I have been editing digital video for over twenty years, started with Premier and have over time used both Resolve and FCP, guess which one I keep using…. FCP. If you have to edit lots of videos on an on going basis, for instance three or four videos a day, some only 5 minutes long some up to 2 hours long FCP kills it hands down. I can edit faster with complex edits in FCP than any other editor. Resolve is brilliant for long form masterpieces but you can get bogged down with the process. Yes FCP is not as good when it comes to colour grading but FCP can do almost as good a job and you get the job done and move on. The reality is most viewers don’t even see the work you put into the colour grading . Most people see the story you have told via the edit. Please don’t misunderstand what I am saying Resolve is a wonderful editing program way better than Premier and I still use it for that very special video project. But when I have to get my hands dirty to knock out quantity and quality videos FCP is the best.
what ever happened to the embedded or overlayed numpad of the past where one could access such without sacrificing space or having to carry more things with you that tie up more ports and drains your battery quicker?
I've bounced back and forth recently with both and as much as I like Resolve (Free Version) on my desktop, Resolve for iPad is still buggy and frustrating to use as the interface glitches for me quite a bit on my M1 iPad Pro. Final Cut just works as you pointed out. Since my original background as a photojournalist, documentary and street photographer, unscripted is the defacto in my work having transitioned to shooting more video. I shoot and edit solo with no collaboration. Final Cut handles footage really well on both my Desktop/laptop and iPad Pro. My only issue is handing off only goes one way for project files - ie; Final Cut for iPad project files can be handed off to desktop version but not the other way around. Resolve can do two way project hand off no problem via their cloud service or as I like to do, archiving the project to my NAS and downloading that to an external SSD using my iPad Pro to continue editing and then back for finishing on my desktop if needed Hopefully Apple can figure out a way to enable two way project handling so that FCP can be used no matter which device. If that becomes a reality, I'll probably uninstall Resolve as it's a huge program and I only need a handful of their tool set.
@@jakefelzien I agree on using the right tool for sure. As a self contained shooter/editor, I need the tools necessary to produce and deliver my work. I've been experimenting more and more with reducing what I need to edit. I have both M1 Macbook AIr and 11" iPad Pro - love the size and less weight of the iPad Pro but again, this comes down to issues with actual stability/usability for me at least. The mobile versions of both apps have their pros an cons as much as I've tested round tripping with both. Resolve is an amazing tool - especially what you get with the free version. Again, it feels incomplete on the iPad even though shortcut keys can open the other tabs they are buggy. For me, Final Cut on the iPad is only missing 2 things - Stabilization and true project interchange back and forth is basically all I need from FCP mobile. Maybe you or someone else has insights from your more in depth experiences about using Resolve on the iPad that I"m missing. I've watched numerous videos here on RU-vid and they all basically say the same thing, yet my experience doesn't fully bear them out 🤷♂
I work as an editor and cameraman. At my job I have a large problem with editing videos because it takes me forever. I do crazy overtimes and I am almost burned out. My editing takes much more time than boss wants. Creative boss told me a one short guide video should be done in 2 hours no problem. I am editing it for over 4 hours now and still a lot work to do. I have over one hour video material and should do about few minutes video guide. A CEO wants a video report from events in 2 days and it took me even one month to finish, now one week to finish instead of 2 days. I don't understand it. It's very frustrating. I am doing this job over a year. I have almost no free time, only job, no life and constant stress. I want to have also a free time. Is it possible to learn edit crazy fast high quality videos? How? Do you have some know-how? Thank you.
YES! I'm all about the 1080 A Roll recording. I would have never known your footage was 8-bit 1080 cause you have your setup dialled. Do what works!!!! It's not a client project.
Yep. Really just youtube babies and amateurs just HAVE to film everything in their camera's max resolution. I work for a global multimedia production company and we rarely shoot anything in 4k. Our storage costs would 2x.
