[Mitch Ives]

Having edited a documentary in X, I can attest to the fact that it works for that.

I can also attest to the fact that it gets damn slow on a two-hour project with a lot of color correction, etc.

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

[Mitch Ives]

First of all, who you calling an old-timer Bill? 🙂

Tracks may be comforting, but they are also damned useful on certain types of projects. Now I realize that I was too proficient in 7… I didn’t need a magnetic timeline to avoid screwing things up. So, I admit that those who I routinely watched screwing things up probably welcomed the trackless, magnetic timeline with open arms. I’m okay with that. What bothers me is when I see people who I know damn good and well never edited the types of projects where tracks are a godsend, telling all of us that tracks are crap and unnecessary. I especially appreciate when I being told that I’m a dinosaur because I understand the value of tracks.

I have no axe to grind with the trackless environment… I’m fine with it. And even though I didn’t need it, I can appreciate the magnetic timeline. I’m fine with that. What I’m not fine with is the condescending comments I keep having to read. If I can appreciate someone elses view, why can’t they be enlightened enough to appreciate mine?

So I’m fine with everyone here. What I’m not fine with is waiting years for Apple to fix things that should not have been broken in the release, let alone several releases ago…

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

[Mitch Ives]

[Oliver Peters] “Although it doesn’t fix the issue, you might want to play around with this little color correction plug-in I compiled:

https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2015/07/04/building-fcp-x-effects-update...”

Thanks Oliver…

Has anybody at Apple ever explained why we could keyframe color correction in FCP 7 but not FCP X?

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

[Mitch Ives]

Great list as always Oliver.

I’ll add the same one I’ve been asking for since the first day FCP X was released.

1) Allow key-framing in the cold corrector.

2) Under bug fix, allow me to razor blade a clip without losing the audio waveforms. I shouldn’t have to zoom in or zoom out the timeline to restore them…

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

[Mitch Ives]

[Bill Davis] “Which is fair, but a question that only really matters while you HAVE older hardware – and vanishes when you no longer do.”

I’ll have to respectfully disagree with that… I’m on the fastest stuff they offer and I am still not happy…

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

[Mitch Ives]

[Oliver Peters] “I’m finding the same thing, even on the newest machines. Simple things, like clicking on a different effects category in the filter palette. That should be instant and it’s not in FCPX.”

First, nice list Oliver.

Second, yes the UI responsiveness is disappointing. It lags on simple things, as you’ve identified. I also hate that I STILL have to zoom in or out to get the damn audio waveforms to redraw and display. For those that will claim it’s a hardware issue, I’m on the fastest NMP they have… fully loaded. I’m also on a screaming TB2 disk array that delivers almost a gig both ways…

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

[Mitch Ives]

[Steve Connor] “So is the timeline and edit performance significantly increased? I honestly don’t care in the slightest about output renders as that’s such a small percentage of my project time I don’t mind a slightly longer wait. What I do care about is the timeline and editing in FCPX having less lag.”

Agreed Steve… my thoughts exactly…

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

[Mitch Ives]

[Bill Davis] “Software development and delivery has changed 180 degrees over the past 10 years. It’s ALL on-line now which changes the game from “It has to be perfect before we press the disks” to “Lets try to get it right, but we can’t efficiently test for all the possible flaws until the software gets out to the customer base – so we’ll fix the details as we get feedback.” “

I think you’re right Bill. However, I’m not convinced the “will fix it in the next downloadable file” is necessarily a better approach for us users? 🙂

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

[Mitch Ives]

[Shane Ross] “I’m surprised that anyone is moving to Florida on purpose…”

If you’re in the PRM (people’s republic of Massachusetts), I suppose anything looks good…

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

[Mitch Ives]

RE:vision was the first I saw… it’s not something they can fix apparently its Adobe that will fix it.

Hopefully, Adobe will tweak it before others report 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