[Loren Risker]

The names are identical, the drives are cloned.

Renaming the volume so they have the same name worked. I guess that will have to work, but I can see this leading to frustration when I had the drive back.

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[Loren Risker]

[TImothy Auld] “I said that I would love to be able to turn timeline magnetism off, as with Avid and sync locks.”

Just curious, doesn’t position mode do the trick?

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[Loren Risker]

Fewer clicks/keystrokes to set up and use.

I have had excellent results in throwing a bunch of different clips, even mismatched framerates/cameras and getting a perfectly set up multicam automatically. My first editing job was logging and setting slate markers for FCP5. Never again!

I like the multicam viewer a lot better in FCPX.

I like how it edits in the timeline.

And I’m not sure how premiere handles this off the top of my head, but I like how you can make adjustments to the multicam at any time and it carries through all the edits.

Mostly, I find it’s just faster to go from unsynced footage to camera switching in the timeline with fewer keystrokes. Unless it has been significantly improved in the latest CC version.

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[Loren Risker]

I work in both. Right now I’ve been in Premiere exclusively for the last couple of months. I’ve finished projects in both, organized in both, lost projects due to corruption in both, recovered from corruption in both, crashed in both, and gotten paid using both. I miss features and short cuts from whichever one I’m not using, and I both hate tracks and find them very useful at times.

I personally strongly prefer FCPX. For me the 2 most important functions in editing are organizing footage and arranging it. FCPX is faster and more efficient at both of these tasks. I don’t do a lot of animation and I use neither for serious color correction or audio work.

I primarily do documentary style. I also get a lot of multicam footage, which FCPX is a lot better at.

I would prefer premiere if I had a less powerful system, or I was going to use a lot of After Effects. I would strongly consider it for projects with lots of compositing/green screen work. Otherwise I would use FCPX, even for collaborative projects.

I don’t have a good memory for complicated keyboard shortcut combos. I find I am able to use the mouse less with FCPX.

Hope this helps!

[Loren Risker]

In the FCPX preferences, under the playback tab, try changing Player Background to checkerboard or white.

Does it still show as black? If so, then your file didn’t preserve the transparency and we’ll need more info, such as how you exported the video.

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[Loren Risker]

Sorry, I meant to say Spatial Conform. But if you aren’t mixing resolutions then sounds like you’re having a different problem.

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[Loren Risker]

I’ve had this happen through some combination of the following:

Mixed resolution source files
Image scaling set to “none”
Switching the resolution of the multicam after it’s made

Are you mixing resolutions?

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[Loren Risker]

I like editing in prores. It’s faster on my older system.

FCPX likes to auto transcode your files on import. That’s probably what’s going on in the background.

Check your import preferences to change that.

Prores takes up a lot more space, but can always be deleted and regenerated as needed.

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[Loren Risker]

Even if your media is on your external, your renders are going to your system drive. That’s a lot of writing and opportunity for hard drive failure. Until FCPX lets us store our render files outside of the library, I don’t think keeping libraries on a system drive is a good idea.

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[Loren Risker]

I’m sure there is an argument for bigger is better, but vimeo loves 720 and a 720 projects will give you an opportunity to recompose and scale your 1080 shots.

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