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Re: Another nail in the coffin - 12 years ago
QuoteAndy Field Sad that professional editors/plug in filter creators/professional trainers invested so much time and faith in an company that didn't listen to their client base This isn't a new story, and Apple didn't do anything that half a dozen other "pro" companies didn't do before this. People who think Apple screwed pros have a short memory regarding Avid even as they switchby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: typewriter effect - 12 years ago
But typewriters don't have blinking cursors... #analoged.by Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: FCPX Feature Wish List - 12 years ago
QuoteI can't believe that Apple actually had FCP 8 in the can, 64bit and all and decided not to release it. Unreal! Not exactly germane to the topic. Can't you start a rant thread so I can be sure not to follow it? Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: The Final Cut Pro X Bug List - 13 years ago
Not sure, I've been using it for years. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: The Final Cut Pro X Bug List - 13 years ago
Quotestrypes Fine cutting an edit is even faster in Avid than in FCP, where you need the mouse to get into trim mode. CMD+7 to enter trim mode on FCP. No mouse needed. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: The Final Cut Pro X Bug List - 13 years ago
Perhaps, but by custom effects, I'm referring to effects produced in Motion for use in FCPX. The update has broken some of the compatibility between Motion and FCP.by Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: The Final Cut Pro X Bug List - 13 years ago
The 10.0.1 update has broken several of my custom effects and even one built-in FCPX (so far). The Mask effect (located in the Keyer category) doesn't work on SD footage for me, and others have reported it not working on any footage. The OSC controls are frozen in place and cannot be moved. In addition, the update has broken keyframe animation for several custom-made effects. This might indby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Re-merge clip that I have Detached Audio from video..How do I put them back together again? - 13 years ago
Quotevideotape they should allow for re- merging clips in a easy command The problem with that is usually people alter the original clip after breaking apart the audio. Therefore, its no longer the same clip to "re-merge". However, you can create a compound clip to re-integrate a clip that's been broken apart, or undo (if it wasn't too far back). Finally, if your students need tby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Lower Third - hairline bug - 13 years ago
Wasn't able to recreate the "bug" with the Gradient Center title. Something else is going on there, perhaps something to do with your fonts. However the Duplicated Project loses custom text bug is reproducible on my machine. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: What TV shows are being shot on what equipment? - 13 years ago
QuoteCaseyPeterson I read that No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain is starting to use a 7D I just bumped into Anthony Bourdain in London a month ago shooting No Reservations. If they're switching, they haven't yet. They were using a large format camera. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Flip to FCPX - 13 years ago
Consolidate in FCPX only means that the media will be copied to one spot: The event folder for the drive it's on. If its already all there, you won't be given the option. If you have 2 projects with the same media, you could probably just delete one of them (presumably the one that had non-working files). Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: What was the app being used at last month's FCPUG to switch between 7 and X? - 13 years ago
Be sure to follow the best practices FAQ on the apple site to give you the best chance on an install that has both on the same partition. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Any fix for the H.264/QT gamma bug? - 13 years ago
The color managed workflow in FCP X has eliminated color shift problems in the exports I've done so far. At least as far as the image remaining the same color and luminance throughout the process. That says nothing of what happens on other people's monitors though. FCP X might be a good solution for web-only workflows. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: The Final Cut Pro X Bug List - 13 years ago
Good call. The Save As worked. The original clips were digitized on FCP 6 and then media managed in FCP 7 (straight copying, no recompression). I figured it was some metadata thing that FCP X couldn't find. Still, its an annoying bug when you are importing audio and video files and can't tell right away if the audio files in your project are actually supposed to have video attached to them.by Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: FCPX Feature Wish List - 13 years ago
- Ability to drag and drop compound clips into the event browser from the project or even the media list window. - Make gap clip available in the generators tab, allowing it to be used as an adjustment layer for effects. - Allow individual audio channels attached to video clips to be editable inside project (not just inside timeline mode) or else allow for reconnecting break away clips withby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: The Final Cut Pro X Bug List - 13 years ago
Intermittent bug: Occasionally, DV/NTSC footage digitized in a previous version of FCP will import into FCPX minus the video track. The only way to get it to accept the video track is to run the clip thru Compressor. Happened on about 10 percent of clips from a previous project.by Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Betting Everything on FCP X - 13 years ago
Quotecraig seeman Most reality shows seem like hack jobs to me. That's the point 17 minutes to cut a 28 minute show sounds like a reality show on deadline. What the hell do you cut craig? As one of the "hacks" who have cut reality television, let me enlighten you to a few things. First of all, the shooting ratio for reality vs scripted: at minimum you can expect 5 to 6 TIMES morby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Some clips showing up audio only inside FCP X - 13 years ago
