Fcpx 10.1.4 tutorials

I just bought Final Cut X 10.1.4
Iḿ a newbie when it comes to Final Cut X. I went from Premiere to final cut x. Do apple have some tutorials in App Store for 10.1.4? or do you have some good links to share with me? Any ideas like lynda.com? I know the difference isn´t that big, but if there is tutorials made for the new 10.1.4? Then I wan´t to start from there.
do you have any suggestions?

Free (well almost) FCP X Beginner Tutorials from pedigree pair.
Ian links to a 50/50 free app from the two most recommended tutors for FCPX (and Motion and others), Steve and Mark from rippletraining.
Aside their commercial website, rippletraining.com, they share on their YouTube chanel MacBreak Studio about 300 'free' tutorials, plus two new chanels, for the hasty ones,
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Qy-4esLdXmO1F6k5kz0Qg
"Motion/FCPX in under 5 Minutes"
Malima wrote:
Iḿ a newbie when it comes to Final Cut X. I went from Premiere to final cut x.... I know the difference isn´t that big, ..
Hopefully, you don't mean, the difference between AP and FCPX isn't big? It's huge!
by the way:
Any reason, why you make your post invisible... ??
Such a low contrast makes it hard to read .. .at last for an old man like me ............

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Media organisation for fiction film editing

Hello.
If anyone had experience with FCPX and fiction film editing, I would appreciate if you could help me find out what is the best practice for organising and labeling the material.
I started editing on flatbeds, got used to MediaComposer and was probably one of the first people to use FCP for cinema fiction film editing. Recently bought FCPX, went through some tutorials and played a little, but I'm still not at home with it.
The projects I'm considering would be shot with either ARRI Alexa or Canon DSLR, thus each shot comes as a separate file, and would be labeled by the assistant according to marks on the slate. (We use Scene/Shot-Take system e.g. 5/3-2x). Sound is coming in separately as WAV files which need to be synced to the picture.
Also, if you have any comments on editing fiction narrative films with X, I'd be interested. I was quite distracted today when I realised that FCPX doesn't remember where I stopped watching a clip when I come back to it after taking a look at some other take or shot!
Also during today's experimenting it seemed awkward that MatchFrame (Reveal clip in Event browser) doesn't open the collection from where I actually inserted the clip.
Thanks.
Mato

Hello Matoid,
I am now facing the same situation that you did, and was wondering if you came up with workflow for editing a feature length film on FCPX.
I would specifically appreciate any advice on the following:
All the dailies are synchronized QT files organized by shooting day. For instance, a file named Shooting Day 1 will contain all the synchronized dailies that were shot that day. The files are in the following format:
Dimensions: 1920 x 1080
Codecs: Apple ProRes 422, Linear 422
Color Profile: HD (1-1-1)
Audio Channels: 2
Since I come from the old school of editing, I would like to organize all the material by scene, shot and take number, so the first question is, how should I go about splitting the files into single takes?
What I’ve done so far with the first two days of shooting is to create an event for each day, then select each take within the event, create a compound clip, and label it according to its slate info (Scene # +Shot + Take #). Once I break up the Shooting day event into several scene clips, I create a new event and label it by Scene #, and then I copy all the clips from the Shooting Day Event that correspond to the Scene Event. Then I go back and delete all the clips from the Shooting Day Event and lastly y also delete the Shooting Day Event to make sure I am not doubling up on clips.
This seems to work, but I feel there must be a more effective way of doing it.
Another question I have is, should I assemble each sequence into its own story line and then string all the storylines together for the completed film, or should I just assemble everything in one story line?
I am sure that more questions will come up as the project evolves, but for the time being any advice on how to go about organizing the project would help me a lot and would be immensely appreciated.

