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How has that in any way changed compared to older versions? Simply SAVE and choose the option to include the media files if needed.
– RK
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[Andy Field] “nearly dozen updates in the last few years is a company listening to it’s customers and offering improvements every few months that make editors more efficient. “
So how exactly couldn’t you just as well put an “Apple’s” in front of that? Only that you’d of course have to change it to “well over a dozen”. Just because they haven’t put in something that you want?
– RK
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[Herb Sevush] “The roll out of X was a perfect marketing plan, it’s just that the dumb customers were too stupid to appreciate it. It had to be perfect because everything Apple does is perfect, therefore if people are still bugged it’s obviously their fault.”
You know what they say about people reduced to having to play the tired “fanboi!” card…
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I guess that makes it 3:1 then. ;D
[Craig Alan] “I think for advanced editors working with many layers of media that traditional tracks are a better fit;”
Really? How so? I really don’t see any difference as far as that’s concerned. In fact, I’d say that the Clip Skimmer by itself is one component that makes multi-layer editing (e.g. a large PS file) exponentially easier and faster.
BTW, Mr. Murch himself even says:
[Walter Murch] “I think [Apple] saw not only the future future, but almost the immediate future. Which is: you are not going to graduate from high-school now without making a movie. […] And Apple’s Final Cut 10 is positioned very nicely to fill that need.”
And again, as a teacher of both old and new, I think he’s clearly a very smart and astute man, and he doesn’t even use X. People can scoff at those supposed “skateboard video” makers all they like, but from what I’m seeing, the next (and ultimately far more relevant and important) generation is very prone to go with FCP X after getting to know it. And be it just for financial reasons alone. But also because the “pros” of yesteryear had and have entirely different needs, workflows and expectations. Some of which Apple plain isn’t looking to fill by default. But seeing what I get instead and what BTO options I have, if needed, I see no shame in that.
[Walter Murch] “I think, frankly, [Apple] are just not interested in babysitting professionals”
Something I also find easy to believe and is also quite understandable. IMHO meaning “pros” that are only happy if they get a pre-configured system slapped on their desk and a phone number to call if ANYTHING goes wrong or not the way they expect/want. So as not to have to deal with “unnecessary technical details or options”. And no, that company isn’t Apple, but for lots more $$ there are alternatives. Again, “pros” with specific (maybe even niche) needs, but certainly not professionals in general.
– RK
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[Tim Wilson] “I think it’s only stubbornness that assumes that somebody’s choice of non-X might be something other than a mental defect or personality flaw.”
But then he never spoke of choice, but rather just mere understanding. Whether someone chooses to use X after in fact actually understanding the mere basics of X and actually using it is a whole other topic.
[Tim Wilson] “Oliver has noted before that his high-school students generally gravitate toward Premiere. The student body of the USC School of Cinematic Arts is using Media Composer without their heads exploding.”
That of course being anecdotal. As well as my having written of my last four years of teaching X (after five+ years of teaching PPro and 7) several times also, showing the opposite i.e. what I believe Frank’s real point was. My students of all ages need only days to learn to use X proficiently (especially if they are completely new to editing/NLEs), as opposed to WEEKS with others (all three A’s are taught and available). And when assigned open projects, 8 out of 10 choose to do them with X. The other two will use PPro, usually because they have a PC at home and therefore PPro. To date I have yet to see a single one choose Avid. Scott having reported more or less the exact same thing from experience at his school as well btw. Go figger.
– RK
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The age old trick (to this even older problem) is to add (blue) noise to the image. That raises the delta exponentially and the encoder is forced to compress far more precisely, therefore leaving in considerably more (color) information. And color, as the numbers 4:2:2 tell us, is the first to go. But in the end of course at the cost of a much larger file.
Add blue noise at a value of 0.02 to any affected clips in FCP (not to anything that is unaffected to at least give the compressor SOME chance to save space) and export. Any banding should at least be greatly reduced, if not in fact completely gone. You’ll want to export directly to the needed format also, not use intermediates (e.g. not output to ProRes THEN to Vimeo, rather straight to H.264). But any upload to YouTube et al will always have far more predominant banding either way (since they’re recompressed even higher on the server), no matter how good your master is.
The discrepancy in the way FCP displays the clip in the different modes has to do with the same type of reduction for the sake of smooth playback. Your original certainly has not been changed. Additional generations will obviously also introduce more artifacts, though that should be near undetectable with ProRes. But no codec is perfect either.
– RK
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You’re actually asking the wrong question imho. Because FCP could (technically) do this, sure, but… can you? Simply using a certain software package obviously doesn’t just magically give you the ability to do clean keyframe animation. It’s generally a tricky and tedious process that needs a lot of practice to do well. As far as that’s concerned I’m pretty sure pretty much any NLE could do it for that matter. Some better, some worse.
And even though FCP would theoretically allow you to make this, I highly doubt it actually was. At least not exclusively. One telling sign is that there are eases on some of the scaling. Something (believe it or not) FCP doesn’t even offer. But either way I wouldn’t want to do something like that in FCP anyway. It would be a huge PITA, which is the reason for MOTION. Pretty much like you wouldn’t want to do this in PPro, because you have After Effects. And yes, Motion is the package you’ll want to use in conjunction with FCP. But unless you’re experienced with MoGraph work (e.g. with AE), which something tells me you aren’t so much, then you’ll want/need to get basic training for it as well. For example from Ripple Training.
On a side note: the audio in that video could use a lot of work…
– RK
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[Michael Gissing] “Perfect for all? Of course not. No software or payment model is. “
What is “imperfect” about e.g. Apple’s payment/licensing model for you? As in: pay once. Period. Install on any and all machines that you own. No phoning home needed to keep it alive. What’s missing?
[Michael Gissing] “Adobe software has been historically hugely cracked and pirated and without control of OS and online stores they really did have to look at a different model.”
I hope you’re not seriously suggesting that as of the CC model, that Adobe software suddenly became magically immune to being hacked and only people paying for it are actually using it. Because I don’t see what has actually changed as far as that’s concerned. Aside from maybe the methods.
– RK
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[Tom Sefton] “You might not want to believe me,”
I never said anything about believing you. I merely stated that I have contrary experiences. YMMV. No one NLE is everything to everybody and never will be.
– RK
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It’s called “Freudian Projection”.