Steve Connor
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The Canon looks great but we’ll be buying a Scarlet next year.
“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”
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[Chris Harlan] “I’m looking forward to the 3D stuff. I just turned down a gig because I don’t feel comfortable in that space. Now, I can play.”
I’ve edited a few 3D shows in FCP7 with the Dashwood plugin, which is also available for FCPX now. If the footage is well shot and the stereographer has done his job, then post in 3D is not particularly difficult.
It’s when it’s badly shot that the fun begins.
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Keep an eye on “undo” if you suddenly can’t undo then you have the autosave bug, haven’t seen it myself but it has been reported.
Also restart the app every couple of hours or so, it does seem to help keep the speed up, especially when you have more edits in the project.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Come on Steve… Specifics please. You’re imagining things.
The reality is, my “regular habit” is helping people on other forums. I’ve posted on this forum a total of about twenty times in the last two weeks, and probably fewer than twenty times total in the month before that. Why don’t you go back and take a peek and see if you can support your contention before you write trash talk and empty generalizations?”
Sorry, I was out of line, many apologies David, I thought it seemed like a very patronising and unneccessary comment you made. I was obviously wrong
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[Herb Sevush] “You might not be the only person, but then again you might. I didn’t see where David was out of line, especially on this thread, where I get called a Luddite on a regular basis. It isn’t demeaning to call someone a chemical engineer – at least not the last time I looked.
“The comment was:
“But, since you’re a chemical engineer by trade, it’s understandable that you aren’t completely clear about ongoings in this industry.
If it’s any consolation to you, I’m not very up to date on the chemical industry. So there, we’re more or less even, except for that fact that I don’t post on forums catering to that industry, putting others down and trying to sound supremely knowledgeable.”
-Trying to say that he is not qualified to state his opinions
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[David Roth Weiss] “Be specific Steve. Stop the BS generalizing. Is there even one word I wrote that is untrue?
Honestly Steve, you know, you needn’t come to the defense of everyone on your side of these matters every time you see an opening, even when there’s nothing of any substance to defend. That just dilutes your ongoing message.
“David, I’m not the only person on here who doesn’t like your regular habit of trying to demean other peoples opinions based on their professional position, if anything it dilutes your ongoing message more than mine.
“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”
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[David Roth Weiss] “But, since you’re a chemical engineer by trade, it’s understandable that you aren’t completely clear about ongoings in this industry.
If it’s any consolation to you, I’m not very up to date on the chemical industry. So there, we’re more or less even, except for that fact that I don’t post on forums catering to that industry, putting others down and trying to sound supremely knowledgeable.”
David, why do you have to keep lowering yourself to personal comments like this?
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[Jerry Hofmann] “No doubt there are people that could use FCP X right now. If your delivery is the web, it’s a no brainer good choice. If your delivery is anything else, it’s questionable… can’t view externally.
If you can’t view externally for proper color correction, and you can’t lay out to tape, and the xml isn’t supported by all yet, and there’s no way to output a cut list, EDL, or output separate tracks, (though I think that roles are the beginning of this ability), then it’s not ready for a lot of people’s needs. Most of the national networks still required color corrected broadcast safe tapes. You can’t trust a computer display’s rendition of the picture. Just doesn’t match what that same file would look like on a TV set.
There’s a lot to love with FCP X. I’m using it, and I really like it. I’m convinced it edits a lot faster than FCP 7 does, and it logs a TON easier. But I can only use it because I can use Phil Hodgett’s X27 software to finish a project back in FCS 2009. As of now, I offline in X, online in 7/Color 1.5/Motion 4. Though I’m looking close at biting the bullet, and running with Smoke. (not for the feint of heart I should add, as it’s pricey)”
True, but if you grade in DaVinci then you can at least have a monitor output at the grading stage, which is exactly when you need it. It’s not a full solution, but it’s a start.
How is X27 working out for you?
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[Oliver Peters] “There are plenty of posts around these two forums about corrupt projects, media offline, not saving edits, etc. to indicate that X is still pretty bug-ridden. It seems to be optimized for short projects, like corporate event videos and news stories. My gut tells me this will reach some level of reliability around version 3, which was the case with FCP 3.”
and some of us are using it every day without these issues. I’ve also edited 2 x 90 minute shows with over 40 hours of rushes with no major issues as well.
However I’m not saying you won’t get the issues that Oliver mentioned as they have happened to others!
I’m enjoying editing with it but hopefully x27 will give you the option to bale out if the going gets tough!
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[Morten Ranmar] “Imagine how many of us professional editors, that will shift to Windows based computing in response to Apples disloyalty to the community that help them grow into a toy company. Thank God for PPro and MC being cross platform…”
I would imagine that Apple have considered this, when deciding on their path forward. Do we think they’ll be particularly bothered?
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