[Tom Wolsky]

Nobody knows. We’ll just have to wait and see. It may be gone; it may be there is some different form. There are a lot of sliding panels, and HUDs, and popups in this app as you saw.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

H.264 should never be used in FCP. It’s a delivery format. The media should be converted to Prores or ProRes LT.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

It’s the nature of the MPEG-2 GOIP structure that breaks at every shot change. With most cameras there is no way to prevent this. It’s a consequence of the format that you’re shooting.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

Please give the exact item properties of the clips you’re editing and the exact item properties of the sequence in which you’re editing.                    

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

Don’t teach this class. You are not doing these teachers a service by trying to impart your limited knowledge to them. They will use it as a basis for their insteuction and it will not serve them or their students well. The best thing you can do is load up the tutorial media from the Diana Weynand book and walk them through it. At least then you have a step-by-step insteuction set that covers the basics in a systematic fashion. Even then you really shouldn’t do this. This is not like taking on a job to edit someone’s video. Whether you screw it up or not has limited impact, this has much wider ripples that can effect a great many people’s lives.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

I think you’re very much misjudging Apple intentions. The price point is reasonable and not that low when you consider it is one app in a suite that costs $1000. They’re selling one app for a third of the price of the suite. I think it’s going to be very successful and not just as a one off gimmick. It might not be cutting feature films or primetime broadcast shows, but those are only a tiny portion of all the video production that’s generated around the world every day, and there will be a great market for this product, and not just in June but for some time to come.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

I have to ask: are you an Apple certified trainer? Did you do the T3 training? If you feel you’ll have trouble filling a three day training you probably shouldn’t be doing it.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

“Assuming Apple is kind enough to make older fxscript plugins work natively within the new system”

I’m thinking that’s very unlikely. The entire effects interface is completely different.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

“I believe FCS3 will still be for sale at $999”

This may not be the case. Apple may well shut off sales of this product and announce that the remaining items in the suite will be available in the App Store in the near future, at least those apps it wants to continue supporting. I think it unlike Apple will continue to support some of these applications going forward, so if you have an older version of FCP now might be a good time to upgrade to the full suite if you want things like DVD Studio Pro and Color.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Tom Wolsky]

H.264 is a delivery codec and should not be used in FCP. The media should all be converted to ProRes or ProRes LT before editing.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”