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Dear FCPX team,
Dear FCPX team,
Thank you for your willingness to innovate at an uncomfortable rate. Yes your editor sucks for almost everything that involves collaboration or communication outside of my standalone editor (monitoring, OMF exports, external file storage ex….). Some things that I rely on are simply not there, however a salute you for your courage. Non liner editors have become a remix after remix of the same old crap. None linear editing has been extremely clumsy from the very beginning and your magnetic timeline makes huge steps in the right direction. Taking a step back and looking at the process rather than just asking us what we want, would have saved you a few thousand professional customers but the fact remains that your bold move will shape avid, adobe and all other editors in the future. I would be very disappointed in any editor released in the future that does not make it as easy to keyword your footage, or any color correction tool that does not have a color match function, yes I also now expect every editor to have audio sink capabilities ( I just hope it will work a bit better than yours). The sad truth is that as loud as I screamed in the beginning I cannot bear the fact of deleting your product from my computer. I hope the rumors are true and that you will work to solve all of our complements but for now you don’t meet all of my needs and I will be using another software as my primary editor. FCP X has become a funny little tool in my utility belt that I am sure I will continue to find uses for. -
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Xml integration with davinci and smoke soon.
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What about “reconnect media” ?
Heavily missed!– No Parking Production –
2 x Finalcut Studio3, 2 x MacPro, 2 x ioHD, File Server w. X-Raid
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Funny post! Love it.
CatDV moves FCP7 to FCPX with caveats:
https://www.squarebox.co.uk/fcpxml.html
Resolve 8.1 will support FCPX too.
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What I don’t understand is if CatDV can provide a kludge to make it work why couldn’t Apple have it working out of the box
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[Bill Hall] “if CatDV can provide a kludge to make it work why couldn’t Apple have it working out of the box”
Because Apple has now demonstrated that they will only integrate “hooks” for external developers to use, rather than writing those modules themselves. View it in the same context as a plug-in.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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If the FCP X team should respond, I hope it isn’t like this phony letter I drafted a few months ago in a moment of extreme sarcasm. This thread seems to be a good place for a little bit of humor today. Sorry for hijacking it.
__________________________________________________________________________________Dear Ferrari 458 owners:
We hope you’ve enjoyed your ownership experience with the 458. As you know, the 458 is considered the finest sports car ever made, and it comes after years of research and improvement over previous models.
In the past two years, we’ve been developing, without doing any market research among our existing owners, an entirely new vehicle. We’ve not said anything about it publicly other that to say it’s going to be “awesome”. As you may know, Ferrari is owned by Fiat, and Fiat makes cars by the millions for the vastly larger consumer market. We’ve decided to take one of the consumer-level Fiat models, add a state-of-the-art battery-powered motor, and call it the Ferrari 458 X. It’s the new paradigm of automobile. It’ll be priced much cheaper than the 458, as we’re hoping to sell millions upon millions of them, and adding “Ferrari 458” to the name will certainly help do that. For a limited time, we’re also giving every new buyer a beautiful magnetic replica of their 458 X to attach to their refrigerator. (Certainly you’ve heard that magnets are the latest fashion in everything, right?)
Unfortunately, the new 458 X won’t have many of the features of the 458 at the introduction, but we plan to add some of them at some point in the future. Or, maybe some other company will come along and provide those features instead. Sorry, you’ll just have to wait and see.
So, as of today, the 458 is no longer available for purchase. Yes, you’ll still be able to drive your current 458, but in time you’ll find that parts are no longer available, as the vehicle has now officially been designated “end of life”, and we’re not going to fool with it anymore. We’ve moved on, and so should you.
If you don’t like what we’ve done with the new 458 X, then you’re just a big whiner stuck in the old way of thinking about automobiles, and perhaps should just go buy a Lamborghini or Bugatti. We won’t miss you. Fiat, our parent company, makes far more money off of its other businesses, and buyers of those other products that Fiat makes are not nearly as demanding as you.
If you have any complaints, please take them to an automobile discussion forum, not to us. We don’t care what you have to say. After all, we’re Ferrari, and we know a lot more than you. Now please shut up.
The 458 X Team
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[Oliver Peters] “Because Apple has now demonstrated that they will only integrate “hooks” for external developers to use, rather than writing those modules themselves. View it in the same context as a plug-in.”
I’m sure there’s a good reason for this but as time continues to slip by I really can’t for the life of me see what that reason could be.
In fact, I have only two words for Apple on this subject right now …
Automatic Duck.
The first third party partner fell at the first hurdle – how well does that bode for the future?
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
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[Simon Ubsdell] “The first third party partner fell at the first hurdle – how well does that bode for the future?”
Maybe Adobe made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.
Blackmagic bought DaVinci, Avid bought Euphonix (and a bunch of others), Adobe purchased Iridas. It happens.
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[Jeremy Garchow] ” It happens.”
Not saying it wasn’t a predictable occurence – it does rather look as though Apple didn’t predict it though, which is my point.
They were pinning their colours to the mast of third party developers in a big way and with the very first example of this in action, the very first, everything goes West in fairly short order.
How is that meant to make me feel confident that their business model of third parties taking up major parts of the slack is actually going to be something to rely on from one week to the next?
The big irony of this for me is that the week Automatic Duck defected to Adobe was actually the week I had earmarked as being the one where I would take the plunge and buy their product so I could start busing FCPX in anger. That option just went away for me – no OMF, no FCPX. It just won’t work for me without – period.
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
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[Simon Ubsdell] “That option just went away for me – no OMF, no FCPX. It just won’t work for me without – period.”
I hear ya. There’ll be others.
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