Level 1

9 points

Final cut pro x is the worst and most horrifying software for a new user....most non - user friendly...

Working on it is just like making a castle of cards......Your entire effort just goes in thinking how to keep your clips in place,how to group ,compound and then again uncompound , make a secondary timeline then again break apart......you never know what will shift, what will get replaced , what will fall off a layer ........it seems like a video game where all bricks have to be maintained in the air one over the other without a base.......you have to keep wasting your brain power in just thinking how your clips would be unscrewed till the end of the project .....it is so ridiculous for a general film editor .........as of getting used to it....you can be made to get used to anything but ......there is no logic in kicking your brain to prove its intelligence of being able to think about the management of its clips all the time while working because there is always a possibiltiy of your data not found in the place you left it or in the shape you designed it..........specially extremely mind screwing for people who have to work with large data and not everybody has to make a documentary.......how can they even think of making a software with a thought that people will directly drag everything from the browser and bam here is your film........it is the worst software for people who go into tricky editing experimenting with layers and mix match of several effects in one window.....seeing everything available without changing timelines.........

the basic timeline of fcpx is so childish,so basic.....user friendly is something that works on human logic not something that teaches you to think in a different way.....else for people who work on several softwares their entire life would just go learning softwares.......

conclusion.....

good for people who just know , once dragged is done and once compounded is forgotton

Nightmare for people who start their work after dragging and can't compound or keep making secondary timelines till the end to painstakingly protect their delicate and intricate timelines..........everything just keeps sticking here and there.....software or a chameleon tongue.....😠

Final Cut Pro X, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Feb 8, 2013 9:47 AM

58 replies

Feb 14, 2013 6:41 AM in response to Mudh Mark

Mudh Mark wrote:

.....see I understand I have to understand the concept but

No BUTs ;-)

Get down and dirty with the app - thus - understand its concept. Then come back and start a thread, if you feel you need to. I bet that you will love the concept ONCE you understand it.

Lots a Fun ;-)

Mudh Mark Author

Level 1

9 points

Feb 14, 2013 7:18 AM in response to Studio Engineer

Ok got it....'not for all' software....every tool is used by several users and there are hundreds of ways in which people work....I have worked on more that 20 big audio and video softwares besides playing with a thousand more being a music composer,arranger,programmer, sound recordist and an editor on widows as well besides mac,there is a universality to every application in a logical user friendly technological world,for the first time I have been asked to change the way of throwing , pushing and placing,I will definately keep trying but every tool is made keeping in mind several ways of work and then people custom apply that tool....it has more limitations than one can imagine.....here those who are used to it are so convinced,this is how EDITING is done....sorry to say this is not true....if Tom says he takes decisions faster....no Tom there are genres of film editing in which you can't go on finalizing chunks sometimes for the whole feel of a project you have to keep things open and keep making changes in the whole project specially after the whole project shapes up according to the emotional flow of the story.......not for fiction......dramas.....undoubtedly good for wildlife editors and documentary makers.

Unfortunately completed 70 percent of my project on this so will have to keep learning and finish it off...because other things like color correction and titles are yet to be done....

I'm trying and I will learn to work on it at any cost....but yes as I said it exhausts ....with my kind of editing..... and your kind of editing is not my cup of tea,we don't shoot footage with a clapper board always where we always know the ok shots,several times NG shots are incorporated in such a wonderful way for which you can't keep finalizing grouping compounding and making secondary storylines......we make dramas and shoot for music and can't predict the feel of the edit till the end....

somanna

Level 1

133 points

Feb 14, 2013 8:14 AM in response to Mudh Mark

Do feel sorry for you Mark but then, the situation is not as bad as you like to describe it. I hope that other video editors who are already doing the kind of stuff you are doing will help you out. But, understanding the level of your competence in video editing with non FCPX softwares, I trust you are not far away from riding your 'mad' horse [FCPX] expertly and see that it takes you where you want!

somanna

Level 1

133 points

Feb 15, 2013 8:34 AM in response to somanna

Thanks Mark for helping me with your 'this helped me'. I feel I do not deserve it. I am just becoming curious to see what kind of video you are preparing on your brand new FCPX. BTW this expertise of yours has made me to laugh:

