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Re: Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 12 years ago
Guys -- (and gals) here's the reality - the Editor's Lounge pre-NAB this year -- pro editors TV and Film -- "how many in the room cutting on FCP X?" One hand goes up. One. It belonged to Philip Hodgetts - Bless him for working his tail off to create FCPX plug in and translation goodness - actually he may have put up both hands Listen to the Mark Raudonis, Bunim/Murray sby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: "Are any Broadcast TV shows using FCPX?" - 12 years ago
Sorry Craig, couldn't disagree more. We've gone from an application that did EVERYTHING we needed - audio mix, solid in application color correction - undertandable easily mixable tracks ... to one that needs more add ons than the International Space Station to stay in orbit and when folks talk about fast...i'm not seeing it -- I've given X a workout on a latest model macbook pro with plentby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: "Are any Broadcast TV shows using FCPX?" - 12 years ago
Has anyone seen detail on how these shows work with audio in their timelines? (theres one screen shot on the apple In Action site that looks suspiciously like "tracks" for the audio)....but even with now 3 improvement upgrades, audio is still the deal breaker for us. Double clicking to open each audio is a rediculous extra step No real time keyframe audio recording mixer no assigby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: FCP X 10.0.4 - that didn't take long - 12 years ago
update -- going into FX Factory preferences and resetting Motion Templates seems to fix the crashing ....at least for now..we'll seeby Andy Field - Café LA - X
FCP X 10.0.4 - that didn't take long - 12 years ago
Less than 2 minutes into trying out the new FCP X 10.0.4 -- crash o rama -- crash log says the newest updated FX Factory plug in is the culprit....but doesn't really matter - removing FX Factory yeilded so many crashes in previous version that that it's virtually unusable. FCP 7 and continuing Avid lessons ...unless - Michael - your sneek peak on Autodesk Smoke offers a glimmer of switchiby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: How to Copy Just the Color Correction to Another Clip - 12 years ago
Craig -- agree the text is better in FCPX -- but it's maddening that if you apply a transition to a title that isn't a standard built in transition - the transition is applied to the title AND the video below it Try it with an FXFactory particle transition or third party wipes etc..... This worked as advertised in FCP 7 - but not in this program -- and yes I tried it on secondary story linesby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: How to Copy Just the Color Correction to Another Clip - 12 years ago
Craig - I enjoy your posts, but you are THE most blindly optimistic FCPX cheerleader on the planet. " Just wait for that next update and everything will work fine...." Not sure what type of business you run, but if it's pro-broadcast or film, it's difficult to see why you would put up with half baked when the full course meal was already available in version 7. Why would I expecby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: How to Copy Just the Color Correction to Another Clip - 12 years ago
...and this is a step forward?by Andy Field - Café LA - X
FCP X's bad launch and why it may be ok for you now... - 12 years ago
Well - not sure if it's ready for most of us doing broadcast or film...but Larry Jordan did a sober assessment of the launch and where it is now...may be old news for LAFCPUG members but interesting over at fcp.co Larry Jordan on FCPX launch disaster and resurrectionby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: long export time when making a reference file - 12 years ago
What Derek said -- if you are doing XDCAM or HDV you are in render hell -- How long is your sequence? If it's an hour long with XDCAM or HDV it could indeed take several hours.. Your best bet is to set your rendering to Prores in the timeline ...it will export faster. XDCAM and HDV is handy and great for archiving -- a pain for conforming final output or worse - did you edit h264 in theby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Had to use clients camera ,need help with Final Cut settings - 12 years ago
by the way - Premiere Pro reads those natively - if you have the adobe suite just drag the mts files into a bin - it plays - no log and transfer - no transcodingby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Which camera is most FCP-friendly: Sony PMWEX1R or HXRNX5U? - 12 years ago
Also look at the NANOFLASH NanoFlash Convergent Design It is terrific - records to xdcam or DVCPRO flavor Quicktime wrapped files - no transcoding - pull out the compact flash drive - connect to your laptop - drag the files to your hard drive and you are editing -- rediculously convenient and fast. Not the least expensive option (about double the price of the ATOMOS model) but connects toby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Another nail in the coffin - 12 years ago
if they had - this might not have happened AVID to FCP and backby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: You CAN create custom resolutions in FCPX - 12 years ago
Terrific....(and a great teacher in the tutorial) But how is this progress when FCPX takes a dozen more steps and Sherlock Holmes sluthing to do what took one click in FCP7? Perhaps Apple is reading these comments and can easily type a line of code that returns the original functionality?by Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: FCP X dead for Professionals? - 12 years ago
