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You can’t pancake timelines in Final Cut like you’re doing in Premiere because the Browser acts as your timeline full of selects. This is what’s amazing about FCP (in addition to the Magnetic Timeline) because with Filmstrip mode in the Browser combined with Favoriting & Keyword Collections, you’re simplifying the process of making selects and adding all the benefits of the search and sorting capabilities of the Browser. Plus you can SEE all of your clips or selects (because it’s a filmstrip-just like how film way back in the day was edited) in the Browser…and then just click and drag into your edit as you build it. Make your selects using Keywording and Favoriting in the Browser before you even touch a Timeline, and then you’re set up to crush your edits. You must unlearn what you have learned. You can’t make FCP act like Premiere. It’s a complete paradigm shift. But once it all clicks, it’s almost impossible to go back to tracks and pancaked timelines. 🤘🏻
Yes basically he needs to see the browser as the timeline he is wishing he had. Not to sound mean, but this is very basic. I just changed from PP to FCP and after a day of watching a creative live course and playing around it provides me the same functionality he had before but much more organized and dynamic. Hell it even looks like a timeline if you want it to.
^This. Timeline nesting is in response to not having great organizational options in the NLE. FCPX corrects this via the media browser to address this very issue! It even takes this further with meta data, keywords collections, smart collections, etc.
Filmstrips and keywords are better than seeing your actual clips on a big screen? How do you make nuanced decisions? I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m genuinely interested - imagine you have 3 takes of the same thing. Or 3 similar answers in an interview. You want to look at them back to back on your program monitor - and make a decision based on critical things like lighting, timing, content and delivery. What’s the best way in FCP to do that?
Long time fan of fstoppers. A lot of things Lee does here either have simple fixes or easier methods (timestamps below). I've been editing in FCPX for 7 years, and I'm currently learning Davinci Resolve. 2:10 - What you want is right click "lift from storyline" and the position tool (shortcut is P). FCPX does have tracks (sorta). The default track Lee's been using is the ONLY magnetic timeline in the software. You can keep stacking footage on "tracks" just like you did in premiere by using the position tool. Personally, I place a clip in the timeline by using Q (this puts a placeholder in the magnetic timeline), I drag the gray placeholder out really long, then place all clips on top just like you're doing in premiere. In my method, snapping still works, you just won't have to deal with the magnetic timeline. 6:13 - Color Finale 2.0 is a plugin that's very similar to the Lumetri panel. I wouldn't recommend this plugin anymore, it's been kinda buggy lately. 11:00 - you didn't mention color masks, shape masks, and tracking within the color panels. Not sure if you knew those already, but these are things davinci resolve also allows. 14:07 - the way you dragged this lens flare is the same way you drag footage on to a higher track. If it's a clip already in the timeline, use the position tool P. 16:39 - Move the 2nd clip to a higher track (lift from storyline), add transition, and you won't get this error regardless of length. 17:50 - you don't have to delete and re-add transitions to swap. Just drag the new one onto the existing one to swap. Advanced Tip: You can stack transitions on multiple tracks to combine them. Ryan Nangle is a popular FCPX editor that does this all the time.
@Life by Adam I don‘t recommend using the position tool where what you try to do is fighting the timeline magnetism. In the example with the clip from the end that should go to the middle, I never drag it around. Instead: cmd+x, cmd+v. This shows btw the value of the magnetic timeline. You can do this with very complex sequences with hundreds of connected clips (common practice if not with b-roll then at least with sound design) without ever having to manage your tracks. Everyone whoever said he preferred pancake editing like in Premiere has not yet found this.
