[Ronny Courtens]

I’m with Charlie.

People have always misinterpreted the” X”. OSX is in fact OS10, just like the operating system that came before OS10 was called OS9.

OSX = OS10
Mountain Lion = OS10.8
Mavericks = OS10.9

The same applies to FCP:
FCPX = FCP10
At this time we are at FCP10.1.1

10.1 involved an important change with regard to media management, but fundamentally it was a smaller update than, say, .03 or .06. So I certainly would not call this a new version.

As the FCP10 updates seem to be coming in small increments we are still far away from the next new version, which would be FCP11. So IMO FCPX updates will remain free for quite awhile.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

In understand you have a way of working that you ‘d rather not change, and the way you work now in FCP7 will work perfectly in FCPX as well.

OTOH I absolutely agree with Mark: multicam is really, really good in FCPX. You absolutely should try it once just to see how well it works. Then you can always decide for yourself if you want to continue working as you do now or not.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Keith,

If you have an FCPX generator that cannot be trimmed without changing the timing of the effect there are two things you can do:

1. Put the generator into a compound clip and trim the CC (one-time solution)

2. Open the generator in Motion 5.

When it opens in Motion make sure nothing is selected in your project timeline, move the playhead to the end of the timeline and add a marker on the timeline.

Then R-click on the marker to edit it and change the type to “loop-end”. Save the generator and now you will always be able to trim it inside FCPX without changing the timing.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Been thinking the same. I wish we could have both these guys in one thread, now THAT would be “entertainment” (-:

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Sam,

Just logging in again to wish you all the best with this. And I agree, the quality of the threads on this forum has not really improved over the past few weeks. Sad for the regular posters here who have all my respect. But it’s always good for a laugh during the coffee break (-:

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

And then two editors access the same individual files?

Yes, this could be done in earlier versions of FCPX as well.

Does that mean this step with 10.1 from Apple will not satisfy the Avid users?

It certainly seems to satisfy the FCPX users (-:

So what systems do most of the large broadcasters (news sports etc) use? Is Avid their only solution?

Not at all. There are many different options for large-scale media sharing (Quantel, EVS, Signiant just to name a few). In our part of the world Quantel is far more popular among the large broadcasters than Avid.

What you want is much easier: just make sure your media is on a shared storage system that is fast enough to deliver multiple simultaneous video streams in the format you are working with, make sure the media is external to your Library (i.e. using simlinks), and multiple FCPX editors will be able to access these media simultaneously. Nothing really difficult about this.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Some cameras such as the C100 indeed fail to properly flag the recorded video and as a result the field order of the imported clips can get wrongly interpreted by an NLE (not only by FCPX for that matter).

If you have shot progressive video using the C100 and you see that FCPX has interpreted the video as interlaced: select all the clips in the Browser and in the Inspector > Info tab set “Field Dominance Override” to Progressive. Easy as that.

For the rest I concur with everything said above: FCPX is an NLE you definitely should consider.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Select the clip and in the Inspector > Video tab set Spatial Conform to None. Now your clip will not be downscaled to match the Project frame size.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

Sorry for the late reply, a long holiday in this part of the world (-:

When you create an Event or a Project you first select the drive you want to store them on, then you create them. All available drives show up in the FCPX window.

– Ronny

[Ronny Courtens]

When you import in FCPX it is best to leave all analyzing options un-checked. Analyzing files during import is absolutely unnecessary in your case. This is how your Export Preferences window should look:

You don’t need to optimize your video during import, if the video does not play smoothly on your system you can always transcode your imported clips from within the Event Browser (R-click a clip and select Transcode > Optimized).

Also make absolutely sure that you don’t keep your FCPX Events and Projects on your system drive. This will slow everything down. Just like with FCP7 use a fast secondary or external drive to store your media on.

– Ronny