Marcus Moore
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That’s odd. I can play material pretty well at half- and I don’t have a RedRocket!
I take it you’ve tried to problem solve this via RedUser.net?
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I also think this is good news. It’s good to have some choice in the market. Even a couple years down the road with enhancements, the magnetic timeline will undoubtably not be the preferred tool for every editor, or for every job. But it’s good to know there’s more than one paradigm being developed.
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Good to hear.
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This is good news. Lots of people were complaining about a buggy 10.0.8. With the next big update presumably a couple months off (I’m guessing now end of October), it’s good to clear out the dead wood first.
Of course, I wish this had been “the” update. It will be interesting to see what the dev team has done with a full year to muck around.
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You can assign unique Roles to individual elements of any multi-channel audio file.
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When you assign Role metadata to clips, those clips become essentially an invisible “track” when placed in the Project timeline.
Using one of the preset Roles like “Dialogue”, if you had 3 people in a scene, all that dialogue is grouped together on export; and when it’s imported into the DAW, it will show up as Dialogue 1, Dialogue 2, and Dialogue 3. If you want more granularity, use SubRoles to label each characters dialogue with “Dialogue Mike”, “Dialogue Sue”, and “Dialogue Phil”. When Brought into a DAW, all that info is brought over, converting them into tracks for the engineer. You can create as much granularity as you want- and because the Role information is carried over to the DAW, there’s no longer need for accompanying emails along with your OMF to tell the audio guy what stuff is on which tracks.
If you’ve done your mix IN FCPX, but need to supply DM&E, FPCX will export AIFF or WAVs for each Role, OR a multichannel Quicktime file.
The biggest issue with Roles at the moment is that the information isn’t being used to organize the clips visually in the timeline. Once that’s done, the FCPX Project window would look very “Track-like”, except that Roles can be multiple “Lanes” deep, or contain stereo or surround elements without them needing to be spread across multiple Tracks. It’s up to the editor how tightly organized the elements need to be.
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Report your problem directly to Intelligent Assistance. Philip is very responsive to import issues, as is evidenced by the number of updates he’s put out for 7toX since Jan 2012 (24 and counting).
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[Gustavo Bermudas] “none of them are using FCPX, or plan to use it in the near future, they use Avid, or they plan to squeeze FCP until the last moment.”
And that’s definitely to FCPX’s advantage. This should have been Apple’s stated goal from launch- “Stay on 7 while we transition to this new platform.” (ala OS9 to OSX)
[Gustavo Bermudas] “There are at least two changes that needs to happen for FCPX to be adopted in post house for what I can see (I haven’t use FCPX much BTW, so there may some workarounds)
1. Tape output from timeline (important to do insert edits)”
Very likely not.
[Gustavo Bermudas] “2. Audio tracks as in FCP.”
Unless Apple does a complete reversal on Connected Clips, the Magnetic Timeline, and Roles- no way. Static tracks are unworkable with the other two. And from my work over the last year, I’m not bothered at all. Some work on Timeline organization is VERY needed, but Roles metadata can solve that problem.
If they do it the right way, the argument about tracks will be rendered moot. Tracks aren’t the goal, they’re a means to an end. As long a audio work both within FCPX, or export to a DAW, don’t suffer- the goal is met. They aren’t there yet (though I do both of these things daily), but again, Logic X makes me very hopeful.
[Gustavo Bermudas] “Well, if it’s not FCP then for certain it’s iMovie 10.”
Ug…
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10.0 was brand new software. You may not like that they did that, but that’s what it is- so the analogy is perfectly relevant. Final Cut will have to prove itself all over again.
They may be able to reclaim some of those inroads in TV and Film before FCP7 usage evaporates completely, it all depends on how aggressive Apple is with improvements. I think this Fall’s release will be a big one (not having had a feature update for a year October). And Logic Pro X points to some great things.
The software is working really well for certain segments of the market, and as new new features are added more workflows will be accommodated. There’s no way to qualify your stance that it will never be used in agency work again, unless you happen to have FCPX’s 5 year roadmap handy.