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Final Cut Pro X and the Road to Hell (and back again) By Rick Young - 12 years ago

My summary would be that the Devil is in the Compound Clips. Otherwise a very happy ending errr beginning for FCPX. Final Cut Pro X and the Road to Hell (and back again) By Rick Young

Re: Can't import video anymore - 12 years ago

So it's HDV from XH A1 using FCPX import feature from camera? Just making sure you're talking about live input and not a file on disk.

Re: Can't import video anymore - 12 years ago

Importing what video how from what codec?

Re: Will this Macbook Pro run FCP X? - 13 years ago

It will run it I believe but I would not look for serious use on a Core2Duo. I have a 15" MBP 2008 which is Core2Duo and it runs. I also have 15" MBP 2011 which is Quad i7. The difference is significant.

Re: Blu-Ray from FCP X - 13 years ago

It could be a burner issue. Not all Blu-ray recorders can handle BD-RE apparently. What burner are you using? Have you tried a different burner?

Evan Schechtman of @RadicalMedia on the State of the NLE - 13 years ago

Evan Schechtman of @RadicalMedia on the State of the NLE FCPX, Smoke, etc.

Re: Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 13 years ago

I don't think I'm confusing the database with the hooks. I know the hooks are poor. I hear it often from the third party developers. The fact that some feature internal to FCPX still aren't developed such as Copy/Paste selective settings and round tripping with Motion may well examples of the still "primitive" state of such things in X. My own speculation is the next "leap forward&

Re: Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 13 years ago

QuoteAnd they took the wrong name and called it Final Cut Pro X, which made a lot of people believe it's an update Although the numbering sequence was better OS9 to OSX was not a simple update. Probably a bit better analogy is Quicktime 7 to Quicktime 10. The latter is more AVFoundation that Quicktime. I can see how marketing wanted Final Cut Pro but that in itself is the problem. One might

Re: Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 13 years ago

When 10.0 first came out it was Alpha. IMHO to reach Beta it has to be "feature complete" (at least as a usable release). My opinion is that I like the direction Apple is going with it. There's still serious missing chunks. I think the audio features will be appearing in some relationship to Logic Pro X. I also think that's around the time the Send To functions will be implemented as we

Re: Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 13 years ago

Actually what NEEDED (not convenient) by the developers. They can't leap frog what they can't leap frog. Give the speed of the updates (which I certainly consider fast especially from the development perspective) they're likely on focusing on the BEST sequence of events that allows them to role out updates as quickly as possible. For them it may well have been an ass backwards nightmare to build

Re: Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 13 years ago

I don't think this is something Apple could have done earlier (my hunch). Their "re-introduction" of features is tied very much to what may be a linear progression for the developers but very non linear for us. We don't know for sure why they're taking this path but I'm going to guess, having been using the program since its inception. Dual Viewer wasn't possible until Multicam wa

RIP Jonathan Frid - Barnabas Collins from TV Series Dark Shadows - 13 years ago

Not only was I a fan of the TV Series in the 60s, in 1992 I was hired as an editor at a facility that just built an all digital linear edit room. They wanted me to learn the room and handed me a simple job from USA Networks. Format every episode of Dark Shadows from 1966-71 for a startup called Sci Fi Channel in time for their September launch. For the next several weeks I got to appreciate t

Re: audio between -60 to -50. can it be saved? - 13 years ago

Many ways to boost the gain, none will make it sound decent my guess. You're boosting the noise floor as well. You can then work on noise reduction but the results will likely be somewhat problematic. You can turn up the gain any number of ways and if no single filter can do it, you can duplicate the track but it's not going to sound great.

Re: Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 13 years ago

10.0.3 was a bit sluggish (frequent inexplicable beach balls). 10.0.2 was better. I haven't done any big H.264 based projects in 10.0.4 yet but reports from others is that it's working much faster. Of course one of the nifty features in X is that you can transcode to ProRes or ProRes Proxy in the background and it will "invisibly" replace the H.264 files with ProRes. Whether with Tra

Re: Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 13 years ago

derekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Very interesting that they are bringing back the > dual viewer. Huge move by Apple. > > That's what happens when you fix something that > wasn't broken to begin with. Let's see how long > passes before they finally admit getting rid of > multitrack was a bad idea. I don't think this is

Re: Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 13 years ago

strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Very interesting that they are bringing back the > dual viewer. Huge move by Apple. After seeing multicam I suspected somethings were going to come back. Ganging is an example. I suspect the Dual Viewer will be contextual though. I don't think it'll be always on. Of course one hopes it's easy to turn on in those

Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 13 years ago

Re: "Are any Broadcast TV shows using FCPX?" - 13 years ago

QuoteI am still not quite getting the drips and drabs of FCPX praise (more like wishful thinking / dreaming). Some people are using it and liking it despite the work in progress nature of the beast. In some very few cases it's even being used in broadcast. Quotebroke a lot of the plug-ins - so this is a benefit...how? Another "set-back". More of Apple's FCP team not communicating

RedGiant Magic Bullett Looks & Sapphire Edge fixes released for FCPX 10.0.4 - 13 years ago

RedGiant Magic Bullett Looks & Sapphire Edge fixes released for FCPX 10.0.4 There were issues with both plugins because workarounds the developers used were fixed in 10.0.4

Re: Automatic Clip Importing - 13 years ago

The card type gives no indication of the format you're dealing with. FCPX is a metadata driven program so the importer serves in the analysis. If it's only importing one frame there's a problem with your system, the card, the codec, or you're looking at the single frame picon in the Event Browser. FCPX is metadata driven. It doesn't organize for you beyond what you tell it to in preferences

Re: "Are any Broadcast TV shows using FCPX?" - 13 years ago

Apple's approach is modular. Give the low cost of entry I suspect it's doing fairly well as a new NLE. 10.0.4 has been extremely responsive compared to 10.0.3. This on MBP 15" 2011 and a rickety old MacPro 2008 with ATI 5770 upgrade. Obviously a "few" broadcast facilities find it fast. It's the one thing they all have in common in their comments and, except for 10.0.3, that's

Re: "Are any Broadcast TV shows using FCPX?" - 13 years ago

QuoteEven drop shadow is third party filter ad on (or roll your own) Not difficult once you have such filter. Awkward that it's not there to begin with but obviously not a deal breaker. They're sending to ProTools with X2Pro. Probably internal rough mixes real time is not a deal breaker either. For some, doing a quick Sub Frame "trim" with the fader handle is important. Roles aren't a

Re: "Are any Broadcast TV shows using FCPX?" - 13 years ago

and more generally the "In Action" link BTW The ones featured there aren't the only ones I know of. There are facilities I know of claiming to do broadcast work in London (apparently just moving to) and the Netherlands (has been) using FCPX as well.

Re: FCP X 10.0.4 - that didn't take long - 13 years ago

Also I've heard the previews in Magic Bullet Looks are now inverted. It seems Apple was tweaking some plugin related things in 10.0.4 so those seem to be where one might find issues. I have both Looks and Sapphire Edge but I've been too busy to beat on them. I have FXFactory as well and didn't get any crashes relating to that though. I'm hearing that Broadcast Monitoring is working well (

Re: FCP X 10.0.4 is in the AppStore updates - 13 years ago

Jon Chappell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You'd think they'd want a bigger bang before NAB. I thought about that too. It seems one of the bug fixes improves Broadcast Monitoring. I think when push came to shove, if they couldn't get a new feature out and stable, they went for things that would be important for the tech product displays like the video i

Re: FCP X 10.0.4 is in the AppStore updates - 13 years ago

Somewhere there's a facility with 30 seats and the same problem and they're getting fed-up. I'm not saying that's true but this is a serious problem with the App Store (assuming you're experiencing that specific problem) that Apple has to fix for the App Store to be a viable distribution model. 10.0.4 is bug fixes much like 10.0.2 was. So it seems a pattern is being established between bug fi

Re: FCP X 10.0.4 is in the AppStore updates - 13 years ago

Apple's targeting you Michael. Also Motion 5.0.3

Re: Is there a way to hide the 'Date' dropdown tag in the Event Browser? - 13 years ago

Do you mean "Group Clip By?" Select the "gear" icon under the Event Library and there's Groups Clip By and you can set that to None. I think this is the one you mean since it appears under Name. Or Column Header? If you're looking in the Event Browser if you click on the bar where it says "Name" etc (your column headers) you can right click and deselect the co

Re: How to loop an audio clip in timeline - 13 years ago

It's just a guess but I can't help but think (or hope) that Logic Pro X will have some sort of FCPX integration (along with a send to Motion) at some point.

Re: FCPX will not open a specific projecrt - 13 years ago

Are you using 10.0.3? In theory it creates a backup that it should open if it can't open the original project. It's not like an auto save vault but it backs up every 15 minutes if there are changes. Of course if the issue stretched across the backup I can imagine that's impacted as well. It's just that can of issue should be rare (but probably not impossible). It's possible that some media or