[Scott Witthaus]

Hey Kai –

If you upgrade to 10.1.4 and Pro Video Formats 2.0, you should be able to handle all this natively. A little more information from Steve Martin:

https://provideocoalition.com/mspencer/video/mxf-support-in-final-cut-pro-10.1.4

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Oliver Peters] “Like every app, you’ve got people who love it and people who hate it with every upgrade. “

Exactly. Also, when sifting through the information here, make sure that a particular bit of “knowledge” comes from someone who actually uses the software, versus commenting on it from afar. The old tag line “…but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night…” doesn’t really work. Find the folks who have been in the trenches with the options you are weighing (such as Mr. Peters, above) and give extra weight to those comments.

MHO.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Jeremy Garchow] “FCPX does support dynamic keyboard trimming, without the precision editor”
[Jeremy Garchow] “FCPX’s keyboard trimming, on the other hand, is much more fluid for me than what was in Legend.”

Exactly. Maybe not Avid’s definition of Dynamic Trimming (is there a trademark on that?) but it is dynamic trimming. If you actually use or have used dynamic trimming (lower case on purpose) in X and other NLE’s you will see it’s dynamic. Maybe not Dynamic as Avid defines it, but certainly dynamic. It’s just a personal workflow preference.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[TImothy Auld] “FCPX has nothing like dynamic trimming”

So this definitive comment sets up a good question. What’s your definition of Dynamic Trimming?

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[James Ewart] “Reassign Snapping ‘n’ to Extend Edit?”

…or any key you like.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Richard Herd] “Regardless of how anyone works, how it be known where to cut if the head and tail are unseeable (Jeremy’s post notwithstanding.) This is especially a problem on a continuity cut between angles of the same action.
“

Well, you get it pretty close with your first cut, then tweak later. I am not seeing what you are missing.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Neil Goodman] “did more to show the shortcomings of Dynamic trimming in FCPX than anything else.”

Interesting. I saw quite the opposite for the way I work. Much like when I switched over to FCP from Avid, and everyone was saying ‘well the trimming is FCP sucks, Avid is the only way…” I soon found out I really missed nothing from Avid and I was faster at FCP. And now after learning more and more about trimming in FCPX I realize that I really don’t miss alot from FCP7 and Avid (which is a moot point as it’s dead in my region) and FCPX is much faster in the way I work. I customized the keyboard and went at it. Not missing much at all in the way I work. Your mileage will certainly vary.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

Hi Sasha –

I know where you are coming from. When I have my “academia hat” on, I teach Visual Storytelling to over 100 students each year. We have a lab with 21 Mac Pro’s and we switched over to FCPX 2 years ago. I had something like that with our Facillis set-up with FCP7, where only team members could access their partition. It was tied into their network log-in. Since FCPX we have not been using it, but FINALLY our IT folks are updating the software so that we can use that again. In the meantime, I just teach and teach again about the importance to create a new project with a unique name, saved to the video hard drive and close out any other Libraries that might be opened. Also, since students have to log on to each computer, FCPX seems not to remember what the last student on a different log-in had open. I am not in front of a system right now, but I will check that later. Good luck!

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

I can see that.

When I need to see both sides I am usually not in the precision trim mode and simply dragging back and forth looking at the dual display. For me, having the head and tail is best there.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Scott Witthaus]

[Chris Frantz] “seems like a FCPX problem where there’s only a few layers of organization”

You’re kidding, right?

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter