[Mark Dobson]

If you ctrl click the effect you want to remove from within the Effect Browser it will give you the option to reveal in finder. The self created color effects are found in Library_Application Support_Pro Apps_Effect Presets.

Ctrl Click again gives you the option to trash the effect.

[Mark Dobson]

Some folks have mentioned the affect this update will have on 3rd party developers such as Mobject but lets spare a thought for Coremelt who have just had the legs cut off their SliceX plugin with most of the functionality having been replicated by the masks update included in 10.2.

However as demonstrated in Ripple Trainings overview of this update Apple’s offering relies on manual tracking and adjustment of masks through keyframes, whereas with Slice X, powered by Mocha, you just draw a shape and hit track.

[Mark Dobson]

Color Finale compliments this re upgrade – not last by sitting next to in the fx browser

[Mark Dobson]

How silly – there is an update and maybe all the bugs are squashed.

[Mark Dobson]

Yes – the heading got me reaching for the App Store icon – bah

I’d forget new features and sort out old ones such as the event browser thumbnails changing size very time you go off to have a cup of coffee and if you are in list view have every thing revert to a default state when you open another folder and come back to the one you were just working with.

But moaning apart I’d like GoPro to build an internal app that incorporated their GoPro Studio software within FCPX. As hard as I try I just can’t emulate the superb result it produces out of Protune files.

[Mark Dobson]

1 million + !

That’s a lot of people enjoying themselves and a big lump of Mac computers.

[Mark Dobson]

[Marcus Moore] “I wonder what AVIDs growth looks like at this stage? As the most mature product in the most mature markets, I’d certainly expect their growth to be far less than FCP X or Pr.”

Is there any way of finding out how many copies of FCPX have actually been sold since launch?

[Mark Dobson]

Can’t argue with any if that – a good summary of the NLE state of play.

I’ve no desire to use Premiere Pro but having been opposed to the Adobe subscription model on principle I’ve now succumbed to the photographic offer, Photoshop + Lightroom for £7 per month based on paying an annual fee. It was irresistible and its great to have the latest version of photoshop sitting in my applications folder having struggled to use pixelmator to do any professional work.

What influenced me was Apples announcement that there would be no further development for Aperture so I decided to check out Lightroom and before I knew I had downloaded the trial and was hooked.

So if Apple announced that there would no further FCPX development . . . . .

[Mark Dobson]

[Eric Santiago] “Im not sure what you mean? There has been one major change of late.
Before that Events/Projects were barely touched.”

I was referring to the options when importing media between versions10.1 and 10.1.2 – the option to view and set storage locations for each of the libraries using the Library Properties inspector.

I think the the key development in FCPX came with 10.1 when the big division between the Event Library and Project Library was unified.

Don’t get me wrong FCPX has improved exponentially since 2011 when it was a sticky, buggy, awkward piece of software with a lot of potential for those that stuck with it. I had huge difficulties completing edits and not even very complex ones at that.

Generally since 10.1, for me, the spinning ball, force quit, trash preferences workflow has been replaced with a far more stable platform.

[Mark Dobson]

What really bugs me is the inconsistency in the development of this software from version to version whereby entire workflows, maybe around importing media or how the event browser works are totally reinvented. These new structures then come with a fresh set of bugs, things that don’t work properly such as trying unsuccessfully to re-link files because the way that the system work has changed. Very similar to Oliver Peters experience.

[Oliver Peters] “I haven’t switched back yet, but pretty much on the verge. The program is still too buggy to be trusted. I’m working on a 10 min. short with X due to the RED workflow. Yesterday, X simply refused to import one set of files. If I created a new event and imported them there, all was good. Just not in the original event for out camera footage.”

So 3 years in and overall FCPX works fine for someone in my position running a small production company producing documentary styled productions to broadcast specifications and drawing on mixed format archives. I think from what I’ve heard that Premiere Pro is probably more advanced than FCP7 used to be but I couldn’t bare going through the retro learning curve to start using it. I never open FCP7 anymore and would have difficult operating it if I did.

[Tim Wilson] “Given how many people haven’t substantially moved AT ALL beyond some experimentation, I’m probably asking this a couple of years to early…or am I?”

In a recent blog Larry Jordan reported that it is still possible to buy new boxed sets of Final Cut Studio and who know it might work really well on these new macs we have all got now.