I agree Michael. For most of us, this forum, this was our first stop on the web each day for the last decade - a great community helping each other muddle through and then become expert at a terrific tool. You've done an astonishing job connecting everyone and providing tremendous value to our work. The angst most of us feel is having to discard much of what makes us quick and proficient aby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: FCP X dead for Professionals? - 12 years ago
Outstanding - and if it it's more FCP 7 like with support for all the plugins - and the Autoduck folks have a great translator to AVID and back - this could quickly become the LAPPUG.ORG Best Andyby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: FCP X dead for Professionals? - 12 years ago
Joe - hope you're testing something that will be a real FCP 7 replacement. I've moved had to move to AVID due to AutoDuck not working all the time and the clients wanting an AVID timeline delivered. ...and while you can get your muscle memory with the program fairly quickly - it still feels clunky when creating effects - step in - step out...nesting effects ...etc.... ...what we missby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: import transferred MTS file - 12 years ago
If you have Premiere - try importing through that - had someone call me the other day with mts file and I think they were able to import through Premiereby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Another nail in the coffin - 12 years ago
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 - sad for them - not Apple - they're doing fine with their i-line of everything mobile.by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: FCP X dead for Professionals? - 12 years ago
Craig are you just using a dissolve? - try it with any of the stock transitions - it doesn't workby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: FCP X dead for Professionals? - 12 years ago
Hi Craig - yes on 10.0.2 - works on everything BUT titles -- are they a special case? And is there a simple title tool somewhere that doesn't sing and dance but just types on the screen?by Andy Field - Café LA - X
Re: FCP X dead for Professionals? - 12 years ago
Am I missing something with FCPX? I've got the fastest Macbook Pro - 8 gigs of ram and it's very slow -- the background rendering may be the problem And can someone explain why youcan't make a transition on a second track of video? It transitions everything including what's below it (want to fly in titles without the built in title effects - nothing doing - it flies that in and transitions tby Andy Field - Café LA - X
Best FCP to AVID Tutorial yet - 12 years ago
Avid's new MC 6 site has a terrific primer on how to take your FCP 7 skills and use them quickly in AVID -- even though they demo on MC 6 everything they discuss applies to 5.5 as well -- this helped alot in speeding my migration from my "sad to say goodbye" FCP 7 to MC (The tutorials are at the bottom of the page) go here Avid's FCP to MC quick switch tutorialsby Andy Field - Avid Media Composer
Re: 2 questions about Avid AMA - 12 years ago
I've been struggling with Automatic Duck FCP to Avid -- it seems that transcoding whatever you are doing to DNXHD first (edit however you'd like - then media manage and transcode to DNXHD) THEN do the automatic Duck - and it will work fairly well getting it to AVID PRO-RES also works but not as consistently and I'm not sure why also Avid 5.5.3 seems to be the winner in using Automatic Dby Andy Field - Avid Media Composer
Re: FCP to AVID Via Autoduck or Boris Transfer - 12 years ago
Well after many tests i've discovered 1 - if you edit in FCP - then transcode the finished timeline to DNxHD - it works 2 - DVCPRO HD is hit or miss - sometimes yes - sometimes not - all in the same timeline This is all with AMA Relinking in Avid 5.5.3 ------- I've yet to get Boris Transfer to work Forget motion effects or titles - they don't carry over Color correction filtersby Andy Field - Avid Media Composer
FCP to AVID Via Autoduck or Boris Transfer - 12 years ago
Although I'd rather keep editing in FCP 7 - client insists on delivering finished work in AVID MC 5.5 - Have tried everything Autoduck - Boris Transfer - nothing works cleanly - has anyone had any experience and can offer tips . Have watched all the online tutorials and THEY all work perfectly. Doesn't seem to work at all with XDCAM -- and it's hit or miss with DVCPRO HD -- would gladly paby Andy Field - Avid Media Composer
Re: CalDigit VR Mini RAID Question - 12 years ago
As long as you keep it off the Rickshaw you should be fine - I've jostled mine around from coast to coast and they've been rock solid -- keep them in bubble wrap in your equipment bag if you're worried about vibration -- and as a general rule - not good to keep any electronic equipment around dust and dirt -- as you only need the drives to ingest footage and edit - I can't image you need to keepby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Shortcut Keys in Premiere Pro from a FCP editor's perspective - 12 years ago
Thanks Kevin - will file the request now --by Andy Field - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Shortcut Keys in Premiere Pro from a FCP editor's perspective - 12 years ago
Kevin -- how do you OPTION CLICK a transition point to add a transition in PP -- went to the keyboard shortcuts and you can OPTION and use a letter or number but doesn't seem to be a way to assign OPTION CLICK so it will work similar to FCP 7 -- very sad we're all jumping through hoops to find something new to replace FCP 7 as we're all convinced a future Lion or QT upgrade will break our nby Andy Field - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
