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Ted Beke
July 25, 2011 at 6:24 pm in reply to: FCP X – Title tool resetting text

This happened to me. I don’t know how to fix it. It was with Snow Leopard.
Ted Beke
June 28, 2011 at 5:48 pm in reply to: Survey: How would you want FCP X and FCP 7 compatibility to work?

Thanks Chris, this is the type of discussion I was hoping to have on this forum. In the eduction I noticed the whole transition dilema between compound and connected clips. Maybe doing a storyline per video track is the answer, or only making a track a storyline if it has transitions within it, versus making it a compound or connected clip. It seems like apple could give us some version of a fix, so we don’t have to rebuild out sequences from scratch if we want to edit with them on the new system. Again, I re-iterate that I would rather have in imperfect system than no system. These problems seem fairly solve-able.

Ted Beke
Producer/Editor/Founder
Precious Ham Productions
Ted Beke
June 28, 2011 at 5:12 pm in reply to: Survey: How would you want FCP X and FCP 7 compatibility to work?

Wow, thanks Chad. That is a really interesting article. I guess they couldn’t get it perfect so they abandoned the effort to work on other features. I still think that although they changed a lot of the names and places of features – a lot of things are essentially the same. They just need to get over themselves and stop calling a bow tie a neck decoration and just figure out how to tie the damn thing.
Ted Beke
June 28, 2011 at 3:44 pm in reply to: Survey: How would you want FCP X and FCP 7 compatibility to work?

Very true. I wish I knew more about the programming side. However, I really feel at this point users would appreciate a bad transition rather than no transition at all.

Ted Beke
Producer/Editor/Founder
Precious Ham Productions
Ted Beke
June 28, 2011 at 3:39 pm in reply to: Survey: How would you want FCP X and FCP 7 compatibility to work?

I don’t know. Part of me thinks the reason they’re not fixing it is it takes the mystery out of their magnetic timeline. Its still all linear video and audio layers in particular time sequence. I feel like this could be translated with some work. The video is still basically stacked like any other timeline – its just the audio is kind of all over the place. Which makes sense because audio is just there in space – it doesn’t matter what layer its on you’re just going to hear it.

I would propose making everything in the v1 & a1,2 timeline the main storyline. Then just connecting clips off of that layer. If there’s a transition between some top level b-roll, make that into a second storyline but otherwise just make it a connected clip to the main storyline.
Ted Beke
June 27, 2011 at 4:39 pm in reply to: Email Exchange with Randy Ubillos, FCP X Designer

I agree. Couldn’t they just create it where linked clips from FCP 7 are a storyline in FCPX. All b-roll and audio tracks in FCP 7 are connected to these storylines in FCP X. An editor could go through and break any clip connections that shouldn’t be there. It would be a lot better way to get a handle of the program than sitting around being frustrated because it lacks compatibility. This might be a flawed and tricky feature, but this is something they should work on or at least heavily hint to a third party developer like automatic duck to work on. In my opinion this was just a very lazy move on their part.

Ted Beke
Producer/Editor/Founder
Precious Ham Productions