Tom Wolsky
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Frames are only meaningful if you’re working in one frame rate format. If you have multiple projects in multiple formats or multiple formats of media in one project a percentage of seconds makes more sense. You have only to see how legacy versions of FCP handled frame rate discrepancies between PAL and NTSC.
All the best,
Tom
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The FCP7 certifications will be retired in January. There will be new end user and trainer certifications for FCP.
All the best,
Tom
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Why? You can add to any secondary storyline. Just drag clips into it. Cut and paste into it. Edit into it.
All the best,
Tom
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“FCPX has to render it before its even usable in the edit.”
This is just not so. Completely wrong. You select the clips in the import window. Click import. Close the window. Edit. Period.
I’m using a new i7 MBP at the moment, typical of news editors in the field. Premiere ingests .mts files and they’re a pig to work with on this box.
All the best,
Tom
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For what it’s worth Mark Spencer made a bars generator for it ages ago. Can’t speak to Avid and direct ingest, but Premiere is a complete and total dog trying to edit AVCHD. It doesn’t rewrap so you’re always struggling with it. Playback is simply painful.
FCP doesn’t output to tape.
The question was what the application was good at. It can kill Premiere for speed for a news edit. Again I can’t speak for Avid, but for what I know of it, for slapping on the wallpaper, I’d be hard pressed for imagining something outpacing FCP.
I haven’t used M100 in years so I can’t speak to what magic Boris may have breathed into it.
All the best,
Tom
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That all looks fine. I don’t understand why there’s no audio in the QT player.
All the best,
Tom
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Quick turn around, limited material, slap it together, get it on air from import to output, it’ll whup FCP hands down, and I’ve been using and teaching that since 1999, also Media100, Premiere, and some Avid. For sheer speed this is incredibly quick. You can finish a news cut or a VNR before FCP finishes ingesting. If you need anything aside from speed and simple, straightforward, cut and load, look elsewhere. You can do it here, but the more you want to do the more the others will catch and pass it, in fairly short order.
All the best,
Tom
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“I just did the first one”
How did you do the first one exactly? Did you use FCP?
Open the clip in the QT player and report exactly what it says in the movie inspector.
All the best,
Tom
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I think you can do animated line graphs and charts in Motion. It will, like any of these applications, require considerable study, as they are all fairly complex.
All the best,
Tom
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“Unfortunately, you cannot place the slug above the Primary Storyline”
Why can’t you? You can move the playhead to the correct time and then connect it to the primary, which will fill with a gap clip. Of course you’ll then have to edit using overwrite to the gap clip. If you ever use an insert edit the gap clip will move and the slug will move with it.
None really work well, because the point of the marker is that it is detached from the storyline and floating, which unfortunately cannot be done in FCP.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX”
and “Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press