Jerry Hofmann
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Post more about your workflow. You shot with a DSLR? then you transcoded the footage to ProRes? or?
Audio was recorded in camera 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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You can’t use FCS 2009 any longer? It’s not as if it’s not going to run…
That’s my input.. use it for a while yet. The less you spend, the more you make.. You losing clients because of FCP’s situation right now?
Most users will just hold on for a while. Some folks have panicked a bit soon maybe. Since FCP 7 will run in Lion, I don’t see a reason not to continue unless you need to build more stations of it. Then things change possibly.
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 I’d just export the filtered and sped up clip and reimport that file for the drop zone…
Jerry
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There are a lot of missing features, but the start of this is sure points at faster workflow. The mundane is being minimized (logging/metadata). I’ve always been a timeline editor. Put in slop and fix it down in the timeline window, and find all of that faster, and audition is awesomely faster. I don’t like the color, but it’s usable for some things. None of this software is finished. It’s a 1.0 release of a new NLE. It’s not like FCP 7, doesn’t have it’s power either, and so everyone is upset. They had to start over. You can’t write 12 years of code in 3…
I gotta have trimming on the fly, and multicam. gotta have XML out and gotta have external monitoring. I can’t use it with a client. But I have many jobs where the client is remote. Most of them actually.
As I said this is a beginning, but much of what I see there makes X fast. Rendering the background saves a ton of time, and for every hour of footage you intake you add an hour of edit time available.
It’s nigh on impossible to screw up a sequence setting. If you do that you can spend hours fixing it in 7.
I’d not use it for broadcast (no external monitor to see the real deal with without losing a computer display, and two does help a lot.
Gotta have Motion and Compressor however.
If you’re working with 2 hours of footage that’s two extra hours a day available to edit with. This is a lot of time guys. How much time rendering do you spend? The point is, the features you want can be added, and likely will be because (face it, we live in America) Apple likes to sell upgrades… FCP went through 6 of them.
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”m sure they don’t run in concert, the dedicated processor just takes over.
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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Yes would indicate there are users of X in the pro arena I’d presume. Less vocal than the non users LOL…
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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As far as I know, keywords are associated with the Event they were created in, so changing one shouldn’t delete the keyword collection from a different event.
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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Search the help in FCP X using these words: “Import from a file-based camcorder, camera, or device” The answers are there I think. You can preview them, and even select only sections to import.
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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From the time I ingest and finish it’s faster… it’s faster to try different takes using the audition feature. I’m not waiting on a render, trimming is also fast using keyboard commands. Skimming is faster than FCP 7 for sure, as is audio scrubbing.
I’m finding that clip analysis isn’t the fastest thing, but then FCP 7 couldn’t do it. Seems to work best with short file based clips rather than long camera masters.
Subclipping is about the same speed, though they don’t call it that now.
Also like the new nesting thing (compound clips) They seem to be a faster thing to work with as well.
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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Absolutely. Apple has had the intention to build this as a new platform for Pro’s from the get go. It’s not iMovie code for starters, and the metadata is way more sophisticated than any consumer would ever use or need. It’s a foundation with incredible possibilities, but it’s full of missing features that many of us need (me included). But I’m finding it faster to produce a finished piece with than any NLE I’ve ever worked with. Auditioning is way useful and fast. Editing from the cards while you ingest is pretty amazing too. The vertical timeline, new speed change designs et all are pretty refreshing IMHO.
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.