[Tony West]

This is the perfect example of what the freedom of the X timeline buys you.

The concept is out of the box, and the editor thought out of the box to cut the way he did.

Very impressive.

The thing is, Apple said from the very start that their intent was to keep people from having to scroll up and down so much.

Think about it, the only time you need to scroll up and down a lot, is if you have a project with many layers. I f you have a project like that, it’s big : )

If you have a simple project, there is not much to scroll.

They were aiming at this type of project from the beginning. At least, it was clear to me that they were.

[Tony West]

You got some great advice from folks on here, but after re-reading your post

[james henson] “I have decided to take the leap and get a Mac, with the idea that I will reconstruct the docu and import the media into FCPX, as this is what one of the editors who I approached said he used,”

I just wanted to add this…

X is really user friendly and powerful. You might find that you can cut most of your doc yourself in it and then go to a more experience editor to finish it like you intended. Maybe the person you approached
that told you he used X

You must have thought that person was experienced if you approached them. I wouldn’t worry so much about what the standard is if you like that person’s work.

Docs can be very costly. I’m during one right now in X
By the time you pay for rights to photos, music and pay a VO person and other cost you are really shelling out some dough. I don’t know what your budget is, but unless you are mister money bags you need to save where you can.

You could cut most of it and then have somebody mix the audio and or ad animation that you might not be able to do.

[Tony West]

A couple of things I find interesting about this topic, is that when he started, X didn’t even have all the improvements it has now. (Looks like he may have had a lot to do with some of those, which would make sense)

He said he didn’t even have the new Mac Pro until the end.

He pulled it off with a much lesser X with less horsepower.

I’m interested to see how this jump starts X

Many of us have said it before, as much as I love working with X, I want Pr and Avid and others out there competing.

It makes them all better, and heck, it’s better for the economy to have more jobs than fewer.

[Tony West]

I own an F3 and a EX1 and have used the others on your list.

I use the XDCAM Transfer tool to rewrap my footage to QT files that I store on a HD
I like being able to look at the files outside of a NLE anyway.

Then I place the footage in folders that I give names to like stand ups or whatever. (I organize a lot in the finder)

Then I import the labeled folder into X and it tags them and I’m ready to go. The import takes no time because X is just referencing the footage that I leave in place.

I like how it works.

[Tony West]

[Bret Williams] “My point is that had they not started there, and instead just said lets start a new Pro editing app, ignoring iMovie”

I wouldn’t have ignored iMovie at all. I would want as many of those folks as I could to step up to X after they get tired iMovie and I would get their money with pros.

If you make them too different form each other you defeat the goal of having them step up.

X had plenty of top end tools right out of the box. I won’t list them all. They didn’t have everything everybody but they keep adding. Remember when people complained they didn’t have multi-cam?

Bill is right when it comes to that big corporate attitude. It’s all about expanding the base and the money to those folks.

Apple, to me, sits in the best seat to expand.

They made this product powerful enough to do top work yet user friendly enough to expand and combine that with how affordable it is and no subscription………

As the Late great Jack Buck said “That’s a Winner”

[Tony West]

[Charlie Austin] ”
# 10- Steve is wrong. If you insist on using crossfade effects on collapsed audio, you can expand it (as he does) and adjust each handle by a frame or more. Then when you delete the effect the handles remain. In any case, just cut with expanded audio and doing crossfades is easy… kinda like his screen flow example, but you need to drag the fade handles yourself. “

I was going to respond to 10 but you beat me to it.

I don’t know why Steve used that example the way he did. He’s a much better X-man than me but I would never use the route he used to accomplish that.

[Tony West]

X really has a lot going for it right now.

They have made nice improvements to it.

People who use it LOVE it, so they become sales people for it not just folks that are using it.

The biggest thing for me is, I’m seeing more people in my market who are respected by their peers, who had moved to Pr and are now turning to X and that is having a huge effect. They still use Pr but are using X more and more and are talking it up.

[Tony West]

Thanks Charlie

shut down my computer and brought it back up and mine is working now also.

First time I had seen that. I should have known it was just my system. If QT 7 wasn’t working it would
have been all over this forum ; )

[Tony West]

Doh!!!

That was it.

It must have unchecked it after the update and I didn’t even think to look.

Thanks guys : )

[Tony West]

[Walter Soyka] ” it enters “offline mode” “

OK, that makes more sense : )