Mocha coming to FCPX?

PleasebetruePleasebetruePleasebetrue.

Forum post here. Shame there'll be no 3D camera solve transfer... unless there's something big going down with Motion that we're not expecting yet.

Quit. Quit, dammit!

An all-night edit session, and the piece with Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, David Attenborough, Dava Sobel and a lobster[1] is almost good to go.

Almost, but I do need another pass on dub and grade. I always need another pass on dub and grade. So... oh, dang, it's stopped skimming. And it's stuttering on every cut.

Well, it does have about 40 Events open, thousands of clips across five drives. And it's been behaving itself more-or-less for the last eight hours. Fair enough, let's quit and relaunch.

Quit.

Quit.

QUIT, dammit!

Oh, right. Background process. Get all cancelley on that fucker. Now Quit.

Quit.

Cancel the background render. Fucking cancel. CANCEL!

Quit.

QUIIIIIIT!

Eventually, a response from FCPX. A spinning coloured disc.

Q. U. I. T.!.

[…]

Eleven minutes later, it quits. FFS.

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[1] No, I'm not making that up. Promise.

Import .mts, dammit!

I get that FCPX can't import .mts files directly, that it needs the metadata on the rest of the card.

No, scratch that, I sort-of get why it needs all the surrounding crap, even though ClipWrap can just copy the file into a new wrapper, call it a mov, and make FCPX happy. That makes some kind of WEIRD TWISTED NO-IT-DOESN'T sense.

I get that FCPX can copy your card into a neat little wrapper which it stores in a 'Final Cut Archives' folder. Fine. Whatever.

What I just don't get at all is why it utterly fails to do anything with a straight Finder copy of the entire contents of a card. It has to be a Final Cut Pro X Camera Archive. So if you have the complete folder structure … tough. No-go.

Only: You can cheat! Fire up Disk Utility, make yourself a new disk image of whatever size your card was, mount it, copy the AVCHD folder into it... and FCPX will import from that.

What? How does this make any sense?

Momentary flashes of clarity and terror

We snug the belt down over our hips, feel the thin leather creak around our fists, watch the needles climb into the red as the lights glimmer and flicker towards us. Beside and before and behind and surrounding us machinery spins and spools and clunks and festers, waits and lurks, screams and strains.

Our teeth clench around the toothpick, chin dips as eyes narrow into the mercury glare burning through the thin-slit screen ahead.

New.

Fucking.

Project.

…and the world drops away beneath us.

Tempo-locked music edits

It's relatively straightforward, for many music tracks, to calculate the tempo. Many mp3 tracks already store that information in metadata anyway. So why doesn't the edit software we most enjoy swearing at offer a 'lock edits to audio track beats' feature? 'Snap to bars' would be a tremendously useful tool when cutting montage… so long as you could toggle it off quickly.

Presets

Speaking of inane presets that make your finely-crafted work look like utter crap via the most efficient route possible, Final Cut Pro X has this to offer:



What.

The.

Frack.

Were.

They.

Thinking?

New Vimeo Features

Vimeo has introduced the ability to add 'looks' to your videos.
It's a bit like Instagram for video and it adds a graded look to your entire video.

At the moment it's free so get over to https://vimeo.com/enhancer and have a play.
In the future you'll have to pay $0.99 for each effect.

It's powered by Vivoom if you have to know and the interface is nice and simple and it's easy and fun to use. Would I use it professionally? Nope, but there's nothing wrong with a bit of fun. Would I pay $0.99? Probably not.

If they can get it working with a mobile phone interface I'm guessing it'll become more popular.

Vimeo has also introduced the ability to add music to your videos. There are even some free tracks on offer.