Apple Launches New Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor Updates

[steveOooo]

Just need a reliable OS to use it on!*

Mountain lion to yose***** - just so I could use FCP 10.3 - had paid £80 for larry Jordan's tutorials (for fcpx 10.3)

Still needed fp7 and fx factory to work to ya know, to make money - it was broken.

Back to Montain lion I go - best learn 10.0.1 and then upgrade (leaving fcp7 behind) or just use premier cs5 forever and ever

(* + intermittent wifi, crashes to the sign in page, on start up, defaults to secondary screen - I have to either unplug the hdmi cable from my tv all the time or turn my tv on when I start my mac, jittery UI)

 

[winston1236]

So, your company is paying $50-70 a month per each license? Seems like a lot for something you can never truly own. At those prices Adobe is basically making individuals and companies essentially pay for a new suite every 10-11 months, plus if you're a business your locked in for 2 year contract.

No, a single app license is $20/user per month. The full suite is $50 but our editors don't need anything else so we reserve the full suite for our designers and mograph artist.

 

[winston1236]

Why do you say that?

I should have said not for your initial render instead of not at all. In the initial you'll lose too much quality by compressing too much to an H codec.

It's better to do a mild compression like Pro Res 422HQ and then export that to the output you want. This post could run on for pages but to keep it brief the amount of compression you need varies based on the use of the video. Less is better.

 

[tallscot]

FCPX is good to do like something very quick but the file management is absurd..

You don't know what you are talking about. The file management in FCP X is superior to everything else out there. It's one of the things everyone agrees that is so great in FCP X, that and it's multi-cam.

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Can you toggle off the magnetic timeline yet?

Can I have my tracks back?

No? Pass...

Please explain.

 

[LudwigZildjian]

This is a great update! Especially the added 3D effect in FCPX.

 

[yoak]

like an FS7 by Sony

I'm importing footage from my FS7 without problems. Why do you shot L and not I?
At least XAVC-I is no problem and better looking

 

[sevoneone]

The timeline in FCPX is just horrible. They want you to do things their way. I was transitioning from FCP7 to Premiere in a few hours. FCPX is good to do like something very quick but the file management is absurd. The TV station I was working on switched to Premiere, the other company I always work with are switched to Premiere too, both dumped FCPX right away. And I have been asked to go to Premiere specially because the integration with the creative cloud and the rest of the Adobe suit. Apple did a horrible job in dumping FCP7 in the way they did. They will never going to regain a shadow of the market they had before.

I was originally up in arms about the changes to the Timeline also. After I was done screaming about it and dumping entire clips of #fcpxsux ammo on the internet (I'm not kidding, I felt like Apple ran over my loyal, reliable Golden Retriever that I loved deeply and was trying to pass off a yappy mini-poodle mix as a viable equivalent), I calmed down and spent about 4 hours really familiarizing myself with the UI, tools and commands. I have not looked back since.

I think there were a lot of pros out there that felt the same way I did. They got caught up in the hype and never really tried to learn the new UX, which is actually very intuitive. The hard part is, because it is so different than other NLE timelines, it is hard to figure out where to start. For those that might see this and want to give it a try:

1) Start with the Select Tool [A] and Position Tool [P]. The arrow tool behaves "magnetically", the Position Tool works the way you're used to the Arrow tool working in classic FCP. This is 80% of the struggle I find for first time FCP users.

2) Play with storylines and connections and you quickly pickup how you can use them as analogs for traditional tracks. Instead of Insert, Overwrite and Super, there is Connect [Q], Insert [W], Append [E] and Overwrite [D].

If you spend a few hours getting the above down, the rest comes easy.

 

[puckhead193]

I'm importing footage from my FS7 without problems. Why do you shot L and not I?
At least XAVC-I is no problem and better looking

somewhat off-topic but how are you liking the FS7... i was temped with it but instead got the PXW-X200...

 

[Sylon]

I should have said not for your initial render instead of not at all. In the initial you'll lose too much quality by compressing too much to an H codec.

It's better to do a mild compression like Pro Res 422HQ and then export that to the output you want. This post could run on for pages but to keep it brief the amount of compression you need varies based on the use of the video. Less is better.

Good to know. I only ask because unfortunately my 4K tv only supports H.265 for 4K content. Finding content, or getting it converted, has been a royal pain in the ass.

 

[MrNomNoms]

Photos will go the same route as FCP X did. It's out now, with most important feature most people need. Over time, more will be added to make it more powerful, just like with FCP X. This will probably take years, but he, beats ****** buggy software.

Speaking of bugs: hopefully the rumors about OS 10.11 and iOS 9 having less new feature and being more stable are true...

There was a rumour going around about iOS 9.0 being more or a 'lets fix things up and add polish' release rather than one about adding new features. In the case of OS X the last update, 10.10.3, bought a slew of bug fixes with 10.10.4 apparently addressing the high CPU utilisation bug when running an external display and more bugs relating to their new mdns service. In the long term I think there was a lot of blood letting which makes me laugh given that I've skipped over to Windows then I quickly run back after realising that for all the faults of OS X that the developers have got the basic stuff like DPI scaling, coherent driver stack where you're not left wondering whether the next release your ACPI driver from the OEM will be made available because the inf has the Windows version hard coded, applications are well made whether it is from Apple or third parties (no, I don't count Google and their inability to stick to standards which cause incompatibilities as a 'bug' but rather end users sticking with service providers no matter how horrible they are at providing a service). It reminds me of the song from NZ by "Fred Dagg" called "We Don't Know How Lucky We Are" - it isn't until you've stepped out of the OS X world and dived head first into the Windows world when you realise just how bad the alternative is even after years of promises by Microsoft.

The timeline in FCPX is just horrible. They want you to do things their way. I was transitioning from FCP7 to Premiere in a few hours. FCPX is good to do like something very quick but the file management is absurd. The TV station I was working on switched to Premiere, the other company I always work with are switched to Premiere too, both dumped FCPX right away. And I have been asked to go to Premiere specially because the integration with the creative cloud and the rest of the Adobe suit. Apple did a horrible job in dumping FCP7 in the way they did. They will never going to regain a shadow of the market they had before.

From the sounds of things it appears your employers had standardised on Adobe already with a subscription service so it made little sense keeping Final Cut Pro X when you can standardise on a single software vendor. I don't blame them for that decision but lets not try to make out that your issues with 'time line' and 'file management' were the deciding factor when there are other issues at play. I too, if I was in the position of being 90% Adobe, to go full monty and have a complete end to end Adobe setup if for no other reason that is simplifies support, training, maintenance and other associated costs of keeping a studio afloat with the latest gear and software.