Jerry Hofmann
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X27 does exactly as it’s advertised. Can’t get filters to go across, but in an offline, that’s really not a problem. Once in 7, you could export to whatever for the finish. Phillip and Greg will be developing it further no doubt.
In time FCP X’s XML flavor will be read and interpreted by more softwares but right now, Philip’s software is about all that’s out there. I heard of Cat DV being used somewhat here, but I’m unclear on what it does exactly with X.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
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No doubt there are people that could use FCP X right now. If your delivery is the web, it’s a no brainer good choice. If your delivery is anything else, it’s questionable… can’t view externally.
If you can’t view externally for proper color correction, and you can’t lay out to tape, and the xml isn’t supported by all yet, and there’s no way to output a cut list, EDL, or output separate tracks, (though I think that roles are the beginning of this ability), then it’s not ready for a lot of people’s needs. Most of the national networks still required color corrected broadcast safe tapes. You can’t trust a computer display’s rendition of the picture. Just doesn’t match what that same file would look like on a TV set.
There’s a lot to love with FCP X. I’m using it, and I really like it. I’m convinced it edits a lot faster than FCP 7 does, and it logs a TON easier. But I can only use it because I can use Phil Hodgett’s X27 software to finish a project back in FCS 2009. As of now, I offline in X, online in 7/Color 1.5/Motion 4. Though I’m looking close at biting the bullet, and running with Smoke. (not for the feint of heart I should add, as it’s pricey)
Don’t get me wrong here, I love the start of X. It just needs some time to mature before I and a lot of other people who deliver for “other than the web” can use it exclusively.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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I actually don’t see Apple dumping MacPro’s. I mean, if they are serious about penetration into the business world (which they say they are) they are going to need a solution that has PCI slots in it, don’t ya think? Forget us media types, I’m talking Fortune 2000 companies. If they don’t see a market there that they can penetrate, I don’t see them making MacPros for the likes of our 250,000 person group of media types who need the power of a work station. Heck less than 1% of the MacBook Pro sales go to those registered with FCS 2009… We aren’t a drop in the bucket to Apple.
That said, it was always SJ’s vision to be an end to end solution with media. Create it, deliver it, and (soon I hear) to even display it, if you don’t count Apple TV as the solution already.
Still, that puts us all in a sort of limbo… FCP X, will be ready someday, but when? we don’t know. MacPro’s may well be in their last iteration, who knows.
But do we all really need a 16 core machine? Probably not.. Thunderbolt has made everything cloudy for us right now. So I really think most of the FCP 7 users are going to stay right where they are for at least a while yet. Why not?
I must add here though one little fact. My 17″ quad MacBook Pro with TB is FASTER than my first gen 8 core 3 gig tower… It compresses 30% faster.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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You’re unclear here. Explain the problem a different way. There is no settings BTW that affect the slip or slide tools…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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Post the settings of the file you’re compressing. What is it? DV, HDV, or?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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All of the shots around 3:50 are cuts. The edit between the beach and the interior is the one I think you’re talking about. It’s a cut from a tie off to a tilting shot.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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It will not work out in the end. When you export the sequence, it’s likely to export the wrong footage. You definitely need to transcode all of the footage to ProRes, then edit with those proves files.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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I think Apple might have plans to replace the workflow we’re used to with tracks. You need export of only certain elements right? Roles = Tracks? couldn’t be too hard to make certain roles like music, sync, fx, etc export separately.
But come on… if you were doing features would YOU choose FCP X in a 1.0 release? Naaaah.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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Try mixing down the audio. If that fails, then try exporting it, then cutting that exported file into your sequence.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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The faster the CPU, the faster the transcode… I’ve not investigated other apps for the job, but doubt there’s a big difference in speed from one to another.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.