Preferably something relating the NYC is what I’m looking for — Coney Island in particular… Multimedia presentations like soundslides, photo essays, powerpoints, videos, anything really.

But they should relay on journalistic photographs to tell a story… anyone know where to find such things?

I asked Rick, and his response is that “we do use Plural Eyes, but it doesn’t work well when syncing two separate audio sources such as a wireless and a shot gun mic, especially when the subject with the lav is far away from the camera.”

It’s certainly great software, and a good option to try, but has been problematic in less-than-ideal situations like we often find in the field. We do use it successfully all the time for studio interviews though. Like we said – find out what works best for you and go with it!

I’ll add my unsolicited advice here:
“I personally do not like to record sound separately. There’s a couple reasons. It takes a lot of time to sync up in post …”

Try Plural Eyes!

I have pretty much had the exact same experience. The program keeps crashing on me and loosing files… ?

I wouldn’t rely on FCPX in its current state. I am heading back to FCP7 as well + thinking about making the switch to Adobe Premier.

In i FCPX really like the new tagging system, the background rendering and the keyboard shortcuts in .. but I find the audio skimming very annoying along with the magnetic timeline and all the Imovie-look-alike-tools for newbies.

It is very sad for FCP… and for all who relied on this program.

I haven’t used adobes editing software in about ten years ever since I mad the switch from building my own pcs to buying powerful macs. I loved the switch.

Now, someone point me in the dirction of a FCP keyboard layout for premiere. I want the file. I don’t want to have to edit it. Help!!!!!

Important to note though, if I had to produce from an assignment or a contract, I would still use FCP 7. I am willing to take chances on my own production but not on a client’s job.

Why not use Premier? Because FCPX will kick Premier butt once it mature.

While I get that FCP X required a ground up build, waiting for it to become as full featured and stable as FCP 7 is a hard pill to swallow.

I think you bring up an important point about the way FCP X saves. While the program is open you have unlimited undos (command z), but once the program is closed, all those undoes are gone. Aside form the autosave, that’s not really different from FCP 7.

The problem is that there’s no autosave vault, so going back to a previous version isn’t possible unless you’ve versioned projects (formerly sequences). Of course that doesn’t help if you’ve done a bunch of work in the Event Library.

Hopefully Lion will help out with that.

Being a native 64bit app, along with other improvements would seem to be a no brainer for anyone editing on a MAC.

Just an observation.

Snow Leopard gives us Auto Save but that’s not how it was designed. It was designed for auto save + versioning. The last one is a core Lion feature, working similar to time machine. It basically gives you a version history and you can go back to each version of your project.

I consider this problem solved next week. You can also duplicate projects, which is similar to manual saving.

I expect the first Final Cut Pro update at the moment Lion is available in the app store. I am confident it was finished 3 weeks ago already, just waiting for Lion to be released. Let’s hope they fixed some major bugs in the meantime so we get to use a more stable app next wednesday.

Apple has made 2 big mistakes- they overestimated the worth of FCPX and underestimated the value of the FCS3 apps. They are now paying the price for those miscalculations as most editors walk out the door to Adobe or Avid. In the long run, I don’t thinks Apple even cares. And that’s sad.

I think the thing that scares me as much as FCPX not saving correctly is the possibility of accidentally saving a change you didn’t mean to save. For example, accidentally changing a whole series of clips and closing the program before you realize the mistake. I noticed this happened when I was assigning keywords. I somehow pressed some keyboard shortcuts that rearranged what I was working on and had to figure out what edits I’d accidentally made.

Personally, I’d like to see auto-save be a preference you can turn on or off. I’m sure there will be many more horror stories until the bugs are worked out.

@larryphoto

Thank you very much for sharing this work.

Kind regards,
Zac

Pans, zooms, and dissolves are time-eaters. They can fill your visual sequence while the audio plays. I think that’s why I’ve used it in the past and I believe it’s one of the reasons people do today.

It gives me great appreciation for how much content one must have for a short multimedia piece, and how multimedia will eat still images like popcorn: by the bucketful. It’s changed my shooting style in the field, and certainly my editing.

Of course, at day’s end you have the assets you have. Hopefully they’re the right ones, and enough of them.

Thanks for the tutelage!