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Apple Posts New Videos Comparing FCPX to Adobe & Avid
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But it is Professional! They said that so many times in the video! Plus, its got these camera shaky thingys, color-fixy things, and no tracks to get in my way.
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Oh, and it promised to keep me from having to go “outside.”
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I want my spiral slicer!
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Good to see Apple fighting back with all the Avid, Adobe and Sony Vegas switches and crossgrade specials. Let’s hope their programmers are working as hard as their marketing dept. to fix the many missing “pro” features…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
[Rob Tinworth] “You can create bins to organise your media, you can create subclips to organise your media, you can name and copy your clips (what are they talking about, “duplicating the media”) you can organise your media in sequences, you can organise all those bins with folders. Oh, so many ways to organise media in Avid, Premiere and FCP7. What a weakness!
You can overwrite edit in from the source window, you can drag in from the browser, you can drag in from the desktop, you can trim by entering a trim mode or by trimming in the timeline, or by using extend edit or by selecting down the timeline or by… Goodness me what a lot of ways to edit. It’s all too complicated.”
exactly what i was feeling while watching. subclips? GOODNESS NO!
Archaic BIN organization? Whatever shall we do? These videos are an
epic FAIL.Some of the features of FCPX are just so enticing though…
Why couldn’t they have just made fcp8?????!?!?!?!!!!Andrew Corneles – editorial and mograph in the 585
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[Lance Bachelder] “Let’s hope their programmers are working as hard as their marketing dept. to fix the many missing “pro” features…”
I wish they would, but i’m not one of the ones that
thinks they’ll come to their senses and add stuff back in…If they would give me the “old days, film era” timeline,
viewer, multicam (negotiable), bins, and aja/bm with
all of the new, awesome features…I would have easily paid a “no upgrade price” of 2K.
Andrew Corneles – editorial and mograph in the 585
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Well, that’s it then.
Last week I’ve just edited my last documentary on FCP 7. It looks like Apple is trying to force the new “paradigm” through our throats. No more going back then, no more hopes in that Apple may think it made a wrong turn, add more “Pro” features (whatever those are really) in the near future or even the possibility that FCP X will ever work like it should’ve (FCP 7 on 64 bit steroids anyone?).
I’ll be in Avidland next week in case anybody’s looking for me. Maybe I’ll switch to Lightworks on Linux in a year or so, but in the mean time…
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That’s kinda how I read it too.
Chris
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[Rafael Amador] “Great, first time in my life that I start to consider not just going PP or AVID, but even going to a PC.
I’ve started to consider dangerous any dependence on iApple as dangerous.”Though I’m not ready to abandon the Mac yet, I did buy my first PC in over 12 years. I got 17″ Dell laptop, with 2 drives (750GB each at 7200), 8 GB Ram, Sandy Bridge i7, Blu-Ray writer, and a 3GB Nvidia graphics card for about $1500 (admittedly, I get a nice educational discount). Running Premiere CS5.5 with the Mercury Acceleration on it has so far been pretty amazing. I was running 5 simultaneous layers of 1080p30 DSLR footage in real time.
Like I said, I’m not willing to jump yet (I still have 3 Macs in addition to this PC), but I am definitely starting to lose my Apple bias (some might even argue “arrogance”). Regardless of platform, I will definitely be continuing to phase in more Premiere (which I’d started over a year ago). I think anyone who does any significant AE work has to consider this.
Professor, Producer, Editor
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Didn’t anyone else think the Avid interface looked old-fashioned? I guess that is Apple’s point…
And you’ve got to agree that is good marketing…
…Finally!
Liam Hall
Director/DoP/Editor
http://www.liamhall.net
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