Nikolas Bäurle
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I was referring to your last paragraph, but I just realize my brain was somewhere else, your are talking about rendering.
I was wrong, I just talked to one of our graders, yes, you benefit from upconverting. I always convert to ProRes, so I have never compared.
Why don’t you first import the footage in FCPX and let it optimize it for you to ProRes. I don’t get why you would create an animation codec in AfterFX.
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Not possible yet. There’s still some buggy stuff going on with keyframing.
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The stabilizer is in the inspector. Its not a seperate effect.
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FCPX is a 64 bit application. Upconverting doesn’t really give you any benefits when colorcorrecting. If the source is compressed, isn’t going to make the image itself better.
In my opinion there’s no reason to use any third party apps to convert footage in X. It optimizes the footage for you, and you can easily switch between proxy and optimized.
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SliceX works really well, and you get the hang of it quickly, its really easy. You could also use Motion 5, it is a lot cheaper SliceX but you would have to do it manually.
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i never said current workflows are invalid. My point simply is that technology changes, and at some point post facilites and individuals will have to adapt, or decide for a different system, or use what they currently use for the time being, and since there’s also the Hackintosh option I don’t see it as such a big problem.
The postproduction I work for hasn’t lost any business because of FCPX, and they’re taking their time to decide what to do next. I work in Berlin, so I don’t know the industry in the States…but do these bankruptcies have anything to do with FCPX or Macs? If a post house is going bankrupt doesn’t that have to do with factors like an economic crisis or the use of cheap labor, which is going on in all industries?
The clients I’ve mentioned FCPX to are always interested but don’t care what they use as long as the work gets done. FCP7 is still pretty darn fast for the needs of today.
And what’s wrong the cool factor. This Pro is not just for facilities. Apple doesn’t just sell technology, this has always been the case. Those who want to afford one, will, and for those who don’t, there’s plenty of options out there.
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First of all we don’t even know the price, and simply for being small doesn’t make it mini.
It looks cool and its looks like it will be very fast and next year even faster, what more do we need? Thunderbolt is very fast. The technology is new and this system is not for the needs we have now but for the future. My G5 still works, one of the places I work for still uses Legacy on their 12 Core MacPros. Why should the new MacPro integrate anything from older workflows? I don’t see the point.
As far as I remember DaVinci Resolve used to be this huge machine thing, pretty expensive. Even if the new MacPro turns out more expensive, I can get Resolve for free, or 1000 bucks for the full package.
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In most cases it really is an aversion to change, and there’s still a lot of misleading info out there. I’ve even talked to producers who believed that Apple had officially decided to leave the Pro Market and FCP X was going to be the last version.
With editors the problem a lot of the times is the fear of loosing work by not being able to adapt quick enough, especially young editors who just finished learning Legacy. Or if your company just invested in some expensive equipment.
I still hear the argument that X is too much like imovie and it doesn’t let you do things manually, and that magnetic timeline…Nik, you can’t use it for features films, you can’t even export tracks…excuse me? I’ve delivered multitrack files to TV directly exported from X, it took me less time to get the timeline organised and exported than it would have in Legacy. And the fact of the matter is once you start understanding the way X deals with audio, you spent less time worrying about out of sync than in Legacy.
I many cases though people don’t need to change. As editors we are (most of the time) evaluated based on our editing skills, which have nothing to do with the software. If you have enough clients, who usually don’t have a clue what’s going on in the editing software world anyway, why would you need to change. However I do believe that soon the places still working with Legacy will have to make a decision for one of the As, FCPX is so much faster than Legacy. The other day, on FCP7, a client wanted a Vignette, FXFactory, on a 6 minute piece, I also built a simple lower-third Title, color generator black, cropped, 50% opacity + white Text with drop shadow. The system we used is very fast, but there was some editing and color correcting going on in the other suites… It took about 60 minutes to export (unrendered). Now, I get payed for that time so I don’t care, but in X that would have taken no more than 10 minutes on my Laptop.
Where I do see FCPX gaining traction is in small companies, and those not specialised in Editing but needing it for their Video content. One of the places I’ve been working for this year, Promiflash in Berlin, one of Germany’s most popular Star/Gossip providers, decided to start doing internet TV. FCPX works perfectly for this environment. I trained one of our editors who only had Avid experience… she was able to use it within a day, not perfectly but it worked out fine. The producers ingest footage and make their selections before the video-editors arrive. I rarely get troubleshooting calls.
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FCP X has always exported XML its just not compatible with other NLEs. 3rd party solutions are out there. The big scandal was that it could not read XML from FCP 7, 7toX solved that.
As far as I know Resolve reads Xs XML.
For OMF you can use Automatic Duck.
A lot of negativity you hear is from people not really having used it, at least thats my experience. There is very little you can’t do with, except for certain workflows that editors have gotten used to.
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Don’t worry It had me confused last year as well…
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