![]() I get a feeling that it could be rather annoying (Inserts disclaimer that I just don’t know how Spotlight handles Aliases in general, they are something that I myself never use unless the system decides I am going to) This bugs me, I am not sure why I am upset that it’s making the Aliases, but it just annoys me, and at the same time I really hope Spotlight doesn’t index these aliases. Simply put, when you tell FCPX not to move and copy media it creates Alias for that media within the event folder. Okay sure you have the option to leave your pre-organized media intact and not copy it, sort of. Continuing my rant on final cut’s import and organizing, it doesn’t like any media outside of the event folder it makes on each hard drive you use. ![]() ![]() That’s right, version auto-saves are gone, there’s no longer an auto-save folder, so don’t make too many changes since you might not like as it might not be that easy to go back to them later and change your project. However if you want to save to one hard drive, keep your media to another, and maybe have your autosaves go to a dropbox (instant back of project files) then you have to tweak with the folders, something I haven’t tried yet myself, but will do so eventually, since I really enjoy having my auto-saves back up by themselves. It takes the need to organize and care for your media out of your mind, no longer needing to set scratch disk. FCPX so far has worked surprising well with native formats, so it’s not a huge deal for me so far not optimizing media.įCPX will transfer your media and organize it for you based on event. I love this idea, no longer do you have to log and transfer and wait for the clips to transcode, a huge thumbs up to Apple for doing this, yet it will “optimize”, I mean transcode, in the background, which I found to bring my 17″ Macbook Pro with a 2.8 first gen i7 to a crawling hault. Well theoretically with FCPX it will be there, as the software’s intent is to allow you to edit off the card, copying the media then rendering it into an “optimized format” (ProRes). I have friends that can edit off a CF Card and when they unplug that card their media is still going to be there. Simply by default it’s set to do all the work for you: to copy, import and render media,which I have already found to be undesirable. (I take back the meters, they are there, more iMovie-ish but we still get full sized meters near the timeline … if you want) I will say that I enjoy the darker colors, I think that they are easier on the eyes then the lighter color scheme of Final Cut Pro 7. This is what you get: you don’t even get audio meters to start with, but it seems with the way that everything is automated by default, why would the default user know what the meters are, or really care to use them. The irony is that during the loading process of FCPX there is a status of loading window layouts. When I first opened Final Cut Pro X I was disappointed, mainly because I have a certain layouts I work with depending on the project that I use, and I rarely find myself ever using the standard layout that Apple provides you with, which is almost what you have with this version of Final Cut. I will be the first to admit it’s great when it comes to making slide shows for a sequence of still images. ![]() If you really look at it, this is the first major update that we have seen to video editing in a long time, other than iMovie, and anyone that considers themselves more than just a home movie editor really doesn’t use iMovie. I have to admit, despite the screenshots I was really excited for Final Cut Pro X. I try very hard to walk into everything with an objective mindset, and try to find the pros and have them outweigh the cons. ![]()
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