Julian Bowman
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In case anyone else comes in here and wants a favourites folder, after googling I found a workaround that is pretty decent via another Cow post:
“One solution is select your effect, right click and open in motion, then save as with a new name back into Final Cut into a new grouping called “Favorites”. Works great.
Best,
Geoff”This does indeed work a treat.
And to the post above, yep, search in FCP7 would have been great and I wanted it on many an occasion. But giving us search without giving us favourites is one step forward, one step back. Surely one step forward… ta da!!! further forward, would be better.
And to be honest it isn’t about wanting X to be like 7, it is about wanting X to offer features that are so obviously sensible that they became a big part of why 7 was so great, and why I didn’t move to CS6 in the end.
I think the argument, it isn’t like 7, when X is challenged on things it doesn’t do but 7 did is a tad pointless. Ok, I accept apple did the dirty on 7 and wanted to make X, but I can’t accept that obvious quality of life features have been removed and that makes X better because X is different.
Favourites folder, even via keywords, it is so obvious.
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First comment is redundant. I am forced to use something other than my desired platform due to said platform being EOLd and my having to consider the future. Plus if something is idiotic in some areas but you like it does that mean the stupid elements should just stay rather than being mentioned and addressed?
It’s like me saying if you think FCPX 10.0.7 is so great, don’t ever upgrade.
Yes the plugins are listed first by the set they are from but that still leaves a huge list of sets followed by a huge list of plugs in most sets.
Favourites are neatly organised by each individual based on their usage and speed up the editing process and reduce mental clutter whilst trying to focus on the edit.
FCPX is championed for its organisational abilities, and keywords are mentioned a lot by people, so why can’t they add keywords to filers, transitions etc and make an additional area in the filters section called favourites inside which are our keyword folders containing the plugins we selected.
Then bingo, sorted. See, a viable solution, and yet you’d rather I just left the disco because I said the bar shouldn’t have every drink available on the front of the counter. This way you can get your WKD with far less headache.
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Excellent, many thanks Charlie will get their update as my plugins are older than fcpx.
Thank you.
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Indeed it does. But not, it would seem, more efficiently.
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Really? Really? I have 100s of filters, transitions etc. I seriously have to navigate the whole mess of them each time I want to add a transition? That is truly idiotic. FCP7 had it and that has EOLd because it is deemed antiquated. What is the logic in not enabling us to streamline our filter use from the 100s on there.
Sorry, that is just plain stupid. There is no way to dress that up as more efficient or evolutionary.
Only a day in and I miss final cut pro 8 more and more. I really wanted to try. I have to given 7 will get broken at some point in the not too distant future, but what sort of sadism is this. Or do they believe their demographic will only want to use page peel and dissolve?
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Am off it now but I think thŵt makes sense, cheers, will try it tomorrow. Appreciated, that one was proving frustrating.
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Sure, I get that, but it doesn’t stop it being stupid. Or at the very least a lazy over sight. It seems a tad off it hasn’t been rectified when a big alleged boon is how streamlined and clutter free it is meant to be.
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but skimming means you cannot actually look at the footage, as in see and hear in real time what is going on to select the bit you want, you have to hit play, and every time you jump.
on the timeline you can hit play and jump and it keeps on playing so why won’t they put it on the viewer like that, especially as it worked that way on FCP7?
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“The only way to remove the drives is to unmount them at the finder level before you launch FCP. ”
but that is just stupid. obviously i’m not going to unmount a dozen drives/partitions each time i use FCPX and having them show up without even a choice to hide them from view is, er, well just stupid.
Is there any logic behind that or just a lack of thought that perhaps some people who will use it aren’t running it on a mac book pro with a single drive?
Hmmm. Dear oh dear.
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found it and done it. cheers