Does anyone have anything good to say about final cut x?

i used apple products from Apple classic, i love this company, i like her ideas, i like her courage; i give them all my trust, but i shook when i seen this facking FCPX!.. Adobe win, apple looooooooooseeeeee!!!!!

Siderz wrote:

Well everyone else seems to have a different opinion to me, that is they like it.

But, to be honest, I don't. I'd rather render video myself, when I'm ready and not wonder "Is it going to render yet? better open the Inspector again..."

When rendering, if you play video, it pauses. Once pausing the video, you have to wait about 3 seconds until it starts rendering again. Cmd+R doesn't take 3 seconds.

I've also noticed, that you have to be on FCPX to have it render. This is absolutely no different, in fact worse that I have to wait for a machine to figure something out. Maybe it's just me.

I'm with you all the way on that one. I tend to want to review my edits/effects/transition as I make them.

This is exactly the way the SmoothCam feature works - it analyzes the footage in the background, but if you play your timeline or switch to another program, the process pauses. Which doesn't really save you any time, IMO.

Man, bad news all around. My last, great hope might just be Lightworks, if they ever release an open-source version for Linux/Mac.

LightWorks! My dad used to use it in the 90's. He's said it's brilliant. No rendering at all.

Should be coming to Mac late 2011. Rather excited about getting it especially as it's free.

Switching from Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 to Final Cut Pro 7 was too costly. So when I saw this new version of FCP at the reduced cost I thought I would give it a quick try. I agree with almost all of the complaints that people have so far, but here is one very nice thing (compared to Adobe Premiere Pro): importing from my camera (Canon Vixia HFM31) was so darn easy I couldn't believe my eyes. In Premiere I had to manually drag the necessary files from the camera memory to a folder on my iMac hard drive. I HATE THAT!

I believe that Apple depends on their reputation too much to allow the frustrations of its users to go on for too long. I'll sit back and wait for things to improve. But I think FCPX is a darn good product so far, just needs a little more finishing... 🙂

Chris King

Hi!

Motion 6 would seem to work with any editor that can ingest Qt movie files. It exports ProRes (all flavours), H264, HDV and some other formats directly, and other formats via Compressor.

The new Motion feels less cluttered and more approachable. Fun to play with, and also now seems to be the default way of building transitions, effects and generators for the new FCP. Could be very interesting.

Regards,

Rabbe

you can Send to Compressor from the Share menu

If dragging files to begin a project is too much trouble then I'd say you're the perfect launch customer for FCP X. Enjoy this killer Pro feature.

Christopher King wrote:

here is one very nice thing (compared to Adobe Premiere Pro): importing from my camera (Canon Vixia HFM31) was so darn easy I couldn't believe my eyes. In Premiere I had to manually drag the necessary files from the camera memory to a folder on my iMac hard drive. I HATE THAT!

Oh, besides features, you forgot long form documentaries--etc.

Nothing stops you from rendering manually. You don't have to rely strictly on background rendering.

To initiate rendering, just click CTRL+SHIFT+R to Render All or CTRL+R (with a specific clip selected) to Render Selection.

And this is hard...how?

it does, what's promised ...

http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/all-features/

the 'revolutionary' features (range based keywords, precision editor, etc) are less impressive for a designated iMovie user as me. 😉

have to decide, how to organize my material for future use.

miss a few plug-ins, I frequently used in FC/e4.

don't miss the most-demanded features (multi-cam, xml, 'free' formats, ... ), because I don't use them.

excellent - for a .0 version. room for improvement.

don't understand, why Apple pulled FC/p/s/e yet.-