I'm still on FCP6 and although it is more stable than some NLE's I've used it still has it's fair share of annoying bugs. Has anyone noticed a significant difference in FCP7?
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Haven't noticed any bugs in either 6 or 7 so can't really help. If you could say what some of these bugs are, I could tell you if they happen in 7.
Random crashing when you have 2-3 sequences open. Key frames that appear to misalign when adjusting them in the Viewer. Audio transitions that somehow link with a video transition on the same clip.
Those are just some of mine. There was a whole thread about others here: http://library.creativecow.net/articles/garchow_jeremy/final_cut_pro_6.php
Touch wood, I haven't had any of those things at all in either version.
I have. I'd say 7 is buggyer ( is that a word). But then again I purchased FCP 6 well after it's release and so had no problems. These thing do take time to settle down.
Mine shuts down without warning sometimes. Then it won't open again. A restart does not cure it. You must Shut down - count to 10 - then power up the system again.
Only tends to happen when I'm working through things really fast. Shame cause the Pro has 12gb of Ram.
I have. I'd say 7 is buggyer ( is that a word). But then again I purchased FCP 6 well after it's release and so had no problems. These thing do take time to settle down.Mine shuts down without warning sometimes. Then it won't open again. A restart does not cure it. You must Shut down - count to 10 - then power up the system again.
Only tends to happen when I'm working through things really fast. Shame cause the Pro has 12gb of Ram.
Ours shuts down too, occasionally, we are running latest version on MacPros. Also, I don't think FCP uses more than 3gb of your RAM - although I think Motion and Color do.
Thanks guys, I'll stick with 6 for now then. By the way FCP only uses 2.5 or 4gb's of RAM maximum (depending on how you look at it) and that's official according to Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA27734
Ironic that my latest Mac has 16 gigs, 12 of which are doing nothing 95% of the time!
I've heard that the annoying speed bug has been fixed, this is the one that when you apply speed to a clip it starts moving the whole timeline around.
Have they actually added a titler to FCP 7 yet? the titling facilities in Version 6 are beyond disgraceful
also does the keyframe smoother on the rotation and scale in the motion tab now match the "ease in and ease out" command when moving a clip vertically and horizontally using the motion tab
Have they actually added a titler to FCP 7 yet?
Hi
Just as when the original versions of Premiere were found wanting Adobe took over After Effects to give editors the compositing tool they needed, so Apple have developed round-tripping to Motion, which is some all-singing all-dancing titler (and some).
Since FCP 7 is still a development of FCP 1-6 a radical change in its editing paradigm will have to await its evolution into a 64-bit super-NLE.
But there again that will probably upset as many people who know how to work it now as will please those who hanker for something 'different'. ;)
Hi
Just as when the original versions of Premiere were found wanting Adobe took over After Effects to give editors the compositing tool they needed, so Apple have developed round-tripping to Motion, which is some all-singing all-dancing titler (and some).Since FCP 7 is still a development of FCP 1-6 a radical change in its editing paradigm will have to await its evolution into a 64-bit super-NLE.
But there again that will probably upset as many people who know how to work it now as will please those who hanker for something 'different'. ;)
Thats a poor excuse, compositing is a specialised task where as titling is something we all need to do regularly and to be limited by only being able to write half a screen at a time or not able to change font or size without creating additional layers is ridiculous.
I understand for complex titles motion would be good or even title designer(? can't remeber the name now) but these are external programs and even a round trip is indeed a trip when the likes of premiere, liquid, avid, edius and vegas can do so much more actually directly onto the timeline.