@@lifebyadam Because I like Lee and have tremendous respect for him, which only grew over the years, I'd _love_ to see him have his eureka moment with FCP publicly, though, to be clear, there's nothing wrong with being accustomed to Premiere and ultimately preferring it. What I don't like to see are comparisons of some minor differences (CC or handling of plugins), while not addressing the timeline paradigm. Recently, for example, Matti Haapoja made a 'tutorial' on FCP, in which he tried to force it to behave like Premiere. Which it couldn't, and so a few weeks later, Matti admitted defeat _by saying that FCP was inferior_ to Premiere. One of the best performers when it comes to FCP ist Thomas Grove Carter, and if you take your time and watch this 6 year old demo thoroughly and _still_ think FCP isn't good for serious editing, then so be it: vimeo.com/video/194855528
Yeahhh, at this point, it's just a matter of: either learn to to use FCP like it was designed, or just stick with Premiere, either way will be far more productive than trying to get FCP to work like Premiere. I used FCP6 and 7 before switching to X, then my work made the switch to PP, and it's been fine. If we switched to FCPX, that'd be fine too, and probably the only 2 things I'd miss would be maximizing windows with the Tilde key, and track-based audio. But it'd still be fine.
If you stick to FCPX there is a way to not stack by using the tags instead: you tag what you want as B-roll (not whole clips, the tag will be of the duration you decide) and then pick and choose from this bin - very fast and efficient workflow
I always used to diss Premiere because I hadn't really used it before. A couple of years ago I sold my MacBook so I could purchase an iPad Pro for school, and so I had to switch to Premiere on my PC for my video editing work. Because I was using it full time, I really had to learn the ins and outs of PP. After becoming reasonably experienced on it, and having produced a tonne of content for clients and for personal use, I was so fed up with how buggy and overly complicated some things were in Adobe software in general. It was so bad that it actually pushed me to buy a 16" MB Pro and switch back to FCP. Since then I've switched back to Final Cut and I frankly couldn't be happier. Premiere now feels like shit (politely) when I need to use it every now and again haha.
Pro-tip for FCPX grading: you can drag your adjustments up and down. For example, you can drag a color wheel adjustment above your LUT and it changes the order of the adjustments, just as nodes do in Resolve. And it makes a huge difference in the effect. Just as you do in Resolve, make sure the LUT adjustment is after/below the direct color adjustments for a much better grade with subtler reactions to the grading.
This is a great video. I started learning on PP for a few months then recently started learning FCP. This video eased my mind because FCP is so different I was thinking I just couldn't figure things out. But the comments and this video has inspired me to keep pushing. I think it will be a better fit for my business. Thanks.
I've been using PP for about 6 months, it seems like every time I color corrected, it never looked the same after I exported. I tried FC and once I got the hang of it, the exports are exactly what I expected
I think the way of getting footage into the timeline should be done differently in FC. Each clip should be watched, without pulling everything into a project (timeline). In (i) and Out (o) points should be set for each. You can have several In and Out points per a clip. 'F' is to favourite them. When you favourite a clip, you have a smart folder in the library (on the left) that now has all your favourites. So now you will be able to use them as you need them. So dragging everything into a timeline isn't needed anymore. It's essentially a planning stage before the editing starts. It makes for just having the best clips coming into your project. It might seem like another step, but you'll find that the editing becomes much more of an enjoyable process. I think this is the main difference. It's the approach that needs changing. No more 'pancaking' two timelines.
I was a Premier Pro/AVID on Windows guy for 10 years until out plant went totally Mac, then I had to learn FCP Studio, which was quite similar to Premiere at the time. When FCPX came out 11 years ago or so, we bought it for $299. It was buggy and lacked a lot of features, but we made do. In 11 years we have not laid out a cent on upgrades for this product. So from a financial side of things, this program hasn’t cost us anything like $89/month CDN it would cost me to own a Creative Cloud subscription. Add in Apple Motion, and you can make your own custom effects for Final Cut. Coming from a tape based and film background, FCP encourages you to make your selects in the clip browser before laying them in the timeline. Learning the keyboard shortcuts will definitely streamline your productivity, and you can copy and paste attributes from one clip to another. (For example, with the colour grade you could select the clip, press CMD C, and then move to a similar clip, select it and press SHIFT CMD V, and select the attributes you wished to paste.) And now after 40 years I’m retiring, but I will probably try to keep my hand in the game. Frankly all three main suites (Adobe/DaVinci/FCPX) do the job, but when speed is important Final Cut is the fastest to edit on, while DaVinci renders out the quickest on M1 Max and M1 Ultra. Just my 2 cents…
When you want to move a clip in a long time line just drag it up to be a connected clip then slide it along the top to where ever you want it to slot in then insert it at that point, works a treat.
