Lance Bachelder
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Concur – test out the 30 day version but make certain you do a couple of training videos first. To just open it up and try to work coming from a source/record NLE maybe frustrating. But with a little training time and an open mind you may come to like it. I find it much faster to color time and mix audio as I work than in FCP/MC or PPro and I’ve used them all for pay. There are still many missing features but the workflow and 64bitness of FCPX make cutting fun again.
Lance Bachelder
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You’re right about the blend modes being lost on secondary clip. You can use keyframe to fade up/down and not lose blend modes.
Lance Bachelder
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Why not just the good old copy and paste effect like FCP7? Fast and it works. You can also go to your corrected interview and save the color timing as a pre-set in the Color Board naming it whatever you like.
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Anxious to see how good it is recording into something like the KiPro – will it be a game changer or another nice try at video for Nikon? Hoping for the best…
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You’re a nice guy Steve. Some of the folks here including some of the “leaders” clearly have no intention of ever giving the software a try. I’d respect that if they were top “pro’s” but looking at some of their demo reels I see most are pitifully mediocre and their work needs nothing more than the actual iMovie to accomplish.
There I said it…
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Concur – that blog was so blatantly false I didn’t even know where to begin my response so just didn’t bother – but really really sad.
Glad to see the article this thread is about though – It’s funny how all the usual suspects instantly chime in with their negativity etc.
I have to agree that results can be much better with X than 7 – color timing just seems so much cleaner and more subtle, especially on DSLR footage. I’m using a Dreamcolor via Display Port with calibrated profile but looking forward to firing up Kona 3 in future rev.
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Partially correct – blend modes won’t work if you convert upper layer to secondary storyline – just leave it as a connected clip. I did find bug using h264 but and blend modes but had no prob with Pro RES and XDCAM 422.
As far as transitions – this was the biggest new feature in 10.01 for me – you no longer have to convert clip to secondary story to add transitions – any upper clip can have whatever transition you like on it and they work work with blend modes.
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I actually like the Avid interface as well. I like that I can make my bin thumbnails as large as I want as I get older lol – as pissed as Aindreas is at Apple, that’s how I feel toward Avid – how do they overhaul their NLE and make it 64bit and do nothing to improve audio performance? Forget 16 tracks – I had 3 sound effect tracks in MC6 on both Mac and PC and couldn’t hear all of them at the same time without playing over them over and over until it built up a preview I guess. I use more than 16 tracks on everything I do – feature films and animation and need more tracks!!! I’m ready to go 100% MC6 and Pro Tools 10 but not until they improve audio in MC6 – I don’t have time to roundtrip all day and hate constantly doing mix downs which is really just another workaround. Sound is half of everything I do and I need more than 16 tracks, which is really only 8 stereo paris as I cut.
Funny because of this problem, I took a 3rd look at FCPX and actually started liking it since the 10.02 update…
Lance Bachelder
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Concur with leaving rendering off on timeline – the truth is FCPX seems about as fast as PPro with a qualified CUDA card so there isn’t really a need to render until output. The only stuttering I’ve found is using 3rd party FX – all the built-in effects and color run really smooth without rendering, even stack multiple Color FX and sharpen.
Not sure what you mean by PPro being much more of a Swiss Army knife than FCPX – unless you’re talking about how it works with other Adobe apps?
Lance Bachelder
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Quality really depends on how your footage was shot – lighting, focus, camera placement etc and then how you handle it throughout post. Either program can give you an excellent end result.
If you already have FCPX I would spend some time learning it and see how you like it – it is a lot of fun to use and has much better tools than PPro for color timing and output.
If you find you don’t like FCPX you can always download a fully functional 30 day trial of PPro and check it out. I think if you learn FCPX properly you’ll end up liking it a lot in the end.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California