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Devil’s Advocate: If FCP-X is a flop…what do you do?
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Ha! I was going to say exactly that but wanted to see who else was thinking the same.
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[Arnie Schlissel] “Craig, if you make blueberry or pumpkin bagels, I may be forced to hunt you down and kill you!”
Nope. No BagelProX here.
[Arnie Schlissel] “But if you can learn to make a really good onion or garlic bagel… mmmmmm!”
Yes, the kind where you can turn around and breath on the client and they stop hanging over your shoulder for the rest of the day!
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[Michael Hancock] “Let’s pretend that FCP-X is a flop. It’s missing a key feature you require – maybe it’s buggy, there’s no or XML OMF export/import, can’t load older FCP projects, can’t turn off the auto-stuff, no traditional bin structure and the metadata tagging isn’t as efficient…whatever your imagine will break your workflow and be a no go at your shop.
What do you?…”
Sit back and laugh while I continue to use what I already have, because it works reasonably well. And I won’t be out 300 bones, or have wasted my time being an unpaid Apple beta tester.
[Walter Soyka] “The FCPX forum has been very quiet over the last few weeks, and I miss the entertainment.”
Well, there you go. I usually don’t take requests, but what the hell…
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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I certainly will go either Avid or Premiere. I have used Avid before and just bought it but Premiere is a nice alternative. I will, however, continue using FCP 7 while getting used to Avid once again. Like others, too many questions and too few answers.
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Interesting to me that so many clients, unsolicited, and also media-savvy have already remarked that what they’ve heard is that FCP-X has already “tanked”, and in no small measure due to a very ill-considered preview.
What can you say about an incipient product whose real prospect has already resulted in a massive fan-out of experienced professionals actively evaluating and purchasing the competing applications? By any measure, a relations-disaster, but -big deal – Apple can count on millions of downloads at that price. It just doesn’t matter if anyone uses it, or if everyone does. It will be out there, and if anyone like a third-AD boots up a preview clip on their laptop, then “A-List Feature Working Title” used FCPX in their production and the numbers get bumped up again. So what if the lion’s share of the work is done with any of the competing products — you can always re-jig the stats so the other guys are quote -fighting it out for second place.
Although they state that the numbers don’t matter to them… who is Apple trying to kid? This all has some terrible feel of “disconnected-ness”.
jPo
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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Easy question. CS5. Already have it. Everything native. PP and AE linked. No brainer.
Tom Daigon
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Ciao everyone, Just my 2 cents.
One of the things about FCP is that clients sometime do their own rough cut (I know most of them shouldn’t) or in some post houses I worked the story producers
give their stringouts.
Most of this people will buy FCP X.
So what do we do?
Any takes on this?
I have not problem to change software, in 20 years I’ve been there done that.
I always liked Smoke.
I think that our clients will dictate the changes we will have to make.Monica F.P.williams
crocodile editing
web: http://www.crocodileediting.com
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