ok. The challenge is that I like to take the files off the HD or SD card until it's editing time. I guess I could re-create the same structure then import? If there's a proper (and better) way, I'm all for it.
Thanks,
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Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X to Version 10.0.4, Motion to 5.0.3
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ok. The challenge is that I like to take the files off the HD or SD card until it's editing time. I guess I could re-create the same structure then import? If there's a proper (and better) way, I'm all for it.
Thanks,
Keebler
I'm hoping Logic Pro X will be announced at NAB next Tuesday, exactly how FCPX was announced the Tuesday of NAB 2011 last year.
Oh really? So no "real" professional would ever claim to use a free or under $50 dollar app to fix a simple edit? Hey I could have just opened up FCP/PPro/MC to do this edit but my elitist attitude kinda took a break
Compressor 4.0.3 is out too. New 1080p option!
It looks like the PR department didn't see these notes; since when has Apple referred to a display as a "monitor"?
It looks like the PR department didn't see these notes; since when has Apple referred to a display as a "monitor"?
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FCP X is maturing. One year from now some Adobe switchers and FCP X cursers may want to eat their words of cursing FCP X.
PS: Eating words has still zero calories but will reduce your feeling wrong weight.
PS2: I'm always astonished how many people feel more important if they are using more expensive apps or equipment. This is not the point. Actually, using the least necessary equipment is actually a good sign of someone who has serious control over what he's doing.
PS: Eating words has still zero calories but will reduce your feeling wrong weight.
PS2: I'm always astonished how many people feel more important if they are using more expensive apps or equipment. This is not the point. Actually, using the least necessary equipment is actually a good sign of someone who has serious control over what he's doing.
I'm not replying to your post to pat myself on the back. I just want to pass on my experiences to others that it doesn't matter what you use its how you use it. Then add the fact that you don't treat the craft the way people have been acting up with their incessant abuse of buying the most expensive set of golf clubs just to feel they can be the best golfer out there.
Hey I can tell you folks here at Mac User that at work I have the most spoiled position in my company. I get to buy the most expensive tools like a RED camera to shoot training videos. I get all options I want anytime I need it, but that doesnt make me any better than someone on a laptop using Sony Vegas and shooting with a Rebel DSLR. Anyone can do great work with or without the best possible tools.
A lot of few folks out there have proven that over the years.
So, so true. The best 'tool' is the mind of the creator, everything else is secondary.
I saw a brilliant short film, shot and edited on an iPhone by Marco Torres. Hardly video pro equipment, but certainly a pro product.
This!!!
Its one thing to have all the fancy toys, its another to have an optimized workflow to actually get stuff done.
Yes, Make a folder called "Card 1" copy whats on the card exactly as it is, put it on your hard drive and when you tell final cut the location of the card you point to that folder. Final cut will see the File Structure like it would be on the card and start importing.
Ignorant
The people who make negative comments about iMovie or FCPX don't know how to use them, they are ignorant and petty.
iMovie is hands down the best consumer movie app, period!
FCPX is still a pro app, very easy & powerful to use. I personally sat down to self learn FCP7. I found it confusing and unintuitive. Since FCPX was going to launch 4 months from the time I started working with FCP7 I decided to wait for FCPX before Learning a pro movie app. I didn't know what to expect, but when I sat down with FCPX I was already green screening & editing within 30 minutes a feat unattainable in FCP7.
So! I say to you nay-sayers... Get off your lazy, stubborn nerd a$$ and give it a try!
The people who make negative comments about iMovie or FCPX don't know how to use them, they are ignorant and petty.
iMovie is hands down the best consumer movie app, period!
FCPX is still a pro app, very easy & powerful to use. I personally sat down to self learn FCP7. I found it confusing and unintuitive. Since FCPX was going to launch 4 months from the time I started working with FCP7 I decided to wait for FCPX before Learning a pro movie app. I didn't know what to expect, but when I sat down with FCPX I was already green screening & editing within 30 minutes a feat unattainable in FCP7.
So! I say to you nay-sayers... Get off your lazy, stubborn nerd a$$ and give it a try!
Why? Proof? iMovie was the test bed, nothing more. Stick with FCP7 for another 6 -12 months but try to learn FCPX on the side. I'm pretty confident that FCPX will have most of what the pros are asking for feature-wise but with the new interface.
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The people who make negative comments about iMovie or FCPX don't know how to use them, they are ignorant and petty.
iMovie is hands down the best consumer movie app, period!
FCPX is still a pro app, very easy & powerful to use. I personally sat down to self learn FCP7. I found it confusing and unintuitive. Since FCPX was going to launch 4 months from the time I started working with FCP7 I decided to wait for FCPX before Learning a pro movie app. I didn't know what to expect, but when I sat down with FCPX I was already green screening & editing within 30 minutes a feat unattainable in FCP7.
So! I say to you nay-sayers... Get off your lazy, stubborn nerd a$$ and give it a try!
A little harsh. If my life income was tied up in FCP7 editing and Apple introduced this totally new thing I would have to learn, then took my tried and true out of their stores, I would freak too.
