BBC adopts FCP X for news editing

[James Ewart]

Now that is NEWS.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Shoot.

What are we going to do now?

[James Ewart]

Wait and see what Aindreas has to say I guess … or somebody at Adobe?

[Craig Seeman]

Aindreas broke down and bought a Creative Cloud subscription. Hell just froze over.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

I’m actually in media city at the mo – I’ll only say the obvious – engineering software decisions in the BBC aren’t exactly monolithic, media city is going premiere, 99% of longform is staying avid, and a lot of people have been saying for a long time that X is perfect magazine show cutter. Sounds like it’s finding a natural home.

As to the number of licenses – lets not forget the bruhaha over the BBC purchase of premiere CS licenses in the five figures back whenever that was.. If they were boxed that’s a raiders of the lost ark closing shot scenario there.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Scott Witthaus]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “and a lot of people have been saying for a long time that X is perfect magazine show cutter. Sounds like it’s finding a natural home.”

Exactly.

And for smaller station, fast cut and turn stuff, X is perfect there too. Horses for courses.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Marcus Moore]

This follows on news I brought to everyone’s attention back in June-

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/70445

Ollie Kenchington (June 2014)-
“I’m an Apple Certified Trainer for FCPX and am currently delivering back to back FCPX101 courses for the BBC. 20 of their staff editors are moving up to X from 7, with my guidance, and they LOVE it. Their lead editor told me that they edit (or re-edit) 30% of all the BBC’s output.”

The info that wasn’t in the original Facebook post was that he was talking about BBC News specifically, and not BBC output overall, which was tough to believe.

[Emmanuel Tenenbaum]

Maybe we can finally change this obsolete forum category…………. FCPX, point.

Emmanuel Tenenbaum
https://emmanueltenenbaum.com

[James Ewart]

Well I know for sure I know I’m not alone in cutting quite slow turnaround long form stuff with it too.

It’s not logical to suggest if it works well for one genre it can’t for another.

The point isI think for those who have said it is not fit for purpose that is proving, slowly but surely, not to be the case.

At the end of the day the viewer doesn’t care what software was used.

[Craig Seeman]

[James Ewart] “It’s not logical to suggest if it works well for one genre it can’t for another. “

I do think there’s a reason for the development in news “first” (not that it’s not happening elsewhere.
It’s easier to take the “risk” on new workflows by experimenting on short form packages and, with each success, others can follow.

With long form narrative, the risks are much higher given the time and commitment to a given workflow for a project. FCPX does seem to be making isolated inroads in long form. From those beachheads, as those veterans work on other projects, its use will grow there as well. The nature of that market will mean slower growth for FCPX though.