[Neil Goodman]

i think if you hit c while hovering a clip it might select letting you do a combination of c an b to slice but yea your correct this happens, but ithink fcp 7 did the same thing, if you had a clip selectend and contol v’d, nothing would be slected and it would slice whatever is v1 a1and2

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Neil Goodman]

plan A. theres too many bugs to commit to something like that, and i dont know but 4 cams using that workaround for multiclip sounds like a nightmare to me uysing anymore than 2 cameras.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Neil Goodman]

it also seems like the rendering is much slowerthan in FCP 7 when you do force it. As far as never having to render anything to watch, i cant get smooth playback of a 10 sec clip with a few levels of color correction and a title and thats on mac pro 16g ram, yada yada fast ass machine, w/o letting it render first.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Neil Goodman]

yea but not being able to use up and down to navigate in and outs on a clip really stinks.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Neil Goodman]

thats not multicam, trying to do anything other than a two camera shoot at 5 minutes in length would be an absolute nightmare.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Neil Goodman]

Ok, well thanks for clearing things up. The secondary story lines arent quite as limited as i thought.

As far as the Trim tool, i still love having a dedicated tool for each kind of edit.

As far as the way we cut interviews, im gonna stay out on my workflow. lol I understand how you say depending on what the main focus of your project is, that should me in the Primary, like for music videos, the music should be in the primary, etc. But for a interview, the talking head is the main story.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Neil Goodman]

i will add i am TRYING to give this a software a fair evaluation. Other than transcoding, i dont see one approvement over FCP 7.

Some of the stuff i do is for web, some for broadcast. For the webstuff I WANT this software to work cause i deal with a ton of interviews where all the b-roll and epk stuff is sent in h264 or mp4 And for simple talking head interview, paced to music with sound ups etc, and broll, this SHOULD work perfectly. But it doesnt. Everything Broadcast still happens on the Avids and roibably wont change anytime soon, especially now, but for this web stuff, I would love to be able to use FCPx

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Neil Goodman]

i apologize, i did mean just connected clips. Why would i want to wrap sometrhin in a second storyline while im building an edit, just to gain the function of a roll tool? ? what if you decide the next connected clip needs a transition or to be rolled with the previuos clip as well?You have to take those 2 clips out of the second storyline and start again ? The break apart clips button just breaks em off one by one until your left with an empty story line attached to your primary. Surely this unintuitive and a waste of click after click, just because you decide you want to roll and edit point.

Unless im missing something, i couyldnt find a way to add to an already existing secondary storyline .

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Neil Goodman]

Say you have two connected clips above your story line, and they themselves are butted up against each other. You whip out the blade tool, which by the way doesnt really adhere to snap unless your way zoomed in, cut out a bit of the latter clip, and hit either delete button, it doesnt snap over to fill that gap like it does on the primary storyline and how it works no matter what track your on in FCP 7.

And i was saying anything about Transcoding, Which does seem to actually work in the back, but rendering a n effect as advertised doesnt start until you stop. What advantage does this give you over FCP 7 other than you can immediately “see” the effect. Id usually wait to add FX and Color Correction till i have picture lock anyways, but because this was touted as huge feature, id expect it to work as advertised .

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Neil Goodman]

Timeline trimming better than FCP 7? not a chance. The fact i have to wait for it to guess what kind of edit i want to do (trim/slip/roll/ripple) depending on where i put the cursor slows me down right there, and there and its extrmely clunky. Picking the best tool and just using it, instead of hoping it knows and waiting for i to tranform to the tool you want, is ten faster. Not too mention secondary story line wont ripple at all, and if i rmemeber corrctly wont give you the roll tool.

The Playhead jumps all over when you click in the project or story window or whaever you want to call it. FCP7 only effects the playhead if you click up there, not anywhere in the window. So ill have the playhead set on an inset point, click a clip and the playhead moves there , Not cool at all.

My biggest gripe is that now that i know all the keycommands, it seems my hands can work way faster than FCPX can handle. FCP 7 allowed me to breeze thru stuff, i never had to wait for the interface to catch up to what i was doing .

The background rendering is a joke too, because it DOESNT RENDER IN THE BACKGROUND, it waits till you stop. By the time im done with a finished cut, i have tons of rendering to do anyways before i export so its basically like doing it the old fashioned way anyways .

Epic fail on all parts. I like the Color Tools tho and for easy stuff, i dont miss the wheel. The bundled FX are like fischer price my first transitions,i could go on and on.

I really did give it a shot, did the ripple training, tried a few web only interviews i was doing, and while i got it done, it tooks ten times longer.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal