[Ronny Courtens]

[Fiona Fuchs] “I have heard weird things”

You always hear weird things on the internet. The most important thing is not to believe any of them ((-:

“so I’d like to make an informed decision”

Then take the time and try out the different options. That’s the only way of making a truly informed decision. If you are an experienced editor you can learn to work with any NLE in no time, they’re just tools after all. And after 35+ years in this business I have learned that it’s harder to replace a good editor than to replace an entire post production workflow.

“Any ideas of how this FCP thing will end up?”

If it continues to go in the direction it is going now: extremely well.

[Ronny Courtens]

In our company and in some other broadcast houses I know in Europe you don’t get a job unless you know FCPX. But as a freelancer it’s Avid for sure.

[Ronny Courtens]

I had the same problem on our French keyboards. I have remapped the Override Connections shortcut to the “<” key (without any modifier) using the Keyboard Command Editor and since then everything works perfectly.

[Ronny Courtens]

Could you post a pic of such a “fintness bar” and give some more information on what exactly it should do? Is it only a bar filling over time or does it need to have time indicators or other information as well?

[Ronny Courtens]

[Charlie Austin] “I think after about 2AM, pretty much everything you do should cause an “are you sure you want to do this?” warning dialog to appear. 🙂
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I couldn’t agree more! Chasing away some embarrassing memories right now… Thank you for this this reminder, Bret.

[Ronny Courtens]

I think you might find this thread very helpful:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/12081

We have been using the free CreateDiskImage utility from Andreas Kiel on many FCPX projects now without any problems. It makes it very easy to create sparse images and bundles, and to adapt them if needed: https://www.spherico.de/filmtools/createDiskImage/

If you use a backup system that does incremental backups (Time Machine, CCC…) you should use sparse bundle disk images instead of sparse disk images. Will save you a lot of time during backups.

[Ronny Courtens]

This Share > Media Browser option used to exist in previous versions of FCPX, prior to 10.0.6: https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_share_export_stone.html

And as you say it now exists as “Publish to Media Browser” in the Share > Master File menu.

IMO this option only relates to making videos exported from FCPX show up directly in the Media Browser of any apps that have this shared Media Browser.

As opposed to what the article states I don’t think this has much to do with opening FCPX Projects in LPX, which is done through FCPXML.

Wish I had the time to test all this now. But I’m sure someone else will ((-:

[Ronny Courtens]

Thanks for the link, Mathieu. Interesting…

[Ronny Courtens]

I second Jeff’s and Alban’s opinions. So much has changed since the first appearance of FCPX. We use it on 15 stations working mainly for national broadcast. We do commercial, episodic, long form documentary and narrative work on it, we have used it for spitting out daily reports against fierce deadlines during the Olympic and Paralympic Games… not exactly “prosumer” stuff I would say.

I hardly ever use the templates, except when I see one that offers a pretty good starting point for a certain job we have to do. Then I open it in Motion to tweak and customize it and I save the custom template straight from Motion into the FCPX browser for further use. This can be a huge time-saver on fast turnaround projects while the client does get his “own” look.

Glad you like the application, once you will get more familiar with it you will see that you can go very deep with it. If you are really new to FCPX a proper basic training is the best way to understand how it really works.

You will be surprised how well it works once you understand a project is more than a timeline and an event is more than a bin for bins. Now that effectively sums it all up!

Oh, and regarding your initial question:

We also use the Duplicate Project feature for versioning, though I’m not a huge fan of storing long Projects as CCs in an Event. However, saving complex compositions as CCs in an Event to re-use them e.g. as editable openers on multiple Projects is a common workflow in our shop.

And of course we use a rigid backup strategy for all our work. Besides our regular media and system backup workflow I have been quite happy with a little app called “Backups” for making incremental backups of our FCPX Events and Projects. The same thing can be done with another app called Proversioner.

https://npassociatesllc.com/backupsforfcp/
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/proversioner/

Happy editing!

-Ronny

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Actually having tracks and a mixer, I guess…

That’s exactly what I was thinking about. I don’t see Logic as an everyday companion to FCPX, it has never been part of the old FCS suite either.

FCPX already has inherited quite a few tools and filters from Logic and STP for audio sweetening, and together with the audio components concept this does allow for some very decent audio work right inside the NLE. This has already changed our workflow in such a way that we don’t go to ProTools that often anymore.

But for long projects with complex audio lanes Logic X could play a role. It all depends on how much further FCPX gets developed with regard to audio. 10.1 should be a good indicator for this, I guess. In the meantime I am going to download a copy of Logic X later this week just to see how well it plays with FCPX. If anyone has already tested this I would welcome any reactions.

-Ronny