[Jason]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the tip, but I already know how to do it, it just proves how much of a pain in the ass Final Cut Pro is making you do all sorts of other silly things just to do something simple.

Just like slipping a clip, what a pain in the ass choosing the tool, then selecting the slip then pressing the slip buttons. In an Avid you just park over it and slip away. Fine cutting is a hell of alot easier in an Avid just because of these small difference in features!

Even rendiring is a pain in the ass because it can’t render layer by layer, wasting alot of my time.

I think there is pretty much one thing in FCP that is better that an Avid, and that is the fact that you can copy a clips entire filter set and motion settings easily. That is about it. Oh and being able to media manage into a specific folder.

Sorry to keep going on, but I used to love FCP, now I can’t stand to work on it anymore, and I’m sure all the extra pointless clicking will only add to my RSA!

I will certainly give ikey a go.

Cheers

Jason

[Jason]

It’s true, I have used FCP since v1 and it hasn’t changed all that much really, I used to get excited about new releases but nowadays I know that not much will change. What was actually new from v5.1 to v6? Other than time!

I’m trying to think of the significant things over the years, realtime effects, 3-way colour corrector, multicam (which i think has been done badly), custamisable keyboard (thank god that happened).

I think the one issue with FCP is that it is overly complicated, there are tabs everywhere which I would prefer to be seperate windows that always showed me the motion/effects info for the clip I was parked at in the timeline. Maybe a great step would be to allow the keyboard to be mapped to do multiple actions with one key, that would certainly solve the annoying activation of the timeline when I do an insert or overlay.

I hate the way FCP speeds clips up, i think it would be better if the clip duration stayed the same in the timeline rather than changing and moving everything after it in the timeline and having conflicts. Speed a clip up in the viewer in fcp just doesn’t work since it speeds up the whole clip (again this is something avid does better)

I’m annoyed with myself that I only just discovered the open ganging fuction, that would have saved alot of clicking!

Thanks

Jason

[Jason]

Firewire 800 is meant to be twice the speed of firewire 400 which has a speed of 50mb/sec, the 800 mean 800mbits/sec which is slower than a mb.

Jason

[Jason]

Why bother getting the IO when the Kona 2 is only $300 more, the time lag on editing with an IO is very annoying. Go with a PCI card not firewire!