Please don't ever use transitions like this

Why are [nearly] all the transitions in FCPX shit? In fact why are [nearly] all transitions shit?

Cross fade is about the only transition you need regularly. Here's what larry Jordan has to say:

"The thing I like about transitions is that they can add life to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative".

No Larry. No.

Exporting for years!

About 732 million hours? That's about 30 million days. Which is about 4 million weeks or 84 thousand years! But is always speeds up towards the end doesn't it?

FCP 7 Out of Memory Error Solution

Like many of us I still have to use Final Cut Pro 7 from time to time. One of the bastard things about FCP7 is its 32bit-ness. It can only rock 4 gig no matter how many terabytes of RAM you have. This gives rise to the bloody fucking shit hole error, 'Out of Memory'.

Larry Jordan gives this explanation which can help, but often doesn't solve the problem:

The main reason I get this error is when using large still images. Big ass monkey images like 5K or summut.

For years I have searched for a solution online and in the ether to no avail. However, yesterday I was told a very simple solution.

Go to Sequence/Settings and click on the Video Processing tab. In here you will see that the default is to render in 10-bit. Changing this to render in 8-bit seemed to solve all my memory issues.

Oh and by the way rendering takes about half the time in 8 bit mode.

Good luck people, and stop using 7 anyway.

Why Can't you run FCPX and FCP7 at the same time?

Why? Why not? What?

Assigning FCPX keyboard shortcuts to FCP7

Er.....this is weird. I'm cutting in FCP7 and I keep pressing Q to connect a clip to the storyline.

F12 is what I really want - Superimpose, but that doesn't work on this keyboard because it turns up the volume.

Now I have remapped my FCP7 keyboard so that Q is Superimpose.

What the fuck is going on?

Installing FCP Studio after FCPX

If you install FCPX after FCP Studio your mac will bundle your out of date software into a nice FCP Studio folder.

If you install FCP Studio after FCPX your mac will overwrite FCPX. Yes this is annoying. But I guess it doesn't really affect many people.

Basically if you really do need to install FCP Studio after FCPX then you need to put FCPX in it's own  folder. Here is a rather dull article on FCP installation best practise. Even writing that sentence was boring. Sorry.

NAB 2013 Distilled

NAB 2013 Distilled:

all press covering the show on video, were cutting their reports on laptops using FCP X.

(Via digitalfilms)

Of course, Oliver goes on to say:

Although Premiere Pro “next” feels like FCP 7.5, that appears to be what users really want. The direction, at least, feels right. Apple may have been “skating to where the puck will be”, but it could be that no one is following or the puck simply wasn’t going there in the first place.

I'm not convinced by that. I'm more than happy that people wanting FCP 7.5 have Adobe to turn to, and I suspect the market represented by NAB will continue to be well served by them. The question, I guess, is what proportion of total video production is represented by broadcast and feature films, and in particular how that's changing. There's already been a revolution in terms of quantity of production. If that starts to be reflected in money terms too, Apple's bet may turn out to be a winning one after all.