They tried to reinvent the wheel and FAILED!
This is a review from an editor who is paid to use the program!
There isnt full control! In previous versions or in another editing applications you control how the platform controls your edits. But in FCPX it controls it for you. And if you are a pro editor you want full control!
The application manages to undue its positives in areas that completely cripple your editing fundamentals. And its unpredictable ‘Magnetic Timeline is near impposible to deal with! Clips react in a disturbing manner, often unlinking the picture from the sound when editing or trimming clips. And im just scratching the surface with this issue!.
Here’s a simple list of positive and negative features inside FCPX.
The quick positives for this editing platform are simple…
- It looks cool!
- Easier methods for importing and setting up projects.
- Editing multicam projects.
- Range tool - Helps select portions of clips and editable inside that area.
- New color grading tools!
- Visual audio waveforms - Indicate peeking in color. And when working with audio leveling the colors change indicatting they’ve been changed or that they are at an acceptable decibal levels. However it only works with Monotone channels. Not usuable with stereo links.
Negatives (And I couldn’t list all of them because its way too much to add)
- Magnetic Timeline is a disaster and should be thrown out immediately!
- Trasitions create a grand clip for both audio and video
- Transitions are added to the butts of clips connected. Really Annoying because you have to go back and delete them!
- No right click short cuts for transitions.
- Transitions are also unpredictable - often moving the audio or video out of sink.
- Cant pull or separate different menu boxes to your viewing preference.
- No cut through blade for all clips!
- Cant save window layouts to your personal preferences!
- Snap cutting is hit or miss by a frame or two .
- Audio Clips do not snap to a frame or sub frame. They can be lengthened to be in-between frames. And with the magnetic timeline it constantly causes the audio to unsink form the video!
With this editing application from Apple is has taken the confidence out of the editor! I am constantly scared of how my edits are being efffected by the program! I am constantly checking for problems that the software creates on its own and I’m constantly having to go back and fix things that should never have been disturbed in the first place! It a complete mess!!!!!!!!!!
The biggest thing Apple can do to fix this program is to get rid of the Magnetic timeline!! Its horrendous! And it makes your life as an editor a living hell! It causes more problems then the solutions it solves!
All Apple had to do was take FCP7 and give it the look of ‘X’ and add a few new features like background rendering and a few other features that do work! Editors would have been doing backflips in the middle of the streets! But by creating a whole new application that is a complete disaster they have left professional editors frustrated and scratching their heads to figure a work around to all the problems in FCPX!
If you read this review and still buy the program, remember this text… YOU WERE WARNED!!!!!!!!!
M.E.85 about
Final Cut Pro