Final cut pro x.0.6 review

What is the concensus of where Final Cut Pro X is at this point? I have been looking for updated feedback from Walter Murch, but can't find any. The reviews up to now have been - disturbing.

It depends on what you're using it for. From what I've read, the consensus seems to be that if you're a small shop going straight from camera to YouTube or other digital output, FCP X is nice and efficient and works great. The consensus from shops working with many clients who work more traditionally, connect to a wide range of older more specialized studio hardware or work with older media like tape archives, is that FCP X is missing a lot of features and details they need.
You might get a better answer from the users in the Final Cut Pro forum here.

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What's the best external drive to use with Final Cut Pro?

I'm looking for a drive to mainly back up my final cut pro work, possibly do a little editing on, what's best? I have a G5 desktop.

Congratulations on your graduation.
On the hope that during your college career you learned how to do original research, you could show some clear initiative and read through those threads my link will reveal. From the drives discussed you might find common elements (praise or conndemnation) that show up after reading dozens of threads. Of the ones that get consistently good reviews by serious users, you can then go the website of the manufacturer and figure out if they fit your budget.
All this can be done in the time of you waiting around for a few people to chip into this thread.
Good luck.
x

Final cut pro 5.1 and photoshop cs2 w. macbook

it seems that the reviews have been up and down with the usage of these programs on the macbook--considering the graphics card in this puppy.
i currently have the old school powerbook 15" 867 and i am considering about getting into the macbook 2.0g (with 2gig ram)--my only concern is that i use those two programs an awful lot--pretty much the only thing i use that makes my computer really work. considering that i am a student on a tight budget, and that i do have G5 machines at school to do my heavy duty editing, does anyone know if there has been any more updated reviews about these programs and the macbook? if anything, it should definitely be better than my old school powerbook right? it has been quite awhile since i been in the hunt for a new computer. any help would be greatly appreciated!
powerbook 867 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

This is my simple advice, buy the correct tool for your software. Final Cut Pro is NOT supported by Apple on the MacBook. It supported on the MacBook Pro. You weren't using an iBook before you had a PowerBook, why would you get a MacBook now and not a MacBook Pro? If I were you, I would get a MacBook Pro with the base amount of RAM and upgrade that later.
-Doug

Final Cut Pro X witch Blu-ray Burner are you using ...

Using a Mac Pro Tower like the Mac Pro 2012 or similar what are the Blu-ray Internal Burners do you use ; LG or Pioneer , witch Model Number.
Creating Blu-ray on the Mac is fantastic but witch brand and model numbers for the Big Mac Pro Tower are you using with exellent results now.
On the Mac Apple Pro Apps or Roxio Toast Titanium are the only left options who are current and updated , but burners specified for Windows.
Frustration come when you talk to Apple they say not supported , Burners makers LG or Pioneer will say we dont offer support on the Mac.
Well if you can create Blu-ray on the Mac but cant get any help to burn it it is very frustrating and Not So Pro if Apple care for the Pro Users.

I use the new Mac Pro 2013. Final Cut Pro X version 10.1.4 and Maverick OS 10.9.5. An external Blu-ray burner LG BE14NU40. I've use single burn Blu-ray discs from brands like Maxell and Verbatim. That works fine. I have double layers Blu-ray discs not tried. I use it for home video’s.
DVD single works fine too. DVD double layers I have not tried but will also work i think. Reviews on LG USA stated that Roxio Titanium with corresponding plugin works.
I'm glad I found a blu-ray burner that works with FCPX. Compressor 4.1.3 but I have not been working with the LG burner. Not yet!

Sony NX30 or Canon XA10 for Final Cut Pro X?

I produce for nonprofits and am about to purchase a new iMac with Final Cut Pro X, and need to also purchase a video camera. The Sony NX30 or Canon XA10 are in my budget, but my challenge is that I'm not a real technical person, and so need to be able to import the footage easily into FCP-X. ANY advice on which camera would be best? Any advice would be very much appreciated.

