Simon Ubsdell
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This just in from Izotope which I know a lot of you are using in some form or other:
“As many Mac users are aware, Apple recently released OS X 10.11, El Capitan. At this time, we strongly recommend that customers using iZotope products postpone their upgrades to 10.11.
Our engineering teams are actively testing and qualifying the final release version of El Capitan, and are working to address known issues.”
PS. RX5 looks and sounds amazing!
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Hi Steve
Adobe users should be aware of this message from Al Mooney regarding Premiere Pro:
https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2015/10/premiere-pro-cc-and-mac-os-x-10-11-el-capitan.html
“We are aware of some issues users of Premiere Pro may experience after upgrading to the latest version of Mac OS X, (‘El Capitan’), OS X 10.11. We are working hard to resolve these issues in an forthcoming release but currently recommend users remain on OS X 10.10.x.”
From our point of view at Hawaiki, we have checked all our plug-ins for El Capitan compatibility and have recently released updates to Hawaiki Keyer, AutoSplit, AutoMatch and Analyzer which incorporate new code to accommodate the update. However, due to changes in the Apple Core Image framework, performance may be degraded in certain configurations. In particular, you may see a very significant performance slowdown if you are running a late 2013 Mac Pro. As a precaution, we recommend you hold off updating to El Capitan for now.
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Not wanting to get into this lively argument, but, Bill, do check out Steve Martin’s QT7 workflow that I referenced above – it has interesting advantages, not least that you can create a reference movie that FCP X will read which makes the whole process nice and streamlined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=2kgN5mJaHy0
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[Shawn Miller] “What about image sequence import? IIRC, didn’t you have to go through some crazy workaround to get image sequences into X? Did that ever get fixed?”
I’m pretty sure this hasn’t changed but I haven’t checked recently. In this video Steve Martin uses QuickTime 7 to assemble the image sequence prior to importing for use in FCP X:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=19&v=2kgN5mJaHy0
It’s also discussed in this thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/9066
This is one suggestion from Sjon Ueckert:
“This is the best way to import animation frames. Shift Select all the animation frames in the browser. Type Control D, then in the Time Counter above the timeline, type 1. Then type “W” or “Q” to have the 1 frame images inserted into the timeline.”
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Great list, as always. I wonder how much of that we will ever actually see at this rate of development?
How many of those features could you practically do without and still be able to do everything you need using FCP X? I’m guessing probably all of them, right?
My list is very short but it includes those features that mean I can’t at present use FCP X except in certain controlled situations. Every year I mention this list, but since none of this has yet appeared, I’ll do so again.
a) Comprehensive and persistent timecode displays.
b) True replace edit.
c) Gang sync.
d) Flexible media relinking as per FCP Legacy.There are of course workarounds but they involve starting and finishing in FCP X and that is not something I have control over in my business. I’ve tried a number of potential solutions but they don’t cut it in terms of the extra time, awkwardness and lack of flexibility that they involve. So these things remain a significant obstacle for me.
I appreciate that there won’t be more than three other people on the planet to whom these features would matter, but doesn’t really help me.
I hope I don’t have to post this list again next year, but I’m fairly certain that I will …
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[Walter Soyka] “I have suggested to Simon that a native Ae version would be most welcome. Maybe you’d join me in pestering him?”
Hi Walter,
No pestering required. Your suggestion is, as always, a very good one that we are looking into very seriously!
If you could lend us some time on your more-hours-in-the-day machine, we can get that finished pretty soon 😉
Seriously, though, it’s thanks to discussions/disagreements/differences of opinion that we had on this very forum with you and Shawn (and indeed Jeremy) a few summers back, that I started down the long and winding road of developing Hawaiki Keyer, so a big thanks to you all and to the COW as a whole.
The crazy arguments we have here can sometimes be surprisingly inspirational.
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Do check out my TKY Super Crop which can you find among my free effects here: https://tokyo-uk.com/fcpxeffects/freedownloads.html
It’s got some nice features, I think.
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Yes, motionvfx do some great stuff … but for anyone who’s interested in making this effect for themselves in Motion, you might like to try out my popular YouTube tutorial that shows you how to do it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2X3cIKY3Y0
It’s a very powerful and adaptable technique that’s well worth knowing about.
Simon Ubsdell
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