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Comment on Freeze frames by kiwigal

kiwigal — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:07:05 +0000

Thank you for that – good iinfo

Comment on Free trial – Apple’s FCP X by Mike Symes

Mike Symes — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:41:42 +0000

If you wish to supply serious options for pro users then this link for a 30 free trial is probably the most important.
It is Grass Valley EDIUS which is the only NLE program which will give MAC Quicktime backward compatibility.
http://www.grassvalley.com/login?r=%2Fsupport%2Fdownloads%2Fdemos
We have been supplying ex FCP users and they wont go back to FCP.
It is PC only or MAC running Windows.

Comment on Free trial – Apple’s FCP X by Editosaurus

Editosaurus — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:10:16 +0000

Not only is there a free trial release but there is also an update. The unassuming 10.0.1 introduces an XML format to transfer to third party software (not FCP7 XML unfortunately – but we can trust that’s in the post), as well as an awesome new feature called roles that allows you to group audio into dialogue tracks, music, effects etc and to categorise different types of video so that they can be enabled/disabled or selected and effected all together something that was just unrealistic to expect from the previous architecture. Unfortunately however, I am starting to realise that my 2010 Macbook Pro with 8gb Ram is failing to keep up… Apple are after all primarily a hardware developer. Oh well, who really feels that bad “needing” to upgrade to the newest Mac?

Comment on Diploma in Digital Film – week 7 by Steve

Steve — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:35:21 +0000

Hi Martin, see this video - particularly the section at 15 minutes.

Comment on Diploma of Digital Film – week 6 by Steve

Steve — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:05 +0000

Hi Martin.
Great read here – thanks.
Had a thought about sending large files over the internet.
Try using the free http://www.YouSendIt.com service. Also, consider zipping your files for sending, this should prevent any mangling of the file’s code during the sending/delivery process.

Cheers
Steve

Comment on Final Cut X – comment by Editosaurus

Editosaurus — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:57:47 +0000

Okay,

So this was the test, with my last post I convinced myself to buy it. I’ve been sitting down for an hour, and I love it. The audio controls are miles ahead of FCP7, the way they are visualized is helpful and efficient, when you raise the audio levels it actually changes the waveform (fancy that?) what’s more it shows peaking within visualization and it also has an audio compressor which a video person can actually understand rather than playing trial and error. The flattened colour correction rectangle (as opposed to the colour wheel) is brilliant, it gives me what I’ve wanted for a long time, accurate keyboard control of colour correction rather than having to clumsily mouse a difficult to move pointer around a wheel – it also has saturation adjustments for blacks, mids and whites which was a major pitfall of FCP7′s 3-Way Colour Corrector.

And for the very small percentage of us who use the Dvorak keyboard layout, it is the first FCP that can use keyboard shortcuts in Dvorak since FCP 4.5.

Though the magnetic timeline is new to me, I can see how it might be better than a track based timeline in many ways, but this will take longer to judge. Still don’t quite get the file management side of things but the amount of import options you have is very impressive.

I may be forced to eat my words once I actually start a proper project, but so far it’s very promising especially for a 1.0. Hasn’t crashed yet.

Comment on Final Cut X – comment by Rainer

Rainer — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:54:01 +0000

Steve, you pretty much summed it up. Apple knows exactly what its doing. Existing Apple fans are joined to their Macs at the hip, and despite their protestations they’re not going to change platforms. In the short term they might switch to PP, but Apple is a hardware company and doesn’tcare. People wanting to get into video editing and people upgrading their systems will note that the price differential between FCX and PP, Avid and even Vegas is enough to cover the extra cost of a Mac over a stock PC, and they’ll go for FCX on the Mac and never know what they might be missing. Bringing in FCX at this price point means basically that Apple’s won the NLE platform war.

Comment on Final Cut X – comment by Editosaurus

Editosaurus — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:18:42 +0000

I’m tending towards agreeing with Duncan actually.

I’ve heard a lot of yelling and screaming from “legacy” FCP users within a week of release, this, to my mind is not really enough time to tell whether a user interface is going to work effectively. There’s a panic over the loss of late edition features like multiclips and chapter markers as well as older pseudo-obsolete features like EDL (I can’t call it obsolete just yet, I just sent one off to Digipost)

Everyone’s criticism sounds pretty ill-considered. The only worrying things to me are the automated effects that pose to do colour-matching with a single click, this sounds highly amateurish to but strangely I don’t hear anyone mentioning this.

No what I’m looking for in a redesigned program are baseline features, like: Utilization of the 64bit chip, utilization of all available RAM, background rendering, basic workflow features like background importing and file conversion with clip analysis and forward-looking compatibility rather than back-compatibility. Version 1.0 is about getting the architecture right, it’s not about whistles and bells (and all the bugs that come with them).

This is Apple’s model, start simple, get feedback, make improvements. Don’t try to do everything at once before you know what people want.

All of the competing programs are going to have to take this backward step to move forward. Mac is the only one who has the balls and the financial independence to take it, why do they have the financial independence? Because they know what they’re doing. I think I just talked myself into buying it…

Comment on Final Cut X – comment by Duncan

Duncan — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:55:38 +0000

I disagree – it was time for a revolution.
Sure there’s a lot of people who simply wanted a new, faster, shinier version of Final Cut, but it was time for a ground up rewrite. We can’t embrace the future while clinging to the past.
It’s a huge gamble and it’s unclear whether it will pay off but it needed to be done.
I’m imagining that there will now be some quick evolution – some rabid iterations to quickly bring it up to par. This is how Apple have done it in the past with other software upgrades of this magnitude.