![]() ![]() If the other editors don’t have the raw files, the various commands in the File menu let you move the project file, the media files, or both to another computer on the network, to another hard drive or whatever.Ĭomplaint: You can’t freely organize your media files. Library on its Info panel, they can click “Modify Event References” to reconnect the project to their own copies of the media files. The other editors can inspect the Project If the other editors already have the raw video files, you can hand over the project file. You can share your project, your files, or both. You literally have to give that other editor your entire computer,” writes one blogger.Īnswer: Not true. Now globally contained in the application rather than in your project file. But in FCP X, “all of your project organization is In professional editing companies, editors routinely exchange projects. V key (“disable”), you are effectively cutting to what’s on the lower video track.Ĭomplaint: You can’t share a project with other editors. Now, each time you select a piece of the upper video track and press the By comparing their audio tracks, the program aligns the clips exactly. Parallel timeline tracks, you can choose Clip->Synchronize Clips. It was a star feature of Final Cut, and it’s gone from FCP X.Īnswer: Apple intends to restore this feature in an update, calling it “a top priority.” Until it does, here’s a stopgap facsimile of multicam editing: If you drag two clips into In the old FCP, you could import the footage from various cameras that covered an event (say, a concert) from different angles simultaneously, and thenĮasily cut back and forth between them while editing. It’s onlyįair, however, to separate what’s really missing from knee-jerk “It’s so different!” hysteria.Ĭomplaint: There’s no multicamera editing. I’m not trying to be an Apple apologist FCP X offers legions of amazing features that the old version didn’t have, but it doesn’t have all the features of the old one, either. The “missing features” generally fall into three categories: features that are actually there and have just been moved around, features that Apple intends to restore and features that require a third-party I foundįCP X infinitely more powerful than iMovie, yet infinitely less intimidating than the old Final Cut.īut in this post, I’m going to address the concerns of professional video editors, one by one. I made four movies with Final Cut Pro X, including helping my son with a 20-minute final eighth-grade project. I wrote my review from the perspective of an advanced amateur I’m not a professional editor. There are so many missing high-end features that we need, “Apple has absolutely no clue what professionals need. “This is Apple’s worst release in history,” seethed one in an e-mail message. Columnist, David Pogue, keeps you on top of the industry in his free, weekly e-mail newsletter.
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