Matthew Celia
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I’ve been dabbling in Premiere and it’s very familiar to me as a FCP 7 editor, but in the ways it isn’t, I find it very annoying. AE round-tripping is fantastic. It feels very snappy, although since my machine isn’t a CUDA one, it can’t play back in real time nearly as well as FCPX.
I’ve been getting along with X quite well, aside from some bumps in the road. Now with free automatic duck, free davinci resolve lite, and foolcut, it does 95% of what I need it to do. Would love better effects round-tripping…
Haven’t opened up FCP7 in a while actually.
Saw Avid MC6 demo’d recently and still thought it was clunky and unintuitive for me. I don’t get why you have to press a button and use the patch bay to trim clips. I don’t know, Avid to me has always seemed to get more in the way of storytelling rather than help it.
I hear what people are saying about moving towards PC and power to them, but I’d feel so lost having to learn how to troubleshoot and work in windows that I’d probably lose far more productivity than any speed I’d gain trying to have the latest and greatest – after all, everybody is leapfrogging each other in technology these days anyway. My advice is to pick something, be confident that it’s for you, and master it.
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10.0.2 showed up for me in the App Store. installing it now… hoping some other things have been improved too.
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Thank you for this! It’s exactly what I need for this project I am doing where I just discovered a dust spot on my sensor in a critical interview!
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I’ve cut two paying projects in FCPX so far and am working on a feature doc. Had a HUGE issue with a paying project in regards to offline media which dismayed me enough that I dabbled in Premiere. Still prefer FCPX however.
The sluggishness is a problem. It’s a bit of a double sword, since playback and the lack of rendering seems mostly great, but the operation (zooming in on the timeline, switching between panes, etc) is almost ungodly slow. FCP 7 feels snappier from a UI perspective. I’m on the latest and greatest iMac 3.4 i7 with 16GM ram and the 2GB graphics card (and running the system from an SSD), so I feel it should be a bit snappier.
I hope Apple doesn’t get so caught up in adding the bazillion of requested features (most of which are a non-issue for me, hence why I am working in FCPX) that they lose sight of the thing we all really want most: the fastest, most responsive, most rock solid NLE on earth.
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I don’t know if I agree, Simon. I thought your effects were very well made and if you wanted to give them away, I think you have that choice! You also have the choice to sell for whatever price you deem worthy. It’s a free market (at least in the US). I personally feel that plug-in manufactures need to innovate and push the boundaries in order to stay relevant. Those who do so will have no problem securing my business. Those who continue to put out “meh” effects that I could build myself in Motion will not. Maybe that’s a little harsh, but I’ve always felt that failure to innovate makes for a pretty blah world.
Just my 2 cents.
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Often, it won’t work if any background tasks are running. For example, if you duplicated the project and included render files, you have to wait for the project to finish copying all the data.
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Good tip, thanks Jeremy.
I’ve tried dragging the file in, but it doesn’t work here. Bummer. Will def turn off that feature in After Effects for the future though.
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The best way I’ve found to create a subclip is to either
1) mark as favorite
2) assign a keyword to the section
Both workflows have been faster for me. The assign a keyword to a section method is what Apple recommends in their white paper as replacing the traditional subclips.
A big advantage to these keyword subclips is that you aren’t forced into the boundries of the clip, you can extend it if you want – which is cool.
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I believe not, but creating disk images that reside on the NAS seems to be a workaround that works (and helps manage projects…)
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Agree – I’m interested in setting this up to be able to monitor 5.1. Does anyone have a good setup they want to share? What interface are people using?
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