From VHS cuts only edits to FCPX, Zeb Chadfield has done it all over the years. As a broadcast colorist and the last eyes on a piece before it goest to air, Zeb has a unique view of what Final Cut Pro X does, and does well. This discussion spends a fair amount of time on coloring and Davinci Resolve workflow.

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Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Zeb Chadfield – @PanoptikTV

Mentioned on Show:

PanopticTV Timecode Calculator

Teranex Digital Scaler

Sam Mestman’s Tangent Setup

Automatic Duck was a staple in the FCP7 decade, the definitive tool for moving sequences between applications that were seemingly incompatible. Wes Plate was the force behind that application and between 2011 and 2013 he was a full time employee of Adobe. This past summer he took an epic journey of 7000 miles, 6 weeks. a dozen states and one little application, Final Cut Pro X. On his trip he decided he wanted to find out what everyone was talking about and decided dig deep into FCPX. This episode is the story of his journey.

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Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Wes Plate – @wplate

Mentioned in Show:

Wes’ movie collection from his road trip.

 

“If you’re not doing what you want to do NOW, you’re never going to do it.” Devin Graham

Danny Rubio is Executive Producer at Weber State University in Utah and manages multiple edit systems and editors and they work almost exclusively in FCPX. Recently a group of more than 20 students entered a 48 hour film festival where they entered a Musical submission.  Danny has never cut on anything but FCPX. Hear his story from a fresh outlook without the baggage of the past.

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Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Danny Rubio – @drbe4t

Mentioned on Show:

Michael Cioni’s Music in FCPX Tutorial

Danny’s 48 Hour Film Festival Submission

Danny’s new FCPX User Group – Twitter – @nufcpx

A product of USC Film School, Noah worked in behind the scenes and VFX world before getting into training and producing his own video courses. An early adopter of Apple Color he began to take a keen interest in the entire Apple production pipeline. After a stint working at Apple Corporate, Noah Kadner took on a full time marketing job with our friends at FCPWORKS. Noah has a unique view into the current modern day production needs and solutions.

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Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Noah Kadner – @fcpworks

Mentioned on Show:

Sam Mestman’s Blog

Live Titles from Vis One

Meta Graphics

2.1 TB of ProRes LT on a 2 month long project, how did FCPX handle it. On this episode we are joined by our friend Scott Simmons and he gives us the low down, both good and bad on how Final Cut Pro X did on a large project with tons of media, many Events and several deliverables.

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Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Scott Simmons – @editblog

The project Scott is discussing

Traveling on the road with FCPX can be a lot of fun. Dean Sherwood is the newly dubbed Creative Director for The Vamps and works full time with the band on the road and at home he is also a true “Convergence Artist” meaning, he knew nothing about video production before, as a photographer, he purchased a 5D MK2. With over 200 videos and millions of views Dean has created an immense catalog of content for the band and with the exception of the very first video he did for them, they’ve ALL been created in FCPX.

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Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Dean Sherwood – @deansherwood

Mentioned on Show:

The Vamps

Chris’ Zoo Station Video

Lacie Rugged

FCPX Image Exporter on FCP.co

Bose Speakers

 

Timing, trimming, adjusting… that’s editorial, but its also comedy. James Branch, Writer, Director and Editor was also a stand up comic in another life. His views about seeing a cut or a timeline as a whole, and NOT a series of individual shots or even frames is a brilliant observation that comes from many years in the business. Don’t worry, if you want to talk about FCPX we’ll get there eventually, but there is a whole lot of theory in this episode too.

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Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

James Branch  – @jjbranch

Mentioned on Show

James’ Standup Reel

Cold Mountain for FCPX? Maybe. In early 2014 news started to leak that a major Hollywood film was being cut on FCPX. Many people have said that would be the tipping point for the acceptance of Final Cut Pro X. I don’t really agree. However, Michael Matzdorff, was the assistant editor on the project and he has some great insight into the workflow and what worked well and what needs improvements in FCPX. We hope you enjoy this episode and remember. “DON’T CUT WITH YOUR STEMS!!”

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Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Michael Matzdorff – @FCPXFeatures

 

TED Conferences’ Motto is “Ideas Worth Spreading” and now they are spreading this idea, “FCPX is a powerful tool”. Hear what happened when TED, which turns out TONS of content, decided to go all Final Cut Pro X in New York City. Also, don’t miss the discussion at about 47 Minutes about their export procedures… VERY interesting stuff. We also talk about “Progressive Disclosure”.

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Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Michael Glass – www.ted.com

Update October 9,2014 – An article was release on studiodaily.com detailing much of what Michael and Chris discussed in this episode.

Noam likes to shake things ups and try something new once in a while, which frankly, makes most of us very uneasy. Recently he started taking a long hard look at the quality of the H264 files he was creating and realized that there was a difference between what he got out of FCPX and Compressor and the files he was creating with Media Encoder and the Adobe suite. Do you wanna guess which looked better?

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Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Noam Kroll – @noamkroll

Mentioned on Show

Noam’s Big H264 Test

Noam’s Camera Workshop