This forum is not really suitable for comparing cameras as few (if any) people will have experience of both.
As the cameras are both AVCHD there should be no difference regarding the "ease of import".
The only thing that should concern you is whether one performs optically better than the other . . . . if neither, then get the cheaper.
Google for camera reviews, but treat with caution those written by customers.
The best reviews are usually by professional testers who subject them to a standardised battery of tests.

Sony DCR-HC42 and Final Cut Pro??

Can anyone verify that the Sony DCR HC42 digital video camera works with an G4 12" iBook and Final Cut Pro 5??
I want to buy this camera but want to make sure I can edit the footage with FCP.
Any help would be appreciated.

Have you checked at Apple's Final Cut Studio web
site:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/qualif
ication.html
It doesn't appear on the certified list.
However, googling the cam reveals:
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Sony-DCR-HC42-Cam
corder-Review.htm
Glad to help, but it's always good to be resourceful
first.
The real issue is a G4 iBook with no second firewire
bus, the need for a firewire capture disk and FCP5.
You are not going to be very productive with this set
up and there will be issues of DF and throughput.
That iBook can't use much RAM
best wishes
Thanks, I appreciate the help.
I had already checked the FCP offical list - sorry did not mention in the post.
I had also checked a lot of other sites and found nothing clearly stating that the DCR-HC42 works with the G4 iBook and FCP - but I had seen a review from a customer (on some site) saying it did not work with thier iMac (where other cameras like Canon had) and they thought that it might be due to a video card issue??
As for the set up - not doing any major editing jobs so I think that I am OK.
Any more info would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Final Cut Pro Vs. Premere Pro

I was think to move up to final cut pro but I saw that on Premiere Pro has an option to view and edit multiple video track. I was writing to find out if FCP has the same option?

Here's a good review of FCS features:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/fcp_5_newmartin.html

I am putting together a proposal for a Final Cut Pro Workstation to use with a tapeless HD camera. Can anyone suggest the best camera (in the 5-10,000 dollar range) ? What hardware and software should I include in the package?

I am putting together a proposal for a Final Cut Pro Workstation to use with a tapeless HD camera. Can anyone suggest the best camera (in the 5-10,000 dollar range) ? What hardware and software should I include in the package?

This is quite an open suggestion, but here are some ideas which might get you started. There are good HD cameras in your price range from Sony, Panasonic and Canon (and maybe other manufacturers). Tapeless formats vary. I have only worked with Sony XDCAM which seems pretty good to me. File sizes for material shot at 35MBS are not too huge and, with the free Sony transfer and conversion programme, are easy to bring into the computer via USB direct from the camera or from a fairly inexpensive converter. The Sony XDCAM EX3 can produce results well up to broadcast quality.
As to hardware, you'll need a powerful MAC - iMac, Macbook Pro or MacPro with 4GB or more of RAM and a good video card. Softwarewise, FCPX is quite a bit cheaper than FC Studio 3 and of course it's 64bit and can make better use of multi-core machines than FCP7. It's also designed to handle HD formats with less hassle than FCP7 and is matched to the latest versions of Motion and Compressor. But you'd probably be wise to search reviews of FCPX before you make your choice - it has some issues.
A good HD monitor will be essential and, for colour correction etc, you may want to consider a second monitor or HD TV foe editing. ( A MacPro is generally the best machine to connect a second monitor to).
This should give you a good editing system, but there are many other things you could add (Photoshop, professional sound monitors, etc)
Hope this helps a bit.
Jonathan

Final cut pro x corruption after combining events

Hi,
I installed the trial of Final Cut Pro X 2 days ago to determine if it will work properly for me. It seems that I am getting sporadic corruption when merging events, which may turn out to be a show stopper.
I am doing small merges - 2-3 events with 2-3 short clips. In general it has been fine, except yesterday I got 2 clips correped during a merge, a crash of the app which corrupted a day, and just today 5 clips from a single merge got corrupted.
Note I using the FCPX event libray and dragging/dropping to move clips around.
Any ideas of why this may be happening and whether this is a known issue?
iMac 2.8 dual core, 4G, plenty if disk (260G free)
all of the latest OS patches as well as the latest FCPX.
Nothing else significant has been running concurrently.
If there are any missing details, please do let me know.
Thanks,
Gary

