Your Wishlist as of FCP X 10.0.6?

What's your wish-list for 10.0.7? I think 10.0.6 made a lot of things better for many people, but everyone probably still has some.

I send Apple this feedback:


"Dear FCP-team,

thanks for the 10.0.6 update. It brought many new features, and the R3D RAW support was long overdue (but the implementation is really good). Kudos!

That being said, this is still on my wish-list

01. If you click Expand All in the menu for expanding video and audio, that it expands every clip in the timeline, INCLUDING the ones you put in the timeline AFTER you pushed the Expand All option. It reduces the amound of clicking. If you want to edit with an expanded view of audio seperately, you click expand all, and edit the way you want. If you put new clips in the timeline, you don't have to press again and again in the menu.

02. If you have a synchronized clip with R3D material, making sure the spatial conform works like it does with a normal rough R3D clip.

03. More RAW controls from REDCINE in the R3D Hud, including (big one) the eyedropper tool to very quickly and automatically set white balance.

04. A timecode HUD with much more timecode options. Seeing in one view the timecodes of everything in the timeline, optional of course. Being able to COPY and PASTE a timecode from a clip instead of manually having to feed it always, like you could in FCP 7. You could just copy the timecode from the viewer of canvas.

05. More options from Color, including color wheels. Tracker. Custom shapes, that can be keyframed, including in their shape points. Sharpening. Maybe have a seperate Color Room? (same with Audio?)

06. If you click to have Proxy Media Playback, put a warning side if media hasn't been converted to Proxy yet, but don't have it be offline completely. It sometimes doesn't make sense to transcode EVERYTHING in your timeline to Proxy Media. Only being able to transcode a portion of it, and just see a small subtle warning sign in the rest without hindering your ability to work with it, would be much better!

07. Fade Handles on seperate Audio Components.

08. Fade Handles on video?

09. Prores LT as a codec option to optimize!

10. In the preferences, have playback for Optimized Media or Original Media be 2 seperate options? Or just some more flexibility.

11. Better support for working with networked storage! I'm not talking about users working on the same project on the same timeline (although the patents I saw online about guardians etc. were interesting) but just having the program work easily with networked storage over ethernet!

12. If you open the HUD of a Smart Collection, it seems I cannot make the HUD bigger or smaller. Sometimes if I have long names of Keyword Collections of which the first 3 words are the same, I cannot see which to click on or off if I put a Keyword one of the parameters of a Smart Collections. I don't know if this is a bug or not.

13. At the retiming menu, if you click it, have a custom option to manually give in a percentage.

14. Custom resolutions when making a project! With a way of making it a preset!

15. 'Break Apart Compound Clip' back in the contextual right-mouse click menu.

16. This is more of a general Mac OSX complaint since Lion, but the way the system works with programs in full screen is really really one of the most emberassing things ever if you have 2 monitors... FCP X is no different. Suddenly seeing the second screen dissapear is really... ugh.

17. At Audio Enchancements, at the background Noise Removal option, have a small button to set the noise print, as you could with Soundtrack Pro. I don't know if the technology now in FCP X is the same as in Soundtrack Pro, but I'm getting much worse results (frankly, I never get good ones, and thus never use it) when using the remove background noise option in FCP X. Maybe having the option to manually set the noise print, will get better results back?

18. An audio mixer! Maybe have some seperate Audio Mixing 'room', like you could have with Color Correction. FCP X seems to have great technologies under the hood (some of Color, some of Logic, some of Soundtrack Pro, some of Cinema Tools), but just have the tools deeper would really make it a super-NLE. Not needing to round-trip, but still being able to do so much in an NLE that can seem so simple, but yet can get very deep, is VERY appealing, and would get many people to switch to Macs and FCP X. Look at Color... Yes, you could say Resolve is better, but not needing to round trip, and being able to do very good corrections in the same program where you do the finishing, compositing, editing, ... is really tempting. If you don't want to use it, you don't need to. But I miss Color, and in the same way I think much more of Soundtrack Pro needs to return to FCP X.

19. Being able in the Copy Paste Dialogue box, to paste seperate color corrections, and have them being applied ABOVE whatever you have done to that clip earlier. And not only replace it. Maybe have a small button in the dialogue box where you can choose to ADD your attributes to the clip you are pasting it too.

20. Being able to give Color Corrections names, instead of just the automated numbers.

21. Being able in a way to very easily put a video-only dissolve on a clip, without messing too much with detaching audio, secondary timelines, ... Just have a cross dissolve video-only transition in the transition browser or something.

22. Have a quick way of putting audio back to a clip after detaching it. (and if they are out of sync, maybe have a dialogue box or something to choose if you want to keep it out of sync, or put it back to it's default?)

23. Have out of sync-markers when detaching audio...

24. Have a smart Render function, as FCP 7 had where it simply copies original media if you are doing simple cut-cut operations.

25. Have the Background Render option be REALLY background. So for instance, when you are working, it keeps rendering, but like with one core or something. So it's low taxing on the system, but you can really keep working. Now it stops if you do something in the program, and you really let it do a lot, it kind of makes your computer super super slow.

Thank you for (hopefully) considering adding these abilities to the program.

Kind regards,"

What's your wish-list?

Custom project resolution.

Fully customizable workspaces.
Good collaborative workflows.

That's it for me.

26. Being able to perform the stabilizing function on a synchronized clip without going into its timeline.

Having not yet gone as deep as you have into the program, I can't comment on most of your improvements, but I definitely like numbers 13 & 20. Being able to enter custom percentages into the retimer, & being able to name your saved custom color grades.