Creates Favorites/keywords and use Event List View. Pretty easy to navigate and select source, place the edit point in timeline where you want it and BAM. Rinse and repeat ✌️
Yeah so final cut was getting a little laggy because you just applied multiple effects and had premiere, a much more ram intensive software, open at the same time. The reason it got smooth after that was because you let it sit for a couple seconds and it quickly rendered the footage in the background. Edit: great video btw, love this series
A non-perfect way around removing something from the primary storyline is to right click, then hit “lift from storyline” which replaces the clip you want to move with a blank clip!
Hey, in your video about what you love and hate about Mac, you mentioned not being able to see the pathway of folders or where you are in your system folders. In finder, press "view" and then press "show path bar". Hope this helps. I just discovered this today!
First problem: Apple+shift+ Up will bring up the clip without the ripple and for b-roll....you can add it to the side of your project and put them on top when you need them... also color finale has the same style of parameters like premiere, yeap its a paid plugin but it does the job easily
@@FStoppers I'm saying for simple A-roll, story line telling, re-arranging dialogue then adding B-Roll and titles FCP rocks and I can't go back to PP. It's like ancient software now to me. One of my favorite features is not being able to easily over write clips. When you drag a new shot on, everything gets out of the way. Same with SFX. If you label your audio as an SFX it will automatically go into the SFX lane with no worries of over writing other audio. A HUGE thing for me was using "T" to slip in and outs of two different clips without dragging around the rest of the timeline. Once I found that I got really fast in FCP and now I'm just as fast as in PP in just a few months. If you'd like to chat more about it, I'd love to help share some of the things I've been learning along the way. There are certainly some things that are a headache but I truly find it a joy to edit in FCP now which I did not think I would be saying just a few months ago.
@@FStoppers Also your way of editing with two timelines is now done in the browser window in FCP. You can use the Range Selection tool to highlight your favorite clips, Press F, and then sort by favorites which will leave only the selected parts of each clip. It's actually way better than the two time line way IMO because you can also keyword (fancy Bins) each individual highlighted clip. I used to edit from a selects timeline as well so I'm familiar with that workflow.
Looking to do the same as soon as My MBP comes in! How do you add a color grade to the entire project without adjustment layers, though? That’s one head scratcher for me at this point…
Keep going with Final Cut! FC isn’t PP just like PP isn’t Resolve - as Casey always says … learn your software! I’m 6 years in Professional FCP user. I’m still learning key work flow sequences and that’s mostly because my ego still doesn’t want to unlearn some of the bad habits I baked into my workflow being self taught. PS - love the video / channel on the whole. :)
How can you strech the transitions from one side like in premiere pro where you press shift and strech the transition from one side. I can’t do that in fcpx. The whole magnetic timeline is just not meant for pro film makers. Da vinci resolve is the ultimate solution.
One reason of the lagging of final cut is probably due to RAM. How much does your computer has? Also maybe if you went for the M1 Max chip it would be better since it would process every change you make significantly faster as it has dual media encoders
Mister Horse makes Premiere Composer for Premiere and Animation Composer for After Effects. Includes presets for transitions, animated text, motion effects. You can get a lot of use even out of their free versions.
I don't think you are doing this: Use mouse and Trackpad at the same time for different things. Like, select something with your mouse, then swipe to view all windows with the Trackpad, or scroll where you need to go, then drop there etc.
Not a video editor myself, but I have a gut feeling that you should try moving clips with your trackpad. Instead of dragging the clip towards the edge, turn on the option "drop on click" or whatever it is called, initiate the drag, scroll sideways with two fingers then click on where you want it. Alternatively, holding down shift when scrolling the mouse wheel scrolls horizontally.
I don't think you need to switch from Adobe Premiere. If that is the software you prefer then just use that on your Mac. I imagine since you are also a photographer, you will still be using Lightroom and Photoshop so you are paying for a creative cloud membership already. I think it is more important to keep a workflow that gets your work done instead of moving to the tools. This would also keep you from being stove-piped in the event that Apple goes in a direction that you don't want to support. Just my opinion.
I was looking for more reactions to using the Mac and Final Cut Pro X, and although MotionVFX looks like cool software, this video is really 1/2 commercial. You can’t do this too many times before people start looking at video titles and thinking they’re not really going to get what was promised.
Secondary timeline in Final Cut: th-cam.com/video/sPgtrDjwN4s/w-d-xo.html It’s not exactly what you’re describing but I think the end result is the same.
I think your main complaint can be solved by creating clips in the library then dragging them into your timeline. The library and timeline can have different zoom levels.
Learn how to use FCP they way it was designed. You keep making things harder than they are. You try to make it work like another program. That’s like trying to make a sports car a semi. Also your lag is your screen capture software.
Something you’re missing? Yes. In FCP, the media browser is so much more powerful than you seem to realize. There’s no reason to EVER make a string out of coverage clips like you had. An hour of broll? It’s silly. You edited an hour long sequence so you could use it to edit with. That’s the old and busted way. Use favorite, rejected, and key wording to zero in on the exact relevant footage you need as you go. Stop making string outs. Color correction using the color wheels and color curves is more powerful in FCP than in premiere especially when you use them in conjunction with the masking tools. That’s what you’re missing. Also, I would suggest using Color Finale Pro in FCP. It’s a third party plug-in that works beautifully with the built in tools to bring true Resolve-esque capabilities to the FCP timeline.
These videos always frustrate me. I’m learning a new software, why won’t it work the way I want it to?!? Gives me flashbacks to when I was teaching Maya and the 3DS students would bitch for the first few weeks until they let go of their pre-conceptions.
Russia has been like this for hundreds of years and they need to be quarantined until they can behave as a nation. It will take a long time. The world is becoming more unstable and paranoid. We all are.
Swore I would never use Final Cut Pro, after Apple went from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X. I just don't trust apple, they just abandon software, Same thing happened with Aperture. In Final Cut Pro X case, it was released as a non professional mess and whilst it may have improved over the years. It would never surprise me if Apple, one day just decided to abandon X and start over again.
As a filmmaker, how can you possible imagine that shots from the side of your talking to the camera are OK? They completely destroy the illusion that you are talking to your audience. Don't you see that?
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You can’t pancake timelines in Final Cut like you’re doing in Premiere because the Browser acts as your timeline full of selects. This is what’s amazing about FCP (in addition to the Magnetic Timeline) because with Filmstrip mode in the Browser combined with Favoriting & Keyword Collections, you’re simplifying the process of making selects and adding all the benefits of the search and sorting capabilities of the Browser. Plus you can SEE all of your clips or selects (because it’s a filmstrip-just like how film way back in the day was edited) in the Browser…and then just click and drag into your edit as you build it.
Make your selects using Keywording and Favoriting in the Browser before you even touch a Timeline, and then you’re set up to crush your edits.
You must unlearn what you have learned. You can’t make FCP act like Premiere. It’s a complete paradigm shift. But once it all clicks, it’s almost impossible to go back to tracks and pancaked timelines. 🤘🏻
^ This!
Please Lee give it a shot, and chat with Matt!
Yes basically he needs to see the browser as the timeline he is wishing he had. Not to sound mean, but this is very basic. I just changed from PP to FCP and after a day of watching a creative live course and playing around it provides me the same functionality he had before but much more organized and dynamic. Hell it even looks like a timeline if you want it to.
@@RicanStudio Exactly!
^This. Timeline nesting is in response to not having great organizational options in the NLE. FCPX corrects this via the media browser to address this very issue! It even takes this further with meta data, keywords collections, smart collections, etc.
Filmstrips and keywords are better than seeing your actual clips on a big screen? How do you make nuanced decisions? I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m genuinely interested - imagine you have 3 takes of the same thing. Or 3 similar answers in an interview. You want to look at them back to back on your program monitor - and make a decision based on critical things like lighting, timing, content and delivery. What’s the best way in FCP to do that?
Long time fan of fstoppers. A lot of things Lee does here either have simple fixes or easier methods (timestamps below). I've been editing in FCPX for 7 years, and I'm currently learning Davinci Resolve.
