Marcus Moore
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Agreed completely.
And I don’t think a market with one, Highlander-like, NLE is what anyone should want.
Competition breeds progress.
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That’s good to hear. Did the MacPro come up in your conversation at all? I know they’ve been reinforcing it’s release with others who they met with.
From what others have reported, there certainly doesn’t seem to be any confusion about where it is or is not a “MacPro”. Maybe these guys don’t know so they’re just calling it that.
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During my FCPX Level 1 certification course at NAB, I came to the same conclusion about the timeline index.
In this scenario, the process is even simpler than described. Just use the search tool to find all instances of a specific clip or interview subject; then just Command-A all clips and then Paste Attributes.
A great expansion to this would be to have all clip metadata searchable in the timeline index filter tool- to search for clips in the Project with certain keywords, or shot on a certain camera, etc., etc…
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Small-scale remote workflows is definitely where I’d like to see things go. I participate simultaneously in 3 different “virtual post houses”, and based on how effectively we’ve been able to pilfer clientele from more traditional agencies due to their large and inefficient overhead, I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Adobe Anywhere might be a few years away from being downscaled to business on my scale, and there’s been some code-level hints that FCPX has some collaborative workflow tricks up it’s sleeve- but those are all speculative for now.
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I’ve said for some time now that the software will technically ready long before the PR damage has been fixed.
Part of that will be put to bed [for good or ill] with the release of the new MacPro this year. But for the software itself, it’s going to be a steady stream of incremental improvements just as it has been up to now. I don’t think anything needs to change on the development side.
On the PR side, however, Apple needs to get in the game. First off, these “In Action” stories need to be videos. You’re talking about visual storytelling- tell your story visually. Next- the return of Apple roadshows. After the next major update, Apple should be pounding the pavement touting not only NEW features, but also all the stuff that FCPX has done for some time that no one seems to know about.
As for the public roadmap, there was always going to be an end to this. As long as they were reintegrating Legacy functionality, they weren’t giving anything away by listing that past features were returning. But key features going forward are more likely to be new [or heavily rethought], and so there’s no chance Apple will be announcing them beforehand.
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Exactly. And from what Blackmagic says, that change can go back to the FCPX edit, so you still have offline continuity.
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I’m not sure how you’re getting the results you do, but both the “Maintain Timing” and “Stretch to Fit” options work consistently for me as far as pasting keyframes is concerned.
But again I think we’re at cross purposes. Replace is for when all you want to do is replace the media of one clip in the timeline. Paste Attributes has always been, for me, about copying setting/effects from one timeline clip to one/several others.
I would love to get that Option-drag function in X, for all the reasons you use it. But that’s not what I use Paste Attributes for. Though in my everyday workflow, I’m primarily using Replace to switch out evolving Graphics elements. For that, X’s replace works just fine.
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That’s good stuff. Most of this seems to be covered in the “Replace” dialogue in FCPX when dragging clips from the Event browser. Except for Replace with effects/settings. But I would like to see that for sure.
To be clear, I think Replace and Paste Attributes are for entirely different use cases. Replace is for Event/Source clip to Timeline operations, while Paste Attributes is for Timeline to Timeline use cases.
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That’s good to know. I didn’t realize clip/range selection was shown down there. Handy when you won’t want to keep the Inspector panel open all the time.
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Yup. HUD is an integral part of of quick access to effects and layer properties.