Mitch Ives
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[Michael Sanders] “If you do a lot of caption work and haven’t tried the FCP X/Motion 5 combo yet, may I humbly suggest you give it a go. Certainly in this respect FCP X isn’t just there it way past FCP 7 and speeding along the motorway.”
Haven’t yet in FCPX. Thanks for the tip… will do that.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Michael Sanders] “But would’t that way require you to make each caption up in motion wouldn’t it?
This way I make up a base caption and change the words at will from within FCP.”
I suppose that depends on how you set it up, but yes probably. In FCP7 we made titles in Livetype, graphics in Motion, and round-tripped them into FCP7. I think FCPX will probably get there in the end, don’t you?
[Simon Ubsdell] “[Mitch Ives] “More professional would be”
Yes, there are aspects of the workflow that are less “professional” (and it’s a big frustration still) but for my money the quality of the rendered output is quite clearly superior, especially in terms of compositing graphics in a typical TV spot type scenario.
Back in the summer I had a hideous problem with FCP7 not being able to render a certain colour/opacity combination without serious artefacts – but the same composite in FCPX is very clean.
The floating-point architecture is, I think, a major step forward in terms of overall image quality …”
FWIW, the problem you describe in FCP7 was more than likely a QT issue. It seemed like every other QT release caused keying and/or opacity problems in FCP7. We now know it’s because fixing things in FCP7 was no longer a priority with FCPX in development.
The floating-point thing is huge, no doubt. More quality is always a good thing, isn’t it?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Michael Sanders] “Quickly went into Motion and added the logo and saved this back to the FCP X titles. Then I simply dropped the re made slide over the existing ones and FCP X copied the text and transitions over.
Job done.
I wonder where it’s written that that’s not Professional?”
More professional would be eliminating the need to drop the new one over the old one… you know, the kind of auto updating that we had in FCP7 with Motion & Livetype.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Steve, as usual you’ve missed the point of my original post. I find all viewpoints interesting. I have yet to read one that rings completely true… nor completely false. Nothing in the known solar system is that black and white.
Just like seat time doesn’t make you always right. Do you use the program more than the author of the post you despise? You have no way of knowing… just like you have no way of knowing whether you use it more than anyone else that posts on the forum. But what difference would it make anyway? This forum is full of people that use things a lot and are still wrong in what they post. The connection between those two things is not an absolute.
As I said I find all viewpoints worth considering… even yours. Though I will say that I find some of your more objective posts like the one in this thread a bit more helpful:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/6636#6636
In the end it isn’t about you… it isn’t about me… it’s not about good or bad, it’s about the pursuit of what it actually is…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Thanks for the link. The rest of your post is completely subjective and therefore doesn’t require any comment…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Care to point me to that thread?
BTW, I continue to impressed with the awesome efficiency with which you can dispatch any opinion that doesn’t align with your own…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Might be the only one listed/tested so far. The AJA drivers say that all of them are Thunderbolt aware since a few drivers ago.
Time will tell.”
I’m certainly hoping for that…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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I think you’re probably right. If the upcoming Apple meeting in NY does indeed announce a way for people to publish your own book… a system like you’re describing would be the natural next step…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Interesting article.
I also found this one interesting. I figured it would be up here already and being debated:
https://www.artguglielmo.com/blog/2011/12/24/think-for-yourself.html
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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So the only AJA card that works is the 3G? If so, that won’t help much…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill