Michael Hancock
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When I was on Avid every day I would either park my playhead where I wanted my shot to extend to and used Extend Edit (you can map it to your keyboard) or I’d go into Trim Mode, select my edit point and do a double-roller trim by grabbing the end and dragging it out (ala FCP style). I believe there’s a Smart Tool trim option now where you can grab the ends of clips and drag them out.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Oh, I think they would. Apple has a reputation to uphold, and bad support is a bad reputation, especially in the video realm.”
Lets be honest here Jeremy. If Apple was that concerned with their reputation in the upper echelons of post they wouldn’t have released FCPX and pulled FCS3/FCP7 the same day. And they certainly wouldn’t have presented FCPX at NAB as if you could open legacy projects and use it for broadcast work. But they did both. Their reputation has been tarnished – providing at least some way to bring projects forward, regardless of how much work it makes for the editor, is still a better option than nothing. And Apple has said they aren’t going to do that.
I think they’re aiming at a less vocal, less demanding, wider base. This may be part of the plan to push the most demanding customers away.
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[Craig Seeman] “[Michael Hancock] “Pulldown when mixing frame rates in the timeline? ”
Have you checked this in FCPX?
“I’m not talking about FCPX here – I’m talking about FCP7. I assume they fixed it in FCPX? Shame they never did for 7. It needed to be. And to be perfectly clear, I don’t have FCPX. It doesn’t have features I need and, while I’d like to try it, I’m not paying $300 for it. If they had a trial (like everyone else) I definitely would. I believe there’s some stuff there I’d love (and a lot I wouldn’t).
[Craig Seeman] “[Michael Hancock] “Apple failed to fix huge issues with FCP7. Gamma issues?”
Fixed in FCPX I believe.”Good. It desperately needed to be. Now if they hadn’t broken so much else in the process. 🙂
[Craig Seeman] “Some of the aforementioned issues may have been difficult to fix without a patchwork approach. “
Some of them, but certainly not all. I imagine the Gamma issue would have been a huge undertaking, but pulldown? They never should have gotten that wrong.
My original post was a counter to the idea that many things might be missing from FCPX because Apple has such high QC standards that some stuff just didn’t hit them. I’m saying their previous software is evidence that their QC standards aren’t as high as people may imagine. Stuff isn’t there for other reasons, and Apple is talking.
It will be interesting to see how FCPX develops.
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[Chris Upchurch] “I see few (if any) complaints that features were implemented badly.”
Audio dissolves spring to mind. I’ve seen a lot of complaints about that. Marking In and Out on a source clip then selecting something else – they disappear. Poor design there. Read in this forum about Dual Mono sound. Seems to be an issue.
Apple failed to fix huge issues with FCP7. Gamma issues? Pulldown when mixing frame rates in the timeline? There are plenty of examples of issues users were clamoring to have fixed, but they didn’t.
Saying they failed to implement certain features because they weren’t “good enough” for Apple QC standards doesn’t make sense when you consider their previous software. There are too many examples of things being poorly done before. Or do they really care this time to get everything right, all the time?
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Michael Hancock
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You cannot enable/disable clips. Would be nice though.
For sound, just move the clips to a lower track and disable the track.
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[David Roth Weiss] “FCS3 is over 100Gb”
That’s with all the extras for Soundtrack and motion templates though, right? If you don’t install those it’s a much smaller footprint.
[David Roth Weiss] “Not sure how big Avid is…”
Maybe 2GB.
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[Stuart Cohen] “I guess that means there are some good deals to be had on E-bay for Final Cut Suite 3 at a fraction of the cost when it was a current program.”
Try about 20%-50% higher. It’s no longer being sold through traditional outlets so supplies have dropped. People still need/want new licenses so demand has increased. Prices have never been higher. And who’s to say that you’re buying a legit license? TV stations often can’t/won’t buy used, period. When I worked in TV I found all kinds of deals on used equipment but the mothership bought new only and never replaced it.
[Stuart Cohen] “If all the editors are trained on FCP, they’ll be as lost if your station upgrades to FCPX as anything else.”
Great point. But FCPX doesn’t fit into a broadcast workflow, so they’ll probably just switch to something else, use their current seats of FCP7 and start the new editors on the new program and eventually switch everyone over. Or do what my old station did – load a new edit system everywhere (Edius), then pay for a week of training (mandatory that everyone go). The next week – switch everyone over, deal with it. Worked out surprisingly well, actually.
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Media Composer Academic is identical in every single way to the non-academic license, except that it says “Academic” or “Educational” on the splash screen when it starts (I can’t remember which, but it’s something like that). It also doesn’t come with the 3rd party pack, but you can buy that for about $200 at places like Videoguys.com.
Also, I believe the license states that you won’t use the Academic license for paid work – it for school use and training. But as far as functionality goes, it’s the exact same.
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Michael Hancock
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Apply Timewarp and open your effect editor. It will open the Timewarp editor. Don’t apply speed bump or ramp – just timewarp.
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It’s “cool man” with an accent.
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Michael Hancock
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