John Godwin
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Apple Final Cut Pro X Coin
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I don’t know, free updates sound pretty reasonably priced to me.
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Very funny and well done. I wonder what they really cut it on?
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Banks – “With me, it’s the sheer amount of missing functionality that is the proof. It’d take a mammoth amount of work – two more years by Apple’s (and most other NLE manufacturer’s) release cycle – to add in the functionality needed for a professional editor to fall in love with this software. They’ve stepped away from the tru pro market.”
As a former Liquid Chrome owner I feel the pain here. This comment you made, though, addresses the point I’ve tried to make – I *think* they released FCP X before it was more finished so people could use it for what it has in it now. I *think* they’ll add most of the missing functionality in the next year or two (though I have reservations about machine control, maybe 3rd party?). And I *think* they wanted to get the first version out rather than hold it back for another year or two.
And I’m *sure* if that’s correct that they should communicate that to us immediately. In the meantime FCP X can handle 90% of my current needs, and I’ve been a pro for over 30 years.
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Chris, I don’t know you but I have to commend you for keeping your head. I have trouble understanding why so many people here are planning to jump ship immediately. Seems to me they could simply wait a few months and see what Apple and 3rd paries bring to flesh out the FCP X foundation.
And before anyone jumps on me, I’m hardly an Apple fanboy – I just don’t get why FCP 7 worked adequately for everyone 2 days ago and now is toast, and, yes, I’ve been reading all the posts here. Personally I think Apple released FCP X because it was far enough along to be useful to a huge number of people, and that there will be other features rolled out fairly quickly. That’s just opinion, and I’ll be very disappointed if I’m wrong. But if I am wrong Avid and Adobe will still be there, right? And if I’m right I won’t have spent a long more money changing to a different system unnecessarily.
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Find the thread “a must Read for anyone installing FCP X today” and follow the link to Apple’s instructions. I followed those instructions, including the last part about moving the apps around in the Applications folder, then it was easy to open FCP 7 and keep in dock, then open FCP X and keep in dock.
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Nothing was overwritten on the 3 machines I’ve installed it on. I made a backup of the system drives of each machine, and on 2 of them also installed to a partitioned drive instead of the main system drive. But all have FCS 3 on them and so far no problems.
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I tried this earlier today and it worked. The clips looked great. Hopefully this process is only temporary.
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Never mind, just exported files from the XDcam transfer tool to a folder and then imported that. Clumsy but works.
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So, how did you use the XDcam transfer tool, please?
I’ve just installed FCP X on my secondary edit system after making system clones onto a partitioned drive and an external drive. I can still run FCP 7 on my system, so I haven’t lost anything, just gained what I hope is a new editing app that’ll be added to rapidly by Apple.
An import to FCP X from my NEX FS-100 worked fine, but no such simple luck with XDcam EX cards.
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Peter,
Thanks for the reply. I exited Boris and then came back into it and it started working. I’m poking through it now to see how the settings are selected and then ‘ll try to duplicate the problem/solution.
I *assume* that, if you add one of the “glow” or similar filters, it normally starts “turned on” to some presets, and normally you would see the effect to some degree?
John
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John