FCP X hits 3.5 Million users?

[Ricardo Marty]

Yes people are doing tons of cat videos a vacation videos.

Ricardo Marty

Ps just kidding

[Oliver Peters]

It’s BS unless it officially comes from Apple. That would be an additional 1 million users in 5 months since NAB. Highly unlikely.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Neil Goodman]

People can throw down numbers on the internet all day but out on the streets, Im just not seeing it.

[Bob Zelin]

there is only ONE thing that matters to me – PROFESSIONAL USERS.
I dread the day (and I hope I am dead before this happens) – when EVERYONE knows how to edit and our industry is (almost) over. As I well know, and have said before – there is still a printing industry (but tiny), and there will always be professional editors (and it will get tiny in the future).

The fact that (I am making this up) – 1 million of those FCP X users are “Instagram influencers” that are 25 year old girls, each with 25,000 followers means absolutely nothing to me. These people are not making their living as editors.
I see countless musicians that now own the technology to make great recordings of their own bands – and do exactly this – and this helps them get bar jobs and Disney Springs jobs in front of restaurants, but it has eliminated 95% of the professional recording studios. So to say that “so and so is the MOST POPULAR audio recording and mixing program” means nothing to me, unless it’s being by PROFESSIONALS with high end budgets that are doing major projects (and making major money).

I know the end it near for us ( most of us) – I just don’t want it to happen yet. Just look at me. If there was not corporate greed, and political payoffs from cable companies to politicians, the reality that ALL OF US could have a 10G connection back to a cloud service would actually exist. And then people like me, would have nothing to do for a living – because why would you own your own storage for your Mac, if you could do 8K editing with “Google Drive” or “iCloud” for $200 a year.

Yes – one day, everyone will know how to edit, and it will all be over for most of us. Today is not that day.

Bob Zelin

Bob Zelin
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[Greg Janza]

[Neil Goodman] “People can throw down numbers on the internet all day but out on the streets, Im just not seeing it.”

In my market, I’ve had two FCPX gigs in seven years and one FCPX gig offered that I passed onto another editor.

FCPX may very well be gaining in user numbers overall and it should since it’s an excellent program but so far it hasn’t translated to an actual shift in the professional marketplace.

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[Steve Connor]

[Bob Zelin] “I know the end it near for us ( most of us) – I just don’t want it to happen yet. “

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRHOcWj–cs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7NlFWh7Sz8

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[Bill Davis]

Perhaps.

But looked at another way, that could be just an additional 10,000 business users in each of the 20 largest countries around the world per month. It’s not like video literacy isn’t spreading fast globally – and lots of people are using it for all manner of personal, technical, and commercial communications needs.

Video production capable computers are the default now. From every manufacturer.

And as much as it might annoy Bob to see this capability flow from the technological broadcast priesthood to the masses – that’s already kinda what’s happened.

The data scientist preparing presentations that need video support, the marketing consultant, the architect and the interior designer can ALL leverage business results using video. (And unlike broadcast pros, the big bonus is that they aren’t near as likely to bitch for a solid decade about losing 1960s style OMF support!)

We’ll see what Apple says at the Creative Summit.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Oliver Peters]

[Bill Davis] “The data scientist preparing presentations that need video support, the marketing consultant, the architect and the interior designer can ALL leverage business results using video.”

Historically most of those are not Mac users, which kind of negates FCPX. Plus, as Apple prices tend to go increasingly upward in the coming years, you really have to wonder.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Brian Seegmiller]

Oliver said, “Historically most of those are not Mac users, which kind of negates FCPX.”

Historically those people don’t edit their own videos so….

[Bill Davis]

That’s the thing about “history” — it is , by definition, what used to be.

I’ve handled plenty of query’s from folks like these who own the hardware they prefer (which is often Macs) and have absolutely no problem using their computers to create and share video content for all sorts of reasons.

It’s almost as if, like word processing and spreadsheets before it, video creation is becoming a kinda normal mode of communication for all sorts of people.

Imagine that.

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Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.