2:10 - What you want is right click "lift from storyline" and the position tool (shortcut is P). FCPX does have tracks (sorta). The default track Lee's been using is the ONLY magnetic timeline in the software. You can keep stacking footage on "tracks" just like you did in premiere by using the position tool. Personally, I place a clip in the timeline by using Q (this puts a placeholder in the magnetic timeline), I drag the gray placeholder out really long, then place all clips on top just like you're doing in premiere. In my method, snapping still works, you just won't have to deal with the magnetic timeline.
6:13 - Color Finale 2.0 is a plugin that's very similar to the Lumetri panel. I wouldn't recommend this plugin anymore, it's been kinda buggy lately.
11:00 - you didn't mention color masks, shape masks, and tracking within the color panels. Not sure if you knew those already, but these are things davinci resolve also allows.
14:07 - the way you dragged this lens flare is the same way you drag footage on to a higher track. If it's a clip already in the timeline, use the position tool P.
16:39 - Move the 2nd clip to a higher track (lift from storyline), add transition, and you won't get this error regardless of length.
17:50 - you don't have to delete and re-add transitions to swap. Just drag the new one onto the existing one to swap.
Advanced Tip: You can stack transitions on multiple tracks to combine them. Ryan Nangle is a popular FCPX editor that does this all the time.
@Life by Adam
I don‘t recommend using the position tool where what you try to do is fighting the timeline magnetism. In the example with the clip from the end that should go to the middle, I never drag it around. Instead: cmd+x, cmd+v. This shows btw the value of the magnetic timeline. You can do this with very complex sequences with hundreds of connected clips (common practice if not with b-roll then at least with sound design) without ever having to manage your tracks. Everyone whoever said he preferred pancake editing like in Premiere has not yet found this.
@@AxelGizmo in your example, I agree 100% that cut & paste is the way to go. Thanks for pointing that out.
@@lifebyadam Because I like Lee and have tremendous respect for him, which only grew over the years, I'd _love_ to see him have his eureka moment with FCP publicly, though, to be clear, there's nothing wrong with being accustomed to Premiere and ultimately preferring it. What I don't like to see are comparisons of some minor differences (CC or handling of plugins), while not addressing the timeline paradigm. Recently, for example, Matti Haapoja made a 'tutorial' on FCP, in which he tried to force it to behave like Premiere. Which it couldn't, and so a few weeks later, Matti admitted defeat _by saying that FCP was inferior_ to Premiere.
One of the best performers when it comes to FCP ist Thomas Grove Carter, and if you take your time and watch this 6 year old demo thoroughly and _still_ think FCP isn't good for serious editing, then so be it:
vimeo.com/video/194855528
Agree and weldone! :)
Love this series. Its great to watch this process.
It's a really good insight into the process of switching from one editing software to another.
Yeahhh, at this point, it's just a matter of: either learn to to use FCP like it was designed, or just stick with Premiere, either way will be far more productive than trying to get FCP to work like Premiere.
I used FCP6 and 7 before switching to X, then my work made the switch to PP, and it's been fine. If we switched to FCPX, that'd be fine too, and probably the only 2 things I'd miss would be maximizing windows with the Tilde key, and track-based audio. But it'd still be fine.
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If you stick to FCPX there is a way to not stack by using the tags instead: you tag what you want as B-roll (not whole clips, the tag will be of the duration you decide) and then pick and choose from this bin - very fast and efficient workflow
I always used to diss Premiere because I hadn't really used it before. A couple of years ago I sold my MacBook so I could purchase an iPad Pro for school, and so I had to switch to Premiere on my PC for my video editing work. Because I was using it full time, I really had to learn the ins and outs of PP. After becoming reasonably experienced on it, and having produced a tonne of content for clients and for personal use, I was so fed up with how buggy and overly complicated some things were in Adobe software in general. It was so bad that it actually pushed me to buy a 16" MB Pro and switch back to FCP. Since then I've switched back to Final Cut and I frankly couldn't be happier. Premiere now feels like shit (politely) when I need to use it every now and again haha.
Pro-tip for FCPX grading: you can drag your adjustments up and down. For example, you can drag a color wheel adjustment above your LUT and it changes the order of the adjustments, just as nodes do in Resolve. And it makes a huge difference in the effect. Just as you do in Resolve, make sure the LUT adjustment is after/below the direct color adjustments for a much better grade with subtler reactions to the grading.
💪💪💪 yep!
This is a great video. I started learning on PP for a few months then recently started learning FCP. This video eased my mind because FCP is so different I was thinking I just couldn't figure things out. But the comments and this video has inspired me to keep pushing. I think it will be a better fit for my business.
Thanks.
I've been using PP for about 6 months, it seems like every time I color corrected, it never looked the same after I exported. I tried FC and once I got the hang of it, the exports are exactly what I expected
5:45 - Ok... that function is really helpful to selectively choose what to warm or cool down.
I think the way of getting footage into the timeline should be done differently in FC. Each clip should be watched, without pulling everything into a project (timeline). In (i) and Out (o) points should be set for each. You can have several In and Out points per a clip. 'F' is to favourite them. When you favourite a clip, you have a smart folder in the library (on the left) that now has all your favourites. So now you will be able to use them as you need them. So dragging everything into a timeline isn't needed anymore. It's essentially a planning stage before the editing starts. It makes for just having the best clips coming into your project. It might seem like another step, but you'll find that the editing becomes much more of an enjoyable process. I think this is the main difference. It's the approach that needs changing. No more 'pancaking' two timelines.
I was a Premier Pro/AVID on Windows guy for 10 years until out plant went totally Mac, then I had to learn FCP Studio, which was quite similar to Premiere at the time. When FCPX came out 11 years ago or so, we bought it for $299. It was buggy and lacked a lot of features, but we made do. In 11 years we have not laid out a cent on upgrades for this product. So from a financial side of things, this program hasn’t cost us anything like $89/month CDN it would cost me to own a Creative Cloud subscription. Add in Apple Motion, and you can make your own custom effects for Final Cut. Coming from a tape based and film background, FCP encourages you to make your selects in the clip browser before laying them in the timeline. Learning the keyboard shortcuts will definitely streamline your productivity, and you can copy and paste attributes from one clip to another. (For example, with the colour grade you could select the clip, press CMD C, and then move to a similar clip, select it and press SHIFT CMD V, and select the attributes you wished to paste.) And now after 40 years I’m retiring, but I will probably try to keep my hand in the game. Frankly all three main suites (Adobe/DaVinci/FCPX) do the job, but when speed is important Final Cut is the fastest to edit on, while DaVinci renders out the quickest on M1 Max and M1 Ultra. Just my 2 cents…
When you want to move a clip in a long time line just drag it up to be a connected clip then slide it along the top to where ever you want it to slot in then insert it at that point, works a treat.
I like this community where we just like tech in general that works for us, regardless of loyalty to brands and such. Cheers
Creates Favorites/keywords and use Event List View. Pretty easy to navigate and select source, place the edit point in timeline where you want it and BAM. Rinse and repeat ✌️
16:07 look that green plus sign at the cursor. WHY is it like that since Mac OS X Leopard? I can’t remember it anytime being different
Yeah so final cut was getting a little laggy because you just applied multiple effects and had premiere, a much more ram intensive software, open at the same time. The reason it got smooth after that was because you let it sit for a couple seconds and it quickly rendered the footage in the background.
Edit: great video btw, love this series
Where you use a second timeline to manage b-roll clips in Premiere, couldn't you just use the FCP Events library for the clips?
A non-perfect way around removing something from the primary storyline is to right click, then hit “lift from storyline” which replaces the clip you want to move with a blank clip!
Hey, in your video about what you love and hate about Mac, you mentioned not being able to see the pathway of folders or where you are in your system folders. In finder, press "view" and then press "show path bar". Hope this helps. I just discovered this today!
Davinci Resolve?
You can duplicate your project in FCP the place it on top of the timeline then move your clips to were you want them.
