Nikolas Bäurle
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If you have the same clips in more than one event you simply need to change the order in the event list. whatever event FC doesn’t need it will remove from the list in the inspector. if you delete an event and realize that you are missing a certain file in your “master” event, you can simply import it and FC will connect it to the project.
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I don’t think you can delete an event if only one is online, you would need to leave another one online or create a new event before deleting it.
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No problems as far as I can tell.
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Bret, i did write …”other than some UI elemets”, but your right, its probably most of the UI. I’ve never used imovie other than on my ipad, i didn’t know it had better real time processing power than Legacy. Well, i never really cared to check. FCP7 feels crappier every day, but I still have to use it Arrghhh!!!
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FCPX has absolutely nothing in common with imovie, other than some UI elements. FCPX is based on AV Foundation, the old iMovie is Quicktime. The new Mavericks iMove is most likely AV Foundation, not sure. That was actually one of the first complaints against X, since it looked like imovie… I still heard this argument 2 weeks ago:-)))
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I agree, but the spark of change comes from the new guy. TV will need YouTube to keep up with new ideas and Youtube needs TV Broadcasters to improve its quality. But more and more high quality post can be done at homestudios, you can get cameras for little money with high quality. Video on demand is working better and better. As a professional you won’t need to rely on the big players anymore to get your ideas out to a broad audience.
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I remember during my college years at UT at Austin when FCP was first mentioned. At that time some TA’s were using it for rough cut to later generate EDLs to move to an Avid. The filmstudents interested in editing were using Avids, and none of us took Final Cut serious.
When I moved to Berlin in 2000 I started as a trainee at DW-TV. To my surprise I had to learn A/B Roll editing, since they only had one Avid at the time, and 12 A/B Roll seats. During the transition to Avid there was a lot of complaining, i remember one of the old school editors getting all flustered because i was clicking my way through frames with the keyboard, and it annoyed him…Avid was an established software at that time. the freelancers adapted very quickly, many already working with Avid in other places anyway, but many among the tenured editors use it reluctantly still to this date.
In 2001 I started playing around with FCP 2, and later started working for a commercial director. Das Werk in Berlin was not to happy when they had to deal with FCPs mediamanagement, since it didn’t make shorter clips when consolidating projects like Avid does. It almost felt like we had to apologize for using FCP.
Till 2005, other than working for the commercial director, there was almost nothing high end in Germany with FCP.
Mostly small start-up Postproductions. During that time i got hired for Star news internet stuff. Now that i think of it i got my first FCP TV broadcast job in 2010..:-)) The majority of big houses in Germany are still mostly Avid, and if at all have only accomodated FCP. Studio Hamburg is the only big player i know of seriously using FCP Legacy.i don’t think FCPX needs the upper elite to succeed, it needs to convince the new generation, and eventually it will be part of an elite toolkit, as much as Premiere and Avid will continue developing. And lets not forget that decisions are not just if a NLE does this or that, but whether its runs on the platform you like using.
And the question of who is more professional is kind of irrelevant. The changes and ground breakig things usually come from the younger less established crowds, who still feel that drive to need to prove themselves, or due to financial constraints decide to edit at home.
You know, its kind of funny, with all this talk about what and who’s professional, its TV broadcasters starting to realize that YouTube is the one making groundbreaking moves. I havent heard of internet moving towards TV, I don’t know of any you tube producers using big shoulder cameras or expensive HD decks. I do see a lot of VJs at DW-TV using small cameras and editing on laptops. Twitter and iphone videos are used by big news broadcasters.
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for some reason i can’t get it to work on my ipad, quoting doesn’t work either
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“like what Oliver Peter does…” sorry, i meant to write Oliver Peters
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He really has some nerve. :-)) Imagine writing on your resume that you’ve used a software a couple of times, no one would take you seriously.
Whenever I get confronted with “experts” like that in my neck of the woods it turns out they’ve usually fiddled with it for no more than a week, and haven’t finished a single project on it. While I was finishing a 60 minute experimental, delivering short pieces to DW-TV with seperate audio tracks, cutting a few multicam format mess projects that worked wonderfully, i was being told that X couldn’t be used for professional work.
I think the only thing you can do in that moment is smile, and pat the “expert” on the shoulder.
i like reading real critiques that are actually researched, like what Oliver Peter does. X isn’t perfect, Avid and Premiere aren’t either. I’ve always had lists of things i would like to improve, like most of us have. and some “improvements” like the magnetic timeline, i never expected, at first it even gave me stomach cramps, but then i actually used it and started understanding how it works.
“Always look on the bright side of life” – Monty Python