Ricardo Guerreiro
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Crash wise I have no problems. Three months, only one crash so far. But there are other problems. I agree with you “why complain when you have other options?”… But he thing is that I spent 4000€ on a computer and software. Without a deep experience of FCP, one does not know that it’s going to behave like this. I mean, generally I’m happy with it. But I just think, not happy enough for a 4000€ hard and software deal. And surely it is not an option to go out and spend more 1000s of € to try alternatives.
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Totally agreed… I feel like “hum, I wonder if people using Avid go through all this?”.. I’m quite new to editing. Did a year of iMovie, a yar of FC Express and finally moved to FCP about 8 motnhs ago. Last September acquired Mac Pro 8-core, 8Gb RAM and I thought this would be just the greatest thing one could buy. Well, after 3 months of use I can say it has not been such a pelasent time. Not to the standard I guess equipment in this price range should be measured. There’s just too many litle things not working fine that make the whole not so interesting. There’s no big big thing, but there’s just to many small ones which add up to something annoying considering you payed 3000€ for a Mac Pro plus 1000€ for FC Studio. I think 4000€ demand less things to ca+omlain about than what I have. But I think Apple will manage to get away with it because porbably 80% of the people buying their stuff will use the products to about 20% of their capabilities and most buy them becuase they are beautifull. So, screwed are the ones who want gar to use in useful and working manners. Most of my friends have Macs and iPhones. I see ther wishes for upgrades on the machines and its just purely cosmtic or game oriented, or Facebook and social networking oriented enhacements. No real interested in useful apps or upgrades to apps. Not even going to mention the problem I have with Portuguese keyboard compatibility with FCP. This seemd to be around since FCP 6 and it seems that the folks at Apple are lke: oh, Portuguese keyboard problems? Get an English one… (about this problem: https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/200/883581)
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Well, thanks Eric but that’s what I used to do 10 years ago in Windows. I’d guess that FCP would be smarter than that. I have Finder to sort items by name just as I have FCP to do so (in the columns I see no discrimination between numerical or alphabetical order). They behave differently and I see no good reason as to why this is so. I could go and rename all files with zeros. But imagine logging lots of tapes where FCP itself names the files as 1, 2, 3,… and not 001, 002, 003,.. and then sorts them out this silly way. Come on, I don’t thinnk this is too much to ask, to have the app to sort the files in the obvious manner…
Thanks anyway.
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Thanks John.
That’s just great. Very clever feature of FCP… there’s stuff at Apple that the more I try to understand the less I can. I mean, I remember around 10 years ago to think that Windows was so stupid because it sorted items in this silly manner. Imagine what I think now about FCP. There’s always this so called “good integration” between Apple apps. Well, no in this simple case. Finder displays one way, FCP in another. Also, scrolling with mouse wheel on QuickTime and FCP to advance/go back frames, is done in opposite directions. I could go on for quite a bit. Duh… -
Thanks Shane.
Well, I think that’s a bit nuts as I’m sure this is not a technological limitation. I’m sure it would be a matter of a couple of code lines in the writing of FCP to be able to do this. Motion can do it, why shouldn’t the main editing tool of the suite? I mean, titling and graphics, I can understand that FCP does not do it but to deal with over and under-crank, to me that’s still in the editing business, no? To me looks like a silly limitation to have to work around this by launching other apps, converting footage to other formats, conform, etc… hey, but that’s me. Thanks again.