FCP X Working Perfectly – Love It!

[David A fenton]

I have to agree. FCPX is powerful and simultaneously fun to use, it seems to stay out of the way when I’m trying to edit. I see something I put it there, or here or down there…its just does whatever I say immediately.

My only complaints are lack of round tripping to Motion 5, and the fact that some real cool plugins from Red Giant seem to be AE only.

[David A fenton]

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[Craig Seeman]

This is an out of character marketing mismanagement for Apple. I wouldn’t condemn FCPX or the company as a whole for it.

Other companies have made seriously damaging business decisions as well including Avid and Adobe and Autodesk just to name a few.

I have a hunch the FCPX will eventually be a killer NLE. The question is whether people can wait and why Apple’s marketing was so uncharacteristically poor and poorly managed.

[David A fenton]

I agree that Apple’s management of the product transition gets an “F”. The product direction though I believe gets an ‘A’. But it is a new product, though a new name may have faced insurmountable branding challenges.

The folks who are vehemently deriding the professional potential of the product I believe are temporarily blinded to the history of software.

[Craig Seeman]

[David A Fenton] “The folks who are vehemently deriding the professional potential of the product I believe are temporarily blinded to the history of software.”

They’re completely blind if they think they can trust Avid or Adobe. Not that either of them are “evil” it just that as businesses they’ve also have done things that have damaged the business of post houses.

It’s exactly because Apple is a hardware company that I think they will fix things. Apple wants FCPX to sell hardware and that means tooling to work in demanding situations that no “prosumer” would ever be in.

[Chris Harlan]

Don’t take this personally–and I swear I’m not being grumpy–I think if you re-read my post in combination with the post I was responding to, you might feel differently about it.

[Jurriaan Van der kamp]

If you dont make audio only crosses or you have the time to do a cross in even (yes seven!!!) comands i’m sure its fun.
Maybe it’s fun to see how fast you can do these seven comands. I’m just curious what all these positive people are cutting. A childrens birthday party to a happy tune?
When you have to do some basic audio(of video) handling you’ll see you are dealing with a amateur fun app indeed!
If your work depends on a pro app this imovie x is it just sad. It’s like shooting a sports event with one off the better compact fotocamera’s . Al the functions are there but really heard to find and use…At the other hand the compact cam is made for point and shoot so it doe everything for you. Focus iris an all that stuff are no problem no more…fun. A professional fotocamera has all the robust buttons right at your convienience.easy to use. It doesn’t have any automatic amateur bogus functions it is made for people who have to set all the functions themselves. These people are serious hobbyists or pro’s
Fcp x is not for pro’s

[Sean Thomas]

by Dave LaRonde:

Please write back and tell us about your experiences when it’s time to deliver a project for a customer: I’d be interested in knowing how it turned out.
Will do. Got a 30 second spot coming up in two weeks. Plan on working through FCP X until then to get my chops up.

Please write back and tell us about your experiences when it’s time to modify an older project, perhaps one from a year ago: I’d be interested in knowing how it turned out.
That’s easy – still got my old FCP systm right beside me, opens up all my old projects.

Please write back and tell us about your experiences when it’s time to make multiple versions of the same project: I’d be interested in knowing how it turned out.
Haven’t tried that yet.

Please write back and tell us about your experiences when when working with Photoshop documents containing multiple layers: I’d be interested in knowing how it turned out.
No problem – got AE.

Please write back and tell us about your experiences when it’s time to bring in an additional editor to work on the same project: I’d be interested in knowing how it turned out.
I get up, he sits down???

Please write back and tell us about your experiences when it’s time to deliver a project on HD videotape: I’d be interested in knowing how it turned out.
Tape? What’s that? 🙂

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[Jurriaan Van der kamp]

i ment strokes

[Jurriaan Van der kamp]

How do you make your audio only cross in fcp with 7 strakes or in fcp7?