[John Spirou]

We have all kinds of media… from Digi beta , XDcam, dv-hdv, tapless formats too from HDSLR , .movs from graphics etc.

You can have all this in the new FCPX , we do capturing from Digi Beta with Black magic – Aja and the we can import them in FCPX too .

We dont throw our FCP or Avid or Premiere (we own all of them) .

Our graphics department like to use Adobe suit, editors like Avids, i like FCPx now.

[John Spirou]

Its a BETA driver…. wait for a while.

[John Spirou]

PRO doesnt mean Hollywood production…. Means that people earn money from it!
Just that…. Nothing else.

I am a PRO ,i work in a big TV station and i never use EDL, XML etc…so i dont want them.
I dont to pay for them

If i would , i coud buy Automativk duck or anything else comes out .

Tape recording and external monitoring will come from Aja – black magic , matrox etc… Its not Apple fault.

[John Spirou]

My wokflow is like yours, i have compount clips inside a project , call them sequenses, but i dont care about music, graphics, photos …. O organize them in itunes, iphoto or aperture.
They are all available right away in the lower left browser …
No need to take space in events library.

This is way simpler, quicker and i make this for several years now.

[John Spirou]

First , i dont ever transcode.
My MBP is very fast and i cant see any difference in quality .
On the contrary, if you transcode with any program, there will be a small loss in quality.
If you have a fast machine (i have i7) you dont need to.

[John Spirou]

What do you mean 64 bit boot ?

In your activity monitor , Motion and FCPX arent 64 bit already ?

[John Spirou]

I dont have any problem doing native edit and CC .
I did many video clips for TV with Premiere CS5 until now and no problem at all.

If you want to transcode, you can do that, and until the transcoding ends , you can keep working with native files.
Its transparent to the user, you dont have to do anything.

Make the rough cuts, basic editing, titling , audio mixing etc… and then you can do some more precise CC with the Prores files.

[John Spirou]

You dont have to transcode anything (if its supported natively ).
I do a lot of imports of .mov , .h264 etc and no need for transcoding.

Even if i have to, you dont have to wait , you just work with native files and when transcoding is done , you just continue to work.

[John Spirou]

Exactly , different wrapper… its not transcoded.
Same with dslrs… no problem.

[John Spirou]

I like more FCPX philosophy…because you can have ALL of your nedia in EVERY project.
Thats the beauty of it.
Why cant i have music from my itunes , photos from my Aperture, and videow from everywhere if i want ?
If you dont just dont expand the events you dont want.

Also , you can have multiple sequences, in a more clever way.

In a project, just select some footage in the viewer and right click New compound clip. Rename it for example Sequence1.
Select other footage, do the same , rename it Seq2, so you can have as many seqs you want.
Double click in any Seq clip you want and Voila !!!
You have multi seqs in one project.
You can even, rename, delete, copy-paste, make them Compount again etc…

Much more versatile than FCP 7.