Nikolas Bäurle
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You can click on the text icon (black + white lines) in the address bar, then CC mobile page you’re on will turn into text on white background.
“Always look on the bright side of life” – Monty Python
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Has anyone seen this? MIchael Cioni’s (Light Iron) point of view of Innovation in production & post. The part about X starts at 13:37, the rest ist very interesting too.
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I actually had a modern technology discussion with my old landlord in Berlin (dentist, vegan, intellectual, grumpy old man) he avoids anything new if possible.
He immediately started about the lack of creativity and modern technology.I agreed, technology doesn’t make you a better storyteller, but it sure makes it a lot easier to get your message out. Its not as bulky anymore. Nowadays you could even do a Howard Hughes 25 cam shoot for a lot less money. During the 20s didn’t a film camera with Dolly take about 5 people to work on, some of those old cams are almost as big as tanks.
And it’s interesting to see how quickly we forget how much crap was produced when film was invented. Or what about the original Scarface, compared to Al Pacino in color or something like Braking Bad. Evolution
Development in Storytelling goes along with improvements in Technology, or is a screenwriter a bad storyteller for being able to use spell check?
“Always look on the bright side of life” – Monty Python
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Most FCP X editors I know here in Germany, still have their Legacy Systems. I still have my G5 FCP 6 in my workroom.
Most companies I know keep their Legacy Stuff and simply add the new.For example: I’ve been freelancing for DW-TV in Berlin for 12 years now. When I started out in 2001 they were still using A/B roll editing, we started using Avid only for sound recording in 2002, then everything was changed. As of this year tape is pretty much dead. However if you need to dub UMatic at the DW, no problem. VJ at the Welle edit with Avid, Premiere, FCP Legacy and X. All TV stations in Germany take Apple ProRes.
About 6 months after X came out one of Germany’s major Private TV stations Pro7 stopped taking tapes, since then only Apple ProRes, the postproduction where I edit Pro7 stuff, still uses Legacy, Avid and Premiere.
I just don’t see how apple has made life harder for anyone. For those who don’t like it, FCP 7 still works perfectly fine.
If it hadn’t been for Apple, many of us wouldn’t have bee able to afford our own editing systems, and since X came out I’ve been working more than ever, using Avid Newscutter, Legacy and X about the same amount of time each month.
“Always look on the bright side of life” – Monty Python
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I heard FCP 7 works quite well on beta testing Mavericks.
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Is your external drive connected when you open X? If you have duplicate event and project names in different HDs, X cannot show them both since it gets confused.
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Why would you need to add Slice X? Does Avid offer something similar in their package, automatic tracking? As far as I know they don’t…
What if you don’t like avid fx? For me one of the reasons i never invested in Avid was the fact that you spend more money and get features you might never use.
“Always look on the bright side of life” – Monty Python
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With FCPX I get the option of deciding if I need these extra tools or not. For most of the work I do for TV or internet I wouldn’t even need half the stuff on that list.
“Always look on the bright side of life” – Monty Python
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To remove all effects at once you simply need to highlight all the clips, at the top of the inspector you will see that its inspecting whatever number of clips you highlighted. Then you can remove the effects and corrections.
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You can change spatial interpolation in the viewer. Temporal interpolation can only be adjusted for opacity, for whatever reason, they need to fix that.
Now, the problem with the spatial interpolation in X is that if you animate position and size you will get a small s-curve before it hits the next frame. In Motion you get curves for each parameter by default that you can change back to linear, if needed. Can’t do that in X.
Personally I like working with Xs default curving for the style I’m currently editing, for perfect straight animations its best to use the Ken Burns Effects, or use Motion or AFX.