T. Payton
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– in the inspector some of the font are smaller (at least on my MacBook Pro).
– the range indicator is now thinner and the handles are only one sided.
– the “yellow” range and selection color is now more “yellow” and less orange-yellow. I frankly find the old orange-yellow much more pleasing to the eye.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
FYI. I am a still shooter too and shoot raw mainly for the increased dynamic range–taking advantage of that by processing in Lightroom. However I was pleasantly surprised and even shocked that FCP would take raw files (26mb each!). I agree that JPEGs, and smaller ones than 18 megapixel would be a better choice for FCP X, but since my system (2006 macpro 2.6 ghz radeon 5770) can handle it why not utilize it?
Btw. I haven’t done any dynamic range tests with raw images in fcp x, but it would be interesting to find how fcp x handles it.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Helmut – What graphics card do you have? In my experience the GPU is almost everything with FCP X.
I have a 2006 MacPro, only 13GB of RAM, with Radeon 5770 (1 GB of VRAM) and I too have a fine time will large stills. In fact I have been shooting camera Raw on my 7D and importing straight into FCP X. I just did a timeline without 50 of these shots:
On my older MacBook Pro (now dead may it rest in peace) with a lower end GPU it could barely handle any large stills.
But like you said there is a lot of inconsistency between systems with FCP X.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Yeah that is a bummer isn’t it. The easiest way is to simply resize the footage on the x axis 133% like this:
It reports needing to render, but you don’t need to at all.
Also shoot over a feedback about it to Apple.
The other way to do it is force the anamorphic flag using something like QT Edit from Digital Rebellion (it’s pricey). Here is some more info: https://alex4d.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/setting-_qt_aspect_ratio_flags/
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I hear you in regards to that feature request of a “auto expand all”.
FWIW I have done a lot of J&L cuts in FCP X and find it works really well for my workflow at least. My biggest feature request would be a keyboard command for adding a fade instead of having to drag with the mouse.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Mathieu – I assumed you tried “View > Expand Audio/Video clips > All” right? Seems like you could assign that to a keyboard combo too.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Oliver – Regarding your OT Completely Agreed. FCP X has been really hit and miss with clients. Sometimes it is flawless. I was putting together a rather complicated compositing project, brining new footage and images left and right, titles, exporting and it was flying. The next day however, I couldn’t keep it from crashing several times an hour.
One thing that makes an app worthy of pro use in my book is its ability to be solid and predictable. Flashy features are truly secondary in my book. By that definition some times Final Cut is pro, some times it is not. I believe that FCP X will either be a triumph or a failure — not based on features but on stability.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
OOps. Posted the wrong video for the volume notch. Here is the correct one.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Ouch. That is a full spectrum snap. You can’t isolate frequencies.
My first thought was Envloper, it works based on dynamics alone and lets you reshape the volume of a sounds. It looks like it reduces it on the waveform but you can still hear it as clear as day:
Here is before:
And after:
(again it looks good, but the snap has some reflection and room noise. That is a weird snap I tell you)
Here is the enveloper version:
So I think you are best to just remove it and add some room noise. Something like this:
Sounds just dandy:
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Ricky,
I had the same issue. However, I found that if I clicked on a video clip in the browser and had that load in the viewer then the viewer would “snap out of it” and start showing the correct still clip again.
It also happened more when I had AV out going to my MX02.
BTW. What is the type of stills you are using? JPEG, Raw files, etc. I have found that really big stills seem to increase the problem, but some times it happens on small stills too.
If you can isolate the issue definitely submit feedback to Apple and they will get on it.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