First problem: Apple+shift+ Up will bring up the clip without the ripple and for b-roll....you can add it to the side of your project and put them on top when you need them... also color finale has the same style of parameters like premiere, yeap its a paid plugin but it does the job easily
Color finale only way to go for final cut plugins it's a must for me
I'm on FCP now after 10 years on Premiere and I have to say for testimonial interview style videos with B-Roll it's so good now.
What do you mean?
@@FStoppers I'm saying for simple A-roll, story line telling, re-arranging dialogue then adding B-Roll and titles FCP rocks and I can't go back to PP. It's like ancient software now to me. One of my favorite features is not being able to easily over write clips. When you drag a new shot on, everything gets out of the way. Same with SFX. If you label your audio as an SFX it will automatically go into the SFX lane with no worries of over writing other audio.
A HUGE thing for me was using "T" to slip in and outs of two different clips without dragging around the rest of the timeline. Once I found that I got really fast in FCP and now I'm just as fast as in PP in just a few months.
If you'd like to chat more about it, I'd love to help share some of the things I've been learning along the way. There are certainly some things that are a headache but I truly find it a joy to edit in FCP now which I did not think I would be saying just a few months ago.
@@FStoppers Also your way of editing with two timelines is now done in the browser window in FCP. You can use the Range Selection tool to highlight your favorite clips, Press F, and then sort by favorites which will leave only the selected parts of each clip. It's actually way better than the two time line way IMO because you can also keyword (fancy Bins) each individual highlighted clip.
I used to edit from a selects timeline as well so I'm familiar with that workflow.
@@MrMe69420 Looks like I have more to learn.
Looking to do the same as soon as My MBP comes in! How do you add a color grade to the entire project without adjustment layers, though? That’s one head scratcher for me at this point…
Where do I change my pictures from a negative view to a regular pictures
Keep going with Final Cut! FC isn’t PP just like PP isn’t Resolve - as Casey always says … learn your software!
I’m 6 years in Professional FCP user. I’m still learning key work flow sequences and that’s mostly because my ego still doesn’t want to unlearn some of the bad habits I baked into my workflow being self taught. PS - love the video / channel on the whole. :)
How can you strech the transitions from one side like in premiere pro where you press shift and strech the transition from one side. I can’t do that in fcpx. The whole magnetic timeline is just not meant for pro film makers. Da vinci resolve is the ultimate solution.
One reason of the lagging of final cut is probably due to RAM. How much does your computer has? Also maybe if you went for the M1 Max chip it would be better since it would process every change you make significantly faster as it has dual media encoders
I loved the snowy mountains with “Welcome to Brazil” 🤣
Whats the best plugins pack you could suggest for adobe premier, any company like motionvfx doing similar stuff for adobe ?
Mister Horse makes Premiere Composer for Premiere and Animation Composer for After Effects. Includes presets for transitions, animated text, motion effects. You can get a lot of use even out of their free versions.
Great series. For me as an FCP User since four years, Premiere looks so ancient and outdated, I really never want to go back.
Can you make a video on trying out DaVinci Resolve!? It would be fun to watch.
I don't think you are doing this: Use mouse and Trackpad at the same time for different things. Like, select something with your mouse, then swipe to view all windows with the Trackpad, or scroll where you need to go, then drop there etc.
I’d be seriously looking at Davinci Resolve
Is the beta software period
Not a video editor myself, but I have a gut feeling that you should try moving clips with your trackpad. Instead of dragging the clip towards the edge, turn on the option "drop on click" or whatever it is called, initiate the drag, scroll sideways with two fingers then click on where you want it. Alternatively, holding down shift when scrolling the mouse wheel scrolls horizontally.
Using two fingers in a vertical orientation, then dragging them to the side scrolls horizontally.
Runs Final Cut and Premier while screen recording on a laptop - complains at a hiccup. But seriously, great series.
I don't think you need to switch from Adobe Premiere. If that is the software you prefer then just use that on your Mac. I imagine since you are also a photographer, you will still be using Lightroom and Photoshop so you are paying for a creative cloud membership already. I think it is more important to keep a workflow that gets your work done instead of moving to the tools. This would also keep you from being stove-piped in the event that Apple goes in a direction that you don't want to support. Just my opinion.
