Ok. Yes that sucks. That’s why I never have auto update on. I always read here if it’s ok to update. Been burned too many times with shiny new updates that just break things.
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Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X for Apple Silicon Macs Ahead of M1 Launch
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Not at all, I would say overall it surpassed Premiere. In FCXP I can do nearly 95% of Premiere but in way more efficient way (performance and usability) and it isn't as hardware hungry as Adobe products. It's not an amateur tool anymore, a lot of pros use it since it's a good package. However Davinci still remains the king regarding color grading. But what does professional even mean.... would a hollywood production company work with FCXP? Absolutely not. But there is a broad variety of productions who work with it nowadays. And the guy doing a one day shoot for 3k or the video agency doing a commercial for 50k are professionals.... since they get paid for it.
In filmmaking it's not about the tools but rather what you are able to do with it, simple as that. If you suck at storytelling no editing tool will help you with it. Some might know the youtuber Daniel Schiffer (if not, you missed out big), amazing stuff he does. You wouldn't call him bad only because of using FCXP
FCXP and silicon will be a banger combination, excited for the future.
/edit but I can tell how you can spot a pro. The people in the other threads raging about the big sur update are probably not. Doesn't matter what you do (film, graphics, programming, dj (well not now, lol) etc.) but if you get paid to work with your system and rely on software you usually don't update on the first day, because then stuff like this happens...
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I bit the bullet and bought FC X last month, in part to edit dolby vision taken by my 12 pro on my xdr. I've made one video but otherwise barely played with it. It is a powerful tool, and its nice to have something getting active development at Apple.
FCPX bums me out. It's really just made for short web content videos at this point.
People will defend the hell of the organization tools but I was shocked it's just Spotlight. Spotlight isn't reliable.
Keywords instead of bins is bonkers.
If you're making a film about MLK, and have 500 photos of MLK, then keywords are worthless.
No easy manual save function to preserve different versions is a problem too.
And basic tasks like quitting the App can take 20 minutes saving a ballooning Library.
FCPX is like one healthy update away from being something special but they're playing.
People will defend the hell of the organization tools but I was shocked it's just Spotlight. Spotlight isn't reliable.
Keywords instead of bins is bonkers.
If you're making a film about MLK, and have 500 photos of MLK, then keywords are worthless.
No easy manual save function to preserve different versions is a problem too.
And basic tasks like quitting the App can take 20 minutes saving a ballooning Library.
FCPX is like one healthy update away from being something special but they're playing.
Oh man, trust me when I say I want to like it and use it. I do force myself, sometimes even risk it against just using After Effects for the couple of short shots... because when it works it’s so fast, it’s so great. However, if I want to do something too manual, not even Motion will save me... there’s some clunkiness always somewhere, especially if it is an after thought of an action (like wanting to change the frame rate or resolution of a compound-clip/project-timeline, extreme example but to convey the idea).
I don’t fight the magnetic timeline anymore... and that, damn, 👌
Not quite, there are some quite recent Hollywood movies edited on FCPX. There’s also a channel that shows actions/cuts/edits done on avid and the same done on FCPX on sample shots... most of them are mind blowing. Tons of clicks and gymnastics versus a couple of second of clever clicks and shortcuts.
I agree with your last quote... it’s so close to be something amazing.
Yet can’t even drag windows that freely, panels are always stuck to their predefined corner and two monitors max only... really.
Keywords: check the smart collection and the “one smart collection to rule them all” or similar video. Might help you a bit I think.
Manual save is just either duplicating or taking a project timeline snapshot... it’s a bit weird to have the thing ALWAYS saved (and have found undo to be finicky, looking at you mO2) so yeah, can agree.
I find that hard to believe with all the productions Apple now owns and creates.
Every single professional audio plugin I own, from Native Instruments and it's 3rd party OEMs, iZotope, Softube, Eventide, etc all say don't upgrade to Big Sur [it'll take several updates before it becomes viable]. This was the same with Catalina.
FWIW: Motion and Compressor always get updated with FCPX
Because many photographers using Macs preferred to use Photoshop, and Apple was also developing a Mac OS version of the Photos app like in their iOS devices that would basically be like iPhoto but with some more somewhat advanced editing/correction tools ala Aperature.
BTW, I've already got the updated Logic Pro X, Final Cut Pro X and Motion apps. I don't even mind the new icons, as they do seem to go better alongside my Adobe CC app icons on the dock! Probably won't be long now before I make my first YouTube Poop on FCP X 10.5.
So, I guess now we'll just have to wait for the first reviews to finally be sure whether or not there's a sound bug on the new Macs.
No more T2, so let's hope the glitch is gone too.
No more T2, so let's hope the glitch is gone too.
It's all nice to have all these HDR, HLG etc. support, but what about 10-bit video out?
I checked the Mac Book Pro's specs page, and its video out (via TB/USB-4) is stated as "millions of colors".
Previous Macs, with support for 10-bits, had a "billions of colors" output.
Zero info on the Mini's page, same as with the Intel version if I recall correctly, but I would assume it's exactly the same as the MBP.
Until there's a third-party solution compatible with the new OS/M1 (such as that small UltraStudio 3G from BlackMagic) how do you monitor/grade your videos in good conditions?
Hmm... I usually update the OS when the next version of Logic comes out... Don't think that'll be wise this time. Despite the 10.6, seems more like a point update than a full on new version. Maybe supporting the apple CPUs designates a new version. I'm still learning to get the most out of all the new 10.5 stuff anyways... that was just 6 months ago.
In which regard is FCPX faster? Not in Export and Playback. I use both, and Premiere is faster in Export and Playback. Did a lot of testing here.
I can only agree. I've been using FCPX from the beginning, but keep going back to Premiere every time. I find Keywords not really an Advancement. I can organise my work much better with folders in PP. You know, the moment when I absolutely go back to PP? When the waveforms keep disappearing during playback in FCPX. And I don't want to start with Compressor vs. Media Encoder and the speed of AME. I just hope PP gets optimised for Silicon soon.
Photoshop and Aperture are completely different tools. Apple Photos has nothing like Apertures flexibility or advanced capabilities.
Why answer if you don’t know what you’re talking about? An awful lot of professional photographers, like me, had aperture pulled from under them. It’s a massive shame because it was an excellent app.
What's the point? Most do not have monitors for viewing and correcting Dolby Vision. Even the XDR will not show it.no dolby vision editing
I don't think that part about Photoshop is true at all. Aperture was a completely different tool then Photoshop (that's why Adobe made Lightroom). And even though Photos added some Aperture-like features it's clear that Photos was never meant for the same pro/enthusiast market as Aperture was.
I don't have any firm numbers, but I believe at it's peak, before Apple started to neglect it, Aperture was actually wildly popular with photographers using Macs.