Simon Ubsdell
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[Steve Connor] “Seamless integration with Resolve?”
Out of interest, do you not use Color Finale?
I would have thought CF was the perfect fit for most FCP X users who wanted Resolve-style control over colour but didn’t want to roundtrip.
There are a lot of high profile case histories where CF has been used more than successfully for the final grade.
Color Finale has been conceived very much with advanced professional workflows in mind and it’s very hard to fault. (Much as I would like to …!)
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[Michael Hancock] “If you want an idea that might be a little more innovative than my original list, here’s an idea I’ve been kicking around – use metadata to automatically create string outs, audition clips, and first edits.”
https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/21/ai-film-editor-can-cut-scenes-in-seconds-to-suit-your-style/
This goes one better! “AI Automatic Editing”.
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[Walter Soyka] “I’d be curious about the principles, if not the implementation, that you’d like to see honored in the titler.
“The most obvious point is that they really should have implemented text entry in the Effect Controls and/or the Essential Graphics panel rather than solely in the Program Monitor.
You should be able to activate text entry without having to activate the Text Tool, for example by double-clicking or modifier-clicking the text object.
Modifier-clicking should automatically bring up the Effect Controls or the Essential Graphics panel.
Font selection should update as you scroll through the font library.
When you invoke the Essential Graphics panel wth text selected in the Program Monitor it should take you to the edit section automatically.
A text or other graphic object should have an interactive right-click menu in the Program Monitor.
Loading an Essential Graphics template seems much too slow. It should be instant.
You should have the option to adjust the anchor point without the text object itself moving as well.
There appears to be no way to reset the anchor point to the default in the EG panel other than by zeroing out the values.
You can’t animate in the EG panel, only in the Effect Controls.
You should be able to copy the properties of one title over to others.
Adobe need to rethink how they implement outlines.
Overall there’s too much unresolved conceptual confusion about how the EG panel interacts with and/or substitutes for the Effect Controls. This is really poo design.
More when I get the chance to think about it properly …
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[Walter Soyka] “I would strongly urge anyone with ideas on what the title tool should be to file feature requests.”
A tourist in Ireland asks one of the locals for directions to Dublin. The Irishman replies: ‘Well sir, if I were you, I wouldn’t start from here’.
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[Bill Davis] “Right there, if you or Oliver or Simon or anyone else to wants an NLE company to balance old and new thinking – and AGREE a split is good – it’s VALID to argue for a different split.
“I think you are possibly unfairly characterising the type of things that are being asked for, which in general seem to me to be about improving the specific experience of FCP X itself rather than imposing “old ways of thinking”.
A while back I took Apple to task on this forum for what I thought were weaknesses in the 5.3 redesign, most especially the fact that with a fixed width Inspector the granularity of the effects sliders was severely compromised.
Subsequently, in version 10.3.3, Apple took note of this and implemented the “ability to expand the width of the Inspector to view and adjust effect parameters”.
This is exactly the kind of improvement that some FCP X users are looking for and Oliver’s and Michael’s lists seem to be made up of very much this type of specific request.
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[Oliver Peters] “There is masking, but not as a built-in attribute of every effect.”
You may be right but I’m finding it hard to discover an effect that doesn’t come with built-in masking, both “Shape Mask” and “Color Mask”. Apart from a handful like the Keyer and the Luma Keyer where it makes some sense not to have them.
On the UI front, I imagine Apple have now gone as far as they will ever concede to going – they’re not keen on letting the user make a mess of their beautifully conceived designs.
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[Bill Davis] “I remain ever hopeful that like ALL the larger changes of the past few years – when X gets another significant upgrade – it’s focused at least somewhat on breaking NEW ground”
So what in your view would that be? Which was the original question.
I’d be most interested to hear what FCP X specialists like yourself actually think about this.
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[Bill Davis] “Over and over I see these same types of lists.
95% are “I had this feature in something else – now please give it to me again, just inside X.””
To be fair to Michael and Oliver, I don’t think theirs are the sort of lists you are talking about at all.
They are very specific about specific ways that the specific functionality of FCP X qua FCP X could be improved.
I do not see them as asking for features from other applications to be grafted onto FCP X.
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[Oliver Peters] “User configurable workspaces”
Don’t we have these already?
[Oliver Peters] “Built-in masking for every effect”
And this?
Other than that, yours and Michael’s seem like pretty good lists for Apple to be getting busy with.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Multi-editor workflows on par with Avid. Of course that’s on my wish list for any NLE not made by Avid. ;)”
Agreed. AVID have made this look so easy and we’ve had it for years and years, but no-one else has yet come close.
Maybe Apple will surprise us, who knows?
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