[Mark Snow]

Open the QT-Movie in Quicktime Player 7 Pro, CMD-J (properties) and delete the Annotation “title”; (“Remove Selected Annotation” while selecting “title”) Then the title will change to its file name.

Cheers!

[Mark Snow]

Wow, thanks everyone, I need more time to even read all of this here!

I think the reason, so many editors are still kind of angry is that they so got used to FCP7, using it as motion design tool, NLE, image processor, CC and what not, and got such an expert, that it is like the old VW-Bus (Van) you can not let go, because you lived your whole life in this work-horse.

@alban: yes we are going to have the shiny round, ehem… Bin..;)

Let’s see in a year if I still miss the good old Bezier-smoothed Zoom-ins in my films. Our Plan B would be Premiere, but I hope not, for me their interface still looks too tiny-nerdy-windowsy somewhat. Maybe Blackmagic can really do the trick even. Who knows, I guess, we’ll see!

After 2-3 years since the fcpX-shock, credit is due to the developers of X for addressing a lot of stuff, that was killing the vibes. And talking of improving software, it could be worse, i won’t start to complain about passwords being displayed on my mobile in plain sight or not even being able to edit a simple text file from the cloud on my phone…

[Mark Snow]

Where is that mock-up?

[Mark Snow]

Well, this thread is still FCPX for sceptics and for the debate…

Now with the 10.1, I would say FCPX is slowly raising my eyebrows again.
If I can make peace with the timeline and the UI/Shortcuts, I might even reconsider using it for some work, or even all, IF really everything is back what was possible with fcp7. And I am still looking at YOU, Speed-Keyframes!!! 😀

[Mark Snow]

Thanks Jeremy and Andy (above & below), I will definitively try your Tips!

It’s really not that I would argue that people might be able to achieve whatever they can think of with whatever tools they use, I just have to decide once again for a shop, where to go from FCP7 with (hopefully) those new Powermacs… So I was hoping to find the answer in this forum. It seems to me, those guys on X are anxious about them really being on the real deal, and the guys not on X, being anxious to miss out on all the cool action over there (as myself) while both try to convince (themselves) of their choice.

For me, FCPX should just add a slight bit of more complexity, the choice for having tracks with classic timeline-behaviour and “normal” Project management and I would be one happy FCP-X-Fanboy.

[Mark Snow]

Thanks everyone for their opinions, and thank you Lance. I feel less alone now. Looks really that I would have to change my editing with X and that besides me, nobody cares to ease in Scale-transformations inside their NLE… 😉

I think I will really try a project, ehm… excuse me, an event and try to accept X to fancily ‘animate’ Clips around the storyline when I pull around clips. I will do the most basic transformations with Motion and enjoy the super-fast Instant ColorCorrection.

If after two weeks I still don’t get the reason behind the flipping around of Clips vertically and horizontally, then I will move to Premiere CC, even if I also dislike a bit Adobe’s emotionless interfaces and the licensing model, as the CC seems really be better.

I will report back! Thanks for your responses! I haven’t followed the discussion here (busy learning and enjoying MC6…:) but it seems to me, that the consensus is still the same: quick&dirty: FCPX okay, Hi-End productions; probably not FCPX, but possible.

[Mark Snow]

I am snowboarding since around 20 years… 🙂

Problem is, if you can’t even slow down a simple Scale-Transformation, respectively have Bezier-Control of the Transformation-Keyframes, I am not even going on the ski-lift…! (and this would be for me “the basic project”‘s needs)

This looks to me like those Bigfoot-Skis rather…

I am really trying to find an advantage in X, but I am not finding any…

[Mark Snow]

Usually I need at least 4 video-tracks, tossing clips around and on top of each other without deleting or changing the other clips, all the while leaving the rest of the timeline the same in the meantime.

Even when I take the Position tool and construct some “Gap-V-Tracks”, FCPX doesn’t even respect those Gaps. It’s frustrating… What the hell is so wrong with normal Tracks!?

I think I can’t get used to the paradigm of having only one storyline that rules them all.
I don’t have a primary storyline! I would like to make a Video…

Every shot is as important as any other anywhere, but the shot that is on top is going to be in the movie, it’s that physical and simple, i think.

Unless FCPX gives me breathing space to edit (Tracks) and respect for my editing (stops moving and snapping around Clips without asking) I am not willing to “get used to” as long as there are alternatives.

I tried and watched tutorials too often now already. This timeline-editing behaviour is just not working for me, I guess. Besides I need Bezier-Speed-Controls built-in.

Again: Is it possible to “domesticate” this timeline-editing in FCPX or would I have to change how I edit?
Your experiences?

[Mark Snow]

Thank you!

[Mark Snow]

Wow, thank you for clarifying this! It’s really the age of boulevard journalism and stories get told almost by Facebook-standarts these days…
And for the iPhone/ google maps thing I apologize for ignoring the facts and just assuming stuff, thank you for the exact course of events on this…