[John Irvine]

Interesting idea, Bill. Will keep it in mind, but this shot needs its scenic truth!

John Paul Irvine
Raemoir
Scotland

[John Irvine]

Thanks for the plug-in, Mark – I’m having fun with it! Nice price, too 🙂

John Paul Irvine
Raemoir
Scotland

[John Irvine]

Thanks guys, I’ll check these suggestions out…I believe I have a tutorial on using the colour correction mask 🙂

John Paul Irvine
Raemoir
Scotland

[John Irvine]

I reckon the detractors will eventually get onboard with it… or jump ship, of course! Not that I really care, mind you 🙂

[John Irvine]

Well, I have to admit to not really understanding exactly what you’re talking about, Wayne, as it’s beyond my experience! But it’s good to hear that FCPX is being praised by someone on the pro side. I actually bought FCP4 about 8 years ago to run on my new Apple laptop, but just never got into it (and hence wasted £800!). But now I’m really enjoying getting into some serious documentary-style film making with the completely rewritten program – much sexier, know-whar-I-mean!?

[John Irvine]

OK, this must be a feature of X that I’m either not aware of or haven’t used yet…. are you dropping the clips onto the timeline from the library or browser, or both? I’m not sure where or why I’d use this function, Wayne: can you expand on this?

[John Irvine]

Ah, interesting – I wonder why it hasn’t featured (yet)…too complex with video? Surely not. So, come on Apple, give the people what they want (please)!

[John Irvine]

I’m responding to a thread from July and I’m not sure if it’s always ‘live’ or becomes live again if I respond, as I’m doing here. Soon find out, I guess…

I’m used to audio applications, such as Wavelab, Logic, etc and am really missing a scrolling timeline in FCPX. I thought there must be a way to have the screen move to keep up with the playhead, but perhaps there’s not. Yet it seems like a feature that would be really useful, so I am surprised at it not being present.

Or am I just working in a non-standard way and everyone else is perfectly happy with things as they are?
I’d be interested to know what you guys think and whether we should be badgering Apple for this feature!

[John Irvine]

Well, I’m sure there are odd things that happen from time to time on the magnetic timeline, but I’m putting my main issue with dissolves down to inexperience. If I find a recurring issue with the software that doesn’t seem to be due to my quirky way of working, then I’ll post it here. Thanks for your input, guys. John 🙂

[John Irvine]

Bill, you are my hero! Just when I was thinking ‘Oh no, I’m going to have to reinstall EVERYTHING’, you come up with such a simple and elegant (and free!) solution – thanks so much! John.