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FCP-X angst: Mind-killer or motivator?
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How passive-agressive of you.
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To quote the great Dwight Schrute:
If onlys and justs were candies and nuts
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The way I see it is like the reason why a lot of us here hire accountants. We hire accountants because they are willing to spend the time to understand what all the terms mean and how it affects things when many are not. I just have no interest.
I also think that there is a certain stamina that you develop after doing something for a long time that somebody else new to it probably won’t have. Some of the sound mixers at work have bought FCP and I haven’t seen anything from one of those guys. I hear how they say hard it is to edit even though they cut sound all day. I try sound editing and have the same reaction to the tediousness of the whole thing.
Although I have seen FCP allow new “editors” to show up that never would have made it as a tape op in the past, I still think skill speaks for itself and some people will always be willing to pay for that.
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again….
You can give a thousand monkeys a thousand typewriters, but you will NEVER get Shakespeare.
At the end of the day, the “Pro” in FCPX will indeed be ultimately true. Sadly, much like the “desktop printing revolution” we will soon have a HUGE on-slaught of “Pro” video’s complete with overused effects and transitions, questionable and inappropriate content and a market will develop for “someone who know’s what the f@#k they’re doing”. Perhaps by then, FCPX will have grown up. In the meantime, it is very apparent to anyone who has done this “professionally” for any length of time, that this product is in no way ready for anything but the most basal of work. The only real question remaining for many (myself included) is whether Apple is going to follow this “dumb it down for the great market” with their hardware. It’s not looking good.
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Bill, FWIW, I had this same conversation and made the same points with Scott Anderson last week…
Mitch Ives
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[Bill Davis] “I would dismiss anyones opinion of the quality of, say, a movie’s editing, if that person knew nothing about the craft of editing. It’s easy to be a critic in a world where no standards for criticism are followed – a pretty fair description of the modern blogosphere, IMO.”
Bill, don’t forget the entire population has a PhD in television watching. That’s why everyone thinks they can edit. When was the last time someone told the plumber how to do something, or a surgeon to move the incision point… but everybody has an opinion on how something should be editied… which I believe plays in to your original point…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com
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