If apple would simply save the above settings as per project, it would solve 99% of their mm issues. When doing things your way it's great, until you forget to set up all the particulars. Then stuff gets scattered everywhere. Or worse, the next guy mixes his stuff with yours because they didn't bother to change the settings.
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If apple would simply save the above settings as per project, it would solve 99% of their mm issues. When doing things your way it's great, until you forget to set up all the particulars. Then stuff gets scattered everywhere. Or worse, the next guy mixes his stuff with yours because they didn't bother to change the settings.
OH DEAR GOD NO!!!! Yah let's just remove everything that makes Final Cut more intuitive than Avid.
No, I mean when you're in System Settings it should have a button you can click to apply the Scratch Disk, Waveform Cache, Thumbnail Cache, and Autosave Vault to ONE FOLDER instead of having to click "Set" for each one.
Actually, why can't FCP just be more like Avid....
If you like Avid so much then why don't you just use Media Composer? For the rest of us that like not needing to be in Trim mode just to move or delete a clip, we'll stay with our Final Cuts, thanks.
-Brian
And how often do you do this?
I do that once everytime I install it. I.e. get a new Mac Pro. I.e. about every two years. Considering the entire installation can take a few hours, what's the 10 seconds it takes to set the 6-7 scratch disk settings?
I'll admit I'm constantly doing this because I have 3 separate hard drives that I use for different projects, so having the option to set a scratch disk per project would be nice, but yes, it's all of 10 seconds. Big deal.
you've got to wonder sometimes...
I'm not burning BluRay, and still got plenty to learn about FCS2, which I think is pretty brilliant. Especially together with Shake. Although I AM excited about "Phenomenon" a.k.a. "Apple's Shake", but most of all I look forward to Aperture 3.0 - now that can do with some developer love. Ad Snow Leopard and multi-core glory to all sorts of things. ArenÄt all these soon-coming things exciting?!
Those improvements would certainly be awesome. I am wanting to burn Blu-Ray as I have 2 HDV camcorders and would love to add Blu-Ray authoring to my list of services. Final Cut is a beast to learn, and I'm still learning parts about it, but new features are always nice to have.
-Brian
With this upgrade I wonder if they will take the opportunity to shut the door on new Mac Mini & Macbook users who planned on using FCS for cheap editing stations (by building in a "do not install" for 9400M-only GPU systems.)
Excuse you? I'm running FCP 6.0.4 on a Rev. 1 17" MBP, and have been for the past 2 1/2 years. Right now I'm working on a 4-camera Multicammed project off of an eSATA drive via eSATA ExpressCard. I can watch it all in full-quality and real time. Even Motion works pretty well. Sure it's no Mac Pro, but I got a laptop knowing full well it's strength and shortcomings.
-Brian
Many editors I know swear by TeleStream's Episode now. They say it's fast, scalable, and has plenty of presets and custom controls for everyone. Sounds like Apple needs to make Compressor into a new Episode.
-Brian
I've used Episode. It's not bad. The deinterlacing algorithms are pretty good, but they do give you a significant quality hit. If they can address that, then it's great. They have a good number of options without making it needlessly complicated. I use it for bigger projects, but smaller encodes usually go through FFMPEG.
Too late to ask for new features... but here goes!
I'm hoping the new version will have upgraded all templates to 1080p. There is simply no reason to keep SD media. You can always down-res but going the other way is rarely acceptable.
Some simple 3D capability in Motion would be killer. It doesn't need to be a full CGI workstation. But allowing lights to cast shadows and automate reflections, allowing text and objects to interact in a true 3D environment with apparent thickness, not just a simulation... Being able to curve media.... that would be a great value.
Very interested in the the "Puppet" feature in After Effects.
A version of Premiere's transcription feature that actually works and is editable and exportable would be awesome.
The ability to deal with (or at least transcode and then deal with) MPG and MP3s is long over due. How strange that one has to harness the FREE iTunes and MPEGstreamclip apps to prepare media for a $1000+ application.
Of course, any improvement in the way the apps work together would be appreciated. I can't make Soundtrack work as advertised, the Motion roundtrip is often buggy without workarounds (like exporting to a QT movie) and the Color workflow is a space hog and counterintuitive. (How great would it be if the Color grades could be turned on and off like filters directly in the FCP viewer and only rendered upon export?)
