[T. Payton]

Just curious, I hear all this talk about av foundation. However, on the apple dev site, it states that av foundation is part of iOS, while core media, core audio, core video, etc. is for Mac OS X. Is the dev site incorrect?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Make sure you get all the updates in Software Update:

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Lion apparently has built in video encoding/transcoding.

Right click on a movie in the finder and choose “Enclose Selected Video Files” and you’ll have options such as h264, and ProRes.

Very cool.

– T.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I hope so. Perhaps Apple could get some shine back if they make the apps for the iPad themselves and set the bar high. It’s actually crazy that they didn’t do that in the first place when you consider what an amazing job they have done on some apps like Apple TV remote and Garage Band (I would say iMovie too, but I might get flogged.)

There is a TON of potential in FCP X, and I’m just a guy on the sidelines. Surely they thought of this stuff and just couldn’t implement it in time.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

A virtual mixer on an iPad app would be even better.

What we need is a FPC X ipad control app that would switch from audio mixer with faders, to color control surface, to multicam switcher depending on what you are doing.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

For you quick turnaround job I would recommend this.

1. Lock your picture.
2. Position your layers of audio as best you can that resembles ‘channels’. VOT, MX, SFX, etc.
3. Great compound clips for each “channel”. Rename the compound clips in the inspector so you no what is going on.
3a. So you can focus on audio only, set the timeline to only display audio and switch the view to just show the alpha channel.
4. Apply, EQ, Compressor, Level Adjustments to each compound clip as you would a channel or bus. One fantastic benefit of the way FCP X displays waveforms is you can “see” the audio levels change in the timeline as you apply effects. You can create a decent audio mix just by visuals.
5. Select the entire timeline, create a compound clip if it and apply a master limiter. etc.

Because of the way compound clips work you can always edit each individual element by just opening the compound clip in the timeline. You can also always break apart the compound clip to get back your individual clips, but doing so looses the effects you put on the compound clip.

This actually works really well. Apple could just make a few tweaks such as having a true channel mixer and not require to make a compound clip but instead mark the audio to a channel/bus, and then I think FCPX could do 95% of the audio sweetening that I normally send to ProTools/Soundtrack/Logic.

Here is a rather poorly done walkthrough of this I did on the day FCP X was released, but you will get the point.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Don’t you mean 10.6.8? Not 10.6.3.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

I’ve had some success by simply turning off background rendering in preferences, even though I don’t need to render. I had some dramatic results with that on my 2006 MacBook Pro (yes I know it is old).

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

Chip – In my opinion, this indeed appears to be a flaw in the 1.0 “trackless” FCP X. Piece of cake in FCP 7 since it is really a layer based compositor. I would use FCP 7 for now and then send some feedback to Apple. Perhaps they will get things fixed in the next FCP X update.

However with that said if you look at your project a little differently, and from the perspective of having to make the same type of spots over and over, FCP X combined with Motion 5 would be a fantastic platform. To get an idea of what I am talking about, look at the themes in FCP X. They are really motion file “rigs”. You could create a series of product moves and composites in motion that you could simply pop in your product images as you use them. In the end I think you could have a faster workflow. Just my 2 cents.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

What Mac are you on? My iMac at home crashes FCP X very often. MacBook Pro, crashes it seems like every other edit. MacPro, crashes only slightly more than occasionally.

[Jeremy Garchow] “Also, if you at first bring in a clip without transcoding, and then decide to transcode it later, does it still show up as the original media in the browser for you?”

It’s a “version” of the media. Very slick actually. You can see what versions you have by going to the inspector, info tab, clicking the gear and choosing “show file status”.

[Jeremy Garchow] “The handling of the media is not seriously awesomely serious awesome. Why do I need 3 copies of the same material? Seems like we are losing instead of gaining efficiency in this regard”

You don’t need 3 copies. You don’t need optimized media unless your system can’t handle the native stuff. Also sounds like you have the setting to copy the media to your event. Just deselect that in preferences.

[Jeremy Garchow] “Once you break apart audio and video, is the only way to stitch them back through a compound clip?
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Yes. You are correct. It’s 1.0. (really should have been called a beta. If I would have beta tested this I would have found bugs from the first 10 minutes of using it.)

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque