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Re: Premiere Pro CS6 - easy transition - 11 years agoI've yet to hit return for a render. A quick export of my 5 minute sequence to h264 at 720p for client review takes about 15 minutes. Not bad at all considering all the time I saved pre and during edit. Hi Clay If you haven't looked already, you should maybe check out some H264 export hardware acceleration options ... I'd think you should be able to drop that 15 minute H.264 encode time (fby Andy Mees - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: About FCPXML ... - 12 years agoYou could have a go with AXEL , Andreas, the undocumented/unsupported internal XML format that (apparently) Foolcut and Automatic Duck use(d).by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: John Buck's Timeline (history of editing . . .specific to FCP) - 12 years agoSounds about right Gerard .. no go on the Hong Kong or Malaysia stores either.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Black Magic or AJA - 12 years agoAgreed ... this is pure paranoia. There is no logical and/or technical reason to assume that Apple will somehow limit monitoring to devices attached via a specific data connection. Assuming Apple have got the message (from its potential professional user base) that display mirroring is not acceptable for technical monitoring purposes, then they must be looking at an API to allow 3rd party Iby Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: OT (RT): It's here!!! FCP X to After Effects! - 12 years agoThey've not publicly released the SDK to developers yet, but of course that doesn't mean they haven't privately done so for a chosen few as they did for Wes (Automatic Duck) .. bodes well that something useful is on the way tho ...by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Importorting/converting MXF into FCP X - 12 years agoMXF is just a container format ... what codec is the actual video compressed with / what camera were the clips created with? It's possible a simple rewrap to MOV is all you need. As for Pavtube, it's one of seemingly hundreds of generic video convertors, not especially good ... and the company is known to embrace "spam" marketing. Not cool.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Free DH_GridX and DH_WideSafeX plug-ins released - 12 years agoThanks for making them free Martin, great job.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Past and future features hidden within your copy of FCP X - 12 years agoAha, now that is interesting.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Past and future features hidden within your copy of FCP X - 12 years agoGreat articles Alex, warms the cockles of my nerdy little heart mate :-) Of course, its possible that some of these strings etc could just have been placeholders from earlier build mockups that have simply been left orphaned in the app, but I'm certainly hoping they're indicative of features that were just not quite ready for the 1.0 (sorry, 10.0) release.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Betting Everything on FCP X - 12 years agoC'mon Adage, it's really hardly surprising that a company that runs a business based entirely or in some part on building and selling Motion Templates is going to have some motivation for making a case for FCP X regardless. That said, I think CrumplePop's products are great, and I really hope they are right about FCP X. The current limitations of X pain me greatly but if Apple genuinely want tby Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: The Final Cut Pro X Bug List - 12 years agoThe Consolidate Project Media and Organize Project Media functions either seem mislabeled or buggy: If I have a project located on one volume which references any media at all (be it one clip or many) on any other volume (be it one volume or many), then chosing a function called "Consolidate Project Media..." should surely, by definition, allow me collect all the project's media inby Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: New MBP i7 17"- Upgrade from 4 to 8 Gigs RAM? - 12 years agodgage Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >I'll definitely upgrade the RAM then to 8 gigs pretty soon. I might as well max it out. If you're going to max it out then you'll want the 16GB upgrade :-)by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: I hate to say this but FCP X is easy ...and fast - 12 years agoThe default text generator is here:by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: I hate to say this but FCP X is easy ...and fast - 12 years agoIf X would stop crashing every 2 minutes that would be a great start. On the plus side, I get to keep Jon busy with crash reports.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: FCPX Feature Wish List - 12 years agoSadly Tom, no more or less intriguing than the old FCP "Classic" function for Superimpose Edit :-( In FCP7 when use the Superimpose Edit function (F12) the clip (in the Viewer) is added to the track immediately above the clip currently under the playhead in the timeline, and the duration of the clip added to the upper track clip is automatically extended to the exact length of the clby Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: FCPX Feature Wish List - 12 years agoAdd a "Superimpose Connected Clip" option ... should be a direct edit command and/or an option added to the context menu displayed when dragging and dropping a clip/generator etc onto an existing clip instance.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Python -- What are your thoughts? - 12 years agoIt'll be a good start tho.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Poor text performance - 12 years agoYou need to bung a bigger badder video card in there Ben. All this stuff is handled there now a la Motion ... from the ProAppsDev list : Keep in mind that all processing is now either 16 bit per channel in hardware, or 32-bit per channel in software, and it's always color managed, so we're doing a lot more work than we did in Motion 2. As such, we do have higher system requirements than in theby Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: FCPX Feature Wish List - 12 years agoAbility to sort/browse clips displayed in List View by keywordby Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Briefing for professionals in London by Apple - UPDATED with Apple clarifications - 12 years agoThe Sun has an entirely different meaning to most Londoners.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Briefing for professionals in London by Apple - 12 years agoAbsolutely ... although it seems inconceivable that the broadcast post production market will stay with FCP in the mid/long term (and frankly increasingly inconceivable that Apple will stay with it that same timeframe either) so those 3rd parties rubbing their hands together may do well not to base their (future) business around supporting it.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Fair and Balanced review: FCP X - great or not? - 12 years agoQuote"So MacPro preceding 2009 (2 years) ago is not compatible...' Meanwhile, my stock 15" MBP circa 2007 is happily running FCP X without a care in the world .. which is damn lucky cos I can't afford a new oneby Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Remembering In and Out points (ranges) in the Event Browser - 12 years agoQuoteSorry, its still crazy to have to do these extra steps just to get in out marks in your work You are absolutely right Jude, this is an unimaginably stupid omission by Apple in FCP X. I've nothing against the favorite marking system, which after all is just sub-clipping by another name, but my Mac was a computer the last time I looked, and FCP X a high level Non Linear Edit system ... I'dby Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: FCPX Feature Wish List - 12 years agoNot got anything much I can contribute yet as I've barely touched the app ... but I did note that the Speed/Retiming control seemed rather horribly limited as it only wanted to allow me to choose from a limited set of preset speeds (or to manually click and drag a retiming handle to manipulate speed directly in the timeline). It may be that I just didn't spot the correct way to do it but I'd certby Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Dual monitors - 12 years agoIt's not customizable at all Strypes. You are basically moving the Event browser or the Viewer to a separate screen ... the one that moves frees up GUI space on the primary screen for the one that doesn't.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Not quite as positive things - 12 years ago>Lion will take care of that. Not necessarily, not unless FCPX suddenly becomes document based.by Andy Mees - Café LA - X Re: Split Screen Plugin - 12 years agocrumple pop have some kind of preconfigured master templates for tho i thinkby Andy Mees - Café LA Re: OT: An Editor's Lament - 12 years agoAnd would you also agree that your job as an editor "is to make it possible for the audience to participate actively in the drama that is unfolding." and to "make this possible by structuring the emotional interactions that are happening on screen, all the while keeping in mind the emotional needs of the audience"? Hmmm ... this is probably exactly the kind of question thatby Andy Mees - Café LA Re: can FCP properly interlace progressive material? - 12 years agoNope, sorry D., in my experience FCP itself has never done this correctly (what it does is exactly as you describe, drops every other frame before interlacing the remaining frames) ... so you either have to preprocess the double frame rate progressive clips first (i.e. convert to interlaced in Compressor or similar) or edit the whole thing progressive first and do the interlace conversion in Comby Andy Mees - Café LA |
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