Hey Andy,
Thanks for the response. To start I am a complete newbie to FCPX and have had very limited exp in iMovie. The importing was terribly slow for iMovie and I never got around to actually editing. I have a pretty lenghty response below so as to provide details.
Workflow:
1) I had done an import of files from an archives as well as my iMovie directory (as I had some clips which were missed from my orginal import into iMovie). For iMovie, I had really just been building an collection of videos which were very disorganized. I had lots of events which were date1_1, date1_2, date1_3, date_2, date_3... So checking out FCPX, I figured I would group clips mostly by an event of MONTH YR, except where there was an actual event such as a birthday.
This really cleaned up my events. As a next step, I plan to further review and break out additional events.
2) workflow going forward (current plan anyhow) - please do let me know if you have a different recommendation
now - import new footage -> either put it into the generic MONTH YR event, or put into a new appropriately labeled grouping -> some time in the future actually do something with all of this video I have taken.
On a side note, it appears that I did not have corruption, but clips that had to be re-linked. I just did a re-import from iMovie or the camera archive and that seemed to do the trick. I understand, in the future I just need to re-link
Codec:
I have the optimized video selected, however, it was just taking too long on my computer so I had stopped the transcode on several occasions..
Location:
all on my primary drive - 4T 7200
Memory:
The cpu seems to be the bottleneck - uses 150% of my dual-core. The memory seemed to be okay, but I have ordered a 4G ram chip to replace one of my 2G to bring me to 6G.
I did have a crash during an import at some point and not sure about the impact on any files, so I have DELETED MY FCPX Events and am performing a new re-import. I will not lose anything significant as I had only been reorganzing the video. I do clearly have a I have updated the prefs to only optimize. The other options I will do adhoc.
After an import from iMovie, I will be importing from my 3 camera archives since not everything is in iMovie...so this will mean dupes. I know that FCPX will prevent dupes from a particular source, but now we are talking about 3 sources which will have duplicates. Any recommendations here?
Thanks,
Gary

Can't share final cut pro latest version across my macs.

I have purchased, for quite a bit of money, the latest Final Cut Pro for my macbook pro - 10.5.6, I think it is , - I really find all these decimal numbers meaningless, confusing and difficult to remember.
Still, I want to share the purchased fcp app so I can use it also on my macbook air.
Trouble is, my macbook pro runs on snowleopard, and the macbook air, which I bought more recently runs on mountain lion,.. no, just Lion....
This latest version of FCP is not supported by Lion (10.7.4), so my macbook air can't download it.
The solution to this problem may seem obvious to many, but I can't see it. And the problem is just nuts!
Any clues as to how to get my - later version - macbook air to work with the latest version of Final Cut Pro would be much appreciated. Taa

Lousy Fool
Sigh, the wink at the bottom really doesn't help you to get away with the patronism in your answer you know.
I know what OSX systems each of my macs run - 10.6.8 for the mcp and 10.7.4 for the mbair.
I don't want to "stress software update in the same apple menu" and move from 10.7.4 to 10.7.5, because its my understanding from researching reviews on this forum, and from my own experience that updating the operating systems on macs can cause hassle. If I am wrong in this then thats my learning.
Finally, with regards to my expectations, it was a trainer at an applestore , fully aware that I was using these two operating systems, who suggested I upgrade my final cut pro. My expectations were that he knew what fcps compatibilities were.
Finally, what kind of company releases an upgrage system is compatible with an earlier version of its own software (10.6.8), but not with a later one (10.7.4). I do have expectations of apple being better than this.
This is only the second time I've come onto an apple forum to ask a genuine question that foxes me, and the second time I've received the kind of reply that its intended to put one down. Be aware of how your answers come across please.

When I try to upgrade final cut pro x, the app store wants me to buy a new version, why?

when I try to upgrade final cut pro x, the app store wants me to buy a new version, why?

