[John Davidson]

Abstolutely. We have a massive iTunes database that searches it very easily. The video copilot ones get lots of airtime here so a specific project for them made things even faster. I like the combination approach!

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

[John Davidson]

Thanks guys. Previous post got moderated for some reason but we figured out just to leave the primary storyline with a gap the length we needed and then everything went great. We cut two spots today and we’re pretty relieved/pleased that this works.

One really cool thing was bringing in our video copilot sfx in turned out to be pretty fantastic due to key worded folders. I think the music browser is really good for lots of things, but for quickly going through sfx it seems like a dedicated event just for SFX is perfect for us.

Thanks again!

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

[John Davidson]

You know, I think I figured it out. Just had to make a gap clip the length I wanted and then it all fell into place. It’s a little backwards intentionally editing outside of the primary storyline, but I guess it could be worse. We cut two spots today, so that’s not too shabby.

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

[John Davidson]

According to Dawn at AJA control should be set to 10 bit YUV for FCPX. Flipped the switch and it came right back!

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

[John Davidson]

That makes sense. I suppose markers or blade tooling are the workarounds so you don’t lose your place.

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

[John Davidson]

[David Lawrence] “How well is that “F” key working for you in the timeline, Steve? “

I’m not totally sure I get the joke, David. Is it because if you switch timelines with an i/o selected and come back to the original time line, the i/o selection is gone? That’s sort of annoying I guess, but you could always blade tool your i/o and then trim them as you wanted – then overwrite or insert.

I’m still new at it, but there’s probably a way to use the i/o to make the selection a standalone clip on the primary storyline. Just trying to figure out what would cause you grief by the loss of i/o in the timeline aside from the obviousness of having to reset them.

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

[John Davidson]

I’m starting to love it, which is hard to believe. I love it’s integration with Aperture – suddenly I have all our home movies and iPhone videos accessible to create those family moments that have required a colossal pain in the butt to edit up till now. I love it’s integration with iTunes – now I can confidently organize our music libraries in iTunes for SFX roles and fun stuff like that, right in the editor.

What got me on board was the frame accurate playback of FCPX in the latest version with AJA and Blackmagic. Then we tested the BMG Media Express for digitize, and dang it it wasn’t easier and better than working in FCP7. Now we have even less reasons to use FCP7.

I think some of the other things that have really brought me on board was the re-use of metadata for future projects. We sometimes make a dozen promos based off a handful of episodes of shows – so we’re constantly re-doing clip reels. Add in Motions ‘build your own effects’ options and we’re sold.

Now for the hard part – finding good editors that can work on FCPX. It’s going to be a while before we can be experts at it, but we’re making the switch now. CS6 didn’t do it for us (LOVE so many of it’s updates though!) – but we’re starting to think FCPX can.

[John Davidson]

We’re in the same boat – but I’m finding that we’re all actually excited to get all our new projects into X. Perhaps WWDC will have some hardware goodness for us all.

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

[John Davidson]

Yep. It’s really not a hard upgrade. If you set up a single iCloud account for all four systems, address books, emails, etc – it’ll sync all those things up and be pretty great. We also use it to share production calendars across all the macs in conjunction with a mac app called ‘mindful’ that displays ical information for the day on your desktop. Nobody can pretend they’re not aware of deadlines :).

Lots of cool things you can do with them and iCloud.

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

[John Davidson]

We’ve changed our position on it since 10.0.4. Actually a little excited about all the metadata uses we’ll get out of it.

Probably going to have to preemptively unsubscribe to this post :).

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