Sandeep Sajeev
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FCPX is not a pro tool and the people who use it are not as obsessed as professionals at mastering their tools.
Ah, the condescension. Always good to pop in to this forum for a quick patronising put down.
Thanks James. I’ll just get back to sucking at my job now. -
Cinema Tools was around in 2003, and was compatible with FCP 3. I used it as an assistant on a feature then.
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nice little kick in the nuts for FCPX on the day the Coen brothers announce for PPro is all.
Ha!
Nice to see Premiere looking so good. This new release really seems to have got a lot of the things that put me off when I was looking for FCP 7 alternatives, right.
The C4D integration will be a kick in the gut for Autodesk – Full 3D app, 3D Camera Tracker, next gen Roto ? Smoke needs to step up.
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Tsui Hark is a f**king legend. One of the few guys who’s still pushing the envelope in Asian cinema. Look him up, some of his stuff is insane. That Time and Tide shot were they threw film cameras and stuntment down the skyscraper is pretty much representative of his approach to film making – a breathless, irreverent, imaginative, indie approach to what are pretty big budget Hong Kong films.
He’s looking way too dignified for my liking in that photo though, I remember him scruffy and wild eyed setting up an action shot as a action director (in the behind the scenes of some martial arts movie) where the hero was going to crash into a small underground tunnel where he’d continue to kick ass while the tunnel collapsed around them. All real, no cg. I think it was a Jet Li film from back in the day, but not sure.
Basically, my point is, don’t dismiss him or his body of work.
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I’d like it to be integrated the way it is in Silhouette…part of the app. Ideally every editing tool should just license their planar tracker SDK, it’s that good.
Pricing will be interesting too.
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I AM very curious about how channels operates, and whether or not I can adjust or separate individual channels
Chris,
Not sure if you’ve seen this, but this video helped me understand Audio Components when they were introduced in 10.06 (I think).
https://themovieswemake.com/2012/10/fcpx-audio-component-editing-workflow/
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This forum is the only place where I’ve met any pro editor who doesn’t treat X with with either disdain or indifference.
This unfortunately holds true for me as well. I’m the only one I know in real life who’s using X. And when I suggested it as a good tool for a project, I got laughed at. Despite me listing the many ways in which it would make things easier on that particular project.
The bounce back is oddly very harsh.
So now I don’t do it anymore. But I must admit, I’m baffled at the venom that this program generates. It either works or it doesn’t, but people sure have an awful lot to say about just why it’s the worst NLE on the market.
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Ok, I can see where it is lacking for you. Thanks for the detailed response.
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I think perhaps we’re misunderstanding what Aindreas is saying?
As an aside, it would help if the FCPX training that is out there actually consists of projects that are halfway representative of real world projects that editors get.
The Ripple Re-enactment Fighters deal and Larry Jordan’s Garden Gnome and talking head are so far removed from reality to be ridiculous.
When I was learning Mocha through Curious Turtle, they weren’t dicking around, it was proper problems with proper solutions.
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I guess I’m not understanding. How does X hamper your workflow? Because it sounds to me almost exactly like mine, and I find that I work a lot quicker and more efficiently without compromising on my familiarity with the footage.
A recent example: I was working on a series of Digital Cinema spots for a sportswear brand. Multiple cameras shooting all around the world, 15 shoot days with 3 cameras a day, sometimes 4 or 5 if production went in for specialized rigs. Sound recorded separately.
I’d get the footage in at the end of the day on hard-drives. Bringing them into X was painless, fast and I was able to start going through the rushes right away. Syncing sound was a breeze, as was syncing clips with multiple angles.
The time spent going through the material was the same, because that’s not something that you can speed up, if you’re conscientious. But skimming helps – it’s less clicking and when dealing with vast amounts of footage, personally it makes a big difference to me. Keywording and Smart Collections help in rapidly organizing the material – I have for instance a Collection set up for very specific ‘high speed action shots with good hair’, as that was in the mood board. And I can instantly reference that in the session.
I can also go through and stabilize certain shots that may need it, so that when I put them in my 1st cut to present to the agency, the Creative Director doesn’t say “Hmmm it’s nice but is there something without the jerk”.
I can line up various takes in an Audition and we can cycle through at the click of a button until we find something that makes someone happy. Or when someone says “I thought we had that on one of the takes toward the end” I can reference it instantly and play it in context.
I find that the features in X help me, not edit better, but make better use of my time as an editor.
In fact on another series of spots that we worked on, (we were producers and post was handled by an in house agency team) I’d come back at the end of the day, feed the footage into X, sync sound etc and be done in a couple of hours at the most. The agency team had assists come in at night and work through until the morning syncing, sub-clipping etc so that the editors could start around noon.
And then they start going through the footage. So there’s a significant difference.
My take on spatial awareness in the NLE, is knowing where that clip you liked on that scrub through a couple of hours ago is. At least for me, sometimes it takes time for the significance of something to register. And it’s easier now to just tag something that’s not Key, but might be nice to work in maybe as a jump cut or an element comped in somewhere, and know where it is and be able to access it quickly.
This is why I find it hard to understand how people work through the Finder – I’d be lost inside the NLE in that case.
Perhaps I’m missing the point though?