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Email Exchange with Randy Ubillos, FCP X Designer
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That’s exactly what i’m saying… Why are we trying to overcomplicate editing? it’s all about linear timing and juxtaposition. Relationships?? What does that even mean?!!??
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george manzanilla
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[Douglas K. Dempsey] “Until Apple issues a press release stating that I will be able to use my FCP7 projects through Lion and/or until FCPX opens FCP7 and does multi-cam, OMF, XML, has organizable/identifiable tracks for dialogue, music and effects, and all the other fairly basic stuff that any pro needs… until I see it in writing, I have to assume Apple has bailed out of our miniscule high-end pro market, and will now serve only the great mass of one-man band operations.”
I’ve been a loyal FCP user for 10 years and one thing has remained a constant… Apple has always played its cards close to its chest. Love it or hate it, it’s what they do, and if history tells us one thing it’s that they mostly likely won’t change that mentality. But I don’t see how this affects what you’re doing today. FCP 7 still works, in fact it works great and will continue to work great. Plus, legitimate copies will be around on places like Amazon longer than you think. The issues you bring up mostly stem from possible future optional upgrades. A friend of mine has a G4 with Final Cut Pro 4.5 on it and it still does everything it did the day he got it. Does it run Snow Leopard with all its advancements… nope but it still works. Things change and sometimes sacrifices have to be made. The point is FCP X is just another option to consider just like Adobe or Avid. Many of the negative concerns for FCP X are valid but it’s not like Apple went and deleted FCP 7 off of every editors’ computer overnight. I just find it very hard to get worked up over this when there’s plenty of options out there.
tony
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That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. In the end, regardless of whatever is going on inside the editor’s head, the clips in a timeline always relate to eachother by at timecode. Clip A starts at x and ends at y clip B starts at y and ends at z. That is not that hard to get your head around. If they wanted to implement that, I can’t imagine it being particularity hard.
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[Douglas K. Dempsey] “Calling that observation “negative” or saying “migration is not a priority” is a reasonable statement are simply selfish, ignorant statements.”
The apologists have their work cut out from them, yet I’m amazed at the work they are putting into it and insults getting tossed around as if these issues are crocodile tears…
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Yeah, but working in a company that does a lot of broadcast and has for years, I’ve had to open up older projects, from FCP 6 or 5. Being able to do that is critical. I may not use that feature everyday, but being able to do that has been essential. The fact that I wouldn’t be able to now is a huge deal breaker.
Obviously if I had FCPx I would start new projects on it, but that doesn’t alleviate the need for legacy compatibility. Say whatever you want about the lack there of, but frankly it seems pretty obvious to me, as I’m sure to a lot of people here, the people who created FCPx MUST HAVE INTENTIONALLY left out the functions that would make this app useful to any pro user. The things that are missing are just too blatantly obvious to just leave out…
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Hey Chris,
Can you post Randy’s email so that we can all contact him with our rants and constructive criticism. It probably won’t make an ounce of difference but it might make us feel a little better. 🙂
Bryan Keith
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[Nelson Torres] “All I want to do is place a clip next to another. Pretty simple.”
Actually not simple at all. What looks like a sequence and behaves like a sequence in FCPX, isn’t a sequence in the same sense it is in FCP7. It’s why such things as the Gap feature exists in FCPX. It’s more of a “wrapped thing” as about to a bunch of clips. Such “wrapped thing” can have holes (gaps) in it. Probably not the best explanation but the key is that while an FCP7 thing and function might look the same as something in FCPX, it’s not . . . even if it serves a somewhat similar function.
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I totally agree. I’m far more concerned with UI/Feature omissions than FCPX 1.0 being able to integrate with FCP 7.0. Apple let the FCS3 install remain untouched for a reason. First time we’re able to run two FCP’s side by side. I think most people complaining about the lack of project migration are merely doing so out of principle, but if you’ve poked around FCPX for even a few minutes you can see how there’s no way a FCP 7.0 project would translate into this new interface. You’d also see how this program can’t accommodate probably around 30-40% of the FCP 7.0 capabilities. From the core architecture down to the fundamental concepts behind the UI, they’re two totally different programs. I’m not a software engineer but I have to assume that writing such robust video based software is difficult. There are only a few players in this market.
FCPX reminds me of the first OSX release more than anything. Flashy but totally lacking major features, entirely different non compatible UNIX/Cocoa base — and we were forced to dual boot with Mac OS 9 until things with OSX were up to speed.
JONATHAN DORTCH
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[Craig Seeman] “I think some way, some how, someone needs to go into some serious detail about AV Foundation. A think in FCPX that sort of looks like something analogous to something in FCP7, really isn’t in terms of what’s going on in the code. Much of this has to do with the move from Quicktime to AV Foundation. Even what looks like a “sequence” in FCPX really is radically different than the similar looking thing in FCP7. The differences between Quicktime and AV Foundation may make some heads spin but it really needs to be explained in nonprogramer terms for professional editors.”
I must respectfully disagree.
“We shape our tools, and then our tools shape us.”
-Marshall McLuhanThis is not, and should never be, about the code or the AV Foundation data model. This should be about storytelling.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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Who upgrades any software in the middle of a project?
Its asking for troubles anyway.
No argument.
Xml export and broadcast i/o IS a big argument
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