Mark Morache
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I’d love to know how many copies are being purchased.
I hope they get great financial benefit for all their hard work.
Of course Apple will get what, 30% of those sales?
I guess that’s the price of doing business.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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[Andy Neil] “My proposal is for a “step in” feature”
That’s not a bad idea. I use “open in timeline” as a step-in feature, and it mostly works.
Generally I use the loudness enhancement on clips to compress them and raise the gain, and once I step into a clip by opening in timeline, the enhancement goes away, and I’m left riding my separate audio tracks without the loudness.
Would you still be able to make changes to audio tracks as one? For example if I expanded the audio to create a J-cut, would I need to make adjustments to all the tracks separately?
Perhaps they need to expand the audio with one double-click and show you each individual channel with second double-click.
Another tweak I’d love to see is a vertically expanded audio track when I expand the audio track. It just makes sense. I’m opening it to work on it, so make the embedded audio larger by default.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
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I wouldn’t be pissed or pleased about the audio tracks, but I’ve gotten used to the magnetic timeline, and I don’t mind it. I don’t think it would work with audio tracks.
I want them to figure out a way to let me virtually cross fade audio by applying the fade handle of multiple clips by a specified amound, and extending the audio of the selected clips by half the amount of the fade.
FCP viewer, I don’t find I miss it that much. I guess I’d be pissed if they added it back and didn’t give me a way to turn it off.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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Select all the clips in the stack, go to the in-point and hit command-b.
Now do the same to blade all of the tracks for the out-point.Now delete the center section.
It seems awkward, but once you get used to it, it becomes second nature.
You can blade as many clips at once as you would like, but they need to be selected first. Otherwise you will only blade the clip in the primary track.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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I like the stabilizer. I haven’t needed the rolling shutter filter since I don’t use a dslr.
Stablizer can take some time to analyze the shot, but it makes my shots look like I used a steadicam.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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[Helmut Kobler] “I really want a new way to create alternate cuts of the same project”
Yes. In FCP7 I could have several copies and versions of sequences. In fact many projects are littered with versions I need to clean up!
My workaround is to select the portion of the timeline I want to create versions of, make it a compound clip, duplicate the compound as an audition, and then step into the compound and create my alternate reality.
That way I don’t need to have a version of the entire timeline, I can just have the compound clips in an audition that I can simply click to change for previewing.
In some ways this makes a lot of sense, because my changes may just be in one small section, and if I make changes to the rest of the timeline, I may need to replicate those changes in the alternate timeline as well. Also, having the versions live in one project timeline, keeps me from having copies of the renders in each project.
[Helmut Kobler] “2) The ability to set In and Outs on the timeline”
I’m afraid to trim the timeline before I export then undo the trims, because if the program crashes before I undo, I’m sunk.
Lately I’ve tried dropping the entire sequence into a compound clip, trimming the parts I don’t want to export, then undoing the trims.
The good thing about the compound clip, is that even though parts of the sequence aren’t in the timeline, they are still nested within the compound clip. If the program crashes before you undo, all you need to do is drag the ends of the trimmed compound clip back to their original length, then break the compound clip apart. Pretty simple.
Anyone see any potential trouble in this?
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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[Gary Huff] “Apple’s explanation for not including it was marketing speak for “we didn’t care enough to actually try.””
I’m thinking that’s not quite true.
For all the things that come across when moving a project from 7 to X, some things don’t. Offering users an incomplete conversion might have created just as much complaining from the ranks, or perhaps more.
I’m sure they wanted to have a clean cut from legacy as they wrote X, and who would have been happy if they held back on anything new in X to make sure that the legacy projects could be imported.
Legacy projects can still be opened in FCP7. That makes the conversion process less necessary.
Meanwhile, I’m jazzed about the ability to convert 7 to X, for just 10 bucks. (and a good bit of massaging.)
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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10 bucks. No brainer.
Just opened a 7 project in X.
I got a large list of todo notes. Things like “Color Corrector 3-way ignored”I’ll need to do some cleaning up, but it shouldn’t take long.
I’d buy that for a dollar.
Or ten.
Ooops, I already did.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com -
I’ve suspected that they don’t have round tripping because motion has tracks, and FCX doesn’t. To add round-tripping would mean Apple would have to admit that they COULD translate an FCX timeine into a track-based timeline, and we’d all scream “they why can’t we open an FCP7 project in FCX?”
It seems like a vital function that everyone is bitching about, and they’d be smart to give it back to us.
I really miss having a motion clip in the timeline, and selecting “open in editor” to make a change, then re-rendering in the timeline.
Not everything can be done by publishing an effect.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com