Did I Dream It? Combined FCE/FCP Questions In Final Cut Forum?

I am sure that for the last few weeks the Final Cut Forum has combined the questions from both FCE and FCP.
Then yesterday - NOTHING! Just a doorway for entering FCE, FCP, LiveType etc.
Did I dream it?
I actually liked the combination of the 2 sites.
Did anyone else?
Ian.

It's off temporarily: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=260337&tstart=0

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Unable to open a fCE 4 project in final cut proX

Hi there.
I've been working with FCE 4 for a number of years now and just decided to upgrade to FCP. I have an FCE4 project that I would like to open in FCP X but I can't figure out how. I feel like a total beginner... I can't even find File -> Open Project.
Can anyone send me in the right direction?
Thanks!
David

This should be a no brainier for the guys engineering this new upgrade.
I'm new to the forum, new to Apple Computers, and new to Final Cut.
Fresh insights might be helpful. Albeit, this is not intended to be by any means an exhaustive list of wrongs with the new and improved FCP X.
I've been working with Final Cut Express 4. The learning curve, for me, was steep. Apple has a different glossary than PC. I was working in Avid Studio for over 10 years and was very adapt to the software, and it was not without it's faults.
So I had to learn the Apple Way, that took me close to a year. After investing time and energies into the process and finally getting to a place of feeling like I understood the terminology and the platform of Final Cut, they go and change it. After doing some google searches to get reviews on the new and improved product, I was amazed at the New York Times article written about the product and the firestorm of ridicule that the author and Apple has received for the new and improved product.
I just decided to download the Trial of Final Cut Pro X, and give it a whirl. Right off I saw the fresh new look and liked many of the features that were available to me in Avid, but not in Express. Yes I know that Express is the entry level, but still, it compares to Avid's Studio 14, which blows FCE4 away. Anyway, I was pleased to see some of the features that I was desiring in FCE4 being offered in FCP X.
As I said, it seems strange that the engineers took the platform and completely remade it. OK, that's their prerogative. I think it's misleading in every way to state that it's Final Cut Pro. This is a different program with a much different platform, different glossary, different lay out, different filing system, and as mentioned in the very first post, does not accept the files of Final Cut Pro 7 or earlier editions.
I totally understand the frustration of the Professionals who have invested a lot of treasury, time, and study to learn this program, to work it into their work flow, and then have the rules changed.
For me, it's not a big deal, but I would be extremely bent out of shape to think that the program I've toiled over and become expert at has now been altered to not even have the slightest resemblance to it's apparent Father.
I don't understand why their are not Sequences, Bins, logging properties, and more, just to mention a few.
I'm still trying to decide if I like it or not. It has many great features that I find easier to follow and understand.
I'm a videographer, and shoot weddings and special events. I also do documentaries for non profit groups and Churches. I am a seasoned editor, and Cameraman. I like the iMac I purchased a year ago, and have had not issues to date, save this program.
Final Cut Pro X has crashed 4 times in two days, that's the first time I've ever had a program crash with the iMac. It happened when I was working in the titling portion of the program.
In conclusion, I'm new to this Forum, I sure that I've broken some protocal, but be kind. I have spent 15 years or more on Avid's Forums and was a seasoned editor and user. I saw the post and naturally had the same question, which Tom Wolsky provided the same answer for.
I know that when we had such issues as this the boards were alive with comments and responses, but in the end some of our suggestions would end up bringing changes to the product. They either came out with a fix for a bug or they came out with a new product.
I can remember such issues as this and they took care of them eventually by adding a conversion step within the newer versions or a download to convert the old files to the new file extensions.
Maybe they have this planned for a soon release. If not I think that Apple may have cooked their golden goose for sure. Many seem to see this as more of a consumer platform than a Professional editing platform.
I like to follow the chatter on the matter, if there is a proper thread for such things.
Dan
Jubilee Video Productions

Question re Final Cut Express Capabilities

I'm about to make the jump from another editing system over to Final Cut Express 4.
One of the things I want to be able to do is line up and load three different angles from three different cameras and be able to edit "on the fly" as the scenes play. I have a concert video, shot in a studio, with three cameras on tripods. Now I've got three tapes and I want to load them all into memory and then crossfade or cut between angles on-the-fly.
As well, I want to be able to shoot interviews with two cameras, each one pointing at the different people interview. Can FCE handle two different simulataneous inputs and then store the scenes in such a way that I can then cut between the two during the editing process?
Is there additional software or hardware needed for this? In my ten-year-old editing machine I've been using, this can be done ... but it's a major workaround and a major effort. And in the later versions of my same old machine, they had a feature called "Quad Cam" which showed up to four scenes on your monitor playing simultaneously, but it was expensive and needed a fast processor, which I didn't have. I suspect my new MacBook Pro will handle this, assuming FCE4 is able to do it.

Hi
The Multi Camera function in FCP is very time saving. And there are other functions
in FCP that might add to the value to take the leap.
The Color correcting tool was so much better and Color included (even more sofisticated)
DVD-Studio Pro
AND - Compressor !
Still to get more than one Camera to hard disk in live.
I tried a simpler version of this "Capture Magic HD" - only SD but
on a PowerBook G4 1.5GHz
one extra FW-port on a PSCIA (or whatever) card - to get an extra individual FW-port
and TWO Cameras in real-time download to internal hard disk.
EACH Camera Must have a true FireWire port - not a split one as on Mac 400/800
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It worked as a charm. Ready to be edited immediately after Capture.
Yours Bengt W

2 Questions about final cut pro 5

My first question is quite simple, I know that previously final cut pro could only use up to 2.5GBs of memory, now I'm just a bit curious if it can use more since leopard is a 64-bit OS. Right now I'm using Final Cut Studio 1. I'm just asking this question since I intend to get an additional 4GB of ram (Right now I only have 2GB) I'm going to get Muskin's MacPro memory. I generally run my system down to about 200MB of free memory and sometimes down to 10MB when I'm using photoshop in conjunction to FCP. What does everyone think about getting an additional 4GB?
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Okay, to not make two posts I'm give me final question/Problem. Ever since I've upgraded to Leapord I noticed that the playback quality in the canvas and viewer is poor. There is bad gamma. What I mean by that is that i'm getting extremes in color, I have areas that look normal followed by areas of over saturated color. It's more on the over saturated side though. Besides that the play back quality is poor, even though my sequence settings are at "Best" for video processing. I also seem to get jagged lines on things like railings, people's shoulders, and on other edges. My picture quality is grainy, however there are no artifacts. Even on the FX transistions I get the jagged lines on edges of oh say page peels and what not.
Now when using DVD player or watching my MPEG2's on DVD Studio, they play poorly too. The image is clear however I get the horizontal lines when there is motion. Now when I put one of my DVD's in my DVD player (not computer) the problem goes away and everything looks fine. This is less of a problem (the horizontal lines), but I don't understand the poor playback quality.
The video looks fine on my external NTSC video monitor.
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Thanks for my memory question!
However I'm still getting poor looking footage. Even when I open up my source clips and play them they look poor in quality. I'm getting the horizontal lines on everything that moves and corners are not sharp, they look distorted and jagged. I never had this problem before I'm not sure whats the cause or the solution. Even the footage from Final Cut Studio's tutorial looks bad (grainy, strange contrast, jagged corners and lots of horizontal lines). However the edges on my footage look a little more jagged. I think i mentioned it already but the FX transitions that are page peels, cube spins...etc give me jagged edges too.
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ugh i hate computers sometimes
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My experience is if you're shooting SD then you shouldn't have a problem unless you are trying to load a full hour. When I tried that, the computer went crazy and loaded the video as thousands of clips just a few frames long.
That was supposed to be for a multicam shoot. I went back to FCP 7 where I've never had a single problem after at least 80 multicam projects with as many as eight cameras.
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I went to the APP Store to check out FCPX and accidentally downloaded it (v. 10.0.3)
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Since the application was downloaded, how do I make a backup copy? I mean, I could
burn the application to a DVD, but usually an Installer puts files in different folders in
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I had FCP many years ago and you used to specify locations for saving files. As I said, I have a drive
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I have old versions of Motion and LiveType that came with FCP before. Do they work with this version?
So far I'm struggling with this. I have AppleCare. Do they support this application?
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james

Tom, thanks for your Answer!
I'll just burn the FCPX app to a DVD and hope that's all the files it needs.
As for my drive, it is formatted just the same as all my other externals.
I've got a bunch of them dedicated to different types of material (photo, music, audio samples, video, etc.)
The fact that that drive shows up in FCPX and then disappears is troubling.
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Question RE: Final Cut Pro X Software

Hello,
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Question about Final Cut Express 4

I'm editing videos I shot with a Sony CX100 this model only shot in AVCHD.
After I finish editing and export will not find a codex ideal for video that's perfect without being dashed
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Or is it better if I buy Final Cut Pro once and for all.

Convert the original AVCHD files into AIC at the same settings you recorded, then import the resulting AIC files into an FCE project.
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Will my work from FCE 4 move to Final Cut Studio easily?

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2205128&tstart=0

Opening FCE 4 doc in Final Cut Pro in 5.1?

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eab

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I had a hard time with it the other day and I basically started over to fix it.
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