Blue Ray? sure... why not... I use toast when it comes up... but it almost never does. DVDs are still ubiquitous and no client of mine has yet asked for a BR delivery or archive. Apple is a member of the Blue-Ray consortium but they haven't shown any interest in the format. They might know something we don't.
Fingers crossed for April.
I'm hoping the new version will have upgraded all templates to 1080p. There is simply no reason to keep SD media. You can always down-res but going the other way is rarely acceptable.
Some simple 3D capability in Motion would be killer. It doesn't need to be a full CGI workstation. But allowing lights to cast shadows and automate reflections, allowing text and objects to interact in a true 3D environment with apparent thickness, not just a simulation... Being able to curve media.... that would be a great value.
Very interested in the the "Puppet" feature in After Effects.
A version of Premiere's transcription feature that actually works and is editable and exportable would be awesome.
The ability to deal with (or at least transcode and then deal with) MPG and MP3s is long over due. How strange that one has to harness the FREE iTunes and MPEGstreamclip apps to prepare media for a $1000+ application.
Of course, any improvement in the way the apps work together would be appreciated. I can't make Soundtrack work as advertised, the Motion roundtrip is often buggy without workarounds (like exporting to a QT movie) and the Color workflow is a space hog and counterintuitive. (How great would it be if the Color grades could be turned on and off like filters directly in the FCP viewer and only rendered upon export?)
Blue Ray? sure... why not... I use toast when it comes up... but it almost never does. DVDs are still ubiquitous and no client of mine has yet asked for a BR delivery or archive. Apple is a member of the Blue-Ray consortium but they haven't shown any interest in the format. They might know something we don't.
Fingers crossed for April.
FCP new version
FInalCut Studio really needs an upgrade, I would think of:
Blu Ray authoring
Motion and Shake integration with advanced Fx's
Soundtrack and Logic better integration
Maybe a new bundled 3D software -Modo like- tool?
Compressor needs better render times using all cores
Color should work as a standalone solution (if possible)
DVDstudio pro NEEDS pro subtitling tools and DTS audio compression
I think also that this new version would need Snow Leopard and would eat lots of RAM. I've heard a couple of years ago that a FinalCut Extreme version was in it's works, How about 3 FinalCut flavors: extreme, pro and express??
AppleInsider reports that Apple is planning to release an update to their Final Cut Studio professional video editing package in late April, around the time of the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas.
Apple had been a regular participant at NAB, announcing a number of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Studio releases there, put pulled out of the 2008 conference as part of their continuing shift away from trade shows and conferences.
Previous reports had pointed to a possible Final Cut Studio update at a rumored March 24th media event that had initially surfaced as a possibility for hardware releases. With the introduction of new iMacs, Mac minis and Mac Pros on March 3rd and yesterday's announcement of an iPhone OS 3.0 media event on March 17th, a March 24th event is looking increasingly unlikely.
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FInalCut Studio really needs an upgrade, I would think of:
Blu Ray authoring
Motion and Shake integration with advanced Fx's
Soundtrack and Logic better integration
Maybe a new bundled 3D software -Modo like- tool?
Compressor needs better render times using all cores
Color should work as a standalone solution (if possible)
DVDstudio pro NEEDS pro subtitling tools and DTS audio compression
I think also that this new version would need Snow Leopard and would eat lots of RAM. I've heard a couple of years ago that a FinalCut Extreme version was in it's works, How about 3 FinalCut flavors: extreme, pro and express??
I'm still learning FCS2, I'm glad they still care for the pro apps, I thought Apple just made phone software
Didn't you know ... the new final cut software will only make movies/video to be watched on a mac/
tv/iPhone. You can then put it on the iTunes store as long as its in SD.But seriously maybe this will include some blue ray support?
Fwiw and probably not true. Iet this guybwho said last year, FCP looked a lot like iMovie but still very deep. Hmmmmm
Collective Opinion AND First Hand Experience
Before you make a broad statement like that about "collective opinion" maybe you should support your findings....
