[Mike Petty]

I am looking at this as good for me.

Colorista is an excellent tool.I have used it since day one and am really comfortable with it.

I f I can continue to use it instead of what appears to be a goofy color correction interface in FCP X…cool. Free update…even cooler.

Man I though I was cynical…You guys kick my ass in that department.

[Mike Petty]

Thanks for the clarification…

I had actually seen your tutorial and thought it the smartest way to go…This has all been complicated for me by the fact that my FCP 7 has been acting weird lately and I was going to do a clean install just to zero things out. Now I am very hesitant to do so.

Creating the back up drive with Snow Leopard and a clean FCS3 will be a good test to make sure I can in fact reinstall FCS 3/FCP 7 on my main drive.

I’ll keep every body posted if things get dodgy.

MP

[Mike Petty]

Not quite sure what you mean by a little late? If I install FCS (FCP7 et al) from the disks, I have inferred from current postings that though overt support has been pulled that software update is still functioning and should bring it up to the current version.

Right?

As far as FCP X…I never plan on having it on any drive with FCP7. As a matter of fact if I can I will keep FCP7 on my current Mac Pro and when the new MacPro’s come buy one and use it for FCPX and Lion.

[Mike Petty]

What the hell is going on here????

[Mike Petty]

Thanks for the info…now I know why I could not buy FCPX on my day to day admin iMac (though it hit my card on file in the app store a couple of times trying to buy then issuing a credit…weird).

[Mike Petty]

The hard drive is an internal project drive with a ton of space. I think I may have found the problem. I believe the timeline may have been out of whack with the clip speed. Can’t remember what I had it at before but when I dumped the prefs I reset the timeline at XDCAM EX/30fps (for my main work camera.

The clips in question are 23.98 PRo Res LT.

I just checked the sequence video settings & Easy Setup and reset them for Pro Res 422…

Smoothed out.

It’s alway something. When is FCP X coming???

[Mike Petty]

I just dropped the clips into the timeline, got the query to match the footage and proceeded so that should not be a problem, right. Could it be an RT problem?

[Mike Petty]

Some random thoughts on all of the sturm and drang about FCP X…

I think it looks pretty interesting. I suspect I’ll feel the same way about the other software in the suite when it hits the bricks. Will I have have to do a lot of relearning? Sure. Will it cost me time and money ramping up and relearning? Yep. Business is business…what are you gonna do? I’ve got computers and software in my storage space that I spent a fortune on that is outdated and useless (don’t even get me going on cameras, lights, etc). That is life in the big city. Figure it out. Adapt. Evolve. Donate. Write Off.

A thought about the event…

What you saw the other night was what we used to call “State Streeting”. I was in marketing for a massively huge consumer products company in Chicago back when we cut our commercials with razor blades, grease pencils, white gloves and movieolas. When we wanted to get a feel for a product, concept or an ad or any other marketing proposition we would mock up a concept board (like an ad) or draw a storyboard, run it downstairs to State Street and show it to people walking by.

Another name was Disaster Check. It was just to make sure we were not full of our own crap and that the product development was fundamentally sound. That the consumer “got it”. There was always more development to be done but this just helped keep us on track.

That’s what Tuesday night (and the selected editor preview a month or so ago) was. Apple “State Streeted” FCP (and FCP only). That’s why there was no Q&A. Why do your think Schiller was there? This was not a product intro. He just wanted to get a feel for things. I’ll wager he may have been thinking…”Looks like maybe 70% love it…and if 30% hate it and threaten to abandon the brand? OK I can live with that since the real market for my brand is the middle (which thanks to DSLRs and the incredible demand for online content) is freaking exploding. I’ll keep enough high profile users like Murch and the Coen Brothers around to keep my brands cred. Don’t want to use FCP anymore and feel like we’ve somehow screwed you? Fine. See ya. Flame me on the boards all you want. Mazel Tov” Cynical? Sure. But at the end of the day…business is business.

FCP (and I suspect FCS in some new form) will sell like hotcakes and Apple will also sell a ton of computers (including more than a few to new Adobe and Avid fans) . I own Apple Stock. I am smiling.

On a similar subject…

Apple may not do focus groups per se…but now WE know which of all of the whiners around here would demand “faster horses”.

Another thought…

The word professional is sure being thrown around a lot in relative to editing software and it seems to me there sure are a heck of a lot of people with a pretty narrow definition of that word. And by narrow I mean the mooks who think if you are not THEIR kind of pro then you must be an amateur. I don’t do what a lot of you do but I make a pretty damn good living at it. My clients pay me a lot to make films for them. I am a professional. Period. Geography, your equipment or the fact that your work shows up in different places than mine does not make you any more or less of a pro than me.

And speaking of my clients, not one has ever asked how much my software costs…because they don’t give a rat’s ass. All they care about is the effectiveness of the films and how much it costs to produce them. $299. Great. My margins just improved.

Thanks for letting me rant…I had some time while my job was rendering. HA!

[Mike Petty]

A little update.

Just for fun I exported it using QT conversion and the exported film looked fine! Go figure.

Also just for fun I exported to QT (straight) with the supers track turned off and it looked fine, too! Go figure again

I thought…hmmm corrupted fonts so I went through my font library and trashed any suspect fonts (and I had a ton…the curse of free fonts)

I retried it again…same problem!

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

MP

[Mike Petty]

Nevermind…I got it. Upper and lower fields were our of whack