Re-linking Files? Proxies? Are they correcting anything with FCX?
How is it that there's still no way to force relink footage? Is Apple correcting anything with FCX? If they are, it's moved slower than molasses.
All I read on these posts are people telling users problems are their fault, they need to work how Apple wants them to, or wait until Apple is magnanimous enough to fix these things. When will that be?
We already bought Final Cut Server, which Apple prompty stopped supporting. So, we wasted our money there. Now, an even worse piece of software, and on top of that I have to listen to all these people say it's my fault if I want to work with low-res temp graphics, etc.?
Are you guys mental, or just not professional video editors? I would like a real answer to what Apple is doing with this. I've found FCX's file management extremely buggy and problematic. I've got all kinds of clips unlinked that it won't re-link, and all I'm told is that I must have moved things. Well, I didn't. If I could force relink, all of this would be solved. But for some reason your program doesn't allow this.
We're a professional company, with a lot of sequences (or "Projects"). FCX pulls them all up at once, to make a long story short, ruining the memory situation. We're running it on one of your latest desktops, but it can't even handle it at a decent pace. I've built a PC at home with Adobe Premiere that simply destroys your "professional" editing setup in convenience, speed, and functionality. I can easily re-link any piece of footage with no lost time, and don't even have to be careful about what sequence it's used in!
Just felt like I should give Apple a chance to respond if they event want our business as professionals anymore. That way, anyone can look at it and see if they have a good response to these issues or not, and make their own decisions accordingly. Christ in heaven, a shame to watch them destroying their whole brand. Lose the professionals, and believe me you'll lose the prosumers quick, too... and then everyone.
1. It doesn't require extra software, you can do it manually. The software just makes it easier.
3. That's a matter of opinion. After I used X for a while I had to go back to 7 and found that 7 truly suxed and was a real dog to use, and I'd been using it since 99.
4. Really? You're bothered by nomenclature?
There is absolutely no need for you to insult people. I'm not making feature films, nor have I ever had a skateboarding video, but I have been using video editing software since the early versions of Premiere in the early 90s. I've gone through them all.
I like programs to do what I want them to
What you mean is you like programs to work they way you're used to working. If you don't like the software don't use it. There's a trial version. Try it. Don't like it? Move on.
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So I cannot even access the application. It was working fine yesterday and today I get this error message:
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I am completely confused. I use aperture everyday and today when I tried to open it I got the following message " aperture cannot access this library" then it said to use this library , make sure its file permissions are set correctly"
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