final BUG for Final Cut & Co
Not exactly FCP X related.
But sometimes it is interesting to see what is going on in parallel universes ;-)
Food for thought what with Apple reinventing the wheel with FCP X!
Talks a lot about ideas. And much more!
Creators need immediate connection to what they are creating
Talks about ideas not getting out there
Because the tools are not helpful.
Technologist and a vision of a better world through invention.
http://vimeo.com/36579366#embed
Tags: FCP X, Apple, Vision
So it is just a crazy experiment but why not.
Having used a steenbeck many years ago this somehow seems to make sense.
Anything that makes editing more tactile has to be good.
Sure this has a long way to go and is certainly as of now not financially viable but time will tell.
We reported about stuff like this 3 years ago!
http://finalbug.net/entry/low-cost-multi-touch-whiteboard-using-the-wiimote
Before taking the FCP X plunge it is a good idea to check and see if FCP X will ingest material from your camera.
Here is a list of Cameras that are currently supported!
http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/cameras/en/index.html
Up until very recently Cannon Cameras such as the EOS C300 were not supported!
Now there are 2 options out there
A third party solution
http://pika.dk/?p=406
From their site :
"So, is this the Holy Grail? The ultimate tool? Nope. Does it work? Absolutely yes. And it’s fast as well. Oh, and did I mention, NO transcoding. Basically, I am rewrapping the original mpeg2 stream in a .mov container that FCPX will play nice with – after which you can have FCPX transcode it if needed. But you have your original yuv422p/50Mbps footage going straight into the belly of FCPX – yummy yummy ;-) It’s all possible only due to the brilliant work of the guys doing the whole FFmpeg open source project. So yeah, don’t thank me – thank them… they did the hard work; my little utility is simply wrapping it in a nice UI that will enable it to be used in a decent workflow for us happy XF100 owners ;-)"
And a solution from Cannon
Note the Cannon solution is for Lion only although there is a workaround to get it to work on Leopard.
http://fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/4380-canon-mxf-import-plugin-is-finally-available#4381
Storage is the last post frontier in a sense because if you think of the big players they will spend significantly more on there storage than o the editing software as such.
Imagine 10 mac mini lined up all digesting material simultaneously for a film and then editing. This was possible with FCP 7.
One of the mission critical question now is how committed is Apple to getting shared network workflows like this work with FCP X. Because imagine that you had 100 or even 1000 edit systems. The whole sharing thing becomes more and more interesting.
White paper: http://images.apple.com/finalcutpro/docs/Final_Cut_Pro_X_Xsan_Best_Practices.pdf
More over at Xsanity
http://www.xsanity.com/article.php/2012021022090515
Note : This white paper relates to feature that were introduced to FCP 1.0.1.
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The Motion Template Tool allows to install custom Motion Templates for FCPX in an easy way. This tool is helpful for both developers and users. It provides a simple hassle free way to install custom templates, change some installation settings and make backups of the template installations.
One also can create disk images for backup and/or distribution. The Motion Template Tool is free of charge as long as you use it for distribution of free Motion Templates or for backup purposes. A donation though is appreciated. You freely can distribute or host the installer disk image for free Motion Templates as long the license agreement is supplied and the application is not modified.
To learn about the app you can download the manual here: Manual
To get the package: Installer.dmg LINK BROKEN!
Have fun - Andreas Some workflow tools for FCP [www.spherico.com] TitleExchange -- juggle titles within FCS, FCPX and many other apps. [www.spherico.com] Motion Template Tool -- makes installing and distribution for Motion Templates for FCPX easy for free. [www.spherico.com]
Tags: Spherico, Template, Motion
Big-screen moviemaking comes to the touchscreen with Avid® Studio for iPad. We’ve distilled the world’s leading film-editing technology into an easy-to-use app that enables you to edit video, audio, and photos at the speed of your creativity.
Swiftly arrange your clips in the Storyboard, make precision edits using the Timeline, and add high-quality transitions, effects, and a soundtrack. Then share your movie directly to YouTube, Facebook, and more—or export your project to Avid Studio for the PC and continue editing with even more advanced tools.
Easily Access Your Media
- Work with any media on your device—video, audio, and photos
- Access media from external devices via an iPad Camera Connection Kit (sold separately)
- Capture video and photos from within the app
- See your media organized by Albums, Events, Faces, and more
Edit
- Get started quickly with how-to materials
- Easily navigate your project with intuitive gestures
- Swiftly arrange clips in the Storyboard
- Make precise edits and trim individual frames in the Precision Trimmer
- Use the Razor Blade tool to cut on the fly and delete or replace the second half of the clip
- Easily replace one clip with another
Enhance
- Quickly create multi-layer 3D animations, transitions, and titles with included Montage templates
- Easily composite video tracks to create layered looks
- Add high-quality fades and dissolves to help your story flow
- Generate professional-looking motion titles and graphics with full control over text, font, color, size, position, and rotation
- Create amazing Picture-in-Picture effects with full control over position, size, and rotation
- Pan and zoom on your photos to create high-impact slideshows
- Enjoy full-screen playback
Create Soundtracks
- Use your own audio or choose from the included sound effects
- Trim audio to any length, set levels, and fade audio in or out
Share
- Easily share movies via YouTube, Facebook, email, and more
- Export projects to Avid Studio for the PC
Pro Technology, Pro Results
- Created by Avid, the maker of the world’s leading film and music editing technology
- Easy enough for the hobbyist, powerful enough for the pro
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/avid-studio/id491113378?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
The technology is here and the time has come with Avid Studio for the iPad. Avid Studio is the consumer program that Avid inherited when it purchased Pinnacle Systems. Of course they have updated it. But it is still not Media Composer.
Lets hope for the sake of the industry that Avid can hang in there. They need to make a profit sooner rather than later!
FCP Reality Check 10.0.3
A lot has changed with the recent developments in the Final Cut World.
Most of the initial complaints of the "professionals" have been addressed.
There are solutions out there for moving to other applications, See Import/Export possibilities.
http://finalbug.net/entry/fcp-x-import--export-possibilities
The video monitoring thing is being nailed.
Broadcast monitoring in Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 is currently in beta and allows you to connect to waveform displays, vector scopes, and calibrated, high-quality monitors to ensure that your project meets broadcast specifications.
Supports monitoring of video and audio through Thunderbolt I/O devices, as well as through third party PCIe cards.
Multicam is back. Lets face it multicam in FCP 7 was a disaster so this looks a lot easier.
And just in case you couldn´t live without it you can finally relink your media and get this even if you changed the name!
The are pluraleyes like sound capabilities built in. Enabling editors to get sound sync automatically.
http://www.singularsoftware.com/pluraleyes.html
The latest version of Motion has apparently amongst other things improved drop zones. That might clear a couple of headaches up.
Major hard and software companies are offering solutions.
AJA with their broadcast monitoring ioXT.
http://www.aja.com/support/io/io-xt.php
And sapphire and Magic Bullet with there plugins.
http://www.genarts.com/software/sapphire-edge/final-cut
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/news/press-releases/item/105/
See Also
http://nattress.com/?q=LevelsCurves
http://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory/
Note that the above AJA ioXT, Sapphire and Magic Bullet plugins require FCP X 10.0.3.
Lets not forget there were a couple of night mare scenarios in the pre FCP X world. 2 Scenarios with 12 Core Kick Ass System.
Trying to edit h264 in final cut 7. What do you mean you have to render it to play it. We just watched it!
Encode your HD master Piece to an h264. watch one of your 12 Core fire up into action whilst the other 11 well do absolutely nothing.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/top-features/
Advantages of FCP X
01 : Can edit whilst ingesting
02 : Sync automatically with pluarleyes or similar
03 : Flick a switch to work on or off line
04 : Data base with keywords. The rabbit hole is as deep as you want it to be
05 : There is a project library overview, visualize what is going on inside them.
06 : Effects work in real time.
07 : No render Bar
08 : Easy integration with Motion and Compressor.
09 : Monitor to professional video gear (BETA early reports suggest very beta.)
10 : Round trip to favorite video applications
11 : Export using all processors!
12 : And yes you can now reconnect your material just like in FCP 7
What is the road map? We have no idea.
A reasonable guess would be a new update (i.e. 1.0.4 within 90 days!
Open questions how active are apple going to be in the development of FCP X
and how much are they going to leave open to 3rd party developers...
One point of view would e Apple did for FCP 7 to FCP X, what it did when transitioning from OS 9 to OS X. It was a painful process taking many years to put back useful features. Eventually the competition will have to do the same. They are the ones falling backward!
further reading
http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/ssimmons/story/100_final_cut_pro_x_questions_answered/
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/troubleshooting_fcp_x_03_taylor.html
Using Shared Media with Final Cut Pro X ;-)
http://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2011/09/using_shared_media_with_final_cut_pro_x.php
For the ultimate list for what is needed see this forum post!
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/26148#26148
Tags: OS X, OS 9, Magic Bullet, Saphire, Multicam, AJA, FCP X
You can now use Io XT and the latest AJA KONA cards, including KONA 3G, with Final Cut Pro X. Download the new AJA “10.2 X Beta” drivers to take advantage of the beta broadcast monitoring feature available in Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3. For more information on the use of Final Cut Pro X with AJA products, download this document.
Tags: AJA, beta
Color sets the mood of your story, from the gritty blue of an action scene to a hot red romance, and Magic Bullet Looks 2 redefines how you design with color. Looks 2 keeps the heart and soul of Looks 1 while upgrading to a more sophisticated interface, streamlined tools, and presets that meet your production needs.
• Works with Final Cut Pro 6, 7, and X
• One-year subscription to FX Central for additional preset downloads
• Looks 2 for Final Cut Pro X and Magic Bullet Suite 11.2
Magic Bullet Looks 2 for Final Cut Pro X is available as part of Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Suite 11.2 and extends a powerful, flexible and accessible feature set to a new audience of editors with support for Final Cut Pro X. It includes:
• A professionally designed and modernized user interface;
• 64 new and updated presets designed by professional colorists and designers;
• New scopes, including Hue/Lightness, Skin Scope, Hue/Saturation and Memory Colors;
• Six new tools including the Colorista II 3-Way, Ranged HSL and Pop, bringing the power of Colorista II right into Looks. New tools like Cosmo, Haze Flare and Lens Distortion open up users’ creative possibilities;
• Improved speed, size and resolution for better handling of large file formats and more efficient rendering;
• The ability to share looks with other Looks 2 users in After Effects, Final Cut Pro 7, Final Cut Pro X, Premiere Pro, Motion and Avid Media Composer.
Pricing and Availability
Magic Bullet Looks 2 for Final Cut Pro X is available immediately and is priced at $399 USD for new customers, and is available as a free upgrade for existing Looks 2 customers. Magic Bullet Suite 11.2 including Looks 2 for Final Cut Pro X is also available immediately and is priced at $799.00 USD for new customers.
As a special promotion for new customers, Magic Bullet Looks 2 for Final Cut Pro X will be available for at a 50% discount until February 7, 2012.
Magic Bullet Suite includes the new software updater, Red Giant Link, which keeps customers connected to Red Giant. Similar to the Apple Updater, Link is a small automated program that detects if Magic Bullet products are installed. Link will notify users of important free compatibility or bug updates, and whether there is a new feature-rich paid upgrade available.
For more information or to purchase Magic Bullet Looks for Final Cut Pro X,
please visit http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-looks/
Half price for 7 days! Or free upgrade for retutning customers.
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-looks/updates/#tabs
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This update improves overall stability and performance including:
• Improved speed and responsiveness of text editing
• Ability to automatically add animation keyframes when recording is disabled
• Keyboard shortcut for re-positioning animation curves or paths
• Ability to adjust the pan and scale of an image in a drop zone
• Enhanced look of the Keyframe editor for easier keyframe viewing and editing
The update is recommended for all users of Motion 5
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/motion/id434290957?mt=12&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
New FCP X update.
We are now at 10.0.3:
Multicam with up to 64 tracks of Video or photos.
Mix and match your formats as you like
Beta broadcast output with AJA, black magic, Matrox and Co.
Broadcast monitoring in Final Cut Pro X is currently in beta and allows you to connect to waveform displays, vectorscopes, and calibrated, high-quality monitors to ensure that your project meets broadcast specifications.
Supports monitoring of video and audio through Thunderbolt I/O devices, as well as through third party PCIe cards.
Media relinking. Users can now manually reconnect new media to projects and events
XML 1.1 support. Users can now import and export color adjustments and audio waveform key frames
Support for layered Photoshop files, a feature that was in Motion and is now built in to Final Cut.
Artist from all around the world. Speculating about where the creative industry is going. Any body can do anything. You just get the equipment and do something! Democratization of the industry. Craft has gone! Flash, graphic, Boom. Could this be the end of a cultural economy as such? Or a broader perspective would be that in 20 years this will all look very cute. Being like back then when mobile phones came out. Like when mobile phones came out. All very thought provoking.
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Walter Murch : Takes a very holistic approach to Final Cut X.
Putting things in perspective. Suggesting that Apple are looking ahead a decade!
Looking at a mushrooming of their editing systems in a vast consumer/prosumer market.
On the back end of an iPod, iPhone, iPad explosion.
Never change a running system is the old adage.
Professionals are reluctant to leave their comfortable chairs and go back to the drawing board.
And why should they every thing works kind of perfectly fine.
Love the editor as a concert pianist analogy.
As always horses for courses.
Apple has simply provided the foundation.
It will be interesting to see what the 3rd party developers continue to contribute.
Avid Media Composer 6 is Out.
Avid have joined the 64 bit Club with there newest version of Media Composer. Obviously Adobe and more recently Apple are already in the Club. For a fascinating account of the road to 64 bit read Philip Hodgetts Blog here.
Somehow it is weird seeing price tags running into the thousands of Euros for editing software. Pricing starts at $2499 USD. Upgrade pricing starts at $299 USD. There is a whole generation of editors who are used to paying sub 1,000€ prices! The upgrade price will undoubtedly make existing customers happy. But how many people are Avid going to win over with pricing like that. There are very decent alternatives out there. Some of them such as Lightworks are even free!
MC 6 will be out on November 15th and not only looks radically different, it should also have a lot of changes going on under the bonnet. MC 6 page is here.
Details of What is new follow....
Get better performance and speed to handle complex editing, now that Media Composer is a 64-bit app (Still need 32-bit? Learn more about Media Composer 5.5)
Work with the Avid or third-party hardware you want—with Avid Open I/O, third-party manufacturers can now make their I/O hardware work with Media Composer
Manage and edit stereoscopic 3D projects with a comprehensive set of editorial tools and workflows
Take hands-on control of all color correction and grading functions with Artist Color (watch the video)
Create 5.1 and 7.1 surround mixes directly within Media Composer, or import from Pro Tools Work more creatively with audio with new mixer features and support for additional Pro Tools hardware
Work more easily and efficiently—but not differently—with the sleek and sexy new user interface
Get full native ProRes support on Mac (encode and decode) and Windows (decode only) for easy integration into any ProRes workflow
Instantly access, screen, and edit AVCHD clips and RED EPIC footage through AMA
Accelerate your RGB 4:4:4 workflow with Avid DNxHD 444, which delivers exceptional image quality in a low bandwidth format
Conveniently purchase stock footage, plug-ins, and more through the Avid Marketplace
Get direct access to user guides and documentation from within the interface
Access additional ancillary data when working with XDCAM HD material
Work more easily with animated effects with many keyframe editor improvements Get Avid FX (Boris RED), Avid DVD, and Sorenson Squeeze in all versions of the software Manage multiple licenses more easily with unified licensing.
Tags: AVID MC6, Pro Res, Lightworks, Avid
Walter Murch talking about every thing from meta to rats and rectangles!
Well worth sticking it out to the end. Is a long clip....
Also mentions FInal Cut X and jokes that Apple like us but don not love us!
For Chris Portal´s excellent summary of what was said in Boston go here.
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We are back at the ADK in TIERGARTEN in the "Club Raum"
http://www.adk.de/de/orientierung/
The ADK has been renovated and should look better than ever.
Hopefully this time round the meeting will not be interrupted by the fire alarm going off :-o
Paul Murray will be continue looking at FCP X
Tackling the following topics
1) Back ground information for FCP X and progress with respect to third party developers (See Previous Post on Blog)
2) Another Look at some of the functionality from FCP X
3) Professor Paul Paulson will be continuing his voyage into the world of Film Theory
4) Uwe Ziegenhagen will also be presenting a couple of highlight from the ADK archive!
If you have never been to one of our meetings. Please feel very welcome.
You can find us out back in the Club Room.
Ask at reception for the Berlin Final Cut User group.
As usual if you turn up you will get a raffle ticket for our end of year AJA draw!
If your not in you can not win!
Meet people who know more than you, network and drink beer!!!
final BUG Meeting : 02:11:2011 : Back @ ADK TIERGARTEN
from 1800 hours onwards
Akademie der Künste,
Out back in the "Club Raum"
Hanseatenweg 10,
10557 Berlin-TIERGARTEN
As regular readers of this Blog will know one of the major problem with FCP X to date has been that it is or rather was a Closed Eco System. This has however all changed in the course of the last month.
A) Final Cut X to Final Cut 7
This is a project form Intelligent Assistance and allows for the conversion of Final Cut X Projects to Final Cut 7 Sequences. After going to FCP 7 then obviously the standard export from FCP 7 also come into play eg Color, Shake and other EOL products ;-)
http://assistedediting.intelligentassistance.com/ProjectXto7/
Translating from one program to another will be never perfect but as of now the following is working with X27
Titles at the start and end;
a mixture of primary story line and connected clips;
a mix of active and inactive clips;
large numbers of J and L cuts;
to-do markers and regular markers;
spot audio effects; and
cross-dissolve transitions
Project X27 costs 49$
B) Final Cut X to After Effects
So you want to get to After Effects from FCP X. Well this too is now also possible! There is a free demo that works with the first 5 clips of a project. After that you have to pay. There is a minimum donation of 89$.
http://foolcolor.net/foolcut
C) Final Cut X to Da Vinci Resolve
DaVinci Resolve Lite is now at version 8.1. This is incidentally the Free version of a the full blown DaVinci Resolve.
From the Black Magic web Site
With this new update, DaVinci Resolve can now import and export Final Cut Pro X timelines using the new Final Cut Pro rich XML file format.
http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/software-update.html
When working in Final Cut Pro X, customers will get full timeline round trip where projects can be moved between Final Cut Pro X and DaVinci Resolve,retaining the multi track timeline with frame accurate cuts, dissolves and even speed changes. DaVinci Resolve will also use rich XML from Final Cut Pro X to link to original camera footage. DaVinci Resolve supports full media management for Final Cut Pro X projects including additional source clip folders and alternate image source when conforming edits in Resolve.
Because DaVinci Resolve supports grading of high resolution and bit depth files, edits can be exported out of Final Cut Pro for finishing in the highest quality. An alternative workflow is to use DaVinci Resolve 8.1 to manage extremely high resolution raw image formats such as RED, ARRI, Cinema DNG and DNxHD and then to grade and render to ProRes or uncompressed media for Final Cut Pro X.
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail/?sid=3948&pid=11735&os=mac&leg=0
D) Automatic Duck for FREE!!!!
Yes that is right Automatic Duck for free! In case you´ve never heard of Automatic Duck they have being makeing little tools for getting edits from FCP to AVID, AE, or Pro Tools and more. They tended to be a little pricy at around 500$ per Plugin but for nearly 10 years there was no realistic alternative if you absolutely had to go down this route.
On a side note there is also a Pro Tools Update. Here is a link for some interesting feed back about pricing!
Back to Automatic Duck. The reason why this stuff is now free is that the developers have been snapped up by Adobe and have no time left to work on their conversion tools! From the Automatic Duck Web Site.
"We are unable to provide support at the same level as we have over the years, but we didn't want these plug-ins to go away while they remain useful. So if you can make use of these plug-ins in your projects, enjoy!"
http://www.automaticduck.com/products/
Christmas has come early this year. Thanks guys for your generosity.
Tags: Pro Tools, Automatic Duck, Affter Effects, Final Cut Pro Classic, Final Cut Pro X
We are proud to announce that we are once again back at the ADK in TIERGARTEN.
http://www.adk.de/de/orientierung/Hanseatenweg/
The ADK has been renovated and should look better than ever.
Paul Murray will be doing a one man show!
http://paurray.de/
Tackling the following topics
1) The all new user group Site!
2) Back ground information for FCP X and progress with respect to third party developers
3) A report over a project in progress in FCP X
4) Uwe Ziegenhagen will also be presenting a couple of highlight from the ADK archieve!
If you have never been to one of our meetings. Please feel very welcome.
You can find us out back in the Club Room.
Back at the ADK in Tiergarten Wednesday October 5th from 1830 onwards
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