SR with 12 tracks. Beautiful thing. Although going to tape has been getting a lot looser and nonsensical with every release since 8. Expected.
Audio mixer. Beautiful thing.
Edit playback is brutal still and frame fudging has a lot of lag. So much so I wouldn’t dream of doing anything long form for a while.
Adding text is ok. Still a lot to be desired. Dissolves could be better
Film look plugins. Beautiful thing.
Compound clips is just blackmagic effing with me. Go back to the jobsian bubble with that nonsense. Give us a proper generator.
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No unfortunately. I believe since 8 the playhead has become over engineered. It isn’t much of a bother after an hour or so working in the timeline. After 8-10hours it becomes more of a major nuisance than a casual annoyance.
Maybe it’s just me.
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Is it very hard to believe that many people use FCPX and are finding it a better and faster NLE to use than FCP7?
Yes. It is. The timeline is automated and forces relationships. This to me doesn’t really equate to “better” when flexibility is sacrificed. Faster doesn’t = more creative. Just because you can drive faster on rails doesn’t mean you are a better driver. This is why I find these arguments perplexing.
I’m not nit-picking here. That is a structural flaw in this timeline/gui, that, and a couple of i/o points, and annoyances is why 7 is still around. Do you honestly think so many of us stuck with 7 or moved on because they are scared luddites? Are we still in 2011? I’ve tried it. Others tried it. (yes, including the updates. I use it for other small tasks still) And yet we’re still put off by the forced relationships.
Do you think that their real world and in many cases long term use of FCPX doesn’t give them enough insight?
I’m going to call BS on this. This is not iced tea. This is not yoga. There is no epiphany magicsauce here. The timeline is not an acquired taste.
Anyways, I think we’ve argued this into the ground. Hope you’re having a great summer!
j
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[Marcus Moore] “I used Legacy FCP for a decade, and while different, the FCP X timeline construction in my experience saves way more time than it burns in futzing, once you know how to use it.”
See this isn’t what interests me. I would rather have *complete control* over this “time saving!” fetish.
Are you doing anything long form? I can’t imagine cutting a feature on this. I am using it right now. And it doesn’t function without the futzing. THAT is what gives the user control. Not animating a trick or preventing me from pancaking a timeline. How does this not frustrate the user? So who is this *timeline* really for…?I even wonder if you really are saving time scrubbing everything and losing all these heavenly useful controlable, customizable, features in 7.
You really don’t miss pancaking a timeline? Getting a bum clip with god knows what, and dragging it into a *new* sequence and getting that sweet sweet popup…YES, OF COURSE! Problem halfway solved…
Time saving? An automated timeline that has built in restrictions saves time. Why, sure. But now we are arguing something completely different. Robots can make a gibson I suppose…but then…
[Marcus Moore] “You can throw either the Viewers (Source/Record Windows) or the Event Library to a second computer display,”
Can I resize it? Place windows where I’d like? Having PP 2.0 deja vu
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[Charlie Austin] ” How is the X timeline not open? Serious question… To me, if anything it’s more open.”
I have stated whats not my bag. Mags, roles, gaps, compound clips. The ease of use between dragging and futzing in 7 from bin to sequence is still a simplified and open playing field. There are frustrations in everything, but the liberty is just not there in X
Serious question. Screen layout in X. Can I customize it? Bin aka *cough hack* “libraries” on one screen. Sequence pancake and source viewer on another monitor and playback monitor out.
How do I do this in X? I have done the google and no success. Found something that was gobsmackingly ridiculous with mission control. But I’d rather poke out my eye.
Then, as I assume this is possible, cause it is “pro”, after painstakingly finding this solution, can I save the layout?
Edit: I see you can “Show Events” on a second window without any control. Thats something I guess. But not very customizable. And not remotely what I want in an nle
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[Craig Alan] “To say FCP X is broken is vague. It doesn’t work for _______?”
No one has been vague. The freedom of FCP7’s timeline vs compound clips, magnetics and roles has been very widely and (until recently closed system) the cause of a big shakeup in the NLE market. It didn’t happen…just because.
A lot of us had to freeze a system going on, holy jebus time flies, 6 years now…I have to say, there is some revisionism going on here on the arguments presented that had infrastructure panics when X released. Tapeless deliveries are in full swing. Weeeeeeee…but uhoh!, archiving, copyright, international and OMIGOD!!! still broadcast is requiring SR and or dolby encoded Hdcam. Good thing my trusty Mac Pro 1.1 32 bit system running my 667 32bit FCP7 snow leopard dinosaur keeps trucking. As it is the bread and butter next to a Smoke 2015 on a z820. And phew for it.
We are able to find alternatives to Apple now thanks to X, so that’s progress of a kind. But FCP7 is still such an amazing tool 6 years later for a reason. Nothing vague about it.
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The editor was still at its heart an open timeline.