Have now learned Final Cut Pro X for a job, and I have made a lists of my thoughts and the problems that I ran into

So I got hired for a job at a Final Cut Pro X only post facility, so I had to learn FCP X and used it for almost 2 months, but first I picked up a copy at home to learn the basics.I am someone who loved Final Cut Pro 7, and purchased FCP X the day it came out, played with it for 2 weeks and returned it. It was just not for me, as I keep a very organized timeline and the magnetic timeline seemed to be something that I was always fighting.To learn FCP X I picked up the Apple Pro Training Series Book Final Cut Pro X 10.4 by Brendan Boykin and went through the whole thing until I felt completely comfortable with the program. The book was a good start for sure.I can certainly edit with FCP X, but I will never be a convert to it’s way of editing. This program has been out for 9 years and in many ways it still feels like a new program just filled with bugs, though I am sure they would call some of them features.Here are some thoughts that I have had using it and bugs I have run into.The nomenclature is insane! Why is a project called a Library. And why is a sequence a fucking Project! WTF! Project and sequence are pretty much terms across the industry and renaming them just screams of hubris, saying that you know better than anyone else. Epic Fail!And you can’t tell me making V (the select key for Adobe) the disable clip key wasn’t a fuck you to Adobe users.I hate the magnetic timeline. It was why I gave up on Final Cut Pro X initially.For an initial edit and trying different orders of clips the magnetic timeline is great and very fast. Once you start using connected clips attached to your timeline it gets beyond dicey and I am always fighting it. And deleting clips getting rid of all connected clips is a disaster. I know that rolls work as it’s organization, but I hate not having tracks, and how things in and out of storylines don’t line up. It is just a mess to look at. And it makes something as simple as audio transitions so much harder. I never had a problem with old school timelines. I love keeping a project super organized, and being able to see stuff easily by looking at, but these timelines are a damn mess! And if you roll a clip with a connected clip, it moves too, wtf (I know it is the attach point, but it is almost never what I want to do)! And putting transitions on a clip that is attached automatically puts it into a storyline and adds transitions to both end. WTF, why? At times I want to put 2 transitions on, but not every time, in fact very in-often do I want transitions on both ends. And audio gets to be such a…

So the new MacPro is available for preorder and it isn’t cheap

The Apple MacPro is available for preorder, and it is expensive. In fact fully loaded without the 6k monitors it is $52,748.Still I wish I could afford one, though I would go much cheaper. I would go 12 core, 192 gb of memory, 1 Radeon Pro Veg II Duo, 2TB of storage, and the Apple Afterburner card, but that comes to $17,999.00 Holy shit! Hopefully you could of 3rd party ram and save some cash, considering it is $1000 to jump from 32gb to 92Gb and $3000 to jump to 192GB! That is nuts!I am most excited about the 64 Gigs of video memory and the Afterburner card.Can’t believe the cheesegrater is back!

iOS 13.2 memory bug makes multitasking impossible

So iOS 13.2 seems to have way too aggressive memory controls in place, so apps that are in the background are almost always restarted when switching back.This can be super frustrating. Here is an example, when I am using google maps for navigation and I switch to Podcasts to start a different podcast, often google maps will have to restart, meaning my navigation is lost. This is dangerous when driving, and means you would need to pull over to enter your destination again (an impossibility on the freeway).It is also duper frustrating on mail on the ipad which is constantly reverting to 3 column view whrn in landscape mode!Apple needs to fix this quick!

Adobe Updates Creative Cloud Video and Audio Apps

At Adobe Max Adobe updated it’s video and Audio Apps, as well as 2 new mobile apps (though Photoshop Camera is only in a beta).Premiere Pro includes the sensei AI powered auto reframe feature. Improved Layers, Faster ProRes HDR, Time Remapping to 20,000%, Audio Gain to +15db, and HDR 10 metadata export controls.After Effects is a core engine update (woohoo), with Real-time playback of cached previews, EXR productivity and performance, Faster Shape Layers, Enhanced Expressions including speed improvements, Faster Content-Aware Fill, better controls for Motion Graphics, and updated C4D Lite.Audition has improved multichannel audio effects workflows.Character Animator and Premiere Rush also have updates.Adobe has released the app Aero for building AR without coding.And they announced the AI powered app Photoshop Camera that is currently in beta.

DJI Osmo Pocket Extension Rod Unboxing and Review as a Jib/Crane

This is my initial unboxing and review of the DJI Osmo Pocket Extension Rod. I am attempting to use it as a crane or jib arm instead of as a selfie rod. It can be used as a crane or jib, but is pretty shaky and certainly needs post stabilization. As a selfie stick it is pretty amazing, but as a jib/crane it needs some nudging as the camera is just so light. Still you can get some usable stuff with some work and post processing.I actually started this review a while back and have just finished and released it.The audio is recorded on camera or from the microphone on my iMac.The Footage was shot in 4k, but I had finished the shots for my wife's short film in 1080 so this video is in 1080.The Music are all YouTube tracks, just to keep it from getting too boring without it.

