Eric333 wrote:
R&B wrote:
Let's be very clear about one thing:
Apple has not had merely since the April meet-up in Las Vegas to get this release ready.
They've had since 2008 to get it ready.
It ain't ready.
1. No way to set the Scratch Disc. Which means there's no way to assign everything for a single project to go into one project folder. This makes porting a project to another facility a nightmare. It also makes media management after a project is finished virtually impossible. How do you delete all the files pertaining to a particular project if they're all mixed together with the files of every other project? Ridiculous.
2. No way to export OMF files. Q: How do you do audio sweetening? A: You can't.
3. No XML export options.
4. Where are the third party effects plug-ins? Hmmmmm?
5. No multi-cam support.
Look, I'm not complaining. I suspect all of these issues will be addressed. In fact, I'm not yet completely convinced that some of these things aren't already built into this release, but are just hidden from obvious view (obvious, at least, to those who knew where to look for them in the previous version). But with no explanation from Final Cut, and no tutorials available, we're left to spend the next week reading the effing manual.
As if we have time for that.
http://www.rippletraining.com/categories/final-cut-studio-courses/final-cut-pro- products/final-cut-pro-10-core-training.html
That's the answer to your training. Also, media management is insanely better in FCP X than FCP 7. Follow the tutorial. It is extremely helpful. It explains everything and it all makes sense.
A quick rundown of how media management works:
No more capture scratch. It now goes under "Final Cut Events" folder, which can designated to any drive. In this sense, it is almost identical to how Avid manages its files. "Projects" are more like sequences, and sequences do not exist anymore.
Also, I have no doubt that the other things will come in due time. For now, stick with FCP 7 for those missing features. You were editing just fine before FCP X came out, so what's the difference?
Again, watch the tutorials. Spend the $40 bucks. You won't regret it. I was stumped on FCP X too. But the tutorials explain EVERYTHING and it all makes total sense
Message was edited by: Eric333
Insanely better? More like an insane waste of time!!! With FCP 7 I go to the HD I want and create a folder for my video project. Everything about that project is stored in that folder. The FCP project, the scratch folder, all of it. When I am completely done with the project, and have mastered and archived it, I can just delete that folder on my media drive, and that's it. And I can take that one folder and burn it to a 50 gb blue ray disc or a portable drive for long term storage. If I ever need to work on my project again, it's all in that one folder.
With FCPX you're saying that I would have to go to the "Final Cut Events" folder and hunt and peck to delete the files like I used to with Avid? What a huge waste of time.
No more sequences? That's a horrible Idea!!! I have projects where I will produce several different videos for the same client using a lot of the same material, graphics, music, interviews and such.
In FCP 7 I create a new project, gather all my source material in one project, and edit 4 or 5 videos from that source material using different sequences. Now you're telling me with FCPX I have to create a new project and re-gather all of my material every time I want to create a separate video??? Am I understanding what you are saying correctly? If I am, THAT'S A HUGE WASTE OF TIME!!!!!!!! Time is one thing an editor never has enough of.