Free 10.6 FCPX Workflow tutorials now posted

Hey Guys,
How's it going? Just wanted to let you know I posted, for free, a whole bunch of workflow tutorials, mostly about the new features in the release. You can find them all at:
http://themovieswemake.com/tutorials/
Here's the full list of what's there:
Red Workflow - parts 1 and 2
7 to X Red Workflow - parts 1 and 2
How to use Redcine-X Pro with FCPX
Audio Component Editing Workflow
Batch Renaming and Advanced Multicam Sync
How to make your SFX Library searchable in iTunes
They're a lot more workflow centric, and don't focus on the buttons so much as how to get your projects done efficiently. Anyway, hope you like them, and let me know what you think.

Thanks for taking the trouble to teach.

I can't watch any of the FCPX tutorials.

I can't watch any of the FCPX tutorials. I don't think it's my computer because I can watch all the other Apple tutorials. I also have Quicktime v 10.0. Any suggestions?

When I try to watch Final Cut Pro X tuorials the screen is blank but the audio is fine. The video blinks on and off very quickly and I lose control of all functions. I have to force quit to get out of it. This only happens with the FCPX tutorials. All other Tutorials from Apple work fine. I think the problem may be Firefox. When I use Safari the tutorials are fine

FCPX tutoriaux en français

Un blog tout en fraçais avec des tutoriaux sur fcpx et motion 5, des templates gratuits et des news sur les derniers plugins sortis....
www.videoeffectsprod.com

pas mal merci pour le tip

In FCPX, how do I use multiple clips of the same event?

This is a beginner question, but having recently moved from Final Cut Express to FCPX, I am having trouble using 3 clips (church play, 3 cameras) of the same event (and reading through the manual has not helped me). I have lined them up in the timeline, one "on top" of the other, but the viewer only shows the top clip. I would like to see what the other clips look like and use the cutting tool and opacity (which I found) to choose the best view (and move between the clips lined up with the audio). It feels like I am trying to use an old work flow on a new product. How do I view the all the clips and move between them?

Here is one of those free tutorials (in two parts), which , IMO, is particularly good.
There is also, of course, more comprehensive paid training available that may better fit your needs.
Good luck.
Russ

Being brand new to FCX I want to purchase Motion5 so as I am able to add a motion template to the start of a video. Can someone please explain in simple terms how I go about this. Looked at tutorials

Being brand new to FCPX and Motion 5 I want to use a motions template I have bought for a wedding DVD I have shot, so as to place the introductory template at the start of my film. I have looked at tutorials and cant seem to see anything that tells me simply how to achieve this. Do I edit my film as normal in FCPX and then transfer to Motion to add the motion template or visa versa ?? I need a simple answer as I am far from an expert. Can anyone help please.

what do you mean by 'motion template'?
as you notice on launch of M5, it offers you different project types.
when you select 'title', the minute you save it, it's avail on next launch of FCPX in the title-browser.
same with effects.
if you like to use M5 for producing a short segment (eg, I created my 'openers' with it, some animation of our soccer-team's logo, the first 4sec in this video), you simply export the final project as a Quicktime-file and add it to some Event in FCPX for future use ...

My positive experience with FCPX.

