Cutting a major Hollywood Feature on FCPX

[Bill Davis]

[Tim Wilson] “[Gary Huff] “Hey Bill, 2011 called, it wants its putdowns back.”

Thank you. I couldn’t have put it better. LOL”

Wow, talk about making a longtime contributor feel unwelcome.

I posted much of this based on a conversation on one of the Private FCP X boards where this particular CC forum was getting TRASHED as one huge “insiders” mess where FCP X gets belittled at every turn. A conversation NOT in 2011, but last week.

That was the perception inside that private Facebook group – and I defended “or not” pointing out the popularity of this Cow forum and put up a pretty spirited defense of it.

Now I’m kinda wondering why I bothered.

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[Mitch Ives]

[Tim Wilson] “This forum was NEVER about usable information. I was always shocked at the amount of usable information here. LOL Entirely by accident, and never our intent. This is a DEBATE forum.”

That may have been the design (hard to imagine), but I also find it full of useful information. That’s why I visit it daily. The names on this forum are some real long-time members, like myself. I’ve been here since virtually the beginning (according to Ron), and I’m here because there are a lot of “qualified opinions” here.

I count you in that Tim… 😉

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Bill Davis] “Wow, talk about making a longtime contributor feel unwelcome.
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Just remember Bill, that you’ve made a habit of lecturing people who were here LONG before you. I’m one of them.

That doesn’t mean I don’t read your posts with interest, it just means there’s a lot of experience on this board that pre-dates you. And more to the point, some of us might actually have some merits in our posts.

That shouldn’t stop you from posting… but it wouldn’t hurt if you skipped the “Enron thing” and remembered you’re not the only one with knowledge here. You may recall I’ve been subtlety suggesting that for some time.

It would be tragic if you stopped posting, even though I’ve taken quite a few arrows from you… I look forward to more… 🙂

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Tim Wilson]

Anybody who comes into Creative COW belittling its place in the world can expect a strong response, ESPECIALLY when it’s absolutely, flatly, objectively wrong. It’s silly to expect anything else.

Frankly, it’s just plain rude posting how poorly we’re regarded by the TRUE faithful, because of course the TRUE faithful have already left.

Now, complaining that we’re a big bag of dicks, well… LOL

In addition to the nonsense of the faintest suggestion that we’re declining in significance, complaining that we complain about X as our primary position is demonstrably false.

In 2014. In 2011, well….LOL

But that was a starting point. Since then, the stance toward X has evolved even more quickly than X itself has evolved to meet the VERY objections stated here.

And as has been pointed out on another thread, the wishlist here is very nearly identical to the one from my old friend Steve — with the added benefit of pointing out some better approaches than the limited ones he cited. In other words, the members here pointed out at least one problem of his that the experts here don’t find to be a problem at all when approached from a rationally different direction.

All of which goes to account for our growth by over 500,000 people per month since then.

Do those other sites have 500,000 visitors/month AT ALL? Because, again, that’s just our delta since 2011. Our X community is doing fine, thanks.

That said, to echo Mitch, post on.

Mitch, you’re a month away from your TWELFTH anniversary: November 7, 2002. I think that counts as “a long time.”

[Misha Aranyshev]

[Oliver Peters] “Sync-N-Link X isn’t essential, but speeds up syncing of double-system audio jobs, however, only if camera and sound have common TC”

Sync-N-Link X is essential if you wan’t to give your sound department each lav mic on its own track which is something they expect you to do.

[Charlie Austin]

[Tim Wilson] “Frankly, it’s just plain rude posting how poorly we’re regarded by the TRUE faithful, because of course the TRUE faithful have already left.”

Speaking as a truly faithful X user, what you say Tim, is true. 😉 Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but I’m still cutting in X. :-p

That said, today is all about Adobe! The new version of Pr has blue highlights now! And a flat UI! And Smart Folders! Still has tracks though. booooo. LOL

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[Charlie Austin]

[Michael Aranyshev] “Sync-N-Link X is essential if you wan’t to give your sound department each lav mic on its own track which is something they expect you to do.”

You can do that without Sync N Link.

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[Misha Aranyshev]

Cool. FCP7 can do change lists.

[Oliver Peters]

[Charlie Austin] “You can do that without Sync N Link.”

Agreed. Besides, I’ve turned over multi-channel jobs to audio from out of Media Composer and FCP 7 that were split out by mic and they never had “roles” info. Plus, if you don’t have matching TC, like in an actual film shoot, Sync-N-Link X doesn’t work.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Charlie Austin]

[Michael Aranyshev] “Cool. FCP7 can do change lists.”

I wasn’t trying to start a pissing contest, just clarifying your point.

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