Simon Ubsdell
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Oh boy. Here we go with iMovie. This is a faulty analogy as iMovie is not FCPX”
Sorry, but isn’t it a pretty well-established fact that iMovie was the seed product for FCPX? Are you saying there isn’t a continuous line of development from iMovie 08 to FCPX? What have I missed?
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There is a timecode generator under the generators section which you could use – not as reader, unfortunately, and you can’t set the TC offset so it always starts from 00.00.00.00.
In Motion 5 you can adapt the timecode generator (you can find it under Generators) to offset the start time, which is a bit more useful – but not much.
And if you’re looking for something that will display the actual TC of your sourrce clips you will have to look elsewhere, I’m afraid.
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[Jeremy Garchow] ” I believe that they knew this interface was going to be a stretch for some long time FCP users, they also knew there was going to be some bugs, they knew there was going to be some backlash, so instead of releasing it to an overwhelming majority of users who were going to bang on it harder than has been done in their “beta testing” FCPX would have been even more of a complete joke that some people think it currently is as it would have been full of half working “features”.”
Here’s what worries me most about this – this is the Wikipedia entry for iMovie …
iMovie ’08 (Version 7.0) was released in August 2007 as a part of the iLife ’08 suite. iMovie ’08 was a complete redesign and rewrite of iMovie.August 2007 (release of iMovie 08, prototype of FCPX) to June 2011 (release of FCPX) is almost four years – count them! Four years is a very long time in technology terms these days and getting longer with each passing year.
So here’s my question and no doubt it’sa very naive one. How come it has taken so long to get FCPX into shape given that it’s effectively been over four years in development?
And if it’s going to keep moving at this glacial pace what does that bode for the future, where its competitors are clearly now moving much, much faster? Adobe is now seriously cracking the whip and their ability to turn out breath-taking new image manipulation concepts is truly staggering. Does Apple really have it in them to keep up with this pace?
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Many thanks for your help with this, Abraham.
You guys are terrific. A big thanks for everything you do!
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[Walter Soyka] “I call out EDL as the bare minimum standard for interchange. It’s old, it’s inflexible, it’s naive, and it’s woefully incomplete — but it’s still a good way to get the bones of an edit from one system to another. It’s a lingua franca for editorial communication among apps.”
Really great post, very well argued – as always you’ve got to the heart of the matter as I see it.
Here in Europe EDL is the only common language currently in use for digital intermediate – it’s old-fashioned (and superceded) but everyone’s sticking to it because it works. (XML makes the occasional appearance, e.g. with Smoke, but it’s still far from common.)
No EDL is almost as much as a problem as no OMF – here the only real standard for audio post is ProTools, anything else is vanishingly rare.
I realize that for many users of FCPX these two interchange formats feel like an obsolete language that make so sense and have no use, but for a small but not insignificant minority they are a non-negotiable essential. Which is why Apple should have included them …
Simon Ubsdell
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I can’t imagine what went wrong for you – as I say I’ve tried it to “break” it and can’t seem to get any problems with it this end – but maybe it’s down to the way you “installed” it and it somehow got corrupted going through Motion 5.
For future reference, the “right way” to install Motion plug-ins is to take the whole folder in which they live with all its contents (typically the folder you get when you unzip the archive) and move it to your User/Movies/Motion Templates/Effects folder. (Or Transitions, or Generators depending on the type of plug-in in question).
Sorry this didn’t work out for you – but sadly FCPX isn’t totally free of quirky behaviour just yet!
Simon Ubsdell
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However, if you are interested in real keying power do take a look at Conduit, now also available for FCPX and Motion 5 albeit only as a Beta version at this stage (but then again FCPX is a Beta as well!).
https://www.dvgarage.com/conduit-64bit-beta
An oustanding app that takes keying to a level you probably didn’t realize was possible*.
*Unless you’ve used Shake or Nuke or a similar high end compositor.
Amazing value too.
And no, I have no financial interest in this product.
Simon Ubsdell
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Hi Mark
Here is a link to that video is was promising:
Hope it gives you some useful pointers on how to use this effect.
And here’s a new version with some small improvements that occurred to me while making the video.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I do have vague recollections of Adobe and Avid dropping the Mac platform altogether, yes.”
The difference is that the Automatic Duck fiasco is what we Brits refer to as an “own goal” 😉
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[Mark Dobson] “any tips as to how I can establish a white balance which was a doddle in FCP7”
I’m afraid I can’t offer any useful advice on this – I reckon your way of going about it is as good as any and is probably the way I’d go about it. I share your frustration that this has “gone missing” – it was useful and it worked!
The Color Board certainly doesn’t seem configured to allow for this in its current state – no room in the UI for any of the “fancy stuff”.
Simon Ubsdell
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