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Confession of a switcher
Dave Dessel experience on switching
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/moving-to-adobe-premiere-pro-/confessions-of-a-switcher-with-dave-dessel/
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Confession number 1 – I switched it off after about 10 minutes
Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
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Ugh…I didn’t even make it to 10 min. I got about 8 min in.
Dry…slow…boring. Didn’t grab my attention at all.
Shane
Little Frog Post
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Come on guys. This is the modern reality of marketing.
Instead of spending vast amounts on paid advertising, a company looks for “influencers” to tell their stories and convince others to follow their lead.
Its a practical extension of today’s shift more toward social media.
I actually dont’ have a problem with this technique. If any editor likes their software, then by all means they should spread the word. And if their software company likes what they say and wants to propagate that message – that’s playing fairly, IMO.
I will say I’m usually more convinced when the link drives me to some passionate users site or a trusted third party source rather than directly to a company promo page, but hey, if something drives me to an Apple site for a story about FCP-X – I don’t have a problem with that – so it’s every bit as fair when a story link drives someone to Adobe’s site.
(I do kinda think it’s amusing that the post was dropped here rather than the Adobe Premier Cow board – could that be because a board about X generates a lot more traffic than any board about Premier after all these months? nah, couldn’t be. ; )
In the end, information is information, and people should be allowed to gather and judge it on it’s own merits, filtered through their own criteria.
My 2 cents, anyway.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Bill Davis] “Instead of spending vast amounts on paid advertising, a company looks for “influencers” to tell their stories and convince others to follow their lead.
“That’s true, but at least do it well!
Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
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As one of the people used by companies in this manner Bill, I agree. But the reason they use me is I am not boring, apparently. Not to talk myself up and pat myself on the back…as I have done some HORRID demos in my time. But one thing I learned is how to be dynamic, and what it takes to grab people’s attention.
Everything he did…powerpoint, bullet points, droning talk…is what I avoid. Just be natural and tell real life stories. He might have had some good real life examples in there, but it was behind all the boring stuff that I was falling asleep listening to.
Shane
Little Frog Post
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Adobe is missing an opportunity to recruit disaffected FCP 7 users with a clean clear “here’s how you make the transition” video – taking what this gentlemen did with a listless Powerpoint and help editors see the advantages of transitioning.
Like many FCP 7 editors, I would love to like FCP X…but with its trackless, still doesn’t play well with others (we need to Autoduck to go Avid every day which still works fine with FCP 7) No audio mixer (am I the only one who loved ability to mix and record keyframes with virtual faders in real time?)
…no tracks, no viewer for eyeline match edits…still no solid broadcast monitoring out…etc..etc..)
As much as it’s new and improved, it feels like a giant step backward for our work flow…Wish it wasn’t because it sure looks like it could be terrific if Apple had listened to editors who use this for broadcast and film every day.
Andy Field
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Ouch. I want to be kind and all, but that’s really poor stuff right down to the distorted audio.
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I couldn’t even make it through the moderators intro. This is the type of presentation I’d rather read about than waste an hour of my life watching.
Cheers
John Chrisite
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Ouch… that was embarrassingly pitiful. Presentations like that actually have the opposite effect on me… I’d keep using legacy FCP …
Lance Bachelder
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[Andy Field] “Like many FCP 7 editors, I would love to like FCP X…but with its trackless, still doesn’t play well with others (we need to Autoduck to go Avid every day which still works fine with FCP 7) No audio mixer (am I the only one who loved ability to mix and record keyframes with virtual faders in real time?)
…no tracks, no viewer for eyeline match edits…still no solid broadcast monitoring out…etc..etc..)
As much as it’s new and improved, it feels like a giant step backward for our work flow…Wish it wasn’t because it sure looks like it could be terrific if Apple had listened to editors who use this for broadcast and film every day”
I commiserate Andy. I really like the new program and yet don’t like it at the same time.
It’s schizophrenic.
I’ll do a project like I am right now and think how much I like the interface and so many of the new features.
But two days ago on a different project I was literally ready to forgo the improvements and go back to 7.At this stage in Apple’s development of FCP, they should absolutely be offering more options not less.
Tracks and mixers and magnets and meta data…they’re all good tools. Apple shouldn’t be reducing and limiting important tools at this stage.There would be no need for their professional users to even be considering migrating to another system if they hadn’t taken an exclusionary route in development.
No matter how smart your idea is, less is never more.
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