Re: FCPX from an Editor who used it on Iditarod 2012

[Andy Field] "that's a big missing feature"

Yes, it is. I'm just making my adjustments in the timeline. (BTW I love those faders that he talked about)

Remember most of the events I'm working on are out of million dollar remote trucks.

Games aside, if we do a multi-cam round table for MLB or heck Oprah was just here,

the client wants all cameras isoed so they can do their own cut later sometimes, but the sound is mixed from the truck and sometimes submixed from the stage to the truck. They might just say give me the straight mix off the x-file or want certain talent mics to go with the camera that his that talent.

In the case where they want talent broke out they STILL take the main mix from the board on one ch (or two if it's stereo) because they just don't want to re-mix the whole show. They want to cover themselves and that's cool but no matter how big their show is, and I don't know many people bigger than Oprah, at the end of the day they are leaving that truck with 4 tracks of audio. No matter how much wire gets hung out on set day.

My point is, the bigger these shows are, and the more complicated the audio is, the more mixed they are, before it ever gets to whoever will re-cut it. At that point the hard work in audio is already done.