'.I have worked on more that 20 big audio and video softwares besides playing with a thousand more being a music composer,arranger,programmer, sound recordist and an editor on widows as well'!

somanna

Level 1

133 points

Feb 17, 2013 5:50 PM in response to innocentius

Are you also yet without understanding? [Mtth 15:16]

In describing his video editing experience, Mark had described thus:

'.I have worked on more that 20 big audio and video softwares besides playing with a thousand more being a music composer,arranger,programmer, sound recordist and an editor on widows as well'!

I had then jocularly questioned the nature of the editing works he performs on widows to which he gave the following reply:

Ha Ha Ha Ha.....Windows sorry..... people agree to everything here without understanding..😁

Reading this reply and also the communication between you and Denden 1, I felt that the first part of Mark's reply [Ha Ha Ha Ha.....Windows sorry..] was a response to my questioning of the nature of his experience in editing widows, and that the latter part of his reply [people agree to everything here without understanding..😁] was directed [I suspect] at you!

Now do you understand!😁

Aug 4, 2013 10:26 AM in response to Mudh Mark

You have to reset your mind and face the fact that Final Cut was discontinued. What you are using as FCPX is actually iMovieX. Once you do this, you can start loving the good new features and hating the bad ones as with any new software. But to compare this iMovieX to the good old FCP will only bring more pain to the adaptation process. (By the way, Apple, to kill FCP is unforgivable).

Jan 7, 2014 4:05 PM in response to Mudh Mark

Despite the Final Cut groupies that try to slam your post, I agree that you are absolutely right regarding almost everything you say. I run a small production company and teach media production, and as such I have 14 iMacs with Final Cut X and a dual boot Windows 7 setup so I can use Adobe products the way they were intended to be used -- in Windows. I have all but abandoned Final Cut. It is the most un-intuitive program I've ever used, and that's saying a lot. I have a couple of employees who still use Final Cut, but most of my employees and students have switched over to Premiere Pro CC. I agree that the magnetic snapping is one of the stupidest editing features ever invented (yes, I know you can press "p" and it inserts a black clip when you move something -- but why the heck would I want a black clip inserted??) . Why not just have a "ripple delete" command like Premiere has -- available when you need it? The real problem, though, is that it presumes to know what you want to do, and does it without your permission. In Premiere, I am the decision maker. I have passed the point where I care about how much I spent on Final Cut. I can't waste one more editing session trying to make it do what I want it to.

Tom Wolsky

Level 10

152,809 points

Jan 7, 2014 7:58 PM in response to MarCom Media

Magnetic snapping is the best feature in FCP. Ripple delete is the default behavior in FCP in the magnetic timeline.

So you came to this forum to say you don't like FCP. Sorry I can't be bother to go to the Adobe forum to say that Premiere is overrated, overcomplicated, overbuttoned, overpaneled, overdone piece of crap trying to be a piece of software for everybody and ending up being a non-sensical, unfocused, pile of steaming turd that's pretending to be software from the 80s.

Feb 8, 2013 10:15 AM in response to Mudh Mark

Are you experiencing a problem?

Mudh Mark Author

Level 1

9 points

Feb 9, 2013 1:52 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Ok I will try again.

Mudh Mark Author

Level 1

9 points

Feb 9, 2013 4:10 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

May be ....:)

BenB

Level 6

13,222 points

Feb 9, 2013 6:42 AM in response to Mudh Mark

Get some proper training such as at macProVideo.com. Then come back and ask specific questions rather than flame, please.

Feb 13, 2013 8:24 AM in response to Mudh Mark

What is your problem man. Find another software that suits you

Feb 13, 2013 8:41 AM in response to Mudh Mark

is this what you are looking for http://www.fcpbook.com/Home.html

Mudh Mark Author

Level 1

9 points

Feb 13, 2013 10:58 PM in response to Karsten Schlüter

Just want it to disappear from layer one (not shifting other clips or their postion) and stick in layer two at a desirable postion at once.

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