Sean Thomas
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FYI – FCP can not read AVCHD 60p files. That was my problem and I have since posted a proper workflow for 60p.
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It comes down to the picture profiles. #1 is very video like – don’t ever use it if you want a cinema look.
The facts are simple – DPs all over the world have shot some amazing, cinematic footage with the FS100. So it’s not the camera – it’s the user, setting, accessories, etc.
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I too freaked out the first time I tried to transfer 60p footing into FCP7. But you can’t expect a 4 year old program to recognize a newer, more available shooting format – 60p.
Also realize that Compressor and Adobe ME will not recognize the footage either.
The workflow is pretty simple.
1. clip wrap so that QT apps will recognize the footage
2. use Comp or ME to convert the footage to ProRes
3. you can also use Comp or ME to conform frame rateAt this point you will have edit ready footage in ProRes at either 24p/30p/60p.
I have some amazine 60p footage conformed to 24p playing at about 40% speed.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “my three year old lappie barely supports the system, so I’m reduced to standing in london apple shops cutting on display imacs until the shop hands hover intimidatingly close.”
I actually wan’t new software that won’t work on older computers. In “most” cases that means they are advancing in major
ways with the software code. The high GPU requirements of FCP X is where some of the problems have come for users trying to run
it on older computers.FCP X: Type A
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Anyone shoot 60P?
What is your workflow in FCP?
When going to SD DVD?FCP X: Type A
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It is in a usable state for some.
I don’t have time to do any scientific test, but on the old system with FCP 7, I had to render virtually
every effect put on a clip. Put a “old film” plug-in on a 1 min. clip. takes about 30sec -1 min to render.
In FCP X – it takes 1 sec – because it doesn’t have to render. So FCP X is upto 60x faster.It seems all FX in X preview and play in realtime. Not so many years ago, we were paying $10k
for realtime render/accell boards…..remember those? Now it’s free with your $299 NLE.Use AVCHD in FCP7 – the work flow is much longer/slower than X. So X is faster simply because it
edits AVCHD natively.Do you think that X is slower under the hood? X has the power we’ve all been waiting for. We just need
to wait for the features to get where we all want them.X works for some of my work, 7 for others, Premier for others. It’s not about a tool. X did not destroy my life.
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agree!
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Not sure where I read that, probably Cow or FCP.co
But the first part is obvious – these are all 10 year old apps. Not much change.
Who has the balls to do something different – think differnt…..
Editing in X is like getting out of a 10 year old junker car with 200,000 miles and then sitting in a new Ferarri. Sleek, refined and FAST. Can’t get the whole family in there but it still works for some situations.
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“Did everything change in post?”
No absolutely nothing changed in post. The only thing that happened was that Apple put out a new app and everyone freaked out.
You would think that all installations of FCP7 were “raptured” from Macs all over the world.
I like the comment that I read elsewhere: FCP7, Avid, Premier are examples of what editing has been like for the past 10 years. FCP X is what editing is going to be like for the next 10 years.
Most people who complain about FCP X have NEVER touched it. I know at leat 5 editors who just spew bad info from the web as their opinion about FCP X and they’ve never used it.
I also know that most of the first wave of complaints were by people who didn’t know how to do a certain funcion in X so they assumed it did not do it. Several post on here about “try to move your media”, “try to make a duplicate time line”, etc. All right in front of their face, yet still complaining X won’t do it.
And really, did anyone buy X and never use 7 again. Tell their clients they can’t go back and re-edit anything. That is a ridiculous statement.
It will get better with each update and we’ll all laugh at some of these post.
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He’s a student. He doesn’t have a workflow or clients.
As Timothy and I both said – it is not about the tools – never has been.