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Quiet in here…
…Too quiet. < Bernard Herrmann string section goes here >
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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
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They’ve all gone to build PCs.
Bernie
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Yeah, I do miss the multitudes of posts about using h264 footage, or jpegs over 4000 pixels giving out of memory errors, or problems mixing frame rates in the same timeline.
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I don’t suppose the lull is because for most users, the “or not” part of the debate is kinda fading?
We all kinda now know the types of editing X does really well.
The next big discussions will arrive as X evolves. And I’m looking forward to those.
Even if some of them go like the minor debacle of loud voices demanding a feature like persistent selections. Getting it. Then deciding that it might NOT actually be a good thing in the overall scope of things.
I’m confident that we’ll be pseudo-raging again here before long. It’s kinda what passionate people in ad-hoc families do.
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You know…this may be a signal that this forum has outlived its’ usefulness. It’s no longer a fight between the yea-sayers and the nay-sayers. People have either moved on to a new platform, or new software, or both, and people have either hunkered down with what they’re currently finding still works for them, or are busy enough with the new tool that they don’t have time to argue about it.
Ultimately, it’s all about working with these tools, not standing around arguing about them. Let’s hope that in this new year we all can stay busy with more work than we can handle, no matter what tools we choose.
Joe Bourke
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[Joseph W. Bourke] “Ultimately, it’s all about working with these tools, not standing around arguing about them. Let’s hope that in this new year we all can stay busy with more work than we can handle, no matter what tools we choose.”
Well, no, because as Bill has stated many times before…those of us who didn’t choose FCPX will soon be out of work because it’s so much better at something or another.
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[Gary Huff] “Well, no, because as Bill has stated many times before…those of us who didn’t choose FCPX will soon be out of work because it’s so much better at something or another.”
I’d kinda like to see just ONE citation of my every saying on this board that X would put an editor who didn’t adopt it “out of work.”
I have said the concepts in X could change some of the nature of editing because many of the X concepts I see as Apple’s responses to larger changes in metadata, production, equipment evolution and delivery in the market place. But a good editor is valuable no matter what tools they use. And I staunchly have ACTUALLY expressed that appreciation here dozens of times.
So please, Gary, if you’re going to attribute ideas to me – it would be polite if they were actually linked to MY ideas. Okay?
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I like keeping this place as a “this vs that” when it comes to NLEs. Why would you chose FCX over Adobe or Avid for certain workflows. Or how has FCX improved this time?
FCX will be debated in my neck of the woods for quite a while. Mainly, “Is it ready yet?”
“Nope, not yet…getting closer.”
And then when someone does use it here for the type of stuff we do…I’m sure the debate will explode again.
But it’s not quiet…I see lots of discussions happening here. And I’m facinated that Andreas, who’s one of the loudest critics of FCX, constantly uses it, or tries to understand it. Hasn’t turned a blind eye to it like I have.
Shane
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[Shane Ross] “Hasn’t turned a blind eye to it like I have.
“Dunno, Shane.
You *say* you’ve turned a blind eye to it. But you’re clearly still using your other eye to scan this neck of the woods. That actually indicates quite a lot in the overall scheme of things, methinks.
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I keep my eye on it. I was one of the first skeptics of FCP classic…even though I used it a lot for side work. DV projects and short films and corporate video. Even though I used it, I didn’t think it’d measure up to Avid.
Until FCP 4.5 came out, and surpassed Avid in one key area…DVCPRO HD 720p. I then leapt on board, and championed it. Developed many broadcast workflows utilizing it, and convincing a major network to switch to FCP 7.
So I’m keeping my eye on FCX. Even though I don’t use it, and have no clue about the lingo you all use half the time (Primary storylines vs Secondary, etc). It’s stupid to ignore such things.
Shane
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I remember giving a little speech at the local Avid users group 12 years ago about when and why to use after effects vs. the Avid text tool and basic animation tools. I made a few distinctions: composite modes, resolution independence, animated text tracking (remember how big that was) and 1 or 2 others I don’t remember. But I do remember going home and realizing every one of the points I made was fully functional in FCP 1.x!
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