Should i switch to fcpx

If it had been developed until today it would have been immensely powerful. She says it is the perfect tool for what she does, which are long form, high budget documentaries which are seen around the world and win countless awards. Director Julien Temple. She remarked that for pure editing and data management, it has an elegance that no other software offers - and given the speed she works and the insane complexity of the edits, I'd agree.

Grading and post production sound is always done by separate post houses, so think of FCP-7 as the Steinbeck of editing. When FCP-X came out, many of us were dismayed by the change in workflow. Last time I looked, editors weren't screaming for a better way or a radical new set of terminology. I'm confident that if Apple had just developed the FCP-7 model until today, they'd have a world dominating edit package for pros and amateurs.

I dare say X has probably come a long way, but I didn't make a move. And just at that time, Adobe came up with their real model which put people off.

They should have secured the FCP-7 market first but they didn't and they lost an opportunity. The reason why so many didn't want to move to X was the crazy difference in workflow and interface. It wasn't a learning curve, it was a whole new way of working, and it was clumsy.

It assumed we wanted to organise our tracks and material differently typical, arrogant Apple , and claimed to eliminate the chaos. Except we liked our "chaos" because we knew where everything was and we liked the flexibility it offered. I gather X has allowed some of that flexibility back, but too late for many of us.

So Premiere took up the slack, even by those who hated the rental model - whilst others stuck valiantly to FCP DaVinci was around the corner but it didn't offer stability or features or speed or But it grew, and it got better, and certainly faster and more stable.

Although still waiting for the audio interface to work seamlessly with a fader controller. I made the move because it works like a conventional editor, so moving from FCP-7 or Premiere is a doddle. The Avid guys will still cope, but a little bit more work on the overall workflow pattern. I have the Studio version which is dirt cheap anyway and offers free upgrades, and it has features like NR and other stuff which are amazing.

Finally the world is waking up to DR and I'm guessing it could well be the editing platform of choice in the future. Final Cut Pro is so much faster it's a dream. Every reason you stated plus its fast rendering speed and incredible battery life with the latest M1 MacBook Pro make it a no brainer for nearly anyone that has to rely mobile work.

Left Premiere years ago , to be exact when it kept crashing left and right. Hoping to upgrade my hardware this year with Apple Silicon! Home Topics Software. Reason 2: File Management With Premiere Pro, you have an in shortcut 'i' and out shortcut 'o' which you use to select the certain part of the footage in the clip you want to use. Reason 3: Editing You can scrub through footage, without any delay or dropped frames, and find certain shots in long clips and tag them with keywords, which you can then use when moving into the cutting process.

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FCP X looks like it has thrown the preconceptions of previous editions of FCP out the window and revamped it in a powerful way that allows fast editing workflows, and has speedy render times even when working on large projects. Although multiple editors can work on the same project via editing servers such as Jellyfish, collaboration with other users on projects still feels a little stilted and is not necessarily a smooth process.

From here users can create 2D and 3D titles, transitions and real-time effects, as well as processing output content in myriad formats, including degree output, as well.

Used alongside Adobe Media Encoder, Premiere Pro also takes advantage of the available GPUs on your system to distribute processing loads, aiding higher speeds as a result. However, the downside to the quality of features in Premiere Pro is that the software has a tendency to crash.

While Adobe is often rolling out updates, these can present new problems—you may find yourself needing to restart the program to eliminate any issues that crop up post-installation. As Premiere Pro offers industry-standard editing tools, however, most users of the software are happy to look past minor glitches. Both apps do offer solutions to optimise performance further. Overall, FCPX is often hailed for its unrivalled rendering and performance speeds.

Adobe and Apple both have a full list of support video and audio file formats via their website, so do check before purchasing if you're unsure whether your device is compatible. Apple is renowned for its efficient customer support, and this is no different with FCPX.

Users can head to the Apple Support Community to find answers to any general queries, or answer a few questions to be directed to a web or phone conversation with a member of the support team. Alternatively, there are detailed, step-by-step guides helping users isolate and amend technical issues manually.

The Adobe Help Center excels in support by offering even more. I'm jealous that you have been able to get jobs using FCPX.

Are you convincing them otherwise or what? You may be the only person I know who has used the Imix VideoCube aside from myself! Blast from the past. Most of them have required the producers wanting to hire me, and me wanting to use FCPX. Two weeks. Maybe because I had edited with FCP legacy the previous 10 years or so that it was hard to bend my mind to edit differently. Especially given at the time FCPX couldn't handle basic stuff like multicam But running a full time wedding film company I didn't have time to play any further and went to Premiere and never looked back.