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Getting error message in Final Cut Pro X for frame 13142 when sharing

I am sharing a project to Master File and I get an error message: error occured when creating frame 13142. How can I find that frame?

I had frame generation error last nigtht trying to make master file on a short 5 mintue simple video I built.
It said error was on frame 6797.
I seach for soluitons and nothing seem to help.
I tried copying project contents to new project and that still failed with frame error 6797.
I then reviewed that frame and it was the one time in project I used any special affects for movement of image, Ken Burns and Key frame transform affects on a freeze frame image.
I createa new third project copied contents in and remove the freeze frame image. added freeze frame image back into project and only did Ken Burnes affect without key frame movement.
i was then able to complete geneeation and share project.
So if you get a frame generation error check that frame and see what special affects your using. There maybe a bug in FInal Cut Pro X when you mix and match affects on one object in a project.
hope this helps someone... I was stuck for several hours on this last night.
bill sanderson

Encore CS3 and Final Cut Pro

Is there any way to import chapter markers into Encore from FCP, or do I have to recreate them all from scratch in Encore?
I have a feature-length movie I added chapters to in Final Cut Pro. I then exported it as QuickTime with DVD Studio Pro chapter markers included, then transcoded it using Compressor.
Importing the resulting audio and video files into DSP results in the expected Chapters in the timeline, but bringing the assets into Encore does not. I also tried exporting the QuickTime movie from FCP with the "All Markers" option, but that didn't work either.
I want to give Encore a chance over DSP due to the better integration with Photoshop and AE CS3 for motion menus and menu animation... but I'm currently using a Final Cut Studio-based workflow, and there doesn't seem to be support for that in Encore. I don't even see any mention of Final Cut in the Encore manual.
Note that I'm using Encore CS3 on Windows. FCP... is of course on my Mac.

This looks promising. Too bad there's no standard exchange format for DVD Chapter Markers.
http://www.spherico.com/filmtools/start.html
XML2Text (updated for XML version 2)
is a powerful tool to read FCP sequence XMLs, extract useful information and store this information in different formats or convert it.
Some of the key features:
* Get/review chapter Markers from Final Cut Pro Sequence Markers to create a chapter list for DVD Studio Pro or other encoders than Apple's Compressor.
* Create a merged tape of selects or used clips.
* Get Clip level Markers out of a Sequence and lift them to Sequence level markers
* Print a list of Markers from the sequence, with time stamp (Timecode)
* Extract the text from Markers to use to build menus in Adobe Photoshop
* List all Clips with Scene, Shot, log note, comment etc in a simpler list than a batch export without needing the original Sequence

Final Cut Pro HD (4.5) compatability with Canon HV10

I got a great deal and read reviews from Mac sources regarding the Canon HV10. There was some question about the camcorder, but as an introduction into the world of HDV, I thought I could work with it for my specific needs and I did get a pretty decent price.
BUT, iMovie in my OSX Leopard which I just installed recognizes the camera BUT it comes in all bright green and pink even though the playback in the cam looks normal, and Final Cut Pro HD (4.5) just won't see the HV10, even with the HDV/DV cable they require you to purchase.
Do I have to update Final Cut Pro? Is this something that is just not going to work with the FCP 4.5?
Any help would be seriously appreciated.
Thanks so much.
Rod

FCP4.5 does not do HDV. You need either iMovie8, FCE 4 or FCStudio 2 for that codec.
x

Should i buy Final cut Pro X, or is the program bad?

I have downloaded the trial, and it works great...I read reviews that it slows down in the actual version. They say there is a lot of missing features. Should I buy the Final Cut Pro X, or try to buy FCS3?

If you like the trial, you'll love the application.
Don't listen to all the bad reports - believe in what you see for yourself.
I've used Final Cut Pro professionally since FCP 3 and I can tell you FCP X is an awesome application - it's saved me hundreds of hours of editing, and I love using it.
If you buy the application, your Events and Projects will still be there for you when you launch it.
Good luck!
Andy

Final cut pro x.0.6 review

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