Simon Ubsdell
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I completely agree that it would be great to have a way of aggregating sensible (as opposed to ranting) feature requests from people (paying beta testers!) who have actually bothered to work through the app in detail.
Anybody else in favour of this who could suggest how it might be done?
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I think you could well be right – this does look very interesting if somewhat mysterious at this point.
The issue for me would that it’s a far more cumbersome way of going about things to have to tag each individual clip rather than just to drag them onto the appropriate track. But hopefully there is indeed an amazing new feature buried here 😉 So much still to wait for!
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I think from my tests that what we’ve got happening with this behaviour is an Ease In/Ease Out on either side of the Hold which is entirely reasonable as a default. But of course you want to be able to change it to something else.
What we really need is full control of all keyframe parameters on all automation of any kind, preferably with a nice large automation edit window. It’s all very basic at the moment, though I’m sure it will come.
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[Gerry Fraiberg] ” Tangent Devices already has their free vWave-Lite app”
I think the difference from the Wave-Lite will be in the fact of not having color wheels, but rather the slider system of the new Color Board, so it will be possible to do most adjustments without looking down (see the iPad app for controlling the Nattress Chromagic plug-in which seems like the first step in this eyes-off paradigm) . At least that’s the way it appears. Interesting times all round.
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It would be fun to try it out as a concept – but saying that there’s no way I’d used the Color Board for anything remotely serious – a quick temporary fix of the odd shot maybe, but nothing more. It feels much too crude in its operation. Or is that just me being a snob?
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If it had OMF support I’d start using it straight away on smaller jobs – without OMF I can’t even think of doing that. And I wouldn’t want to think about grading with the obnoxious Color Board so I’d probably export and grade in Color as I used to. But I’m not doing anything with it until (or if) I get a way to export my audio to ProTools.
That said, having finally read through the entire manual in some detail I have to say I get what they are trying to do and I like it. Loads of stuff doesn’t work properly in ways that it’s hard to guess which would make serious work a bit hairy. This really is a beta version in all but name and price! It galls me more than I can say that I had to pay Apple to test it for them.
But the underlying editing concepts which have taken such flak over here on this forum are really interesting and potentially powerful. And keyword organization is a genuinely interesting breakthrough in project management. There’s so much that they need to get right from some really basic standpoints that I can’t help thinking it will be a long while before they roll it all out, if they ever do. Most of all they need to start getting away from the underling iMovie architecture which is certainly where the organization nonsense (Projects in particular) has derived from along with pretty much everything else.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Or a color correction tool controllable through iPad”
I’d say you’re probably on the money with that one. The layout of the Color Board – and the fact that it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen before – very much suggests to me that there’s going to be iPad control coming. Notice how stuff just slides up and down (no colour wheels), so very different from any interface we’re used to, but handy for an iPad type situation.
Simon Ubsdell
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You want to be doing that stuff in Motion which appears to do this as well (or as badly, depending on your point of view!) as it did before. The only mask in FCPX is a four-point one – which is pretty lame by any standards. And there is no tracking. You’re much better served for both of these in Motion 5.
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[Ronald Lindeboom] “It is a meaningless and totally arbitrary metric”
I think you’ll find, Ron, that (aware as I am of the limitations of the indicator) I was speaking rhetorically without due regard for numerical accuracy. What struck me about this story of the 1.2 million hits was Larry’s typically self-aggrandizing boasting about it!
Suffice it to say, that whichever way you cut it, Larry (along with the other lucky “trainers” who got advance copies) is going to be making a ton of money out of Apple’s decision to create a brand new product ex nihilo.
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Here’s what the manual has to say on the subject if that’s any use:
Create optimized media: This option transcodes video to the Apple ProRes 422 codec format, which provides better performance during editing, faster render times, and better color quality for compositing.
Simon Ubsdell
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