In an effort to present the other side of the coin on this forum, that FCPX can work very well, here is my story.
For the last 8 years I've been using Final Cut Express on an older Macs. It worked fine for my various projects, although the incessant rendering would be very frustrating. (I never did find the proper format to prevent it.) When Final Cut Pro X was released, I read about it's shortcomings, so I passed.
Five months ago I was planning to video my nephew's wedding so I looked closely at Final Cut Pro X, but was very daunted by how completely different it was from FCE. A few days later I was in my local Apple Store asking their video expert about the rendering in FCE, basically he said to get FCPX, which not only handles many formats, but renders in the background when needed, and has a lot more features than FCE.
I went home and looked at my first FCPX tutorial online and thought, OK, it looks like I'm going to have to start from scratch to learn it. My MacBook Pro was going on 6 years old, so I also decided to buy a new one that could handle FCPX. I had to stay on Snow Leopard OS 10.6.8 for one vitally important application that was not being upgraded, so I went to the Apple refurb site and found a 17" 2.2Ghz i7 late 2011 that fit the bill (I wanted the ExpressCard slot), marked down from $2600 to $1900, I grabbed it.
I immediately installed 16 GB of RAM, and replaced the internal drive with the one in my old laptop, a fairly new Seagate XT Hybrid 750 GB/16 GB HD/SSD. I then bought FCPX. (After completing one small project, I actually replaced the 750 hybrid with an OWC 960 GB dual platter RAID 0 internal SSD, wow, is it fast. I work my current project there, then when complete, move it to the 750 hybrid or a 3 TB I put in a Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt adapter .)
I have to admit that it took me a couple of days to let go of FCE and get used to the FCPX Events/Projects system, but I got through it. I did look at tutorials, but actually learned far more by exploring the menus, panes and icons, experimenting, trial and error, and reading this forum.
I finished the wedding video (32 minutes long) in about a week (learning as I went). It was shot with one camera, which forced me to do some creative editing by lifting, moving and zooming various pieces (and cutting around a very oblivious professional photographer), which gave me a multi-camera look. I added a title, transitions, adjusted dark scenes, leveled the audio in many places, diminished airplane and wind noise, and dropped in a sound effect of my nephew breaking a glass under foot (which did not actually break at the time).
I shared the wedding video to my AppleTV2, and to DVD (3 copies), and to YouTube, without any overt problems. Yes, each operation had it's learning curve, but I accomplished them all in a rather short time. The first time I uploaded it to YouTube, it took about 8 hours for a 1080 2.8 GB version, but when it was done, the YouTube site had a message that it was too long, I had to register to have longer than 15 minute videos. I then used FCPX to upload a 720 version (the actual original format), 985MB, which took about 2 hours (even with a 1 mbps upload internet service). It looks great via the YouTube app on my AppleTV2.
The only overt problem I have is a crash once in awhile either at launch or very shortly after, but I delete the prefs and continue on. I also installed some free plugins that seemed to cause some crashing, so I removed them, but the next time I opened the wedding project, I had all kinds of warning triangles. Turned out I used some of the plugins and FCPX warned that they were missing. It took a few minutes of searching this forum to learn how to get rid of those effects, I didn't even have to ask anyone.
I just bought two new 1080p AVCHD video cameras and really look forward to using them for a festival on Sunday where I'm playing with a ukulele orchestra (which I also took up a few months ago). I'm going to tackle the multicam operations with that project (something I did in my own way with FCE, even though it did not actually have that function).
My view of many of the posts on this forum is that either they have a system/hardware problem outside of FCPX, or they do not make enough of an effort to learn and understand FCPX. It takes diligence and patience, which in my experience, really does pay off. I used to dread doing tweaks in FCE, now I look forward to it in FCPX.

I'd just like to add my positive-ness with FCPX! I've used it from 10.0.1 and, since 0.3, I have loved it and raved about it when anyone asks. The multicam feature is amazing! I used to use Vegas MS for some casual editing and the biggest annoyance with FCPX at the start was the magnetic timeline but after a day or so I got used to it and now can't imagine using anything else. I've had the odd crash but they are few and far between. I won't say I haven't sworn at it a few times but the fault is usually mine in the end!
I use an upgraded 2012 MacBook Pro with 16GB memory and a Seagate Hybrid XT disc for my more "beefy" projects but I've found my 2011 MacBook Air works great with smaller projects (4GB RAM and 256GB SSD). Interesting article on fcp.co about MBAs and FCPX if anyone is considering purchasing one.
I tend to learn things as I go along; I know what I want to achieve and then work out how to get there, often with the help of the nice people in this forum . With FCPX, once you understand the basic structure it's not too difficult.
It seems one of the common themes is problems with importing AVCHD / MTS files. Since 0.3 I've never had any problems as long as I follow my basic rules -
Format the SD card in the camera just before use (use "low level" if offered for the first format) and shoot your footage. Use the same quality format on that card throughout the shoot.
Remove the card and plug it into the computer's card reader. Do NOT interfere with or modify the files in Finder in any way!
In FCPX create an archive from the card on a separate external disc. (If the card doesn't show up then try another card reader - there can be differences in USB chipset implementations).
Import to the events from the archive. Once done, repeat from 1.
Phil

