Scott Witthaus
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Apple Final Cut Pro X Coins
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[andy patterson] ” Having said that I would not want to change the GUI of Premiere Pro for the GUI of FCPX.”
Oh please, Andy. Didn’t you state that Pr 17 was quite possibly the worst NLE ever? ????
[andy patterson] “FCPX still has a Fisher Price Like GUI after more than six years of being in the market.”
Fischer Price to some, elegantly clean to others.Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
Would it be fair to say that if you were running FCP7 and had clients with projects on FCP7, you should have migrated them to X or Premiere a long time ago? I mean, you all knew this day was coming. The writing was clearly on the wall. Perhaps it’s not ‘shame on Apple’, but ‘shame on the editor who did not see this coming and migrate projects a long time ago’?
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[Andrew Kimery] “I think Apple’s happy with how 1st party color grading is inside FCP X sp they aren’t going to drastically improve it. They’ll leave it up to third parties.”
I agree with the sentiment 100% and I am totally happy with Apple doing that. Why try to be everything to every one? Make a solid base product and vet 3rd party add-ons for those who need that. I have been playing with Resolve 14 and the experience confirms my thoughts. I would rather have BMD decide what Resolve is and focus, versus trying to be everything. Cluttered interface that, while better than R12, still “handles slowly” and crashes a lot (ok, it’s a public beta). I don’t need all that stuff. Perhaps you get what you pay for.
[Andrew Kimery] “Even if Apple dumps the power of Color into X, the usability will be drastically hindered by not being able to use panels.”
I would love to see that power in X but I for one, and probably many many other editors, will never invest in a panel system for color correction. Simply not in my wheelhouse. I’m an editor first. Sure, I can do a little color but if I can’t do it in X (or with whatever plug in), it goes to a colorist who has invested in her/his profession with panels, scopes, monitors, etc.
[Andrew Kimery] “You mean like properly white balancing and exposing an image during production (or even *gasp* shooting a chip chart)?”
Perish the thought!
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[Nathan Kendall] “Is there a track mixer that I am not seeing. I know about adjusting volume per clip. I want to set db per track.
“I guess you missed the “no tracks” part of the description.
[Nathan Kendall] “rustrating how I paid good money for the software and apple wants to over simplify there app so that pros and even people that have a pro mindset like myself have to get bogged down because there simplifying of things is just bewiddleing.
(O’ ps. the color board just plain sux and there is no curves. )”
Yeah, like the other folks said, Ripple, Lynda or YouTube would be a very good place for you to start. If you try to take previous technical knowledge and apply it to FCPX (which has a lot of new terms and new ways of doing old tasks) you will be as frustrated as your post sounds. Go
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
One less thing to debate.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Tom Sefton] ” The error seems to come when trying to add directly after stopping the play head using spacebar. “
Tried this too to see if I can duplicate what you are seeing with no luck. So, you hit the space bar to stop the playhead and option-click to set a keyframe and it jumps? Assuming that is the case, I cannot make that happen, with magnetism on or off.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
OK, just tried on my MacPro system and everything worked fine. This morning I used a track pad and the macPro was using a USB-wired mouse. Still cannot reproduce what you are seeing. Which of course makes it more frustrating for you.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
OK, will try on a different system now. Delete prefs, etc?
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Oliver Peters] “I just don’t get all the anxiety over tracks.”
It’s not anxiety. I think there was way more anxiety contemplating the lack of tracks. Some of us find that the “trackless” model is a more efficient way to work. But I am not seeing “anxiety”.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
If you turned the Skimmer off, does that change anything?
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter