Re: Emmy award winning editor at NBC blogs about FCPX

While FCP X's color board is no Color, it's so far ahead of FCP 7's color tools. The lack of color wheels is odd, but I find the board intuitive in other ways. It was obviously a contraption to save space in the interface, and it does do that. Seems like so much of what they're doing is to save space. Except the timeline! I need the timeline on it's on monitor. Not the event or viewer!

And the new scopes are just amazing. Sure would be nice to see more that one at a time.

Considering Color is eol'd, any point that you can't roundtrip to color somewhat moot. But you can roundtrip in much better fashion to Resolve. And it's free (for 1080p lite version).

I don't send to pro tools much, but I do occasionally send a project out for sweeten or mix if there's a budget. That said, I'm liking audio mixing in X so much better than legacy. It seems that some really need the audio tool in their workflow. If so they won't be happy. But I rarely used the tool in any sort of "live" fashion. I didn't record keyframes. The times I did, I found myself having to go back and clean up. I used to to live mix clips, but I found myself always confused as to what track a clip was on. Now, I just adjust the volume of the clip right in the track while it's playing. I can even MOVE a clip while it's playing. I can even ADD KEYFRAMES while it's playing. I can add a RANGE and lower the volume of that area while it's playing, eithe by hand, or by keyboard shortcuts. I can see the waveforms of each track adjust as I make changes. So, no, I don't have a little window with audio sliders and all the pretty meters going. What I have instead is direct, in the timeline live manipulation of volume and filters and even placement. I can see the waveform of a whole track adjust and see any problem areas without listening to every second of a track and watching every little meter. To me, it's much more organic.

And aren't they planning some sort of multitrack audio tools? Seems like it'll be one of the better NLE audio systems if they add a mixer interface and make anyone happy.