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FCP X hits 3.5 Million users?
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[James Culbertson] “[Shawn Miller] “As a freelancer, I imagine you can look for FCPX projects or do jobs in FCPX without needing to worry as much about compatibility with other post folks or agencies.”
Yes, I just have to be compatible with whatever workflow the company, agency, team, or individual producer/director I am working for at the time is using. But that is as true of using Premiere or AVID as it is FCP 10. Has it ever been different?”
Nope, I’m just thinking that as a FPCX user you can look for FCPX jobs, advertise your skills and influence others (producers/directors) to try it out. My company is mostly Adobe, so I don’t see (or know when) people have those skills. IOW, I may not be seeing FCPX because I’m not asking for those skills or looking for those jobs.
Shawn
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[Shawn Miller] “Nope, I’m just thinking that as a FPCX user you can look for FCPX jobs, advertise your skills and influence others (producers/directors) to try it out.”
As a (freelance) editor I can look for editing jobs using whatever NLE I am asked to use (and sometimes what I choose to use). I have not asked others to try FCP 10 out. But because I am open to whatever NLE is out there, others have asked me to come edit for them on FCP 10 and Premiere (and in the past, AVID, Media 100, tape to tape, flatbed, etc.). The point being that I have never been adverse to trying new NLEs even if the majority of other editors at the time are resistant to that new NLE (which in the past also included Premiere and FCP Legacy, etc.). Same as it ever was.
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[James Culbertson] “The point being that I have never been adverse to trying new NLEs”
Though thinking about it. I was adverse to using D/Vision Pro… painfully buggy.
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[Brian Seegmiller] “Historically those people don’t edit their own videos so….”
So… they might start editing on the Windows machines they already have. ????
[James Culbertson] “The point being that I have never been adverse to trying new NLEs even if the majority of other editors at the time are resistant to that new NLE (which in the past also included Premiere and FCP Legacy, etc.). Same as it ever was.”
This has been my POV for the last 7 or 8 years. Gone are the days of uber-expensive editing software that’s tied to specific hardware so if you are a freelancer that bounces around between gigs I think it’s just common sense to be fluent in multiple NLEs. Even if you don’t bounce around I think of keeping up on various NLEs falls under the umbrella of professional development.
In the past year I’ve been paid to edit on Avid, PPro, and X. I’m sure at some point in the not-to-distant future I’ll get paid to edit on Resolve.
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[Andrew Kimery] “In the past year I’ve been paid to edit on Avid, PPro, and X. I’m sure at some point in the not-to-distant future I’ll get paid to edit on Resolve.”
Bingo. We can all have our favorites, but it’s best to be broad in skillsets.
Scott Witthaus
Visual Storyteller – FCPX, Premiere
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter
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