Marcus Moore
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This is indeed a hard one to call. To the overall user-base of X, audio export to a DAW might only be needed by a small percentage. If that’s the case, are those users better served by a dedicated plugin supported by a company who’s keenly invested in it’s improvement.
On the other hand, FCPX is the only of the “big” NLEs to not support OMF/AAC export natively.
On the other hand it’s also cheaper than AVID or Premier.
Is that functionality waiting in the wings to “Sherlock” X2Pro? Or is Apple content to let specific workflow requirements be satisfied by 3rd parties.
Only time will tell, I suppose…
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Aindreas’ stance on FCPX has seeming softened as the bloom has come off the rose on Adobe.
Many people’s concerns and criticisms of the software can be valid, as it still isn’t well suited to some workflows. But the critics are kidding themselves if they think those issues aren’t going to be addressed, and the software won’t continue to mature.
No one can seriously believe that no matter how badly bungled the FCPX launch was, that people won’t consider it when it meets their needs again. Was it really that long ago that people forget Premier was the red-headed “unprofessional” whipping boy? Things change. And people who hold a grudge forever against any company that makes a mistake are going to find themselves either quickly running out of options or changing software way more frequently than anyone should want.
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[Oliver Peters] “Timeline scrub bar under each window, especially when Event Viewer is open.”
I’ve read this a few times and I wonder about how it mucks with the existing UI.
Right now, skimming clips occurs whenever you mouse over them passively- and that clip shows up in your Viewer (or Event Viewer) window automatically. No clicking required.
The action your describing would necessitate having to actively click on a clip (or double click ala Legacy FCP) to “load it” in the Event Viewer. So is this clip then “locked” in the Event Viewer until you disengage it? Otherwise as you move your mouse from the clip in the Event Browser over to the Event Viewer, you’re sure to pass over other clips- what happens? Is skimming disabled until you release the active clip in the Event Viewer? As I said I think it poses some UI problems.
If I need to quickly get a longer filmstrip of a clip, I click on the clip in the event viewer and use CMD+OPT+2 to jump to the list view which gives me the longer filmstrip, then I just use CMD+OPT+1 to jump back to thumbnails when I’m done.
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As I said, I’ve had very few issues with stability and performance, so features are more top of mind for me; but I agree that those things should take priority if they’re ongoing concerns for others.
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So you’ve said. Let’s home 10.0.9 comes soon.
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Have you contacted Apple about this?
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The low-haning fruit in terms of feature development is-
• Expansion of ROLES as a means to improve timeline organization and facilitate audio mixing.
• Collaborative editing- improving the sharing of Events and Projects between editors
• Motion integration- whatever new form round-tripping will take
• Better project versioning
• Backups- I’ve never lost any meaningful amount of data, but some people seems to have real issues. This should be rock solid. As much redundancy as necessary. -
Agreed- Apple is positioning the MacPro to sit on the desk. I guess I meant to say all add-ons can be (via just a few TB cables) shunted to an equipment closet or another room.
And I think I’ve read there are even longer cables available now. 20-30 meter or so I remember.
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That’s true. But Pro environments have been dealing with keeping the hardware “out of sight, out of mind” for years now. In a real client oriented suite, all the real gear is hidden away save monitors, keyboard and any other control surfaces.
And thankfully the price on TB cables has come down. A 2m cable is 40 bucks, which easily gets the peripherals into a soundproof/vented box, or thru the a wall into an equipment room. And let’s not forget you don’t need a long cable for every external device; only devices that eat the bandwidth on a controller [a RedRocket card], or when you reach your maximum chain length of 6 devices. Right now a short .5m cable still costs you $30. I hope we’ll see even shorter lengths at presumably lower prices for daisy-chaining. Like Elgato’s 1.5ft cable but for $15-$20.
As I’ve been saying elsewhere, I think the flip-side to the cabling issue is that every user gets the raw horsepower in the MacPro- whether they need very little expansion (video I/O and external storage), or they have 36 TB peripherals and max out the ports.
And while it would be great for TB2 to be able to support 16x PCIe cards, with the GPUs internal, I’m not sure I see what other cards need that kind of bandwidth.
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Why? What issues are you having?