FCPX World Tour SoHo Editors BERLIN edition

Wow - who would have of thought of that? An FCPX exklusiv event. In Germany. (Partly) in Deutsch. With Apple!

But from the start:
A rainy Berlin, occupied by the Secret Service = POTUS visits his friend Angela and a somewhat epic location: The Meistersaal, right in the middle of the German capital, where Bowie, U2 and Depeche Mode recorded some of their greatest hits.

1pm, registration, softdrinks and first Hello and Is it you?? - the nics on fora transformed into real persons - socialising at its best.

Robin Kurz post-professionals.de/ , Hannover based renommeed trainer and editor, moderated the show, gave the kick-off and for a start, An Apple representative presented the new MacBook Pro - spoiler: in the coffee pause, five of these beast were avail for first touch.




Then, Apple demoed some of the new features of vers.10.3. - and, as in London, asked to avoid any recordings. No NDAs signed, I’m allowed to divulge: we saw no secret future features. Demo project was the meanwhile well known short about a Japanese botanical artist.

Although no news, it was a packed tour thru the many features of FCPX, for sure Roles in focus.
Next was Shahin Shokoui www.persianpanda.com/ , well-known director, editor, trainer and movie artist, who demoed his workflow in the making of MTV Unplugged/Marius Müller Westernhagen




How the coop began, Shahin illustrated wtih a handful of charts, playbacking the usual dialogue
Producer like: Avid or Premiere?
me like: Final Cut
Producer like: Seven?
me like: X
Producer like: Hu??

To gave his decision some extra boom, Shahin told the producer, he’s not only faster, but therefore cheaper using FCPX - which hits the nerve of any producer.

Then, he gave some insight into his workflow, the smart selection of keywords, the massive amount of raw material (up to 14 simultaneous cameras, several different formats) and how easy and flawless it was to handle all that, … except on stage: FCPX crashed! Several times! But, a helpful soul from the audience could drill the failure down to a single naughty clip, which got corrupted on its way to Berlin.-

While fixing that, a coffee break allowed hands-on on the new MacBookPro and its TouchBar and even more socializing - Robin had to remind the crowd vociferous, to get back to the seats.

Without the corrupted file, Shahin showed a 28 angles multicam edit (14 angles auto synched, plus 14 angles of a 2nd take manually) - on a three year old ‘Trashcan’ nMP… tell this your Windows friends….

Shahin emphasized FCPX endless ability to wrangle meta-tags, for instance using the Timeline Index and ToDo markers instead of free-flowing post-its, the power of Annotation Transcriber from www.zeitanker.com/content/tools/zeitanke...notation_transcriber , a tool to create transcripts to searchable notes in the Event-Browser, the seamless integration of external audio-processing - within 54 days, Shahin made 22 individual tracks, a 90min documentary , shorter versions, DVD version, Directors Cut, trailers… Shahin is convinced no other NLE would allow him that amount of work to be done in such a short period of time.



But not only that… switching gears and from German to English
At 4pm, Rory Cantwell, one of the founders of sohoeditors.com and Barry Wijayawardena, freelance producer, director, cinematographer, editor, colourist and trainer who spent eleven years at Apple working on all things Final Cut Pro, now demoed the complete workflow of a movie in FCPX. Award winning SYNC from Hasraf Dullul, was re-made with FCPX… and the next two hours the audience was allowed to have more than just a look over the shoulders.

And although the show missed grandiosely its schedule, the rows were filled with an attentively listening audience, up to the last minute.

The aftershow allowed direct talks with the presenters, and this year's highlight of the German FCPX users community ended with som ebeer and lots of chat.

MANY THANKS to Soho Editors who made this event possible, thanks to the many souls behind the curtain, a big hand to Apple and for sure many thanks to all presenters and moderator Robin - this afternoon was just awesome.

The official shirts are not soon avail at shop.soho-editor.uk.co …..




(sorry, some silly joke, only the participants of this event do understand )

Even better: no caps but T's. I vote for the third one :lol: . As mentioned before it was a great event! Compliments to all involved.

It was clearly an interesting day. Reports like this are great for those of us who can't travel that far (roughly the other side of the world from here) so we can get the flavour of the event vicariously.

Thanks for the write-up Karsten.

Karsten Schlüter wrote:
At 4pm, Rory Cantwell, one of the founders of sohoeditors.com and Barry Wijayawardena, freelance producer, director, cinematographer, editor, colourist and trainer who spent eleven years at Apple working on all things Final Cut Pro, now demoed the complete workflow of a movie in FCPX. Award winning SYNC vimeo.com/110149838 from Hasraf Dullul, was made with FCPX… and the next two hours the audience was allowed to have more than just a look over the shoulders.

SYNC was edited on Premiere according to the film credits
did they mention something about it?

Sorry, was posting the same as the previous post, screen shot showing film was editing in PPro, not FCPX.

odedh wrote: …SYNC was edited on Premiere according to the film credits
did they mention something about it?…

hmm, interesting find! <scratching head>
In their presentation, they demoed for instance coremelts SliceX in use in SYNC, in a scene where the android passes people in some office …

And SliceX is FCPX-only.

I wrote them a note…

Got a mail from SoHo editors:
the 2y old version of SYNC, avail @vimeo, was done in AP.

What's shown at the FCPX World Tour is a newer, short version - completely done in FCPX.

Hope this helps …

Than that video in the article needs to be pulled, as it is very misleading and damaging to FCPX's reputation. The article needs to clarify this.

Totally agreed. I have asked Peter to delete the video.

Not your fault, Karsten. The people who talked about that short movie at the event should have given you correct information.

- Ronny

ronny courtens wrote: …
Not your fault, Karsten. The people who talked about that short movie at the event should have given you correct information.…

No worriers about me, Ronny, I'm no journalist, and it is indeed confusing people, who watch movies to its very end (what I don't, have to admit).

… maybe I get a new link to the new, FCPX made version … 'til then, I pull it here.

Yeah, like Ronny said, it was the film makers who should have been more clear.

Video has been deleted. No need to post a new link, Karsten.

- Ronny