filmguy123
Veteran
- New text/titler built into interface. Adobe Premiere's blows doors on the Final Cut titler that is built in, but Adobe's lack keyframing of most text effects. Also, rework and incorporate Livetype's capability + templates directly into the FCP titling interface, plus templates similiar to Adobe's.
- Better retiming controls. Option to turn on/off ripple editing when changing the speed on a clip. A time stretch tool, where you simply grab one end of the clip and drag it's new length (also seen in Adobe).
- Native MXF support and file handling. Ability to edit directly off P2 cards. (also seen in Adobe).
- Support for consumer camcorder direct to digital formats (this should be included in iMovie anyway, and transfered over to Final Cut Pro, even though this isn't their market). However, it is their market - pros use all kinds of tools, even cheap cameras for dangerous shots.
- Ability to add more labels or "keywords" to clips. Similiar to iPhoto for sorting photos. Then, the ability to create "smart bins" where it would auto filter these results. For example, I want to label clips for a sports highlight as "defense" "offense" + "good take" or "best take" + "66" or "13" for player jersey numbers.
- Option to create a new media file from a clip in the canvas. What I mean is, lets say you have captured an entire 60 minute tape and as one giant .AVI file. Or even on a smaller scale, you have a 5 minute clip with 15 distinct different clips that you may use in a video. In the canvas, you could have placed these all as seperate clips with different in/out points marked... however, they all still link back to the same massive media file. It would be great to have an option to "extract clip to seperate media file" or something, so that you physically get a copy of this particular clip, with its current in/out points (and probably some handles) as a totally seperate media file. This would allow for resorting it into bins and applying labels in different bins, especially as mentioned in the point above. Further, it would help when it comes to applying effects such as "smooth cam" - rather than analyze the whole media file just for a six second snippet, the canvas clip could be its own seperate file.
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OH - if any of these things, or things someone else mentions, are already present, please share, and how to do them!
- Better retiming controls. Option to turn on/off ripple editing when changing the speed on a clip. A time stretch tool, where you simply grab one end of the clip and drag it's new length (also seen in Adobe).
- Native MXF support and file handling. Ability to edit directly off P2 cards. (also seen in Adobe).
- Support for consumer camcorder direct to digital formats (this should be included in iMovie anyway, and transfered over to Final Cut Pro, even though this isn't their market). However, it is their market - pros use all kinds of tools, even cheap cameras for dangerous shots.
- Ability to add more labels or "keywords" to clips. Similiar to iPhoto for sorting photos. Then, the ability to create "smart bins" where it would auto filter these results. For example, I want to label clips for a sports highlight as "defense" "offense" + "good take" or "best take" + "66" or "13" for player jersey numbers.
- Option to create a new media file from a clip in the canvas. What I mean is, lets say you have captured an entire 60 minute tape and as one giant .AVI file. Or even on a smaller scale, you have a 5 minute clip with 15 distinct different clips that you may use in a video. In the canvas, you could have placed these all as seperate clips with different in/out points marked... however, they all still link back to the same massive media file. It would be great to have an option to "extract clip to seperate media file" or something, so that you physically get a copy of this particular clip, with its current in/out points (and probably some handles) as a totally seperate media file. This would allow for resorting it into bins and applying labels in different bins, especially as mentioned in the point above. Further, it would help when it comes to applying effects such as "smooth cam" - rather than analyze the whole media file just for a six second snippet, the canvas clip could be its own seperate file.
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OH - if any of these things, or things someone else mentions, are already present, please share, and how to do them!
And actually, one of the cameras I tried to use, I couldn't even use the prores, I had to use MPEGstreamclip first to get the file format right.