FCPx Crash and Burn (iMovie too)

Wow, what does Apple actually do?? I bought my first Apple computer last year (MBP 2.3 / 8gb RAM) and have been completely dissatisfied with the video editing capability in both Final Cut Pro and iMovie.
FCPx is giving me all types of issues. Computer runs sluggish, conversion to pro res is too much for computer, exports of audio create popping noises and most exports in general wont complete when containing significant transitions, slow motion, titles, etc...When you import the video you can go with "proxy" and NOT do transcoding, but then you are just setting yourself up for failure with export to QT. That being said, if you do complete the transcoding during import it will process to APP pro res in the background, but if you have any significant amount of video you might as well come back a week later and hope that it hasnt crashed your MAC yet.
I did one quick export just as a test which worked, but once you added audio (AND an Itunes FILE MIND YOU!) you get a horrible popping sound. (P.S. I shouldnt have to download some other program to convert an iTunes file to lesser quality so it does work, instead, Apple should fix the problem).
And dont even get me started on iMovie - what a waste of a program. It has all the capabilitites to be wonderful without any capability to actually be wonderful.
Best part about all this is support help from Apple is ZERO....PERIOD. No one in the stores knows jack. Genius bar is a joke. Nobody from Apple care can suggest anything but a new install and/or buy a new machine. As for the forums, its just a compelte head-spin. The thoughts are great, but everyone has a different one.
Bottom line Apple - you need to clearly test your own products and specificly state what is required to run them. Your suggestions now and what your stores preach is far from accurate. A MBP cannot run most, if any of these video editing programs when you want to do anything more then dump and export. Someone should have told me to buy the $4k machine if I wanted to edit video.
DONT PROVIDE IT IF IT WONT WORK AND MORE IMPORTANTLY....IF YOU WONT COMMENT WITH ANY SUPPORT! Start fixing problems instead of creating new products with little to no value increase. (i.e. MBP w/retna display, iphone 4, 4s and 5, Lion OS, iMovie, FCPx, etc...)

From what you say it must be a complete waste of money . . .
How on earth others manage to produce the most amazing feature-films and shorts with it is a total mystery to me.
Oh . . . Unless . .
Hey, you don't think they actually take the time to LEARN how to use the Application before they slag it off, do you?
The best tutorial is here:
http://www.rippletraining.com/categories/apple-pro-apps-tutorials/final-cut-pro- x-tutorials/apvs-fcpx.html
The best FREE tutorial is here:
http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/1-getting-started/
I think you'd get far more help in the Apple Forums if you clearly stated what problem you are encountering, what material you're working with and how the problem presented itself, rather than ranting. I glanced through your post and found nothing there to actually help you with, but FCP X works near perfectly for me - and I'm no magician.
It could work near-perfectly for you too, if you'd calm down.
Andy

FCPX newest 10.0.6 update = NICE! ... Do I stay or do I go?!

For all of my ranting and raving about certain issues with Premiere CS6, I have found it to be REALLY great in many ways. With a very helpful forum here its been a fairly easy transition coming from Final Cut Pro 7 last month. Since I edit full time 6 days a week finding just the right NLE for me was REALLY important. I did the 30 day trial of both FCPX and CS6. It took me WAY longer to figure out FCPX, but I gave each a full 30 days and they BOTH had their strengths/weaknesses. But ultimately there were just more features missing from FCPX that drove me nuts and since CS6 was an "easier" transition, I chose CS6. And now this... FCP just released a massive new feature rich update 10.0.6 that fills in several of the HUGE features that were missing that originally drove me away. So what the hell do I do now? Here are my reasons for staying and going as of right now:
Why stay with Premiere CS6:
It's easy. Not much different than what I was used to with FCP7.
It ties in nicely with Encore which I use often.
Adjustment layers and Warp Stabilizer (my favorite 2 features of Premiere CS6)
I've already hired 2 editors to work with me and made them both learn Premiere CS6 over the last month for my projects. This is huge for me because FCPX would be much more difficult to teach them or have them learn since they too came from FCP7.
This forum. I'm still finding new features every week that make my workflow easier and faster.
FCPX is much more confusing of a transition. After watching hours of tutorials on it sitting down to work I felt like I needed a Warp Stabilizer of my mind. Its an entirely different way of working and thinking about how you edit (granted, many of the things I didn't like are now fixed or added in this latest update)
Why go to FCPX:
I'm a Mac user and whether its true or not I've always felt that Premiere is optimized for PC users (more cards supported for GPU acceleration, etc. which makes it all run better) Don't get me wrong CS6 works on a Mac, but FCPX is definitely Mac optimized. This and the frequency and size of updates are the two biggest things for me in my leaning toward using FCPX.
While it's a more difficult transition, like I said above, many things I felt were missing have been added back in the latest update.
In many ways, I found FCPX to be so simple, almost too simple. Once I got over that simple doesn't mean that its not good, I found it to actually be a better way of doing things...for MOST (not all) .
Updates, updates, updates. They come fast and often and I love that. They are usually feature rich and the newest 10.0.6 is no exception. FCPX in just over 1 year has gone from "what were they thinking" to "wow" through all these added updates. And its not just adding in things that should have been there from the start, its adding them in a way that is even better and more streamlined than any other NLE.
Errors/Bugs in CS6. Premiere CS6 is a fantastic step for Adobe but I've had more "errors" and "bugs" than I ever thought was possible in just a few projects. Maybe its my computer (the most suped up 2011 iMac available), maybe its my files (AVCHD) but by the end of a recent project I had 7 versions of the same project because it crashed so much and I had to rename it upon re-opening it. Granted, there are many helpful people in this forum that provide great workarounds, but still the issues are there. I'm sure Adobe is working on them and a new program will always have bugs but its been a up and down ride so far. Almost went out and bought a PC the other day just to see if it would be better.
I already have (and totally understand) Compressor and other programs that integrate with FCP. Granted there's a lot to like about AME, I'm just saying.
Multicam is great in both but hands down better (in my opinion of course) on FCPX (especially with this update and the audio channel enhancements). Since I work with multicam edits a TON, this is important to me.
Damn. I thought I had made up my mind and now I don't know what to do. I'd say I'm 55-45 leaning towards staying but that's cuz I'd have to re-learn much of what took me so long to figure out the first time around. And I dread having to tell my editors okay, now learn this. Maybe I'll do another 30 day trial and see (can you do that?) if its worth switching. Maybe its not. I'm probably forgetting 5 things that drove me nuts about FCPX that made me say "that's it, I'm using Premiere!" I know asking this question "Do I stay or go?" in an Adobe forum is kind silly...but I figured why not. One things for sure...when it comes to making this switch, I know it will eventually become a permanent switch and for that reason, I'm totally indecisive.

oh and I just remembered another thing that bothered me in my FCPX experience: memory management. As someone in another forum put it...
"...one thing that FCPX needs is LOTS of memory. One of the main reasons is that there is a memory leak in FCPX, in which FCPX does not release unused accrued memory. As such your memory usage keeps adding up until you get the spinning pinwheel of death."
Yeah, I remember that sucked. With 16gb of memory, I had times where I checked and I had 14-15gb of "inactive" memory and things would slow way down. I had to use a 3rd party app like FreeMemory to release it and make it available/free again to FCPX so it would speed up. But it would just drop back down soon enough. Maybe its been fixed. Maybe it was my OS (10.6.8). Maybe it was the program. Who knows. But I do remember that not being fun.
Also I've read that if you are having issues with FCPX, then maybe "make sure you work with clips of 20 mins or less". What?! So if I have an hour long clip of an event, people suggest to break it up into 20 minute segments and then piece it back together later? This baffled me. PPro has its bugs no doubt and they cause it to freeze and crash but I remember now these things bothered me to no end in my 30 days with FCPX.

Great acne/scar removal trick + workflow tips for short music vids + creating a "template" in FCPX

To all fine people of the FCP X community forum:
     I’ve received a tremendous amount of helpful commentary on these boards. Using FCPX for my projects has really expedited my post production process. I thought I would show my gratitude by giving a tip I have been using the **** out of. For any skin imperfections like scars/acne/blemishes etc., i’ve been using the CENSOR tool. Here’s a before and after, You can see the censor filter applied to her forehead and a separate censor application with slightly different settings to her right cheek.
     I thought this might help others who are photographers who like to include videos of their shoots with models but don’t want to deal with After Effects/Motion. Full short video available here: http://instagram.com/p/nqdtqzTT7m/
     Unfortunately I wouldn’t be making my entrance into this beloved forum if I wasn’t in search of some advice from those much wiser than I. I am constantly making these 15 second BTS clips of my models and one of the most changed/switched out/substituted shots in almost every project I do is my first shot and the song selection.   Since I tend to use a lot of cuts even if I change the song last second it isn’t an issue to make a few adjustments between shots (helps that the duration of the video is so short) as long as the song has a fast tempo. I don’t add my song selection to the primary storyline and connect my video clips due to the fact that usually the song may be swapped out once a model decides she’d prefer something else or if I have a change of heart. Common sense tells me to avoid this annoyance by just working on my cuts first and waiting until the completion of my edit to add music. So what i’ve been doing is just working on the video and while editing listen to potential tracks on iTunes or via finder. But wanted to ask you guys:
1 - Should I stop adding my audio at the very end as a connected clip and just make add audio directly to my primary storyline and all video that I add subsequently are just “connected clips”? What is the benefit to this in regards to speed considering how often I am changing my starting and ending clips? I never did this because I assumed if I don’t want to use the song any more it would be too much of a hassle to add those clips to a new song (seems like i’d have to create a compound clip of everything with the old song disabled). Any thoughts?
2 - Am I able to create a “template” for common projects? For my BTS videos I generally always want my videos to be 23.98 fps, 1080, have 50 pixel margins on the top and bottom, generate a white background and have entire video shrink down to 58% for it to fit within the confines of apps like Instagram or Vine. It would save a **** of a lot of time if I could just save a template for these projects…
3 - I would just about KILL to see a few music video workflow options. I’m a Lynda.com subscriber and don’t see any workflow options, searched Larry David’s tutorials couldn’t find any and there aren’t many options on Youtube. Ever music video editor I know who works professionally uses Adobe Premiere… I would like to be the first in my circle to use and convince everyone to switch.
Thanks again for your all of your help everyone, hope my tip helps someone!
Anthony

Muito abrigado my friend! Seriously thanks a million, but I was curious to know about my situation regarding replacing my first shot multiple times... In another words there's a clip already in the storyline which won't allow me to replace edit since it just moves out of the way. Would you just go back into the browser and add the original selection to the first clip? Because I kept having to move my connected music and solid I just gave up and would wait until the end to add the music and solid (I add the solid to give the background a different color when I want to create the letterbox effect).
I just watched a music video tutorial where someone created a 3 minute solid, made like a hundred cuts with the blade tool and manually dragged each clip from his browser to replace from start for each of those cuts in the solid...
What is your workflow for music-based edits? Do you place the song in the primary story line and use the video as connected clips? Do you use a solid or gap clip and dissect it with cuts and replace the segments with clips? I really hate not being able to add markers to the timeline and must make those marks on a clip/generator/music track of some kind. Also if you have a project that has the same settings with fps, crop size, solid as a background is there a way to make template so I don't have to do that each and every time?
Thanks again my friend!!!
Anthony

Changed from macbook to Mac Pro (FCPX was upgraded) and don't know how to restore projects.

Hi,
Now I'm in trouble.
I was working last year with a MacBookPro and FCPX.
Everything nice and well.
I dediced to upgrade to MacPro, so I did a "backup" of all my Events and Projects folders of the MacBook Pro, and waited for the MacPro arrival...
Now when the MacPro downloaded the software, it has a newer FCP version and I don't know how to restore my old projects.
Could somebody help me to know where to restore my old projects and events? (it was a lot of job done to loose it now).
Thanks in advance.