However, like you I believe they need to try it and learn it. The time will come when the features will be there. So many have been added since 10.0.0
For me, the updates make FCP X and Motion noticeably more snappy. There is reduced lag while scrolling throughout timelines, and background tasks don't seem to impact editing performance as much. In addition, it looks like the annoying motion bug where it would freeze after hitting play after quickly moving the playhead is squashed.
Thanks for posting your experiences. I thought I could update today but in the middle of a project that will need to get to a client running 10.0.3.
Most folks I know don't upgrade during crunch time.
Hm. I think we had Motion back when we had FCS, but I was never involved with that side of our art dept, and really have no familiarity with it.
I am looking for software which will allow me personally to storyboard & animate some raster and vector graphics... In the past I'd just use Flash. But looking at the product page for Motion, it looks like it might be able to do a decent job of that, or it might be more specifically tailored to text work... hard to tell.
Anyone use Motion or FCPX for 2d animation? ...or am I looking at the wrong product...
I am looking for software which will allow me personally to storyboard & animate some raster and vector graphics... In the past I'd just use Flash. But looking at the product page for Motion, it looks like it might be able to do a decent job of that, or it might be more specifically tailored to text work... hard to tell.
Anyone use Motion or FCPX for 2d animation? ...or am I looking at the wrong product...
In principle I agree but in reality (especially a professional reality) the tools can make a difference when you are on the clock, on a budget and your competition has a comparable skill set.
I mean, Michael Phelps can jump into a pool in street clothes and out swim me no matter what high-tech suit I wear, but put him in a pool full of competition during a meet and everything from body hair to suit design can shape the outcome.
I liken gear to shoes... You *could* run a marathon in high heels but why would you want to, especially if you were aiming for first place?
Lethal
Lol the iTunes logo
The update makes FCP X render a lot faster (I noticed) taking greater advantage of hyperthreading. Also when you make adjustments to the timeline it displays the amount changed in frames/seconds next to the total duration of the clip being trimmed.
Basically until they bring back the viewer so an editor can do actual precise 3-point editing they can continue to see their sales on this plummet...of course I almost wonder if that was the objective in the first place. Machine/tape control is still critically important as footage from the last 70+ years is still mostly on some kind of tape/physical format.
This makes me jump all over the place screaming "Thank God(s)!"
Somebody finally gets it.
Look at what happened with the film industry with DSLRs.
Knapsack theory always constrained video cameras in the past.
5d2 showed everything is possible in a package smaller than you could have ever imagined.
And people complain.
Mostly that nobody takes them seriously, because they don't have 8 ******s pushing a person/camera/loading film/10million watt HMIs/etc etc.
It doesn't "look" professional.
Idiots.
Surely it has nothing to do with your incredible lack of understanding of visual storytelling.
Still hesitating to buy X... Most rumors originally slated multi-cam editing to be in the next "major" release. We saw how that turned out.
I've dropped nearly $1k into Final Cut. Not about to splurge on an edition that will hemorrhage money upon the appearance of the next "major" update.
CS6 could be huge. I expect FCP XI to become even more intuitive (or, as some put it, unprofessional =).
Regardless, before I update, I'll need the appropriate hardware.
NEW Mac Pro...
Or at least a tricked out Ivy MBP.
Consider: the proposed superspeed video encoding/not as fast, but higher quality setting built into Ivy, the video utilities (programs) that utilize this function will prosper, as the others wither.
Thanks for this. I was wondering why Software Update wasn't giving me FCPX 10.0.4 -- that's also via the App Store only.
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A REAL pro does not care if the UI looks like iMovie or whatever - a real pro just dig in and see if the tool can do the job.
FCPX is - in principe - genious and it's the future we are looking at. When FCPX supports pro-cards like for example Blackmagic Decklink - it's all pro for me (it doesn't today). If you don't use external video cards - maybe you produce right on for only the web (a new big and growing pro sector) - FCPX is already 100% pro for you.
But - like always with Apple (remember for example Aperture release) - FCPX is a software that needs next years monster Mac to really run like a pro :-D. It's just a little too much pro :-D to run on todays MacBook Pro's. I refuse to run it on anything accept my monster MacPro. MBP's you can buy year 2013 - maybe 2014 - will run FCPX smooth. FCPX is very very much The Future :-D. It needs next generation monster graphic cards and SSD's (in RAID if you really want to swing).
My five cents.
FCPX is - in principe - genious and it's the future we are looking at. When FCPX supports pro-cards like for example Blackmagic Decklink - it's all pro for me (it doesn't today). If you don't use external video cards - maybe you produce right on for only the web (a new big and growing pro sector) - FCPX is already 100% pro for you.
But - like always with Apple (remember for example Aperture release) - FCPX is a software that needs next years monster Mac to really run like a pro :-D. It's just a little too much pro :-D to run on todays MacBook Pro's. I refuse to run it on anything accept my monster MacPro. MBP's you can buy year 2013 - maybe 2014 - will run FCPX smooth. FCPX is very very much The Future :-D. It needs next generation monster graphic cards and SSD's (in RAID if you really want to swing).
My five cents.