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I just don’t get it
I’m not completely sure what the problem people have with the FCPX demo are. Are there questions about details that we would like to know? Of course! Are they so massive that I have to have nervous breakdown about it? No way!
After I watched the keynote several times, I had to jump in the chair to finish out a particularly difficult project because an editor went on vacation before our project finished. Every time I had to render sound or video, add additional tracks of audio for layered sound effects, adjust the color of a shot, dig through hours of media to find a shot I needed, etc – I would find myself wishing it was June already. I’m ready and eager to switch our shop over.
It seems to me that many of the early adopters of FCP are now a bit longer in the tooth – and have very much the same mentality about FCPX that Avid people had regarding the FCP of yesteryear. So many of the things that have annoyed me about FCP look to be eliminated or at best mitigated in X. I’m not concerned with whether X is still going to be a professional product – that’s just silly and histrionic – of course it will be. It’s going to be released, then AJA, Blackmagic and others will release products and software updates to guarantee compatibility as they’ve probably been working with Apple for a while on this.
I can’t wait to update – in fact – I’m excited about editing again (now that I don’t really edit anymore due to our recent expansion, dangit!). To have an apple based NLE running at 64bit – well that’s just going to be awesome (don’t get me started on Premiere, it’s 64bit but has very little of the robustness that natively coded 64bit programs like Pixelmator and Cheetah 3D have, IMHO).
To call a release of a handheld video of a keynote that Apple did not post themselves a mistake seems kind of ridiculous. Apple gave a sneak peek of their software, if for no other reason than to shut up the exact same people who would have been going around NAB saying “Apple has abandoned pro users.
For all the complainers, don’t look at iMovie as the sign of things to come – look at Logic instead. It’s robust as hell, 64bit, has a very cool interface, and has been regarded as a very well thought out upgrade. For those that wonder if FCPX is going to support OMF, just look to Logic – Logic actually saved us on an OMF issue we had last week. If logic supports OMF import/export, you can “logically” assume FCPX will as well.
There may be a heck of learning curve in our futures, but at the end of the day I honestly believe 99% of us will love this FCPX and never look back. I certainly have questions, but any real negative associated with them is based solely on my overwhelming impatience to play with it and NOT with flaws I saw in the program as it was demonstrated.
FCPX will very likely make me happy, speed up our workflows, and give us more time to just be creative. I literally can’t wait to see what other gems come with it.
And honestly, as David W. said, if files managed in FCPX are called “XFiles”, I may pee myself!
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Whats not to get?
It’s unproven.
For some it seems to be ‘solving’ problems they are not having.
Or not solving problems they are having.Now based on a limited demo, there are some who think this new version will not only solve all there problems, but much more, without any unwanted side effects.
I think that jury is still out on that.
Get back to me in August when you have personal experience using it for a while.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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Anything new is unproven – especially in technology. When Kraft announced they were making a non-powdered version of their mac n’ cheese, I’m sure there was a significant portion of the population that fell out of their high-chairs in protest. Comparing Apples to Cheese, what Apple did was basically show you the new Mac N Cheese box, mention how there’s now better, curvier noodles, and the cheese has been taste tested for accuracy by 1000 Wisconsinites.
I guess the real answer to my post is that no matter what you do, anytime you show a mass population something new, there’s going to be a vocal chunk of the population that complains about it. It happened with the iPad, iPhone, Windows 7, CS5, Leopard, etc. Who’s to say what problems X won’t solve? We didn’t even see a fraction of what it can do. In the end, it may say more about the people upset by it than the people/company taking a stand and showing us something new. I know of no-one that edits who isn’t affected by rendering, the inability to use all of your available RAM, the lack of a really decent color corrector within the app, and editing without transcoding media. That’s why they showed that stuff and didn’t get into the minutia – they went for the core. Everything else is just details that very likely won’t be a real problem.
As for me – I’m gonna eat some Mac’ N Cheese tonight. Not the ‘legacy’ kind, either!
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Mac n’ Cheese seems like a good analogy for this.
FCP X runs on a Mac, and some of the automatic stuff they demoed seems very cheesy. 😉
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[John Davidson] “After I watched the keynote several times, I had to jump in the chair to finish out a particularly difficult project because an editor went on vacation before our project finished. Every time I had to render sound or video, add additional tracks of audio for layered sound effects, adjust the color of a shot, dig through hours of media to find a shot I needed, etc – I would find myself wishing it was June already.”
Probably better off wishing it was August so you could get up to speed on a difficult project before tackling it with FCP X 🙂
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Based only on what WAS shown at the demo, I’m already happy because x solves a lot of the problems that are most important to me. Of course there are a lot of questions still unanswered, and I hope a few more features to surprise us with. But *if* it is stable and doesn’t break anything else, I’d be up for switching over to it as-is this week.
I won’t be getting it in June though, as our shop runs at least a year behind the industry when it coems to getting something new. Just this month we’ll finally get the upgrade to FCP-7 installed, so there you go. But I’ll be watching you early adoptes with a little jealousy and great interest, as you beta-test it for me:-)
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Thats crap. When i watch tv, 75% i see is cheesy.
Its the person behind a tool that makes something cheesy or not. And its also a matter of taste ofcourse.
Blaming a tool for cheesyness is just weak. -
the cheese thing is a gag i believe.
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No Mac at home Mark?
Back when I was an engineer at a big facility (Avid), FCP was released and we got one copy for some low end internal work. While you may not want to put it in the line of fire, it’s certainly worth a play.
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No INTEL mac at home, Craig. I’d have to first upgrade the home imacs which are still the “sunflower” style Power PC type. The cobbler’s children run barefoot.
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I guess you’ll have to wait until the ThunderBolt MacMini with i7 processor. BTW I heard somewhere that a beta tester says FCPX runs very well on MacBookAir 11″
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