Simon Ubsdell
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I reckon you could be right that iMovie 11 is FCPX Lite – in other words something that has been in development for a while quite separate from the original FCP app. I just wanted to make the point that most people, even on this forum, seem to be missing, which is that there can’t be any doubt where the new app is coming from and that’s the iMovie development path – they patently share virtually all of their DNA, put it that way, and not one jot of FCP 7’s DNA.
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£8.99 actually! Makes you wonder how they justify charging $299 for the “Pro” version 😉
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I think it’s very hard to sustain the view that FCPX is a “ground up rewrite” of the old Final Cut if you’ve taken even a brief look at iMovie 11. There are not just some similarities with what was demo-ed the other night – it is quite obviously almost identical in every respect except for a few more snazzy refinements (and lots of beefy under-the-hood goodness).
I’m sure Apple will build it up into a genuinely pro App with all the bells and whistles but there is really no doubt about what it’s built from.
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Bret is absolutely correct about this – there are so many respects in which what we saw at the Sneak Peek was stuff that was already implemented in iMovie 11. The interface and timeline functionality are in almost every respect the same, from things like the Magnetic Timeline and the Precision Editor to the Context Menus, the Audio editing tools to just about everything else.
The only major difference is the layout of the edit window where for some odd reason the “Timeline” is up in the top left corner and the “Browser” is down at the bottom.
Anybody still under the impression that we will be getting un updated version of FCP 7 is in for a very big disappointment, I would have thought.
That said, from what I’ve learnt so far of iMovie 11 it’s very, very fast and a real delight to use, albeit in no sense a pro type experience, and bodes well for FCPX. There is no doubt in my mind that Apple have taken a product that works and are building the new FCP on top of that – but frankly to call it FCP is a bit of a sleight of hand to say the least.
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This looks just great! Thanks for sharing.
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What is your workflow because this definitely shouldn’t be happening!
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I’d use the timestretch tool which can be found under the Process menu. You don’t even need to flatten the result, just export it back out.
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I have to say I had no problems for a week and then this started to crop up on my MacBook Pro only not my tower. Am very glad I kept FCS 2 going as a fallback. I’ll now definitely wait for the first update/bug fix before using FCS3 in anger.
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Thanks, Zane. I did as you say just install over the old one which has always worked in the past, but will definitely try your more rigorous way.
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The mark clip X key works in conjunction with the track selector buttons. Your position bar is over a section of a track with no clips on it and your track selector for that track is on. Thus you are selecting a gap rather than a clip. This is why you get the line between the in and out markers. It’s a useful feature.