It would be so cool to see a colab with a Final Cut Pro editor like iJustine to kinda demonstrate all the thinks u have questions about 😍
Thanks for Sharing
Give resolve a try
Try Cinema Grade or Color Finale - 2 levels above Motionfvx for color grading (the other stuff is awesome though) :-)
I was looking for more reactions to using the Mac and Final Cut Pro X, and although MotionVFX looks like cool software, this video is really 1/2 commercial. You can’t do this too many times before people start looking at video titles and thinking they’re not really going to get what was promised.
Secondary timeline in Final Cut:
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It’s not exactly what you’re describing but I think the end result is the same.
I think your main complaint can be solved by creating clips in the library then dragging them into your timeline. The library and timeline can have different zoom levels.
Color finale is the best color plugin. Lut manager by the same company is game changing
Regards
Vic
Have you been experiencing any bugs with it? Once I upgraded to Color Finale 2.0, fcpx fails to recognize it every other time I open the software.
Try Davinci Resolve and you’ll never come back
Never 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Why not use DaVinci Resolve?
If only apple made apps for both macOS and windows
1:30 just cut and paste it :)
Learn how to use FCP they way it was designed. You keep making things harder than they are. You try to make it work like another program. That’s like trying to make a sports car a semi. Also your lag is your screen capture software.
Their website has Premiere plugins now.
Something you’re missing? Yes. In FCP, the media browser is so much more powerful than you seem to realize. There’s no reason to EVER make a string out of coverage clips like you had. An hour of broll? It’s silly. You edited an hour long sequence so you could use it to edit with. That’s the old and busted way. Use favorite, rejected, and key wording to zero in on the exact relevant footage you need as you go. Stop making string outs.
Color correction using the color wheels and color curves is more powerful in FCP than in premiere especially when you use them in conjunction with the masking tools. That’s what you’re missing.
Also,
I would suggest using Color Finale Pro in FCP. It’s a third party plug-in that works beautifully with the built in tools to bring true Resolve-esque capabilities to the FCP timeline.
Is he using a 14inch MacBook Pro?
How it's made !!
Torres del Paine!!!
how its 2022 and people still dont use davinci resolve xD
These videos always frustrate me.
I’m learning a new software, why won’t it work the way I want it to?!?
Gives me flashbacks to when I was teaching Maya and the 3DS students would bitch for the first few weeks until they let go of their pre-conceptions.
Try davinci resolve on the Mac instead
😁just TAKE time!
Could never get it davinci just makes more sense to me
Color grade in davinci resolve
"I wanna become one of those really annoying apple fanboys". This actually made me LOL...
Helpful! I'm going thru the same experience. Lol.
I guess you're having a hard time making the things you hate about the Macbook Pro huh?
Russia has been like this for hundreds of years and they need to be quarantined until they can behave as a nation. It will take a long time. The world is becoming more unstable and paranoid. We all are.
Let's give a shot avid on your M1 Mac let's see how that works....
DaVinci Resolve...
Too many choices in Lumetri? lol don't ever jump into resolve then
Get Davinci Resolve
Swore I would never use Final Cut Pro, after Apple went from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X. I just don't trust apple, they just abandon software, Same thing happened with Aperture. In Final Cut Pro X case, it was released as a non professional mess and whilst it may have improved over the years. It would never surprise me if Apple, one day just decided to abandon X and start over again.
This is always in the back of my mind
this is how you push software, to the next generation. And why the others NLE still look like you are cutting with film.
❤️❤️❤️
U just sold me Final Cut
in the end it will be davinci
I love you
YOU GOT THR MAC VIRUS...... same here LOL all mac now. Used to laugh at Mac boys now im one of them lol
You sure have a lot of room noise.
Full Disclosure: I do not drink the apple juice.
So sad to see u go apple fanboy.. it's so bad.
Wow congrats you now pay twice as much to do the same thing hahahaha
As a filmmaker, how can you possible imagine that shots from the side of your talking to the camera are OK? They completely destroy the illusion that you are talking to your audience. Don't you see that?