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Comment on Stereo 3D in Sony Vegas by Evro Moudanidis

Evro Moudanidis — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:49:51 +0000

You’ve put a lot of work into this. A totally awesome write up, thanks for publishing in PDF format.

Do you think this could be adapted to work with the Nvidia GEforce 3D Vision kits so that we can produce stereoscopic content viewable on the new 3D TVs?

Congrats on a great article!
Ev

Comment on What Would FCP 8 Have to Offer To Keep You Interested? by shijan

shijan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:08:21 +0000

and some more: new single window interface, ability simply add effects to layer or all project, easy timeline navigation with mouse scroll (zoom in zoom out)

Comment on What Would FCP 8 Have to Offer To Keep You Interested? by shijan

shijan — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:15:46 +0000

i would like to see automatic crossfades of audio and video files, as in sony vegas

Comment on What Would FCP 8 Have to Offer To Keep You Interested? by daniel

daniel — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:10:46 +0000

o yah, and direct access to all of the sound libraries and video loops from motion

Comment on What Would FCP 8 Have to Offer To Keep You Interested? by daniel

daniel — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:05:46 +0000

*definitely need to fix the keyframes
*motion templates are cool, but every attribute should be assignable to a FCP control – if you enter text that’s 2 or 3 lines – you can’t even adjust the baseline
*support for grand central to keep up with the mercury engine
*all of STP’s filters and controls should be built in – you should be able to create busses and submixes and apply filters to entire tracks
*fix memory issues with large projects “preparing video for display”
*keyframing should be more like AE – and there should be a way to lock a keyframe to the start or end of a clip – if you’re doing a ken burns effect and adjust the length of the clip, you shouldn’t be stuck with still frames
*enable live fonts without having to go through motion
*make a simple way of creating your own effects by scripts or by combining current effects into a single effect
*most of color’s filters and controls should be available as plugins
*burn to DVD/bluray without exporting – most machines are fast enough to handle this in realtime once they implement grand central
*media manager should be able to collect stray files into your main media folder, without having to recopy all the ones that are already there
*STPs media linking sucks, and “replace with independent audio file” defaults to your documents folder instead of the same folder as your stmp file – so if you move the drive to another computer you’re screwed
*the fix clipped audio and DC offset have never done anything – there is a plugin by izotope that does – this should be built in

Comment on Web 2.0 Look-a-like: Little Frog in High Def by Shane Ross

Shane Ross — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:34:08 +0000

Made awesomer because you designed it so well.

Comment on What Would FCP 8 Have to Offer To Keep You Interested? by Tangier

Tangier — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:38:03 +0000

1. - redone interface (time to unify with OS X
2. - better way of doing Ken Burns-like moves (when I don’t feel like going to Motion
3. - easier method of handling keyframes in Motion Tab
4. - buy PluralEyes and integrate it
5. - icon views that are as snappy as Quicklook at the OS level
6. - smart media management (add files in finder – shows up in project) as an option
7. - give Blackmagic the knowhow on how to add Desktop out back to decklink/multibridge products in snow leopard
8. - everything AE can do now of course
9. - make it possible for media manager to handle Motion and Soundtrack media managing as well from within FCP so when I MM my sequence wit .stp and .mtn files it ACTUALLY media manages it.
10. - buy digital rebellion and integrate some of the recovery tools
11. - when i say arrange by name in icon view, please arrange in a grid instead of just leaving it messy
12. Quicklook integration for anything (almost)
13. Did i mention fresh interface – really would like for FCS and Color to have a unified look
14. export for iphone/ipad, etc
15. export to html 5 page (like Quicktime 7 share for web feature)
16. improve Quicktime X

If none of these are met, I’d still use it of course. I love FCP; my bread and butter.

Lastly and not part of the list – Apple should by Pixelmator, inject some Apple DNA, beef it up with GIMP code and add it to FCS ( a standalone will work too).

Comment on What Would FCP 8 Have to Offer To Keep You Interested? by Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:21:57 +0000

All what was said here plus the ability to put effects on tracks and not on clips only.

Comment on Find Bin Command in Final Cut Pro by demo reel los angeles

demo reel los angeles — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:19:20 +0000

I really like how final cut pro works. I used it quite a bit in a motion picture class that I had last spring. It was really great to learn how the program works. That’s great to hear that they have a find bin feature now. Awesome!

Comment on Changing Timecode / System Frequency on the Sony HDW-F500 by Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:55:58 +0000

Thanks for this one. Saved my ass at a film festival. Found this about 10 min before I had to play the feature. So dumb how they had the settings for that.