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USER REVIEW APPLE FCP X V10.4
Apple continue to evolve their much maligned editing software with some very topical additions WORDS ADAM GARSTONE PICTURES APPLE
an AAF file”. So if you have recorded separate sound you can’t do what you would expect – merge the picture and audio files – you have to make multicam groups instead. Say what? My point is not to diss these two very capable NLEs, but to point out that neither is perfect. FCP X isn’t perfect either, but it certainly does not deserve continued critical attacks. There are many things FCP X does much better than either Premiere Pro or Media Composer. The latest release – version 10.4 – adds considerably to that list of capabilities. TRADITIONAL The first is a new set of advanced colour grading tools. FCP X always featured Apple’s own take on grading adjustments, but I, for one, found the tool totally incomprehensible. Version 10.4 adds more traditional colour
ny review of FCP X has to address the elephant in the room – the continual jibes that FCP X isn’t suitable for the
‘professional’ editor.
I prefer to look at that argument from a different perspective: the fact that all NLEs suck – they just all suck in different ways. For the last few years, 99.9% of my work as an editor has been done on Avid’s Media Composer, and it’s fabulous. It’s incredibly flexible, handling any project you throw at it with ease, but it’s so aged you can almost hear its rheumatic old bones creaking as you use it. Some of its bugs have calcified, and have new bugs growing on them. Adobe’s Premiere Pro has oddities so unfathomable they have become documented as ‘features’ – my favourite being: “merged clips are not supported when exporting
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