Don't worry. It is more than worthy to upgrade to the new FCP X 10.1.1.
Plus, the process of updating your projects and events to the new version, which uses libraries, is pretty straightforward.
Before you proceed, I recommend you read up
here:
http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2013/12/upgrade-your-events-and-project-to-fcp-x-1 0-1-libraries-the-better-way/
and follow the video tutorials in
http://www.rippletraining.com/fcpx-features.html
and then come back if you have more questions.

I have recently downloaded final cut pro and i'm unable to access cinema tools. I understood this would be a free addition when purchasing FCPX?

i have recently downloaded final cut pro and i'm unable to access cinema tools. I understood this would be a free addition when purchasing FCPX?

Thanks for responding Tom. Yes I was trying to conform frame rates, I found a few threads/youtube tutorials that all used cinema tools. Now I've spent some time in FCPX I can see where you can conform.
Appreciate your help.

Which online tutorial do you recommend to learn FCPX 10.1?

There is an olverwhelming amount of websites and YouTube tutorials to learn FCPX 10.1. Which YouTube channel or website do you recommend? I am currently thinking about www.rippletraining.com. Thank you in advance.
I also wanted to add that I learn better by doing ie follow along with media files versus reading a book.

hi rebbi - I also like Israel (Izzy) Hyman's tutorials, he's not only talented, but he's very down to earth and humble in his approach and he has personally responded to e-mails, so he's definately top notch, and he's very reasonable about memberships. He offers limited time discounts often and they usually include everything.
I also like Mark Spencer who is the taller partner on MacBreak Studio. Steve Martin is great of course but I just lean toward Marks training style and he not only knows FCPX but he is fantastic in his Motion training.
Finally, one person who I think is super gifted but hasn't been mentioned; Andy Neil.
To Russ' advice, I agree - there are a lot of free tutorials by each of these trainers, and oddly, I think everything Andy has done is free. One way to access these is to subscribe to their podcasts. I highly recommend searching for each of their podcasts and subscribing to whichever one is your favorite, or all of them.
One more resource that I've enjoyed is Lynda.com
Sometimes you can contact them and ask for a trial memebership. They gave me a month trial with no obligations and at the time I was able to go through everything they had on FCPX before my trail expired, but since that time, they have increased their resources and again, very approachable training, down to earth as well.
-Stephen

If I replace memory sticks, will this affect ongoing FCPX projects?

Mid-year 2010 iMac with only 4GB memory (2x2). Computer running Extremely slow while editing, surfing web, everything! Nothing on the hardrive - already dumped everything onto external HD's months ago - but it just keeps getting slower. Today - patience ran out.
Just purchased 16GB memory (4x4).
Main concern - if I remove the 2x2GB memory sticks/cards, could this affect the current FCPX projects I am working on?
This may be a dumb question to experts, but my anxiety of losing these projects drives me to ask this important question before leaping.
I am grateful for any help and/or advice given!
Also - any other tips about helping your Mac run faster is always appreciated.
Thanks!

I feel sure that hwoever sold you your ram, first reasearched this. Look under the apple menu/about this mac to see how much Ram & its speed on your mac.
Have a look at this link.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMac
Try editing only after you start up your Mac. If you gotta go online, check your e-mail, play with FaceBook, etc. - do that then reboot to edit.
I also suggest deleting any startup items that you don't NEED to start up at LOGIN:
apple menu/system preferences/users & groups/log in items.
I downloaded a little app called System Pal from the App Store so I can see in real time what is using Ram & the CPU. Works for me.
So much of Final Cut Pro X takes advantage of the I7 chip & Vram. Unless you are having OS or software issues, your Mac is doing the best it can. Generally, I try to stay with App versions that are designed with my hardware.
I suggest using FCP X tutorials to learn the program really well. If you become a great editor, you will be able to afford a new machine in no tiime.
Goood Luck

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