Final Cut Pro X

Dirk_Williams wrote:
Time to land on planet earth. Apple is not going release FCP 8. Avid has a deal going on right now for FCP users. $999 for Media Composer 5.5, I think you'll be much happier.

Really, it's worth downloading their demo to at least see if you could live in the Avid world if you're tied to a Timeline interface.

But I can't imagine both shelling out $999 for MC unless I really needed to change; if I found FCP X abhorent I'd be tempted to just stay on FCP 7 as long as I could.

When new products come out people somehow get the impression that the old version they've been using for months/years somehow stops working. 😀

You missed the point, William. I was being sarcastic 😉

what happen to the Suite then what is up with Motion sound track compressor, and for sure I am more interested in Motion is there going to be Motion, I am guessing all this hype for FC X but what about Motion.

I know. Kids these days. Cheezus...

Just watched the full one hour presentation and must say I'm impressed.
Our present interation seems clunky by comparison. The future is here.
The only reason people are iMovie scared is because the display is similar.
They're miles apart. From what I've seen this is a smarter way of editing.
I know it's early days but I really want to know how the rest of the suite fits in.
What about my FCP7 projects and my bought and paid for plug-ins.
I'm not too worried they seem bent on crushing the competition so they would be idiots not to factor in those components.
My biggest worry is an almost back to square one on the learning curve.
My feeling is this will not be intuitive like the gradual upgrades we had before.

Oh and BTW, anybody that says this is going to make Granny an editor is wrong.
It seems, that although editing will be simpler in the long run there will be a lot more to learn to make editing possible in the short run.
To me this is still a pro app if you want to use it to it's full potential.
I must say I'm dying to know what round tripping to the new improved Motion will be like.
That better happen our I'm out and sticking with 7.

There's no doubt it's a pro-app.

Every innovation is there to benefit professional users and whilst they can be used by amateurs, by the very nature of their working environments, most amateurs will only see small uses for the new features here and there.

Every pro editing process has been made faster, easier and more precise to say nothing of the more attractive and intuitive interface.

Additionally the Magnetic Timeline with all its numerous advantages including rendering clip-collisions to the history books, instant Color Matching and Auditioning, mean that we are leaping into the future.

No +"One Small Step for Man"+ here!

As to the Cons . . . . . I have yet to find any, but I'm only an amateur so I may have overlooked something that would affect pro workflows.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall in the Avid and Premiere offices!

I've heard some talk of native ingest and editing of AVCHD. Anyone know if this is true? Will FCP X no longer require transcoding of AVCHD on ingest?

Panasonic announced that they will be releasing an AVCHD QT plug in this summer. Maybe that is what they were talking about. AVCHD in a QT wrapper.

see here.
http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prModelDetail?storeId=11301& catalogId=13251&itemId=623003&modelNo=Content03242011034910726&surfModel=Content 03242011034910726

Hard to tell from a 45 minute demo.

I just wonder. If there are no tracks, how do you mute a track? If you can only mute one clip at a time, then FCPX is not a pro-app.

there are tracks they are just created and destroyed automatically

Polleke wrote:
I just wonder. If there are no tracks, how do you mute a track? If you can only mute one clip at a time, then FCPX is not a pro-app.

Posts like this confound me.

Do you really believe that you can now only mute one audio track at a time?

Seriously?

Still wondering...

I've heard some talk of native ingest and editing of AVCHD. Anyone know if this is true? Will FCP X no longer require transcoding of AVCHD on ingest?