Ronny Courtens
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Shane,
Consolidation
Worx4 X from Marquis Broadcast will consolidate your Final Cut projects with handles. It still has some limitations but it works well for most projects. I agree this is a very useful feature in many workflows, which should be included in the NLE.
Partial imports
– If you are importing from a camera card that contains the entire card structure, or from FCP X Camera Archives, you can select ranges of clips and only those ranges will be imported into Final Cut Pro X. You can even command-drag more than one range per clip.
– If you want to make partial imports from regular video files (not inside a camera card structure), get the “VirtualCameraCard” app from Spherico.com. You can use that app to make FCP X think your .mov file is a camera card and then select a portion of the file you want to import.
– Ronny
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LumaForge servers run the PostgreSQL database straight off the server, also with the new update. So no external server required for the database. As Bob says, this is part of the support we provide and it is also what differentiates us from QNAP.
– Ronny
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I don’t expect it will come that far, but I agree that UK politicians are the laughing stock of the entire EU right now. All because of some silly ego’s. Sad, really sad.
– Ronny
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Thank you, Oliver.
It was great talking with a respected feature editor who does all his work with Final Cut and to discuss how he handles handovers from FCP X to high-end post houses without any issues. I will be traveling quite a lot in February to record some pretty interesting case studies in Germany, Norway, Hungary, and Spain. Busy times ahead (-:
– Ronny
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If I had to base my opinion on what I see in my country, I would probably come to the same conclusion. In Belgium, it’s mostly Avid and some Premiere Pro. But I have learned to look at the larger picture and not restrict my findings to just my neck in the woods. Once you do this, you discover a great diversity around the world that does not necessarily correspond with local situations.
– Ronny
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I think it has been a snowball effect. The larger corporations I have been involved with and who adopted FCP X in a quite early stage, are still using it and even have expanded their operations. This has caused smaller external production companies who work with these corporations, to also start using FCP X.
I know of some really important feature films that are currently being cut with X, quite a large amount of long-form documentaries, and some very popular Netflix Original series. I especially see a fast-growing adoption in broadcast operations, mostly in Eastern Europe. Also, I recently had an interview with a popular fiction editor in Tel Aviv who told me that there is a really fast-growing FCP X community in Israel, which I did not know. And when talking with media enterprises about high-level shared storage (as you know, I work with LumaForge), I am often totally surprised when they say that they use FCP X as their main NLE. Many of the editors there are not active on social media or online forums, so we don’t really know what they use until we get directly in touch with them.
As a side note: I also see growing adoption of Resolve as an NLE (although still quite slowly), mostly at the detriment of other track-based editing solutions. As you may recall, some years ago I said that Avid and FCP X could make a perfect combo. I think I will need to revise this opinion. I can see FCP X and Resolve evolving into a great combination for the future, while I clearly see that Avid is slowly but surely losing its grip on the high-end media market. Maybe not in Hollywood yet, but that is hardly a reference anymore.
– Ronny
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I agree things have been quiet on the FCP X case-study front, but that’s only because we simply had no time to make them. Writing a good detailed case study takes a LOT of research and work and, unfortunately, there are only 24 hours in a day. I am preparing a ton of new case studies for the coming months. I actually have never had so many cases to pick from, especially in Europe where FCP X adoption has grown exponentially last year.
– Ronny
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Hey Mark.
It’s not only for the FCP crowd. Although LumaForge has specifically developed these high-performance servers because no other server at that time could cope with the heavy stress that the Library structure of FCP X puts on the server traffic, we now have as many clients who use Premiere Pro CC and Resolve as we have FCP X clients. And we work very closely with Apple, Adobe and BlackMagic. As an example: we are currently the only company that runs Resolve collaboration straight off our systems without needing an external server for the PostgreSQL database.
– Ronny
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Hey Bob!
Thank you for your kind words. We are indeed very happy with the fact that Apple is selling some of our standard models directly, and we also have an Enterprise division now that covers the needs of our larger clients with more complex integrations based on our scale-out Petabyte solutions. I will be on the road in the next months, visiting clients and recording case studies. Would love to talk with you in more detail, I will contact you soon.
– Ronny