Simon Ubsdell
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[Marvin Holdman] “I still have to wonder if the new third party functionality model is going to be better or worse.”
To which I have only two words to say:
Automatic Duck.
(With all due respect to the excellent folks involved).
It’s an unsustainable business model. Who in their right minds is going to build an editing business that relies on the ability of small third parties to a) stay in business, b) keep their products up-to-date, c) create products that are 100% reliable and robust (again with apologies to all the excellent third parties who are doing their best), d) read Apple’s mind, etc., etc.?
Not me.
Unless Apple bring all the essential functionality into the app – and right at the head of that list has to be OMF – I can’t see my business adopting FCPX.
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[Ben Scott] “OMF export native instead of 3rd party”
This is top of my list. Address this and I might start to take FCPX seriously – until then it’s still just an amusing toy.
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[Michael Gissing] “But still vaporware”
Absolutely – and even come the end of February I will sit back and wait for others to discover all the things XtoPro may not be able to do. (On day one it won’t be able to handle levels or transitions for a start …)
Automatic Duck, now entirely broken by 10.0.3, had a number of alarmingly significant issues which made it very far from the robust solution that is essential if FCPX is to be taken seriously at the top end.
Robust really is the word here. Rock solid, 100% reliable. Anything less means time wasted, missed deadlines, loss of revenue. Scissors and paste solutions just won’t cut it here.
So great, Apple delivered multicam (of a sort, because the audio side doesn’t really work yet), and yes they delivered the first tentative move towards monitoring. I can’t get really excited about those things because we’ve known they were coming now for months.
But multicam for me is a pointless bit of window dressing when it’s still missing OMF – which FCPX absolutely must have and should have had from the word go.
99% of jobs that I do absolutely require going to ProTools to finish the audio, full stop, no negotiations. Hence no OMF, no FCPX. I can’t believe that more people are not kicking up a stink about this as to my mind it’s the single most important obstacle – not to say that there aren’t others.
Simon Ubsdell
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[Michael Gissing] “But still vaporware”
Absolutely – and even come the end of February I will sit back and wait for others to discover all the things XtoPro may not be able to do. (On day one it won’t be able to handle levels or transitions for a start …)
Automatic Duck, now entirely broken by 10.0.3, had a number of alarmingly significant issues which made it very far from the robust solution that is essential if FCPX is to be taken seriously at the top end.
Robust really is the word here. Rock solid, 100% reliable. Anything less means time wasted, missed deadlines, loss of revenue. Gimcrack solutions just won’t cut it here.
So great, Apple delivered multicam (of a sort, because the audio side doesn’t really work yet), and yes they delivered the first tentative move towards monitoring (but it’s still “Beta” – as if the whole of the rest of the application wasn’t also still in Beta). I can’t get really excited about those things because we’ve known they were coming now for months.
But multicam for me is a pointless bit of window dressing when it’s still missing OMF – which FCPX absolutely must have and should have had from the word go.
99% of jobs that I do absolutely require going to ProTools to finish the audio, full stop, no negotiations. Hence no OMF, no FCPX. I can’t believe that more people are not kicking up a stink about this as to my mind it’s the single most important obstacle – not to say that there aren’t others.
Simon Ubsdell
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http://www.tokyo-uk.com -
[Brad Davis] ” If you want formal audio support to Pro Tools, there’s an App for that as well.”
Not one that works reliably, there isn’t (with all due apologies to the late lamented but now very much defunct Automatic Duck).
And there’s no sign that there’s any coming along in any foreseeable future.
And that’s why, despite all the hoopla over this latest update, my operation (and apparently only a handful of others) still can’t begin to think of using FCPX for professional work. Which is a shame …
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I’m just saying that with Lion, you can just download the delta and not the whole program again.”
Good point, thanks!
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Are you on Lion, yet?”
Not yet – waiting for a gap in the crazy maelstrom of work that is flying my way to get myself properly sorted. However I’ve got all the updates up and running now – all looking good. Multicam, yum – very tasty!!!
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Andy Neil’s suggestion of temporarily hiding in the Trash worked fine, but thanks for the other recommendations.
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Thanks, Andy – I thought it might be something like that. Downloading now.
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[Tapio Haaja] “Well if I normally drag two connected clips together it won’t automatically turn to storyline. But now if I drag one connected clips edge to other and have G pressed down I get this green rectangle and it will automatically turn to storyline. This was new feature to me.”
Thanks for pointing that out – I hadn’t realized that’s what happened. A nice feature.
Let’s hope that Apple get around to some proper documentation in the next update!
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com