[Scott Witthaus]

[Oliver Peters] “Go back and re-read what he’s trying to do”

I know that Oliver. As I said in my reply, it is not like Pr. So what he exactly wants from the system may not be there. However, it seems he is just getting into X so there are some options he may want to look at. I’m not bashing any other product.

The line of mine you “quoted” had nothing to do with his set-up, just advice on how to use a system that he has been resisting. This is not the debate forum rather a techniques forum. I think advice here can be a good thing.

Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Andrew Johnstone] “What I am essentially after is ‘two up’ editing with the timeline (or whatever it is called now) below on on screen and my rushes bin on screen two, dragged to fill half the screen so I can have the script visible in Word on the other half of the screen.”

Certainly not as flexible (right now) as Premiere, but there are a lot of options (under the Window dropdown) for the second display and the workspace and then each of those can be saved as presets.

Best advice: don’t try to make X into Premiere, Avid or FCP-Legacy. Learn the software the way it was designed to work. You will be much happier in the long run and not look back (I know I am).

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Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Oliver Peters] “Are they mandating that you also work in FCPX for your projects?”

Compatibility would be my guess.

Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

Really interesting article, thanks for posting.

It might be that the traditional assistant editor job might be at risk. If the NLE of the future can organize based on word, phrase, shot type (FCPX has the Find People option now), shot location (GPS), balance the audio, base level grade and other “pre-edit” tasks, is there a real need for an AE? Will this system then be able to string together basic scenes based on Scene #, take # and comments (maybe string together all the “circle takes”)? I could come in after a shoot, ingest the footage, let the machine do it’s thing and come back later and have all that done without another salary on the project.

Interesting.

Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

Thank you gentlemen. Much appreciated.

Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Bob Zelin] “It’s hard to believe that a Quantel Painbox was $250,000.”

We would buy so much Sony gear each year that when our company went to NAB (sometimes 15 of us), Sony would rent out a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse room for a night and basically said “have at it”. And then would take those of us who golf out to exclusive desert courses. Hell, $15,000 + was small change for the amount of gear we were buying.

Ah, the good old days….they are good and gone now.

Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Bob Zelin] “when I started to talk about Adobe Photoshop, and the Painbox guys would call it “Photo-toy”. All these guys that made fun of all the “cheap stuff” (including AVID, etc.) – well, they are all UNEMPLOYED now. And since this is the Final Cut Pro X debate forum – all the guys that make fun of FCP X – well, just wait and see what happens. (and I am no great fan of FCP X – but I see what is happening). “

Hell, it happened with FCP-Legacy and even happened to me when cutting on an early Avid. Had to render a dissolve and a linear guy walked by and smugly said his Sony switcher would do a dissolve in real time. Totally missing the forest view.

Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

Hi Alex –

I am about done with a first cut on a 60 minute doc and here is my workflow (tailored of course to the producer and directors style of work).

There are about 20 interviews each lasting over an hour each. When one is shot, I make a TC burn for the director so he can review and take notes. Each interviewee get’s their own event and in that event lives the TC burn. I agree and wish events could be stored in folders!

Since we make a new version each day we cut, I make an event that has current projects only in it and another for old projects. The current event has the latest cut and all the interview TC projects.

Since this is a historical doc, stills are a huge source of imagery. I usually pre-prep them at the finder level (folders for each topic) and import turning folders into keyword collections. I then ‘favorite’ the best stills for quick recall as needed.

Music has it’s own event (and favorites) as well as any historical video we can find. We are going to audio post, so I am keeping things very clean as far s audio goes. My mix is for approval only.

I am doing the color correction in FCPX and for each major setup (usually an interview) I do a base grade as I come across them and save that base grade as a preset using the person’s name for the title. That way, if I am 40 minutes in I can easily recall the grade on a person from 5 minutes in.

I use “favorite-reject” filtering a lot. So very helpful.

That’s all I can think of now at 6:45am with one cup of coffee. I hope this helps!

Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Steve Connor] “Looks like Adobe have figured that they are losing out in the Vlogger space so they thought they’d try a different approach. I wonder what the rent will be?”

I think this is exactly right. But are they Pro’s? ;-). And will PR be confusing against Pr? It’s more like an iMovie competitor.

I hope to be at Max in a few months in LA and it will be interesting to see where this product will be at in the near future. I thought the Spark Video app was to cover this space or is that a step below Rush (although I did read somewhere that the adoption of the Spark apps has been abysmal…)?

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Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Oliver Peters] “That argument has been undermined for FCPX by Apple itself”

Man, I just KNEW I felt “undermined” by Apple…! 😉

Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter