![]() The keyword functionality alone is worth its weight in gold. I love the new audio roles, the audio lanes, the alt front square bracket shortcut, the workspace options and on and on.īecause I’m anal about housekeeping, the metadata functionality in FCPX is just right up my street. It opens quickly and it just feels so much slicker than before. This is not the Avid interface which doesn’t look like it’s changed since 1991, FCPX is an organic, developing lovable beast of a programme and has come a long way since it’s 1st inception 4 years or so ago. The new interface had me scratching my head for a few minutes while I figured out where the fine folk at Apple had moved buttons to etc in the flattened new look. It has been an absolute pleasure using the new version of FCPX. Opened 7toX (another must buy if you are ever in this predicament and it works for Premiere as well if you do the housekeeping correctly) and proceeded to import the xml files and start cutting. It finally did and after several days got to the point where I had many, many xml files for export to FCPX. I’m an old school editor in the sense that I like to have my footage named correctly and placed in its relevant bin not a whole bunch of random camera file names just dropped anywhere in the project. The project had to be fiddled and tweaked to within an inch of its life before it would export xmls correctly. We’ve come too far to have that shit on my head. I spent a few days prepping it for the big move because there was no way on this green and blue earth that I was cutting in anything other than my much loved #FCPX. Anyway it opened (I think it was the hope to fuck that made it happen). I have to disable all my plugins (using Digital Rebellion’s Pro Maintenance Tools – a must buy!) and a hope to fuck it opens when I click on it. I still have 7 on my Mac but it’s a bitch to open. Suffice to say it was a fucking mess of epic proportions. Working in Ireland where I now live and work with proxy footage dropped over the net by my assistant in South Africa has its challenges in and of itself but now having to get it all together in FCP7 proved a real challenge but one I needed to embrace. Housekeeping was marginally better but it got done.įast forward to January this year and I picked up another feature, this time it was being cut in FCP7. Apart from the my project file corrupting every few days or so, it was a fairly painless affair. I did another film later in the year which was easier but still in Premiere as the company I was contracted to wanted my daily project files for stuff they were doing. But the deadline was looming and I struggled on through eventually delivering a cut everyone was happy with. There were no sync bins or synced timelines for any of the scenes. The 4K footage had not been converted to a more user friendly codec so was battling with the original mxf files which were still in their original folders, no proxies or any housekeeping to speak of. Premiere was slow, kept rebuilding the fucking waveforms etc every time I opened it. So knowing how to use Premiere I kept the workflow and fixed the film. At this stage it was still early days for me and #FCPX and I wasn’t confident enough to tackle a feature in it. It was shot on a Sony and cut with a spoon in Adobe Premiere. He had been in editing for a year at which point, when he was shown the cut was told it’s only an assemble edit. So let’s go back to the beginning of 2015 when a Director friend of mine asked me to fix his film. In fact I’m currently doing exactly that for another South African client and it has prompted a bit of a rant. ![]() But the last couple of years I’ve done several features that I have picked up after production had finished and an editor had already done a first pass on. Starting in the early 90’s when I cut a couple of French soft core porn films in South Africa on an Avid (which I still hate, both the porn and the Avid) to over the years having a hand in several feature length documentaries including the Oscar winning Amandla- A revolution in four part harmony. I’ve cut a lot of television in the last 7 years, and I mean a LOT! But my feature film editing resume has always been patchy at best.
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