T. Payton
Forum Replies Created
-
Check out this MacBreak Studio postcast from Steve Martin and Mark Spencer, it might help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu-ga7fxKh8&list=PL607BE2B2BFE9BE1A&index=38
——
T. Payton
OneCreative, AlbuquerqueSome contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.
-
Regarding your OP on getting proofs to clients. I did a quick comparison test:
Project:
1:30 timeline, 55 psd stills over 1:30 of SD video. (i.e. SD timeline)
MacBook Pro 2007, 6GB ram, GeForce 8600M 128MB vram (i.e. a really slow machine, not even qualified for FCP X)Results:
FCP X
————
1. FCPX Share non rendered timeline, to email small, faster encode: 1:23
2. FCPX render all of timeline: :52
3. FCPX Share rendered timeline to master file with current ProRes settings :40
4. FCPX Share rendered timeline to Export to email (small fast encode) rendered: 1:09FCP X could accomplish my little test 1:23 by rendering and h264 compressing at the same time. Less time than the 52+1:09 = 2:01 it would take to render and then share to email size.
FCPX BEST TIME: 1:23
FCP 7
————-
6. FCP 7 render to ProRes 422: 40.5 seconds
7. FCP 7 export self contained (PR 422): 31 seconds
8. FCP 7 export to reference: 2 seconds (wow!)
5. Quicktime 7. Share the Prores file created in 7 to Mail Large (436×32): 2:34FCP 7 actually outperformed FCP X in rendering, and the reference export is blazing fast. But it would be 40+2+2:34=3:16 to render, export a reference file and then share via QuickTime 7.
FCP 7 BEST TIME: 3:16
Of course your milage may vary but in my experience it has been much faster to get proofs to clients via FCP X than it was in FCP 7. At my shop we use private YouTube or Vimeo to proof to clients. Secure and very fast.
About those reference files. They are great for quick exports and transcodes, as long as you don’t move anything! Move a reference file and you are hosed. We made it a policy at our shop to stop using them years ago because of the problems they created. I think Apple ditched them as a FCP X export to avoid a world of potential hurt. However they are phenomenally useful. I had to show a film in a theater this past fall and was handed an extra video to show after the credits. I grab a the film and extra credits and created a reference file in seconds. Worked great.
——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I think we beat the “fcpx launch was bad” horse dead pretty well after the launch last year, so no reason to resurrect it.
However concerning the opening of old projects. I was very disappointed about this too and frankly thought it was going to be a deal breaker. So now after year and a half how many times have I actually needed to open an old project? Not once.
I don’t mean to imply that no one needs to open old docs. I just thought it was going be a problem and now I realize I had fussed for nothing.
——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
[Andy Mees] “it worked a treat”
Does that mean it worked?
——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
FWIW My buddy teaches editing and FCP X at our state university. His fist time editing students take to FCP X “like a fish to water.” i.e. they understand it and are up and editing quickly.
As someone who has taught FCP X to several students and employees who have had no editing background, I find that they are able to understand FCP X very quickly and get to storytelling process faster. In the past, I never had much success teaching FCP 7 to my employees or interns or even fellow creatives. They would quickly become discouraged as they tried to memorize the steps and the locations for how to do what I would consider basic tasks. If you think about it simply rearranging clips in FCP 7 or other “second generation” NLEs is very complicated and practically impossible to discover on your own. On the other hand I’ve never had a student or employee EVEN ASK me how to rearrange clips in FCP X. They just pick them up and move them!
At my office, several years ago we actually started doing offline editing in the iMovie (the one that works like FCP X, not the track based one) and finishing in FCP 7 because it enabled us to not focus on the details of editing and instead concentrate on making the story the best it could be. We found that our end results were not only better, but took substantially less time. We started having conversations about making adjustments to make the story better, not just concentrating on getting the project out on time. For our corporate documentary work FCP X is the best tool for the job by a long shot and in my opinion the best visual storytelling tool available.
On the other hand I can completely understand students and editors who are used to approaching editing as a precise “production task”. Those who are so used to a track based NLEs are of course going to be frustrated by the magnetic timeline where elements seem to have a will of their own.
BTW. I too am bothered by Adobe’s Creative Cloud. I feel like I am paying for things I don’t need and I don’t feel right about the fact that if I stop paying my tools will suddenly stop working.
——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
So I am completely ignorant of XDCAM and didn’t even realize there was a SD format. So did a bit of looking here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDCAM#XDCAM_Formats
It said that the SD MPEG IMX format (which is built into FCP X) can accept 8 ch/16 bit/48 kHz or 4 ch/24 bit/48 kHz.
Did you happen to try exporting straight to IMX, without bothering with the 4 channels of audio? (You need to have a SD project or compound clip to see the IMX options).
If you do need the 4 channels, you could drop an audio clip on your timeline, assign it a different role, like effects and lower the volume all the way and get 2 stereo channels. Like this:
——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Andy,
Actually I don’t think you need to do anything with roles.I made a custom quicktime movie setting in compressor. SD anamorphic video with this audio setting:
Added that Compression Setting as a a share destination in FCP X. Exported a stereo clip and 4 channels of audio. 1&2 stereo, 3&4 stereo but blank.
Is this what you were looking for?
——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Oh I completely agree. ScreenFlow does it too.
The worst for me is the Photoshop “flick panning” which is on by default.
——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
[Bret Williams] “But why would you want to do that? Using a keyboard is always faster than a mouse! :)”
Well now that you ask, actually I’m right handed so my right hand is on my mouse while my left one is on the left side of the keyboard. Thusly, pressing shift-Z and then Z and drawing a marquee doesn’t require my left hand to more nor my right hand to leave my mouse.
Agreed about the gestures. Kinda weird that was left out. Seems like even my Magic Mouse could do more. I would like something where you could use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out. Perhaps holding the Z key and then using the scroll wheel would do that. And maybe zoom the viewer too.
——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Oh yes you can organize to your hearts content WITHIN the sub folders. However, I believe that once you use a title and move it FCP X will loose the link to it for an existing project. Worth testing.
——
T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
