Mathieu Ghekiere
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No big issues, but as Shane said: there are some reported.
We noticed in DVD Studio Pro that we couldn’t see colors anymore in the ‘inspector’ pane where you choose the Colors for your buttons. Don’t know if this is a big problem for a lot of people, or if it was just isolated for us.
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From the release notes:
“- When Logic imports Final Cut Pro X XML, it now organizes audio tracks according to their assigned roles in Final Cut Pro.
– Audio is now exported as 24-bit in projects exported to Final Cut Pro X XML.”https://support.apple.com/kb/TS4498
Am I right in thinking that if the first one is correct, you don’t need X2Pro anymore where you did before for this? (Not talking about all the other features of X2Pro)
Can anyone test this? Maybe it needs a new version of FCPX to work…
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“Why are the editors dead set against tracks so enthusiastic about Roles? There wouldn’t be a need for roles if Apple hadn’t eliminated tracks. Roles are just adding another step to do what you can already do without them in every other NLE.”
A couple of reasons:
1. Tracks are a random system. Some editors have the first 4 tracks as camera-audio, other ones only have the first 2 for dialogue, etcetera etcetera. You just have to ‘know’.
Roles are based on content. It’s a kind of combination of artistry (content) and technical (organization).
It’s Dialogue. Music. Titles. Sound Effects. And you can make your own. But again, these will be very recognizable immediately.2. Tracks get in your way while editing. Clip collisions, patching, we all know the drill. You cannot just put stuff on the timeline, just like you want.
Roles and the magnetic timeline is a system, where you put metadata on clips. You can do it in your Event Browser, and you can immediately click for instance 100 clips, and give them the same role in one click. Once you do that, you are done. You can still change it in the timeline, or you can only start putting Roles-metadata on clips once you’ve finished the edit. But at no point you will need to patch, look out when extending stuff, look out when you change stuff around, …3. It makes the whole exporting a lot faster. Because Roles help for audio, but you can also use it for titles, subtitles, etc. …
Don’t forget FCPX already does this automatically on import, and has a pretty transparant system in doing this.
That’s what people mean by wanting FCPX to be a better FCPX, and not to have tracks (Jeremy). Yes, we want color coded Roles. Yes, we want an audio mixer based on Roles, available in the timeline. Yes, we want horizontal grouping by Roles.
But once we have these things, I don’t see why you would prefer tracks.In fact, I showed a demo of FCPX to a whole room of skeptics. When I showed them the power of Roles, and said how I would do stuff in FCPX, and said “in 7 you would have to do all this and this and this…” and all of them laughed. In a good way of ‘yeah, we know the pain’. When we showed them the power of FCPX, together with something like Sync ‘N Link, we *really* could hear some people gasp in the room, like “wow, can we make it all so fast?”
Someone here once said, and I think it was Bill Davis, but I could be wrong: Tracks are a work-around for not having a magnetic timeline and Roles. I’m inclined to believe that, after my experience.
It’s a different way of looking at things, but once people started using graphical interfaces, started using touch screens on an iPhone instead of Blackberry’s, etc. etc. it all needed that kind of ‘click’ because it was something completely new. -
One thing I had trouble with, or almost forgot:
if you install FCP Studio before FCPX, also remember to install the UPDATES of the FCP Studio before you install FCPX. And you have to get them manually. Because the whole updating mechanism in Mavericks is trough the App Store, and it doesn’t have the Updates. So you have to find the .dmg’s manually (I think they are still somewhere on Apple’s site).
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How are you exporting your Master file? You are taking about An mp4, which is compressed.
Try exporting An Apple ProRes.
Or create your own setting in Compressor, and use it in FCPX.
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I have noticed this also. It’s been in FCPX for a long time and I haven’t found any documentation on it.
It seems that FCPX also wants to protect the user of clipping. Sometimes the meters don’t go beyond 0 in a project unless you really make audio WAY too loud.
It’s often handy but it’s not really transparant why or what it’s doing and it should. I can imagine it driving people nuts.Anyone have more explanation?
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Jeremy, isn’t it already kind of like that? We have 3 computers at work. We log in with the same account on FXfactory and we download our plug-ins. It shows you automatically which Ones you bought.
The only one not to download automatically was the dashwood 3d plug-in, last time I installed a new computer.We do have a separate text document with all our licenses for plug-ins listed. Just in case.
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I actually am very happy with FxFactory.
You just disable everything you don’t use, and it’s like an app store for plugins. Very easy. You buy them, just log-in with your account and they are there.
And the fact that you can try out all plugins with a watermark is fantastic. Good testing ground to see if the plugin does what you need it to do before buying.
I think, if I’m reading this thread correctly, that… software can always have trouble. Doing upgrades is always dangerous.
People here talk about an FCPX plugin, but also straight XML’s, and BlackMagic Drivers, etc.
The truth is, you often just NEED those products.We once had a Aja Io HD and the FCP 7 update, and those 2 would be very glitchy for about 6 months. You would update one, the other wouldn’t work, etc. …
I don’t know if it is specifically an FCPX-issue, although relying on 3rd party products makes it maybe worse. On the other hand, for FCP7 we ultimately also had 3rd party products. Some 3rd party products are great and get updated very fast, others… not so.
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Good to know, thanks!
We sometimes have performance issues, and I think we have one plug-in from them. I’m not a fan of the company because of the same reasons you posted, but they had a plug-in that seemed worthwile for our work. Haven’t tested it, but thanks for the update.
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Resolve support is indeed a plus.
But the OP was asking for advice, and he had already the Black Magic Monitor listed, so I thought I would give an extra option, and one that I have personal experience with, works perfectly.
There are some differences though. One of them being the T-Tap works with 2K and does resizing if necessary.
https://provideocoalition.com/atepper/story/ultrastudio_mini_monitor_competition_to_ajas_t-tap