How in the world could you ever put Final Cut BEFORE Avid Media Composer on your "hierarchy?" Final Cut can't even make accurate EDLs and cut lists. Not until v6.0 was FCP able to make OMFs for Pro Tools without having to run it through Automatic Duck!
Just because Avid Media Composer might be a little more difficult to learn for the film school kids used to their drag-and-drop mentality of FCP and because it forces you to think like a film editor, doesn't mean it's a worse NLE than FCP.
Before you make a broad statement like that about "collective opinion" maybe you should support your findings....
How in the world could you ever put Final Cut BEFORE Avid Media Composer on your "hierarchy?" Final Cut can't even make accurate EDLs and cut lists. Not until v6.0 was FCP able to make OMFs for Pro Tools without having to run it through Automatic Duck!
Just because Avid Media Composer might be a little more difficult to learn for the film school kids used to their drag-and-drop mentality of FCP and because it forces you to think like a film editor, doesn't mean it's a worse NLE than FCP.
It's needed. Waiting any longer would mean killing the Mac platform for professional video editing. But even if they update, I really hope it will be a good update. Not like the DVD Studio Pro remaining the same from FCS1 to FCS2.
You obviously don't know how to move or delete a clip in Avid then....
I DO use Media Composer. But I also use FCP. It depends on the project. For the time being, I would NEVER consider cutting or assisting on a feature film shot on 3 and 4 perf 35 and S-35mm film on FCP. There's too many inherent problems with FCP's media management, metadata tracking, and EDLs and cutlists to use it for something of that caliber of a project.
However, FCP shines on easy imports and easy exports. When you need to do a quick project that needed to get done yesterday, it exceeds all expectations. The difference essentially is in the project. Would I use FCP to do a feature film? NO. Would I use FCP to cut music videos, industrial videos, and some docs, YES.
I'm not trying to be out here on this forum hating on FCP. I've been a FCP user for 10 years. However, I've just been waiting for a really long time (I learned FCP before I learned Avid) to have professional features be put into FCP and with every release FCP continues to disappoint. When are they going to stop making minor upgrades that only fix support for HDV formats and minor (under-the-hood) tweaks, and really give us an intuitive editor that takes the best of FCP and the reliability of Avid into one NLE?
THENthey would have much more of the professional industry in their grasp.
Native AVC-HD editing would be nice so no transcoding has to take place.
The interface needs a facelift as well.
Also, Final Cut's "Open Timeline" is no where on par with Avid's.
I agree with the Avid comments above. Final Cut can really infringe on Avid if they can get their Media Management a little more stable. That seems to be the biggest complaint from feature film editors.
The interface needs a facelift as well.
Also, Final Cut's "Open Timeline" is no where on par with Avid's.
I agree with the Avid comments above. Final Cut can really infringe on Avid if they can get their Media Management a little more stable. That seems to be the biggest complaint from feature film editors.
I'm really surprised to hear all the talk of Premiere on this thread. I'm not saying that my experience is universal, but I don't know a single editor using it. I work with about two dozen productions per year, and all but two (on Avid) are on FCP. All three studios that I'm friendly with have FCP and Avid.
I'm not saying it's not a good program, but just that in my experience it isn't being used professionally.
The user base of FCP editors is huge. Any studio can easily pull in a freelancer to work on a project if they're running FCP. Avid, smaller base, but generally more professional freelancers. Premiere? Honestly no idea because I've never heard of it happening.
I have CS4 which I use daily for Photoshop and After Effects, maybe I'll have to launch Premiere and check it out.
I'm not saying it's not a good program, but just that in my experience it isn't being used professionally.
The user base of FCP editors is huge. Any studio can easily pull in a freelancer to work on a project if they're running FCP. Avid, smaller base, but generally more professional freelancers. Premiere? Honestly no idea because I've never heard of it happening.
I have CS4 which I use daily for Photoshop and After Effects, maybe I'll have to launch Premiere and check it out.
There is no Shake rewrite. More Shake code will probably appear in FCP and/or Motion, but the odds of Apple making a true successor to Shake, a true competitor to Nuke, from the ground up are between slim and none on a good day.
That's what people are doing, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't work out better if Apple offered up a more elegant solution.
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