Final Cut Pro 10.4.9 update makes ProResRAW worth it.
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Thomas Smet
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The loading of 3D models in Motion is pretty massive as well. Seems like a small thing but it opens a crap load of creative options.
Yeah, this is pretty cool!
At the link below Apple details which cameras can change temperature and ISO/Offset Exposure. Panasonic looks great with even the S1H footage having the ability to change temperature. Apparently this has something to do with how the camera processing the RAW signal.
Apple hasn't updated the list with info about the FX9 and AS7III. It will be interesting to see how their RAW performs.
Are there any S1H users who can test how well this works?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211277
At the link below Apple details which cameras can change temperature and ISO/Offset Exposure. Panasonic looks great with even the S1H footage having the ability to change temperature. Apparently this has something to do with how the camera processing the RAW signal.
Apple hasn't updated the list with info about the FX9 and AS7III. It will be interesting to see how their RAW performs.
Are there any S1H users who can test how well this works?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211277
Nate Haustein
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Unfortunately 10.4.9 broke compatibility with FX9 XAVC-I .MXF files for me (system wide apparently, including Compressor and QuickTime). Stuff opens up in Catalyst Browse, but kind of a bummer with all the other cool updates. Rolled back to 10.4.8.
Nate could you explain how you rolled back to 10.4.8? I can't find documentation on this anywhere or where to download the previous version.
Nate Haustein
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I routinely zip and archive every version of FCPX before I update. You could also try time machine.
Resolve fully supports it, obviously, it's basically free, multi platform, much more powerful and it will only get better. So what's the point?
I used to swear by FCP back in the FCP 7 days. I had Final Cut Studio. I was one of the people who left FCP when FCP X came out. I hated everything about it and couldn't shake off the iMovie Pro feeling. Just didn't like that Apple was basically trying to change the whole professional editing paradigm. I never looked back.
And now with Resolve being what it is I see even less reason. I have not looked at FCP X in years. But I doubt it lost the iMovie Pro vibe. And again, Resolve runs on a Mac and it's only getting better. Eventually I see Apple just dropping FCP X because it will be hard to compete with Blackmagic.
puredrifting
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I edit quite a bit on both FCP X and Resolve. They are very different even though Resolve is inching toward FCP X with the new Cut page functionality, it's actually very close to how FCP X works and feels.
FCP X is faster than Resolve. Resolve has much better color correction tools. Fusion is great but Motion is a lot easier to get things done in if you aren't a motion graphics wiz. Audio in Fairlight is much more
sophisticated than the audio in FCP X.
FCP X IS iMovie Pro. It's funny that old school editors use that as a put down but it's actually what Apple has done and it's a brilliant long term sales and marketing strategy. Editing doesn't have to use the traditional
preview, viewer, tracks on a timeline model to be a successful tool. I use all four of the big four platforms and FCP X is the fastest, simplest to use by far, once you stop trying to make it behave like a "traditional" editor.
Not the best, I don't think there is a best, they all have their pluses and minuses in many areas.
Even as much as I personally hate Premiere, I use it and it's integration with Photoshop, Illustrator and especially AE make it the tool to use if you are heavily invested in integrating your own motion graphics.
But I sub all of that out to experts so not important to me and Premiere means paying Adobe monthly for all of it's bugs, crashing and instability as well as bloatware features few care about.
AVID MC is by far the best for a team integrated workflow and utter reliability. Resolve is best if you don't have to integrate with the outside world that much because few production companies and post houses use Resolve. Yet. And DaVinci color rules.
NorBro
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NorBro
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I myself don't hear it often, but in general I think pure means it's faster for him and the way he works and gets things done in post-production in his own life.
Because you can't tell a Resolve wiz who has never used FCP X (or hates it) that he or she can accomplish the same tasks faster in another program.
Maybe some tasks are easier to do with a simpler key stroke or command, or the software actually has better algorithms or engineering to finish them quicker, or they are even visually superior (like noise reduction or image stabilization), but so what?
The bigger picture is everyone should be using what's best not only for their own work, but also mentally.
If you're making 1 billion dollars using FCP X and you are very happy, what desire is there in trying/using something else.
Because you can't tell a Resolve wiz who has never used FCP X (or hates it) that he or she can accomplish the same tasks faster in another program.
Maybe some tasks are easier to do with a simpler key stroke or command, or the software actually has better algorithms or engineering to finish them quicker, or they are even visually superior (like noise reduction or image stabilization), but so what?
The bigger picture is everyone should be using what's best not only for their own work, but also mentally.
If you're making 1 billion dollars using FCP X and you are very happy, what desire is there in trying/using something else.
Alister has blogged that the update breaks FX9 MXF in FCP X.
http://www.xdcam-user.com/alisters-blog/
http://www.xdcam-user.com/alisters-blog/
I edited for years on FCPX and loved it. I’ll echo that it is one I’d the fastest editing systems to use (At least for me.) I think it’s due to efficiencies in how you interact with the interface. There are very few wasted clicks. However, as my company ramped up to producing hundreds of videos a year, I found that Resolve is significantly better with managing the assets for all our projects. FCPX far too often duplicates footage on the back-end with its re-wrapped files and pointers, which inflates our storage needs, and the databases can get confusing as to what is real footage and what is an alias - biting us in the ass later when we want to restore an archive version or pull an asset for another project. Also the ability Resolve to send a simple 3mb .drp between remote editors or systems is huge.
NorBro
Major Contributor
You can consolidate your entire library, a specific event, or even a timeline/project in one click.
Super useful to make sure you have everything - or just what you need - and then you can delete everything else anywhere else.
I like it for an entire library as it has everything it needs "inside" of its purple icon/package with no other separate folders.