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[Andrew Richards] “Why do you need XML?”
One of the reasons is to know where the edits are happening, I’d have thought, so as not to have to rely on shot detection to find them …
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[Matt Callac] “Quite frankly I just don’t understand the sense of urgency to make a decisions right this minute to move to adobe or avid.”
My point is that Apple clearly don’t have the ability to “put their house in order” in any very short timescale. It is hard for me to credit that they will have a genuinely appealing product (appealing to the industry at large – I like it already, but that’s not enough) within anything less than a year. “Right this minute”, no – “within the next twelve months”, surely yes.
[Matt Callac] “So adobe will end up with more users, but really won’t be selling that much more software.”
If you are an Adobe user I’m sure you can’t be unaware that their business model is built on charging healthy amounts for upgrades – I have no doubt this model works pretty well for them.
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[Chris Kenny] “I won’t trust them because they don’t care about the pro market”
I think beneath all this there is a growing perception, which should perhaps have been apparent before, that there is not a “natural fit”, as we say in business circles, between Apple and the pro-editing (and compositing, and visual effects, and pro-audio, and motion graphics) communities.
That they can still make products that appeal to those groups is something of an anomaly.
This is not a company with a vested interest in satisfying these groups. There is an imbalance of need here and I think many people in the industry are starting to perceive that and to appreciate to what extent it puts their businesses at risk to stay vested in a supplier who has the potential (whether or not it is currently an intention) to walk away from them.
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Who knows, maybe in a year from now you might get it back. Don’t despair just yet!
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[Eric Susch] “Charles Trippy is a top youtuber with over 183 million views on his show Internet Killed Television.”
And a really great editor that’s for sure who really knows his way around an NLE.
Apologies to Trippy for not taking him seriously – it’s bad form. He seems like a nice enough guy and I wish him all the best. The future of editing is in safe hands.
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[Walter Soyka] “If enough people migrate away now, it may not matter to the pros if FCPX has tape I/O in a year, because another vendor will have picked up many new users who many not be willing to switch back.”
Absolutely right – great post. In a year’s time the migration will be complete and it will take something truly extraordinary from Apple to lure them back – and something even more extraordinary to make them forget the events of the last ten days.
Adobe have got a really strong offering which they have shown a massive commitment to taking forward at a very considerable pace and AVID are finally coming to realize that they need also to speak to professionals in the lower echelons of the market. They really won’t have to work too hard at this point to make a compelling vcase for their products and there are already signs in just a few days that their messages are getting through.
Apple may well have left it too late to turn the game around.
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[Neil Goodman] “WTF is wrong with the waveforms in FCPX?”
Agreed. They are a serious shocker! And they’re so great in those other apps. They’re pretty much as bad as Media Composer’s and that’s saying something!
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[Stevo Chang] “it won’t translate as needed to the multiple track editing that sound designers require in their non-apple professional sound studio pipeline”
For a demonstration of what happens to your audio with OMF export to ProTools see the demo on the Automatic Duck website:
https://automaticduck.com/products/pefcp/
It works just fine and all your tracks come through as you would expect them to, vertically configured as they were in FCPX.
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You have to use the Mask effect which has a feather control. You can’t do this directly to a trim – note that what we used to call a crop is now a trim. A crop is a crop plus a resize in order to help you make your footage fit the frame.
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[Neil Goodman] ” or you can make a gap clip the length of the song in the primary storyline.”
You could, but it’s far easier visually to see your edited clips connected to the music track itself rather than to a gap in the middle, especially when syncing actions to the waveforms.
Simon Ubsdell
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