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BBC adopts FCP X for news editing
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oi oi – the wheels on the bus move deliberately – they’re making the shift to CC towards the end of this year apparently? – all macs currently, all macs for the foreseeable. fcp.co might be overstating the case a bit in terms of X’s future proposed expansion in the bbc – from some of the groups on facebook, the notion seems to be that broadly they are moving to premiere with specific deployments of X where it plays.
Its been mentioned a while back, but ITV studios is going premiere as well. plenty of room for everyone.
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[James Ewart] “Did this new Adobe subscription model appear after the poorly managed FCPX launch?
Was it a “play” to bury FCP do you think? “You’ve got to come over to us and then we are going to own you” kind of a deal?”
The subscription option first appeared in 2011, but a company the size of Adobe can’t fundamentally change its business model overnight so I’d assume the groundwork for it started a couple years before that. The timing between it and FCP X was just a coincidence.
The move to subscription only was an outright disaster timing wise (some would say on the same level as Apple’s horrible launch of X) as many people were just getting warmed up to the idea of PPro as their FCP7 replacement the demise of a perpetual license option turned a lot of people off. Add in Avid’s financial problems and 2011-2013 was like a comedy of errors by the big three A’s.
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As to the why’s – well I believe it’s ease of use for non-editors. Far more news content now is by self shooting PDs (I can’t use the word Preditor, brings me out in hives) and from what I’ve gathered from talking to people X is far, far more intuitive for cutting selects and even stories. Far less to screw up on in terms of sync on clips etc. and a far easier time in terms of cutting native material from DSLRs (used increasingly in news now) with differing codecs, maybe with some footage from phones or the like thrown in for good measure.
Personally I hope it propagates through to other areas too. I still enjoy cutting on it more than anything else…
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I was just curios about this and being so dependent on the net with the edit.
For example, it’s post season baseball and you are set up in the TV compound and on the truck wifi but so are most folks on the crew. They are all taxing the truck wifi jumping on it at the same time with their phones or what ever.
Its one thing to cut in your work place where you have full control, but out in the field….. just seems like that could be a problem.
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[Craig Seeman] “Aindreas broke down and bought a Creative Cloud subscription. Hell just froze over.
“ah Seeman – to be fair I was backed right into that on a manic morning. in a figurative trash dumpster with a credit card. Adobe are creating some excellent staged hop skip impediments back to CS AE compatibility.
Chris Petit is near already calling me a fifth columnist for god’s sake. Don’t make it worse.
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[tony west] “I was just curios about this and being so dependent on the net with the edit.”
I mentioned this above [link], but you don’t have to be online in order to use Creative Cloud.
You must be online at least one a month in order to authorize the apps (this happens automatically without user interaction).
If Creative Cloud needs to authenticate and no Internet connection is available, it enters “offline mode” and shows the message Steve alluded to: a countdown showing the number of days left it will continue to work without re-authorizing.
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[tony west] “For example, it’s post season baseball and you are set up in the TV compound and on the truck wifi but so are most folks on the crew. They are all taxing the truck wifi jumping on it at the same time with their phones or what ever.
Its one thing to cut in your work place where you have full control, but out in the field….. just seems like that could be a problem.”
Very valid point. Then there is always a chance the ISP could slow down the internet speed or any number technical glitches could be a major issue such as the network going down.
We have had issues due to weather and the equipment not being properly maintained. So many variables to contend with.
We so heavily rely on technology that we do not realize it until something stops working or those pesky glitch gremlins decide to party hard and wild.
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What?
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[Walter Soyka] ” it enters “offline mode” “
OK, that makes more sense : )
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Can you force a validation?
Suppose I’m going on a remote shoot and I want Prelude as my DIT. Connected to wifi at the airport, validate the apps, close up and fly.
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