Apple notes has been clutch for idea dumps and scripting! The 4K hype train is wild cuz half the time my internet isn’t fast enough to watch videos in 4K so 1080 is always solid hahaha
Thanks for the video, If only DR would be as easy and fast for making selects I would also give Davinci more of a chance. Nothing is as easy and as fast as FCPX to rip through clips Hit I/O Hit F and move on and then make my timeline from that favorites. As it is now with DR there are too many extra steps or Keystrokes to do something even "similar". Only if they would they would some how allow me to do something like that. I have been asking for years in the DR forums. The double timeline way a lot of DR make there selects and build timelines is just too cluttered. Hopefully one day. Seems like something they could add no problem. Yet it's a no go for me. And color grading is also a no go bc of the Sony mismatch files and timecode problems. Which is a Sony problem. OH well.
@@jakefelzien well that was the joke. Sony had a crazy scanner app that made a 3D model of your body and Dunna did it lol 😂 was cool. I believe he made a short for it
@@jakefelzien2nd comment here just bc I think it wouldn’t also be fair to mention that i personally love your point on scripting. - I’ve been watching a bunch of different creators saying that they are trying/ currently doing videos with minimal editing and scripting. Im sure you’ve seen some of this too, so I’d love to see what you think on it. You mentioned mostly scripting but occasionally going off a bullet point list, which is usually the duality right, so we script it, shoot it in pieces, and apply… or take a list to the camera and try to flow it… the line you mentioned here that really resonated in my dorky dad brain, was the 50% success rate that you may or may not see this… I would love to hear what you do in those cases too… is it a crunch thing that you’re trying for uploads that causes the need to flow and go vs taking the length of time to script? It by individual video? Day to day?? Totally would love to see what you have on it… Signed, Your #1 fan
Great and informative video. I use Final Cut Pro and the Scene Removal Mask a lot, but I don’t start the shots with myself out of the frame. Here’s what I do: 1 - Import the footage into FCP. 2 - Export out a random frame from the video as PNG. 3 - Import that PNG into Pixelmator. 4 - Use the AI Removal tool to remove myself from the image (it’s just one click) 5 - Export that clean plate out of Pixelmator. 6 - Import it into FCP and place it before the footage. 7 - Make the clean plate 1 frame long. 8 - Select the clean plate and the footage and create a Compound Clip. 9 - Add the Scene Removal Mask effect to that Compound Clip. 10 - Turn that once again into another Compound Clip (so I can cut up the Compound Clip without affecting the reference point of the Scene Removal Mask). It might sound complicated but it literally takes a maximum of 2 minutes to do.
Yooooo this is great! I’ve had a similar experience working with a couple different RU-vidrs in some aspects, but what was really important is communication and can yall be friends in some degree cuz it’s kinda like a marriage haha
Oh man, can totally relate to a lot of these feelings. It was great to get a more in depth interview on Danny making his first feature film. We're on that same journey now too after doing a bunch of shorts.
I am using CapCut as my primary editing tool while learning to use Resolve at a slower pace. For someone who has never edited digitally (the last time I edited was during A-Levels during the 1990s where we had to learn to splice tape!), CapCut is startlingly easy to get started with and come out with some good results. One thing I did realise was I really did not miss how long it takes to edit just a few minutes of footage 😱
@@jakefelzien thanks, really great video! I am new to drone footage "editing", CapCut is all I have really used, save for the dji app on my phone, so my opinion may be biased, but CapCut seems to be very easy to use (with help from folks such as yourself of course) and unbelievable powerful for a free software. and then the Pro version is really inexpensive anyway.. LOVE CapCut! Your videos like this help beginner immensely! Thaks again!
I kinda disagree with you that an editor can’t be intuitive. Here is an example from my own experience; I am writing a ttrpg. I started in open Office and then I went to Word. It contains a lot of tables and different headlines. I have met several obstacles where I Said to myself “why does this thing not do what I want it to do? It makes sense to do this thing this way. This table should be acting this way when I do this and it doesn’t”. Then I saw some videos about Apples Pages and Saw that these exact problems where I thought “this should work like this” in Word - they ACTUALLY did work like I wanted them to in Pages. Because Pages are intuitive. If a text editor Can be then so Can a video editor or photo editor.
