Tapio Haaja
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Color correction doesn’t make pictures softer in FCPX because it’s native effect in FCPX. Keyer is also native and drop shadow. All Motion Template based effects soften non-square material. So pretty much 99% of effects. Try adding for example Circle Mask or Vignette and look close.
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Tapio HaajaDevelopment & Production Manager / Promotions / MTV MEDIA (Finland)
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Yeah it’s almost impossible to use FCPX for SD workflows currently because all effects make picture softer… SD is non-square pixel and FCPX feeds material as square pixel to Motion template based effects so there is lot of scaling happening back and forth so material gets softened. So FCPX only work nicely when working with square pixel material.
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Tapio HaajaDevelopment & Production Manager / Promotions / MTV MEDIA (Finland)
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In Finland the biggest player is still FCP legacy. Some individuals use FCPX and like it. Haven’t heard anyone moving to Avid but some facilities are moving this year to Premiere Pro CC.
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Tapio HaajaDevelopment & Production Manager / Promotions / MTV MEDIA (Finland)
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I agree that transitions in Premiere are really weak. Most plugins I’ve tried don’t work as transitions, they work as effects in Premiere Pro so that’s why you have to have videos in two tracks etc. to get those working. Very cumbersome.
Best transitions I’ve found for Premiere Pro are Filmimpacts’ Transition Pack 1 & 2 (https://www.filmimpact.net/index.php/plugins). Those actually work as transitions and offer good quality.
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Tapio HaajaDevelopment & Production Manager / Promotions / MTV MEDIA (Finland)
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Yes it doesn’t make any sense they didn’t include Prores presets within CC because you’ve to be really exact to get smart rendering working with Prores. So you have to have exactly same sequence settings and export settings. Actually having different sequence and exports settings and having some options like maximum render quality etc. in both places is bad UI design and I hope Adobe one day builds this from ground up.
But I guess the reason there isn’t Prores presets currently is that there’s no native support for Prores in Windows or OS X Lion. Native support for Prores works currently only in OS X Mountain Lion.
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Tapio HaajaDevelopment & Production Manager / Promotions / MTV MEDIA (Finland)
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I also agree completely with you except Motion based transitions, generators and titles are awesome and very powerful way of building templates for different workflows. Although I understand your need for basic title tool.
One more thing for us that makes working with FCPX impossible is that all the Motion based effects (also 3rd party effects because those work through Motion) soften non-square source material such as SD anamorphic. And yes we still work with some SD material… This happens because FCPX feeds all video material as square pixel to motion templates so there is scaling happening back and forth.
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Yeah, I also had this same problem. I’ve given Adobe feedback about this and said that Premiere should always output both fields to video I/O like all the other programs do.
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Yes it’s possible first time in 10.0.6. Select your clip, go to inspector, choose settings. Anamorphic override is not displayed by default so you’ve to edit which metadata fields get displayed and add Anamorphic override there manually. After that you can change aspect ratio of your SD clips.
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Tapio HaajaTechnical Producer / Promotions / MTV MEDIA (Finland)
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[Mathieu Ghekiere] “Have people also sent Apple feedback about this?”
At least I’ve sent couple feedbacks regarding this issue but I hope more and more people will give feedback so Apple have to take it seriously.
Tapio
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Even that SD is legacy there are lots of HD programs (documents etc.) that will use some SD material in it and this same “non-square material + motion template based effects = softening” happens also when you’ve SD material in HD timeline and add effects to SD clips. So there’s no really excuse for Apple if they want FCPX to be professional program.
And there’s also HD formats (HDV, DVCPRO HD 1440×1080) which aren’t square pixel and this problem happens also there. I really hope this will be fixed in 10.0.6 or 10.1 whatever comes next.
Tapio