Spacial Conform, Multicam and Editorial Peer Pressure, just part of what we discuss with Kes Akalaonu, the NLE Ninja. Kes is a Chicago based, editor, podcaster and YouTube tutorial ninja and always has unique, fresh insight on the editorial world. Recently I caught wind that he was embracing the X and thought it was time to have in on “The Grill”.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Kes Akalaonu – @NLE_Ninja

 

4 MacPro’s in a workgroup all running FCPX. So you say it can’t be done? Tony Gallardo walks us thru the thought process and some of the particulars of how they are moving their 4 suite facility from older Mac Pros all running FCP7 up to a much more modern 2013 MacPro environment all running FCPX and what it took to convince their staff of editors that this was, indeed, the  way to go. Tony is forward thinking and you’ll see why by the end of this chat.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Tony Gallardo – jehproductions.com – @tomiga2

Pegasus R6

Backup Lacie Big Disk

USB3 Drive Sled

FCPX 10dot1 Workflow Guidelines

Chris’s Photoshop Generate Asset Tutorial

Chris’ After Effects “Dynamic” Link

Tony’s “Suite”

So you think the “Share Menu” is amateur? You haven’t taken a close look at Auditions? Michael Garber, from the Garber Shop and I take a close look at these features in Final Cut Pro X and somehow we talk about the Videonics MX Pro and Peabody and his Boy Sherman, along the way. Are we dating ourselves?

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Michael Garber – michaelgarber.com – @michael Garber

Videonics MX Pro

Subjunctive Verbs

Michael’s a-ha Moment

On the Record: LA Vinyl

Keyboard Shortcuts from this Episode:

Option-Y – Makes an Audition of the Current Clip

Command-Shift-R – Show in Finder from the Timeline

Michael’s Suite

Michael Garber’s Folder Structure:

 

A brand new user of FCPX, Brian Russell is the first guest we’ve had that never used 10.0.X. Brian held out on Final Cut 7 up until the release of 10.1 and inside of one month only has a list of 41 things he would like to see changed, but in this episode we actually knock that down a bit. Brian surely represents what I predict will be a growing demographic of users that switch to FCPX now that we have version 10.1

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Brian Russell – @redshoefilm

Fenwick’s Multicam Trick At one point we discuss Brian’s Multicam green screen shot and I refer to this tutorial.

Brian’s Suite

Metadata has been a huge topic of discussion since day one of Final Cut Pro. What is metadata, why do you need it, how can we use it to our advantage.  In this episode we explore some uses of metadata in a modern workflow and begin am exploration that will surely be revisited time and time again. Jon Chappell also represents the first ever vendor we’ve had on the show but make sure you listen to the disclaimers.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Jon Chappell – @digitalreb

Digital Rebellion Cut Notes

using 10.1 in a Shared Environment by 10 dot 1

A brutally honest look at Final Cut Pro X. We try very hard not to be seen as “Fan Boys” at FCPX Grill so, ss we are known to do from time to time we take the gloves off and are completely honest and frank about misgivings and short comings of the application. Scott Simmons is extremely well versed in Avid, Adobe and Final Cut, both X and Classic. Because of this has a unique ability to see thru the hype, Scott can ask questions about functionality that very few people can.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Scott Simmons – http://www.scottsimmons.tv – @scottsimmons

Triple threat, veteran editor, Scott Simmons joins us on The Grill and we go thru the new features of FCPX 10.1 with fresh eyes and examine in detail just how well Apple did with this massive upgrade to Final Cut Pro X.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Scott Simmons – http://www.scottsimmons.tv – @scottsimmons

Range Based Keywords, Rolls, Digital Signage and Same Day Edits in FCPX. Author of the FCPX Megatest, Alban Eggers is based in Innsbruck Austria and has been using Final Cut Pro X since 10.0.0. Alban tells multiple stories of doing harrowing short turn around jobs with FCPX for Red Bull and broadcast television in Europe.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Alban Egger – http://www.eggermedia.com – @eggermedia

FCPX Megatest

Final Cut Pro in Action

Windows 95 “Start Me Up”

Favorite Quote from the episode.

“on FCP7 it was a job – FCPX it was a breeze”

Rolls… for localization

Hotel in Italy using FCPX for digital signage…

Erika.it Hotel

Recommended by Alban to me to watch after the show…

Untold History of the United States

 

 

Too old to learn FCPX? Never! Mike Savino and Chris got together a couple days after 10.1 was released and discuss the New Library Structure and media management in FCPX and were actually updating projects from 10.0.9 to 10.1 DURING the interview. In addition to FCPX we spend a bit of time talking about naming conventions and data storage for many projects.

 

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Mike Savino – mikesavino.com – @mikesavinofilm

On this Episode

Mikes (and Chris’) first Edit “System”

Speed Ramping

ISCI Naming Convention – ABCD_MMYY_ABCDEFG_60_H

Folder Structure

The origin of FCPX Grill can be traced back to a discussion that Ron Dawson of Dare Dreamer Mag and I had in late 2013. I called him up and asked HIM if he’d have me on HIS podcast, Crossing the 180. From that discussion I decided that I really enjoyed talking about Final Cut Pro X and so a show was born. Ron and Chris also go into the difference between our backup policies.

Although this episode was recorded before the release of 10.1 there is a lot of good content here, Enjoy.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Ron Dawson – @daredreamermag

Adam Christiansen MacCast Episode

Discussion about how Compound clips changed a few versions ago

Compound Clip Evangelist – FCP.co blog post John Davidson – Magic Feather Inc.

Get Backup Pro $15 feature called “Versioning” on or off?

Backups for Final Cut Pro $18

Topher Talking about Backups on DCC017 Three O’s of Data