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Come on! Debate away… Where do I go from here?
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That’s what’s happening here in Amsterdam too. I mostly work with agencies so I need to follow suit, but I want the tools to keep up with the post houses.
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Not boring – but tricky as many agencies (usually my direct clients) don’t have avid in-house. You’ve convinced me though – I’m finally going to do it.
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Yeah – that’s my fear – I stick to the tools that are most like the ones I know – and all the young buffs get dextrous in X making me a dinosaur 🙂
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Where are you based? Also where in Europe are you talking? I’m in Amsterdam and I haven’t seen it around the traps.
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Interesting!
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I can see how the X workflow makes total sense in some ways – but I felt they were arrogant and stole my tools. From one day to the next no support was available. I was on the first day of a job in London and they needed FCP7 for the prores capabilities, and they just couldn’t get it, from one day to the next.
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Thankyou – a lot of food for thought. All very interesting.
I will learn all of the packages to a basic extent – BUT I want to be an expert in one, because as an offline editor, my editor is as good as my fingers – I don’t want to think for that nth of a second longer, I want to be able to think and react seamlessly. Probably just a kink in me, but I do get hired on my creative abilities rather than technical in the sort of work I specialize in.
Most of my clients expect me to work on their systems so their people can do versioning and adaptations long after I’m gone. So it will be interesting to see what happens, where I am – it seems like everything has frozen in time.
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[Oliver Peters] “I’m not sure Apple had any plan for a specific market. “
Although considering Motion’s rigging and publishing it “almost” seems like a conscious feature decision for work environments with enforced style guides. That that was prioritized over round tripping (granted there may other reasons for that) can cause one to think that a station news environment or corporate environment might have been a consideration.
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[Craig Seeman] “Although considering Motion’s rigging and publishing it “almost” seems like a conscious feature decision for work environments with enforced style guides. That that was prioritized over round tripping (granted there may other reasons for that) can cause one to think that a station news environment or corporate environment might have been a consideration.”
Is anybody here actually using this in production? I have yet to run across this in the real world, and it’d be nice for some of the work I do.
I looked into rigging an animated identity/branding set [link] earlier this year, but we ended up going with Ae instead of Motion for other reasons.
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I’m in Brussels. I run a fairly large post house here and we also have an affiliate in Paris (15+ seats). We use FCPX exclusively, teamed with Resolve and Smoke. I see FCPX gradually being adopted in many larger facilities I know. Don’t know about Holland though, guess many are still on FCP7 or Avid there. But Media College Leiden now teach their film students FCPX, so does Broadcast College in Brussels. It is rapidly gaining ground. If you are a creative editor you will simply enjoy working with this app. I know I do.
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