Fix for being unable to sync iOS devices in Catalina’s Finder

So my sync stopped working for iOS devices in the Finder in Mac OS 10.15 Catalina. As soon as I made any change to the sync the apply button was greyed out.Well I went to my /Library/Preferences/ Folder and removed the com.apple.syncserver.plist and the com.apple.finder.plist file (I am assuming it just one of these) but after removing them the apply button was no longer greyed out and I can sync my iOS devices again. You should then restart the finder.•••Update, so this fix is no longer helping me. I just can't sync anymore. The sync button is OK until I make any changes, then I cannot sync.

Another huge annoyance with Apple’s Music that replaced iTunes, the Playlists have all reverted back to Playlist view!

OK, so I have another complaint with Apple Music, it's music portion of the previous iTunes app for Catalina 10.15.I have spent many years getting my iTunes Library just how I like it, including rating everything with Stars, and setting up my playlists just how I like them. And that has always meant View as Song vs View as Playlist which has been the default for way too long.In iTunes you set up your default view with all the categories that I wanted, something like this:And your new playlists show up with that organization once you switch to Songs instead of the damn Playlist view that doesn't give enough information including track order. And it still does that.The problem is that for all my existing playlists, and we are talking a FUCKING SHITLOAD OF PLAYLISTS they have reverted to the initial setup of these categories.This is seriously fucked up! I have literally thousands of Playlists, and to have to change the settings individually for each playlist would literally take forever! WTF Apple! And I have always organized my music into playlists so I have a playlist for every album, but I put the year into the title so I can easily sync and know which year the album was! So I have literally a FUCK-TON OF PLAYLISTS!I need a way to set the default setting and propagate it to all the existing playlists! FUCK ME!I posted about this on Apple's Ccommunities, not that I think there is a solution that doesn't require me fixing every playlist individually.

Another bug with Catalina’s finder iOS Sync and Folders in Apple Music

OK so I have noticed a major bug in syncing with Catalina's Finder iOS sync. I have some music organized into folders in Music (the late lamented iTunes music portion) and something has happened to the alphabetical order that it shows in sync.Here is my music of Big Finish Doctor Who audio as it shows in Apple Music.All the playlists are in alphabetical order in Music as you can see.Now in the Finder iOS Sync that is not the case.This is not in order at all. And the synced files are mixed all throughout in random order! WTF!This is a huge mess!I have posted both on Apple's Discussion site and have submitted Feedback to Apple. And I have also posted on MacRumors forums. •••UPDATE: So 10.15.1's latest security update seems to have solved this problem. Unfortunately now I can't get the sync working as it greys out anytime I make any changes.

A Huge Problem with Mac OS 10.15 Catalina Finder iOS Sync!

OK so I was always worried about them getting rid of iTunes. I have been using it for too many years. Making it 3 apps does not make it any more efficient than one app, in fact I would say it makes it less efficient.And they have already been changing features, trying to replace Star ratings with heart or no heart after I have been rating songs for years with stars does not work for me.Catalina though broke up iTunes and moved iOS sync to the finder. Now it still has the same features as the old iTunes sync everyone said, but there is one big one that no one has mentioned that is really messed up!Now first off I have already said that the new Sync does not give a text description of what is syncing, and while it does eventually show you a progress wheel, it does not show one at first (I can only assume this is the backup stage which always took forever with no indication of how long it takes).Here my iPad and iPhone are both in that nefarious stage when you have no idea how long the sync will take.Here you can see my iphone is at least int he progress bar stage, though still less info than old iTunes which told you what it was doing.Anyway now here is the major problem with having the finder do the sync. If you are syncing an iOS device you cannot restart the computer because it will tell you that that the finder is not done completing the sync! Now with previous versions of Mac OS this still occurred, but you could just force quit iTunes and your computer would restart. You can't do this with the finder! You can relaunch the finder with a right click in the dock, but the sync continues through this, and I even tried with Activity Monitor and the sync just continues not allowing you to restart. Now maybe there is a process that I don't know what it is called that I could quit to allow this. Or if I turn off WIFI sync and disconnect the device, maybe it will stop and I can restart, but this is a problem! I am a video editor and there are just times I need to restart, so at the very least their should be a cancel button on iOS sync in the FINDER!!!I have posted about this at Apple's Discussions and MacRumors.

A Better Finder Rename 11 for Mac is an awesome upgrade

A Better Finder Rename is a must have app for me. It lets you rename files using various sets of rules, and the latest version 11 is an even bigger upgrade.You can now add multiple file filterings to a single change making it so different file types have different renaming on a single rename! Wow! And you can save Actions and Presets! And their is now Preview filtering.This is a must have upgrade for a must have program. I always find it hard to work on a machine that does not have this program installed!