anyone using FCP to edit feature film?

[Justin Coleman]

Surely if you are Directing and not editing the editor’s choice is more applicable than yours as to Avid or FCP?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Justin Coleman] “Surely if you are Directing and not editing the editor’s choice is more applicable than yours as to Avid or FCP?”

Not in the real world. Producers and Directors can dictate the editing system they would like to use based on prior experience.

it shouldn’t be this way, but it is. When I used to edit with MEdia 100 I lost a lot of jobs because AVID editors had trained Producers on how “poor” Media 100 supposedly was. It wasn’t true, but it hurt our bottom line. Fortunately FCP has been welcomed in the Atlanta production world.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Director, “The Rough Cut”
https://www.theroughcutmovie.com

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[Mike J.]

I think you’re confusing Apples post Cold Mountain marketing and promotion with their workflow that was done without APPLEs’ assistance.

Walter chose to try Final Cut Pro. He’s just like that..trying new things. He’s a rebel and doesn’t appreciate AVID so much anymore.

They contacted APPLE for support from the very beginning. Apple was initially excited but felt they weren’t selling their product for major motion picture use and didn’t want the accoutability if the process or workflow wasn’t effective with a 80million dollar film. It was DIGITAL FILM TREE that stepped up and said, we’ll give the tech support you will need and it was DFT that demo’d their workflows and pitfalls for Walter. They were using FCP 3 for the film.

After the process worked out for Walter, he didn’t want to use AVID again. It was then that APPLE started the whole campaign – and finally made some of the changes that Walter had asked for.

Sources of the information:

Sean Cullen, the assistant editor – multiple public speakings – some are downloadable.
Walter Murch himself – again, public speakings

If you’d like to read the APPLE emails back and forth to Walter Murch, pick up BEHIND THE SCENE book on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735714266/sr=8-3/qid=1140906937/ref=pd_bbs_3/103-8966940-8803855?%5Fencoding=UTF8

[Hal Dace]

The Coen Brothers cut all their films on FCP. I see it in their closing credits, the last couple of films, anyway.

Hal Dace
Handmade Productions
Manhattan, Kansas
https://www.handmadeprods.com