Mathieu Ghekiere
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This link explains how to do it in FCPX:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCVH2B4YPnA
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Well, is 4 million not the total number of Mac’s they sell in a quarter, but not the Mac Pro’s alone?
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Hi Andy,
I know about that mail. But in this conference call with investors he talked about amazing new hardware and software in the fall of 2013 and in 2014. So not only in 2014.
This, combined with the mail you refer too, makes me guess that a new Mac Pro in 2013 is still very much in the works. -
No he said: “amazing hardware and software this fall and troughout 2014”. I would hope this fall for something pro-orientated.
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If you are in Proxy Mode, and share from FCPX straight, it will render out as Proxy.
Not sure if this is also the case when sending to Compressor… I would guess not, but I could be wrong.
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Hi Shawn,
I can get that not having multiple projects open isn’t a problem for you (although I think this is pretty limiting). My answer was just a response to Greg, that if you bash FCPX for not being able to choose without 3rd Party plugins (or manually move it in the Finder) which Events are NOT online, you could as well bash Premiere for not even being able to open up multiple projects.
But saying: ow FCPX is bad because you can’t even do *A* you have to be honest and say that in Premiere there are also issues with *A*.That being said, I *do* think not being able to open multiple projects in an NLE that’s already pretty matured, is not less insane than FCP X not being able to only export a small range from a timeline. (that was insane too, but fortunately fixed in 10.0.6 upgrade). Just as an example.
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Hi Greg,
some replies:
“Premiere Pro does have this, but it doesn’t work well for formats that are based on a “folder structure”. During the demo of the next version that I saw, someone brought this up, and we were told that they are working on it- and after seeing all the major improvements that are comming in the next version, I can say very confidently that I belive it.”
FCPX already has it, just without handles, in any format. So I wouldn’t consider Premiere much better here, from what I’m hearing…
“In Premiere, you just right-click the clip in the timeline and go to Properties, and it comes right up.”
Sorry, but I can’t get this. In FCPX, you have to right-click a clip, and select: Reveal in Event Browser. OR, you click it, and do the shortcut I said. It’s THE SAME AMOUNT of steps as in Premiere (2 clicks OR 1 click and a shortcut). Why do you think Premiere’s way is better?And you complain about shortcomings of FCPX, some of which are rectified with a 4 dollar app (on a 300 dollar NLE, btw…), but you never complain that for instance, in Premiere you can only have one sequence open? And I don’t know if this still is the case, but even if it isn’t, this was the case FOR YEARS.
You complain about Apple having something in the first 2 years of a completely new program, but Adobe has had some issues for YEARS and YEARS before they did anything about this.
I like the way Adobe communicates with their user base, and no one can deny they have been doing a lot of things right lately, but when you get to the gist of it, I don’t think Adobe is so much better than Apple. -
Hi Morten,
just some answers to some of your complaints:
“Missing ability to work with Shared Storage in a simple way”
Well, situation could very much be better, but we work with Shared Storage and FCPX, although, never people working on the same projects at the same time. Just a Mac Mini Server connected to Pegasus RAIDS, Atto Thunderbolt to 10GB Ethernet, to a switch. Every Retina connected to that trough Ethernet. We just load in the footage in FCPX, all have our own events. The only thing we do is copy the Events and Projects that we need before the editing to the SSD we are working on. This is only like a couple of hundred megabytes in total for our projects, works great. But could be better.
It’s more or less the same as with FCP7 and Premiere Pro in my knowledge, so… (not talking about the Adobe Anywhere project)“Lack of possibility to easily save a version”
Okay, but you can just make a duplicate of a sequence and name it version 1 or whatever, and work further on version 2. Also check Digital Rebellions ProVersioner tool.“Colorgrades cannot be key framed”
No, that’s true. I do hope that Apple goes a lot further in developing much more old Color tecnology back into FCPX. But, the Color Boards is fast, renders very fast and you have to learn a bit. That being said, I still prefer color wheels. Do you know SliceX? You can do some wonders with that in combination with the Color Board. Still. Could be better!“The color board becomes cluttered and looses overview ”
Well, I sent feedback to Apple about the ability to name grades. I’m not really of the opinion that it really becomes clutter, but I can get where you are coming from.“No Media Management for saving with trimmed Media”
Does Premiere Pro allow this? You can save media with FCPX, or even only the used clips you have in your timeline. But no handles. I’m pretty sure that’s coming in an update.“Loading of all projects slows down workflow”
Buy Event Manager X. Seriously. It’s a 4 dollar app.“Locked project settings, no custom sizing”
True and not true. Yes, I would like to have Apple set custom resolutions in a project, I hope they add this (I’m pretty sure they will). But there is a perfectly working work-around for this, described here on Creative Cow. Search Google for Creative Cow Custom Resolutions or something. It works perfectly.“Custom Titles need to use cumbersome Motion engine”
Performance used to be bad in FCPX at times, sometimes it still is. Other times I find it much better and much easier then the old FCP. You have a lot more visual feedback, much more flexibility, …” Lack of partial export from Timeline”
Not true. that was added in an update, 10.0.6.“Missing possibility to inspect clip from timeline in event viewer”
You can always just click the clip and use the shortcut SHIFT+F (if I’m not mistaken). Reveals it in the Event Browser…“Re-importing from archive does not maintain timing”
Can’t comment on that, I don’t use the archive function, and I don’t really get your comment either, but can’t commend either way. -
Does anyone know what the Pro Apps Quicktime Codecs update does? Does it add something, does it make certain export-processes faster? Or is that also a kind of maintenance update?
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Anyone that has it and cares to give a review or opinion?
I always think: is this now truly faster then using the keyboard/mouse combination, but this one seems a bit different in its inception, compared to for instance ProX (or how was it called?). Interested to hear some feedback.