Emmy Winning Show with Pretty Cool Workflow

[Craig Seeman]

(sarcasm)Nobody uses FCPX so he must not exist. He’s just a fanboy. NBC doesn’t do broadcast work, everyone knows that. Emmys are given out like door prizes, that doesn’t count. It’s not narrative so there! Of course he can cut it in FCPX because he doesn’t have to send audio to ProTools or video to Resolve that all professionals are always required to do.(/sarcasm)

All kidding aside, I’ve heard similar stories quietly spoken. It seems many who use it don’t seem to talk much about it because they get beat up for it. It’s still not taking over many facilities as a primary tool but I still see the pattern where an individual editor emerges, having developed their FCPX skills at home, to shit an individual project or show to FCPX. Granted they’re often lower budget shows… but it is happening.

Yesterday I heard at a presentation recapping NAB something to the effect, “if you’re a freelancer, you should learn FCPX. You’ll be getting project requests for it. Given Apple, it’ll be dominant, maybe not for professionals but it will be dominant.”

The above is only a paraphrase and certainly seems to have conflicting sentiments. But that may well represent the current ambiguity. The above person also said they use it a lot but can’t imagine using it for long form.

[Andy Field]

This is an excellent play by play work flow — and despite everything negative that’s been written about FCP X, what gets lost is that many editors WANT to like it – as I do — but I get lost in the audio mixing – we’re used to creating live mixed audio keyframes for our mixes and until Apple provides and equivalent, there are alternatives that work better for us.

Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852

[Craig Seeman]

[Andy Field] “and despite everything negative that’s been written about FCP X, what gets lost is that many editors WANT to like it “

Basically FCPX is a good work in progress. As to whether it’s progressed enough obviously depends on one’s specific needs.

Note that he mentions audio specifically and, the features he seems to find the most important are there.

I’d guess throughout this year a whole bunch more niggles will fall.

a pattern is emerging in regards to its current professional use. It seems, news, sports, Realityish type programs (I know of a fishing show aired on a major cable network using it for example). Nothing much in the way of narrative work yet. I’d bet it’s creeping into some corporate workflows as well.

I do think it’s important that some of the emerging uses emphasize workflow because these is really what’s needed to evaluate it.

[Walter Soyka]

[Lance Bachelder] “I know this is the Adobe “Next” forum but thought I’d share this anyways in case someone happens upon this forum by accident…”

Cool article, and this line made me laugh out loud.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Steve Connor]

Apple PR should grab this one and get it on their website

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Bob Woodhead]

(checking the calendar….) nope, it’s not April Fool’s Day….

nothing to see here, move along

(back to my FCPX edit)

[Lance Bachelder]

I’ve also noticed the majority of the pro photographers around the world posting to Vimeo etc – I’m talking high-end photos now dabbling in video via DSLRs are cutting in FCPX.

This will probably be one of the most watched camera tests on the Planet today – also cut in FCPX:

https://vimeo.com/64693161

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

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[Lance Bachelder]

Sorry I couldn’t help myself – it felt weird and somehow like I was betraying an Adobe product that isn’t even shipping yet by posting something positive about FCPX lol…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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[Steve Connor]

[Lance Bachelder] “I’ve also noticed the majority of the pro photographers around the world posting to Vimeo etc – I’m talking high-end photos now dabbling in video via DSLRs are cutting in FCPX.

This will probably be one of the most watched camera tests on the Planet today – also cut in FCPX:

https://vimeo.com/64693161“

I hope they have a LARGE factory ready to churn those cameras out, they’re going to need it.

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

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[Lance Bachelder]

I agree – I immediately felt sorry for Canon and Nikon after watching this… a game changer in the truest sense. I’ll take 3 with a side of Zuiko please…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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