Well, to say I never looked back would be not entirely true. Premiere often have bugs that drive me insane. But I was surprised how much I enjoyed the PC and my flexibility to update components over time to keep my computer faster than the lastest Mac Pro or iMac.

My style of editing weddings isn't the same as when I cut films. For weddings we use an extensive amount of cross dissolves and warp stabilizer.

As in hundreds per project. How is FCPX's stabilizer these days? Again, we use it hundreds of times per project. Again, our weddings aren't the typical style of straight cuts and excessive slider and gimbal work. Its handheld but looks like we use those tools. I've looked back at FCPX and admire it's ground up new vision approach. For new editors who's brains aren't yet trained it must be awesome. And obviously for you, it was a bit of a matrix mind bend at first but then And I appreciate this article.

But I'm on a supped up PC and don't have much downtime to play. So as frustrated as I am by bugs and inconsistent performance of Premiere even on today's latest specs, I don't know how I could give it another 2 weeks.

But I won't lie that this article makes me want to. Read something recently about Dissolve and made me eager to try that as well. For weddings, we shoot everything at 60p soon to be 4k60p and then edit on a 24p timeline. Premiere drops the extra frames and it looks much more cinematic and we can pull anything for slowmo Cutting compressed xavcs footage at 4k at a higher frame rate on a 24p timeline and lots of multicam is taxing in the CPU with Premiere I often wonder how FCPX would handle that nowadays.

Yeah, there's been a ton of progress since FCP X To answer your questions, yes FCP X can definitely handle 4K60 footage on a 4K24 timeline, and it's simple to play 60fps footage at 24fps — look for Automatic Speed in the Retime menu. M 2. FCP X's handling of audio is abysmal to say the least. The 1 thing is simply opening, removing Ch's you don't need on a clip.

They are always attached to the V clip. When you export to resolve for grading, they all come back. You then have to play around with moving everything into the right track, deleting the dead audio, again. So that leaves X pretty much dead for any audio mixing because trying to do it clip based is a trip into madness of both kinds.

FCP X is a great rough cut tool, but its not for finishing by any stretch. Any commercial production that has to keep an eye on its budget should be cutting in Final Cut. Everyone works so much faster and gets more done.

I'm currently working on a reality series that uses 29 cameras. FCPX works extremely well for multicam shoots.

The roles feature is a concept that takes awhile to understand as other NLEs don't have it but once you get it and use it, you really appreciate it. Lately I've been working designing smart collections that semi-automate things for the editor. I also work in Avid and Premiere at other companies and it's like going back to another century in software design. It amazes me that people are still working in old ways like that.

I understand that many are pissed off at Apple for the launch and the sudden discontinuing of FCP7 and of Aperture before Photos was ready, etc.

Why, after all this time, do people still post to Vimeo? I stopped going there, but I figure it must have improved if industry types use it.

But no! The videos just sputter along, start and stop, and I end up having to refresh the page The real mystery is because you did not change to Davinci Resolve, or failing that to Premier. Final cut is dead. Because Resolve is track based, and I go into the issues with tracks in the article and video. As for Premiere, I just made a 30 minute video showing exactly why I don't use Premiere. Because FCP X blows it away. You can disagree with my conclusion, but if you're asking THAT question, it means you jumped straight to the comments without reading the article or watching the videos.

If you want to stick with Premiere, go ahead. Michael, well done!! I just finished a documentary with 7. I started with FCPX at launch and I noticed right away how much it freed me up to be creative and not worry about moving clips, audio, efx, graphics etc. Not to mention, auditioning different takes and camera angles of the same scene. Nice article, I am yet to watch the video. One question: does anyone understand WHY Final Cut forces the creation of secondary storyline every time I need to add a transition to a clip?

It may be a fade on a super or a dissolve between two pieces of b-roll. Any explanation? The secondary storyline was the one thing that stopped me getting into FCPX aside from my iMac being stolen and the cost of replacement. That was quite a few years back, maybe it's better now. But if you cut docs or brand stories, you want to build a sound bed and then a visual story over the top of it. I found I had to make a secondary storyline every time I even wanted to trim it.

Couldn't work with that. I did find the selects and organisation and magnetic timeline pretty impressive and time saving. That's exactly what I don't like. Every time you want to move your super or a couple b-roll clips that may have a transition, you have to remove the transition, lift it from storyline, move it - and then place the transition back. SOOOO many steps!

Also, the other thing that is a real pain is "match frame". Out of memory I think it's Shift-F.