Ronny Courtens
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Robin was just kidding. I agree there is a market and a need for this kind of titles. How FCPX/Motion 3D titles finally look entirely depends on the person who creates them:
– Ronny
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Hi Georg,
Make sure you have the latest version of SliceX/Mocha. This includes a SliceX Extras folder in which you can select the “Color Finale with Shape Mask” preset with which you can mask and track Color Finale corrections.
– Ronny
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– I don’t care about 3D titles too much, but I’m sure other people will be very happy with this feature (which is in fact quite deep and produces very high quality results). So Apple seems to listen to all of its customers, and not only you or me. Check.
– What I care about most is stability and speed, and those have been improved even more with this update. My friends at Metronome produce 290 hours of on-air television content each year, with 30 editors on FCP X, so you can imagine they are absolutely thrilled with the speed gains. Check.
– FCPX XML has gotten yet another update and when you look inside it you can see a lot of hidden gems that will further improve the already excellent roundtripping with Resolve and with other apps. Seeing how hard they are working on this, FCP X and Resolve are growing up to become perfect partners. Check.
– Being able to save an unlimited combination of settings and filters as one single preset that can still be modified, both for video and for audio effects, is something I have requested for a long time. Now it’s there. Check.
– The new GPU accelerated debayering (with the new RED plugin) is much faster now for people with hefty new Macros and iMacs. Check.
– But also people working on lower specced machines with Intel GPUs will be happy to see improved performance and rendering speed since the new version supports Intel GPU rendering and exporting. Check.
– The combined scopes were long overdue. But they’re here now and at least they are accurate. Check.
– The full bezier Draw Mask, the fact that every filter has now built-in masking and color masking plus the ability to convert simple masks to points that can be modified is major for anyone working with color correction or compositing. Check.
– Most users are happy with the color correction as it is, but when you combine the new masking features with specialized add-ons for FCP X like Color Finale (RGB curves) and SliceX/Mocha (tracking) you now get a really powerful combination. Check.
– Optical Flow and Rate Conform have further been improved. Slow Motion has never looked that good. Check.
– Smart Collections for Libraries finally allow us to search for any clips across multiple Events. Perfect for complex productions that are shot over long periods. Check.
– Some hidden little updates like the fact that you now get a Notification on any of your devices when importing from a camera card is done, and you can eject the card from within the Notification. Check
– And of course there are the traditional bug fixes and further improved camera support. Check.
The update has been smooth for us. Most systems were updated mid-project without any hiccups aside from a few minor annoyances related to 2 older machines, which we solved the same day.
So yes, I’m fairly satisfied with this update. Check.
– Ronny
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Hey Simon,
Not only is there still a strong Motion team, there also is a new Product Manager for Motion who seems very ambitious. And: what Andrew said.
– Ronny
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Jeremy,
I had removed the PDZK plugin because it was causing conflicts when importing F-55 footage. So the tests were done without the plugin. We are getting Leave Files in Place when importing from card (XDCAM HD 422 MXF) and we can work with MXF as we did before. Only faster now.
– Ronny
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I will leave the blabber about titles to those who have the time for this, but in the meantime we have been testing native R3D and MXF performance. Real-time full debayer playback (Best Quality settings) with native R3D at any size with multiple streams is pretty impressive.
We have also tested a 50-minute 12-angle 1080p25 native MXF multicam timeline streamed from a TB RAID on a maxed out iMac running 10.1.4 and we got spinning beach balls after 1 hour. Had to restart the app to get things smooth again. Ran the same test with 10.2 and the thing has been running for 5 hours now without any issues. Pretty impressive as well. Been screen recording the tests, will publish them on FCP.co.
My friends at Metronome in Denmark have been testing 10.2 with 20 editors working on the same media at the same time via their new shared storage system. They are absolutely thrilled about the performance boost. Will publish an article about this very soon now.
– Ronny
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I expect quite soon now, and then Sony will come up with yet another new format (-:
– Ronny
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Chad, I have sent you the information you asked for.
– Ronny
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Last week we installed and tested a new shared storage system for 10 client stations at Metronome Productions in Copenhagen. The system running on a Mac server was configured and optimized by Bob Zelin, and I can say he is a genius. We get great continuous speeds and zero to no latency, even when collaborating with multiple editors simultaneously on the same project. And, equally important, the price for this system was lower than we had budgeted. In a few weeks I am going to publish a detailed article about this setup on FCP.co. If you cannot wait that long you are welcome to e-mail me for more information: ronnycourtens(at)mac(dot(com).
– Ronny
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