Misha Aranyshev
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I cut six features, a few docs and over fifty episodes of Reality TV in FCP. Most of the stuff you read about organizing is superficial. First, breaking the show in pieces doesn’t help if you version like crazy. The number of sequences affects the size of the project file to much greater degree than the length of the sequences and the number of clips. Second, creating elaborate bin structure is a waste of time. Why put footage into Day 1, Day 2 etc bins when FCP can perfectly sort the list of clips according to the Date Created? The same applies to most of the properties of your footage. Keep all source footage together. Don’t spawn versions. Make sure the amount of tracks in your timeline is reasonable.
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I cut a feature in FCP7 on Yosemite. It’s OK.
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Do not conform in CinemaTools. Conform inside FCP. Then FCP will be able to keep track of the original 25 fps TC.
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Because it will hurt you after a while.
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They’re entirely free to focus on any niche they wish as long as they serve it well. The problem is they don’t. Realizing that changing the paragraph style should be the same shortcut regardless how many characters are typed in the said paragraph doesn’t take dozens of user base polls and huge usability research. It takes some common sense and an attitude that’s different from the usual “Screw you!”
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I’m not hurt by FCPX. I’m hurt by the general state of professional software. Have you checked Final Draft recently? Disgusting.
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What positive tradeoffs? The main gimmicks of FCPX are “metadata” and magnetic timeline. I don’t care about magnetic timeline because that’s a solution to a problem I never had. I’m not messy. “Metadata” in case of FCPX is misnomer. Whatever tags you slap onto your footage in some app becomes metadata only if there is a way to pass those tags to another app.
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I don’t “scan” or “skim.” I watch it. Carefully, many times.
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So half of the interface is inaccessible from keyboard and it’s still much more keyboard-centric than others? That’s a sad state of affairs.
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Sure. Call me back when backtime edit is not an afterthought and there is a Replace on Playhead there.