Jim Giberti
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[David Lawrence] “My experience on my machine is that it has the exact same bloat and compound clips problems as 10.0.1. It’s identical. “
I’m just running 10.0.4. I didn’t want to update till I got a couple of projects out that were underway.
I’ve worked on two spots in 10.0.4 and find it amazingly slower, balky, freezing the skimmer for seconds at a time. If this is a performance update, I’m pretty unimpressed.
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[Richard Herd] “Back in October, this was the real eye opener, for me, that Jim posted: bussing in X.
“It’s going to be real interesting to see how Apple wraps their noggins around multitrack audio mixing in the promised upgrade. A genuine mixer would be such a great enhancement in concert with the group/bussing approach, the real issue being the ability to control all audio, in real time, without having to drill down to get it.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Because you can’t have overlapping favorites as everybody knows. That’s a really significant thing.”
Yes, I would say one of the blatant flaws of the concept.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “In/out/favorite is small potatoes. I’m glad it’s even possible and when you sit down and actually learn to use it, you might see it’s really not all that bad.”
Agreed, while mildly annoying at times, hitting “F” is hardly a show stopper, by comparison to other deficiencies as you say.
[Jeremy Garchow] “Copy/paste attributes is one of those.
Multichannel audio editing is another.
Range based Project export “
Absolutely. I want the X team working weekends to get these and other fundamentals addressed. Like restoring round tripping to Motion. Please. Soon.
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[Jules bowman] “Er, isn’t this revisionism? There is no FCX 1.0 They called it Final Cut Pro Ten, because y’know X is cool and apple are cool.
“Actually it’s a typo.
It should have read 10.0
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[Jeremy Garchow] ”
But whatever works for you.”Bingo Jeremy.
And if I were Apple’s advertising firm I’d use “Whatever Works For You” as the slogan for the new “FCPX 2.0 Introducing Optional Tracks” release. -
[Jeremy Garchow] “Because you need that music to land exactly at 1:30?
If that music is the constant, it should go in the primary, at least that’s how I would work if it made sense.”
You’re definitely not getting my point.
Because I want one element or another of a story to maintain a fixed position, in no way means I want it to define the constant. It’s just A constant, one of many fixed points and segments, like in the editing we always did before FCPX.[Jeremy Garchow] “The primary is time. Control the primary, you control time.
“Which is fundamentally limiting in what should/could be an unrestrictive creative environment. The Primary can be time. But other places above or below can also be fixed in time relative to 0, completely ignoring the Primary as god, with the littlest of evolving on Apple’s part.
I simply don’t like being limited when it’s completely unnecessary. All the goodness of X is there, it’s simply better in many, many scenarios. It’s a forward move not a retreat.
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[Oliver Peters] “[Jim Giberti] “but a simple “Add Unconnected Secondary” command and a Make Current Secondary Target” button would do nicely.”
YES!
“And with that, I’m off to the tequila.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I see what you’re saying, but if you need the music to stay at 1:30, why not just put it in the primary @ 1:30?
“I’m speaking to the FCP7 model that so many editors are used to, where various audio elements go below a Video Track 1 and stay there unless you want to move them.
Why would I want to put a simple music track that supports my story on the Primary? It’s just another audio effect in that regard. In so many instances film isn’t being cut to the music track but the music cues begin and end at certain fixed points relative to the story (or for the full bed in the instance of TV spots) and you want it t stay there for all the reasons you want anything to stay in place.
And then there are the times when you want things to travel together which X does very well.
But it doesn’t do both, without unnecessary manipulation. But it could and, obviously in the opinion of many editors, should. -
[Walter Soyka] ”
By the way, I think your method is a brilliant — a truly elegant hack to fit a traditional timeline into FCPX’s structure and seemingly arbitrary container restrictions. I wish Apple had built this in, per Mr. Lawrence’s multiple primaries. I do believe we could have the best of both models coexisting within FCPX.”You’re far too thoughtful and reasonable Walter but I’m sure you’ve been criticized for that before .
I certainly won’t claim any brilliance, (at least not for this) but I do wonder if Apple won’t just make some simple menu addition to accommodate the general idea.
The other simple menu addition that would level this out would be a dedicated track assignment. In other words if you had unconnected Secondaries in this model, you could select them once and until you deselect them, all edits would default to that “track” rather than the Primary and rather than the need to select the secondary for every edit.
It could even be a preference setting, but a simple “Add Unconnected Secondary” command and a Make Current Secondary Target” button would do nicely.
Very simple adjustments like this would make the experience very intuitive again for FCP7 users and require nothing from a technical or foundational standpoint.