[John Davidson]

Maybe this is a stupid question, but what exactly in QT7 Pro are people missing that can’t be done with other apps?

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Is it a prores QT? Are you sure you let the QT finish exporting before you dragged it into FCPX?

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Realistically, so much has been improved upon since mid-2012 that aside from using it as a server or a basic use mac, you’d be better off investing in a new iMac with RAID vs putting any more money into an old tower.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Make sure you didn’t automatically fix audio and have background noise reduction on somewhere.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

I should add that Native Instruments has some issues loading applications, but I don’t really use that much so it’s not a big deal for me.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

I’ve been using it for a few weeks on my home system and two weeks on my work retina iMac. Some issues initially with Mail not wanting to play nice, but that’s worked itself out and I’ve been working with AE and FCPX without a hitch.

That’s not to say I’m upgrading all our systems to it just yet – but it’s not a terrible upgrade. Run time machine first, etc. And maybe wait a week.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

I mean, if you want it guaranteed on it’s own mono channel, just duplicate the project – detach audio, assign the roles from the timeline browser and boom that’s it. Then delete the duped project and you’re good. That’s how I would just avoid any weirdness with dual mono or stereo or whatever FCPX exports. End of the day the imported QT video is tied to the audio.

X and the whole dual mono vs stereo thing throws me off sometimes so I just avoid any issues when I can.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Do a role for each audio source. Export as a master file, roles at multitrack quicktime, and then set the two audio tracks to each be mono.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Yeah I did. We have TB’s of graphic elements, footage, 3D model libraries, etc that our Art Director has meticulously organized in KFP. I have tons of show episodes and footage that has been organized on my library. There’s no way to merge them or even share a single project. If you could have two Libraries open at once at least you’d be able to drag drop, but that isn’t possible either.

In theory you could tag each project and all the files in it and then recreate all of that in a new library, but that’s still a lot of work to do.

On top of all that, Yosemite doesn’t handle tags well at all on shared storage, so tagging tons of media isn’t much help outside of KFP. It’s frustrating.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

KFP support just told me that you can’t copy or merge libraries and they have no idea why I would want to do that.

I’m afraid this is a crazy expensive app that is essentially a very fancy finder keyword tagger. You can’t have multiple libraries open at once, you can’t share projects, you can’t import another library into your current library, you can’t move the library at the finder level, you can’t rename the library at finder level, etc.
I thought maybe some of these things would be addressed but I’m losing confidence.

Saying this integrates with FCPX is kind of a joke.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.