Hi there. Trying to see if others have noticed this as well. I have a project that I'm redoing in FCP X to get a better feel for it. It's a short, simple project, but has many elements to it in both HD and SD. I media managed it out of FCP 7 and then imported all the files into X. In general, everything came in fine. However, a couple of clips originally digitized as DV/NTSC show up as auby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Tip: Adding transitions to connected clips... - 13 years ago
So this was an interesting problem. A poster on another forum was talking about how he wanted to composite a clip with another clip using a blend mode. But he wanted to be able to add a dissolve to the front and back end of the clip. If you've tried this, you know that you can't add transitions to connected clips (though I don't really understand why not). If he makes his connected clip intby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Avid training for an FCP user? - 13 years ago
I agree with Ben about FCP X. A lot of people are jumping to learn Avid and Premiere quickly when really they should've been working with it already. Avid has had a 30 day trial for MC for a long time. Down the line when (not if) FCP X has matured as an NLE and jobs are being done on it, do you really want to be left out in the cold again? I never really understood the Avid vs FCP debate.by Andy Neil - Avid Media Composer
Re: Not quite as positive things - 13 years ago
QuoteTom Wolsky Inability to open any previous projects created in any version of Final Cut. This is an off-shoot of the XML import/export support. I don't think it realistic to expect FCP X as a completely different program to be able to seemlessly open FCP 7 projects. Once XML support is restored, then this will return. QuoteSeriously unstable, but maybe we've been spoiled. Again, neby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Not quite as positive things - 13 years ago
Wow, Raberco is a bit of a drama queen, eh? I can't think of anything more pathetic than joining a circle-jerk of hate called, "FCP Professionals Not Happy With FCP X", even IF I was as upset as he seems to be. It's funny, among the actual legitimate missing features that pros are complaining about, someone comes along who says, "You know, it doesn't sound like enough to complaby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 13 years ago
Quoteeyeseesound You just couldn't resist could you? As reasonable as I make myself out to be...!? Yep, spent hours penning that post just for that very purpose... to make myself appear reasonable... it is completely contrived and not in the remotest bit reflective of me or my inner workings. My comment wasn't a critique of your "inner workings". I was simply acknowledging that youby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 13 years ago
QuoteDo you really want to wait for another ten years to go by in order to have access to the tools you already have in FC7? But that's a false comparison, Steve. One that relies on the assumption that most or all of a pro-post workflow is missing from FCPX, and also that the workflow itself is stagnant and unchanging. Though it's not possible to know the truth of the former, the latter at leby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 13 years ago
Quoteeyeseesound It seems the Yes camp are genuinely aggrieved by any negative comments and snipe at the No camp when they post something in a kind of smug dismissive way. Of course, those that happen to be in the yes camp (not an admission) probably feel as reasonable as you make yourself out to be, and hold the "No Partiers" as people who jump to conclusions without any facts. Herby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 13 years ago
QuoteTom 35 of those 70 now are looking for alternative NLEs due to the lack of any available info. You know I tried starting Final Cut on my system this morning and I got this error: I'm afraid to click OK. Seriously though, I'm an editor. If you're paying me, you can sit me down in front of iMovie, or Windows Movie Maker, or a bench with a pair of scissors and some glue. The progby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 13 years ago
Quotefolks seems to be taking it as an indication that Mr Courtens is speaking from first hand knowledge of the beta ... something he neither confirms nor denies. As is often stated on this very forum: "Those who know, can't say...those who say don't know." Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 13 years ago
Quotelasvideo "From what I read of the reports of the demo of the new Final Cut X, the new features demonstrated are targeted towards the amateur video maker with a camcorder or DSLR. Features like stabilization, rolling shutter correction, noise cancellation, and audio sync, all supposedly happening on import, are targeting users who have basic production equipment problems. These are all fby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: Supermeet updates - 13 years ago
QuoteChange for the sake of change is simply regressive. I wouldn't call it change for the sake of change. A lot has changed in the world of post production, production, and computers in the 12 years since FCP came on the market. It's not a bad idea to periodically re-evaluate how we create. It's a pretty bold move to suggest that there might in fact be a better way to edit with the formatby Andy Neil - Café LA - X
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 14 years ago
The problem with FCP sharing has always been one of how project info is stored. On Avid, projects are essentially folders that contains bins. In FCP, bins are contained inside project files. As I understand it, Editshare gets around this by creating multiple project files for each project. In effect, the FCP project files are like Avid bins. Since FCP can have multiple projects open at once,by Andy Neil - Café LA
