Easy Way to Solve Dropped Frames in FCPX

Just do the following:

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...and you'll be fine.

Oh yeah, and.....don't warn me about this again.

Quick Screen Grab

Not a FCPX issue, but very useful all the same:

SHIFT CMD 4

This gives you a crosshair that allows you to select an area to take a screenshot.

Very useful.

Alexa vs Red

No! Shoot on the Mamiya Rz67.
It's the best camera around.
Better than 4K at 18 frames per second. And easier to edit.

Adding Music

Yeah, so it's really convenient being able to add music directly from iTunes.

Except it isn't is it? Because you can't scrub through the tracks. You have to listen from the beginning.

The point of editing is editing. I love the ability to use the middle of one track and the bridge of another and the end of another. I don't want to have to listen to the track all the way through.

And while we're at, fuck quick view. I really miss the ability to scrub through tracks in finder. Why get rid of that? I used to be able to scrub through a track and then leave it playing while I did something else.

What about using iTunes I hear you say. Fuck off. I don't want hundreds of tracks of shitty production music in my iTunes.

I want jungle in my iTunes.

Dza

Background Tasks Window is Gash

When you rack up a load of exports it would be really useful if the Background Tasks window showed you the file names instead of just 'Master File' wouldn't it?

Yes it would.

Relinking media is bullshit

In FCP 7 when you relinked media it offered a suggestion as to a file with the same name.

In FCPX it is completely up to you to find the correct file.

It does seem a little odd that FCPX does things shitter than FCP7.

FCPX? I heard it's shit.

As an editor you get asked what you cut on.

Walter Murch would say all edit software is the same: in, out, add to timeline. What he says is true and a skilled editor shouldn't be constrained to particular software. For years I turned down jobs that weren't on FCP and how foolish I feel now.

It was quite liberating when FCPX came out. For years people only cared about FCP and suddenly everyone realised that there were other options: Avid, Vegas, Premiere...

I swallowed my pride and I learnt Avid. But I still use FCPX at home, so when people ask me what I cut on I say, FCPX.

The resounding response is, 'Oh, I heard it's shit'.

Well, yeah, I heard that too. And to be honest, when it came out it was shit. But it isn't any more. It's actually rather good. And when I use Avid I really miss X. Although I miss FCP as well because Avid is fucking irritating, but that's another post.

The other thing people say is, 'it's just for students isn't it?'.

When I first heard that I found it quite interesting because that is what people were saying about FCP when it first came out.

Student editors are the editors of the future. So if they are using FCPX now, then it's a good bet we'll all be using it in the future. Apple make an analogy about aiming for where the puck is going, not where the puck is now. I'm with them. I use FCPX.