Jun 23
Final Cut Pro Heading
Today I got hold of Final Cut Pro X. I couldn’t wait to fire this baby up, caress the new interface and start my video magic. With my 17″ MacBook Pro, i5 2.53, 4GB Ram and a Seagate hybrid I was sure to rock the house. riiiiiiiight.
I was greeted with the new interface of what I’d seen before – cool, I thought. but then I decided to take it for a spin. Imported a 4 minute video (didnt want to overload her with a full HD 1080 60min clip, so a 4min 720 seemed appropriate). By the way, before starting FCP I restarted my Mac.
The clip imported and soon the background rendering started. Cool. I then added a transparent PNG, and then a PSD. Overlaid some effects and hell it started to slow down quickly. I thought maybe its the background rendering? Nope. Any open apps? Nope. Then what? Its turned out to be that the new Final Cut Pro X is just a load of …..
After 2 hours with only a 4min clip and 2 pics. I was lost, frustrated and couldn’t believe how slow it had gone. The interface seemed fine at first but it became clunky and unusable. The effects are horribly slow. This is iMovie Pro and NOT Final Cut Pro.
Im sorry but I feel that Apple has made a disaster and they can see it. Many pro users are complaining as well. I for one am going right back to FCP 7 and Motion. People DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY on Final Cut Pro X !!!
To be more specific, here are my gripes:
1. Extremely slow
2. Clunky UI
3. Horrible timeline – stuff jumps all over the place
4. Too simplistically inclined
5. Cant open FCP 7 files
6. Slow effects
7. Background renderer re-renders too much – even when just a small piece of a clip changed.
8. Too much like iMovie and NOT an improvement on FCP
9. The Events manager is a disaster – too much iPhoto
10. No FC Server
11. Adding text and editing is horrible.
12. The effect manager panel cannot be moved (to a different screen)
Thats about it for now. I havent even done some Chroma keying, or colour corrections.
This is a huge disappointment.
Mar 28
Robert Fisk
Its not very often you watch a movie or documentary that moves you. Beirut to Bosnia is a report by Robert Fisk, an English journalist working for The Independant, who was made a 3 part documentary film for the Discovery Channel in the United States, and also for Channel 4 in Britain. It was an attempt to find out why an increasing number of Muslims had come to hate the West. Indeed, the title was “Why Muslims Have Come to Hate the West.” It was filmed in Beirut, Southern Lebanon, Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Egypt, Bosnia and Croatia. The film was banned by Discovery Channel in 1993.
Its a sad sad thing when people, wether Muslim, Christian or from any other faith, gets forced out of their homes, family members mutilated and children killed because of the inhumane beliefs of man. This is one film that brought me to tears seeing families torn apart, homes killed and children shot by snipers, while the world turned their backs on these innocent people.
Yet, we carry on with our lives, ungrateful of even the simple water that flows through our taps, the roofs over our heads or the freedom to practice our own beliefs. We fight with our brothers and sisters for small trivial things, sometimes not speaking to them for years. Its sad. Very sad that we call ourselves human.
Watch the documentary here : Beirut to Bosnia
Mar 23
Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds
The real cure for illness is rest. Im talking in bed, doing yadda rest. I’ve been ill for the past two weeks actually but finally decided to resort to taking time out and STAYING IN BED over the weekend. Of course I had my mac by my side for the occasional movie and such but aint nothing like a little time out to relieve you from them ailments – hehe. I have to however admit that I cannot reveal the nature of the illness but let just say it made me literally immobile. Anyways, weather in newcastle over the weekend was good. I managed to watch two movies – Boondock Saints I and II and also Inglourious Basterds. I gotta say that ain’t nothing like a good movie with o’l Brad Pitt. His acting is superb and really brings out the humor. Loved IB.
Lemme know what your thought of IB
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