Marcus Moore
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As has been the entire topic of this section of the thread, this is all about trimmed media- nothing more or less. It may not be pertinent to your workflow, or usually mine, but dismissing it outright is, I think, a mistake Bill.
And while Mike M, or LightIron might praise FCPX Media Management (and there’s lots to praise- see Oliver’s new thread above)- this does not implicitly mean they’re happy that there’s no trimmed media function available (when it’s applicable).
Actually, I realized last night that I DO used trimmed media, as I suspect many Pro FCPX users do- when creating their AAFs from X2Pro. Why should it be any less relevant to trim video media when sending it downstream to VFX or a Colourist, when we do it for Audio Engineers.
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Indeed. HD space may be getting cheaper, but frame sizes, frame rates, and data rates are going up.
And as I said, digital distribution of media assets will take all this stuff back to zero, especially in places like the US where bandwidth isn’t cheap and hardly ever unlimited.
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I’m sorry Bill- but I think your handwaving of media management is misplaced. And I say that as someone who’s NEVER dealt heavily with Managed Media backups.
Besides the LTO issues that have already been brought up….
As easy as you can say that someone is being backwards about wanting to be able to trim media because drive space is cheap, I could just as easily say you’re not looking to the future, where it will be more feasible to transfer media files online between collaborating members of a production. And here again we’ll be back to constraints of bandwidth speeds and file sizes- and where the difference between 1.2TB of untrimmed media and 250GB of Managed Media will make A LOT of difference.
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No, I understand, and as I said I think they’re only one step away from this with a trimmed media option in a conform. Let’s hope it happens.
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No, Bill. I think he’s referring to Media Managing a project for archiving or transfer to an online house.
Right now you can consolidate the media for a Project- but unlike in FCP7, there are no options to trim the media (with handles).
For my own part, drive storage has become so cheap that I’m typically not bothered about this. Also, some media formats like RED, I don’t think would allow for trimming.
Still I can certainly imagine circumstances where this would be needed, so I think it would be a good option to provide. And considering the road that development has been going down this past year, specifically the updates in 10.1.2 for consolidation– I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s coming.
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No one who’s read my posts or blog from the last couple years would confuse me with someone who’s satisfied with the status quo. After just completing a whole season of a show, I’m thrilled with how flexible Roles are, and how that model streamlined audio in my work. But at the same time working thru 39 episodes showed me where all the holes still are in process- things that haven’t changed since Roles made their first appearance in 10.0.1. If you’d like to see how hard I’ve though about this just read this post here-
https://disproportionatepictures.blogspot.ca/2014/10/roles-redux-part1.html
Without question FCPX is the most immature of the “big 3” NLEs cause… well, it is.
I’ve done enough construction to know you can’t build well on a weak foundation. So my personal belief is that a lot of stuff has been punted in development because of the big Library model switch. I’m thrilled with the results in that regard, so I’ve been willing to cut them some slack with whatever is coming down the pipe next. That said, I’ll be as disappointed as anyone if we don’t see some great new stuff this year.
As for improvements from the last year outside of codec and Library stuff that have really made a difference to me?
• Improved Retiming tools (way better than 7)
• Join thru edits returns (yay!)
• used/unused media indicators (while duplicate frames in timeline are stil needed I’ve found this even more useful)
• “unused media” Viewer
• XML improvements
• “White puck” pervasive selection which saves me tons of time manually selecting items to edit attributes
• improvements to VO tool (auditions & countdown)
• multicam improvementsThose are just the ones off the top of my head scanning thru the FCPX release notes.
What do I want to see this year?
• Roles, Roles, Roles. Faster assignment, use for Project timeline organization, use for mixing.
• Improved RED support- 3rd party GPU support, HDRX support.
• Performance and stability improvements.
• Improved trimming tools
• Motion integrationit’s not a long list, but each one of those is a big job, and in varied areas of the software.
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FCPX had a major feature update 13 months ago, and a minor feature update 6 months ago- and 3 additional maintenance updates in the past year.
That’s active development.
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I wouldn’t try to correlate FCP and Logic updates. They’re on their own development schedules, and (to my understanding) entirely separate teams on different continents
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I don’t know. I think the dream of Logic Pro X as a proper post-SoundtrackPro replacement may be misguided.
Cause it’s a DAW, you can certainly use it to mix audio for video- but all the literature and marketing focuses on it as a music creation tool. So far there’s been no clear sign that Apple intends for it to compete head on with ProTools in the Video Post Sound space.
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Ultimately I think the post-Jobs era may benefit the FCP dev team. Jobs emphasis on surprise and his seeming bristling at specialized workflows may not have been to ProApps benefit.
Certainly we’ve seen FCP X development focus over the last 4 years focus almost exclusively on workflow and higher-end functionality- the very definition of “not sexy”. I can’t think of a single major feature added to FCP X since it’s introduction where the emphasis was placed on “auto this” or “template that”. Even though there have been loads templates added to FCPX, they get no documentation in release notes.