

Speaking of audio…I like having more than 16 tracks of realtime audio. And Avid doesn’t do keyboard audio mixing. Yeah, Avid does this too, but it isn’t as elegant. And if I didn’t do that, just toggling Clip Overlays brings up the level lines and I can drag up or down, quickly add keyframes for more controlled audio dips. This allows for very quick and very precise audio mixing. Control brackets adjusts by 3db in either direction, – and + by 1db. My favorite ability is to lasso audio, and press the CONTROL key and bracket and + – keys to increase and decrease audio by a few db. Audio mixing on the timeline, and with keystrokes. If I put a 1080p clip into a 720p project…it becomes 720p.Ģ. And I can take 1080, put it into a 720p sequence, and scale and reposition to show what I want to show. I like that I can add HD to an SD sequence, and it works fine. Here are the top 10 favorite features that I’ll miss in FCP…in no particular order:ġ. I post these in hopes that the other NLE makers will see them and go “yeah, that’s a cool feature” and try to incorporate it into their future releases. Companies out here tend to do that…use what they have because it works…until it no longer works (in some cases, even when it doesn’t work).


Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still use it for a while, my current job as a matter of fact most likely will use it for a few more years. My favorite features that made me love the application. So now, with the EOL of FCP and me moving back to using Avid Media Composer…and Adobe Premiere…I’d like to list off my 10 favorite things about FCP that I will miss.

A diary of my successes and my failures…lessons I wanted to share so that people could learn from my…well, successes and failures. This blog was me talking about my foray into the world of HD specifically using Final Cut Pro…for broadcast TV shows. I started this blog in 2005, when I made my leap from editing on an Avid in standard definition…to editing with FCP in high definition…thus the name Little Frog in High Def (Little Frog being my Indian name from my youth).
