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FCP7 vs. MC5
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In Media Composer. NOTHING is there in FCP X.
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Jerry, I’m in the same boat, except I have worked on Avid before. I’ve already upgraded to the recent version of Media Composer, and, over the summer I will look much more closely at Premiere. I’ve got an MX02 mini for my laptop, and I’ve just ordered a card so that it will work with my 8 core. I’ll be able to use all three systems through the summer. I work, project to project, with a lose federation of editors, so I’m getting a jump on coordination for large projects towards the beginning of next year. My answers depend largely on what other people in the community are going to do. So, I’m opening as many dialogs now as I can.
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thanks for the advice, i will be doing same.
Jim Carey
Director of Video, Radical Entertainment
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Jerry “Adobe? Won’t be opening FCP 7 files in it without a $500 piece of software. (Automatic Duck) and there’s that old learning curve thing no matter what you do unless you wait a bit. ”
Now Jerry, talk about misinformation 😉 Walter has a live tutorial today show in real time the process of exporting a project out of FCP 7
using NO third party software. PP CS 5.5 brought in all the clips sequences AND text. It took about 2 minutes and was as easy as pie.As to learning curve, under keyboard commands I selected FCP7. And that solved what can be the most daunting learning challenge.
Just trying to keep the dialog honest here.
Tom Daigon
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I can confirm that importing FCP7 project files into Premiere is incredibly simple, and I move cross-platform. Rarely had an issue (usually a missing filter).
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“MC5 blows and Avid has done very little in the past few years.”
Yikes… Media Composer 5.5 is very good actually.AVID is a pain to learn, because it’s quite different from FCP and keeps a lot of the old school editing terms and thought processes.
That being said, take a seasoned FCP editor and an equal AVID editor and leave them off to the races… the AVID editor nearly always finishes first. MC 5.5 still lags behind in the rendering department (both in real time effects and especially outputting to file formats) but it cuts faster. It also has some extra editing tricks/techniques that you’ll hurt over when switching back to FCP (yes… that’s right… us editors will still be using both for a long time, gasp!).
So… if you don’t want to go the FCPX route I guess you must also be thinking Premiere Pro CS5.5 ? It’s also pretty rockin…
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[Peter Blumenstock] ” Keep in mind that the current 5.5 release requires a 32 bit Kernel though. 6.0 will be full 64 bit (and it will still have all the features:-).”
Not quite accurate – it is a 32bit app, but will run on a 64bit OS no problem.
6.0 in clearly coming, but release dates are still vague. No harm in trying the 5.5 demo though.
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That’s not what Avid support and the Avid website says. Both explicitly say you will have to boot into the 32 bit Kernel.
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Oh sorry – you are exactly correct, I forgot about the differences between 64bit handling in OS X and Windows…
You can run Avid in Windows 7 64bit (even in bootcamp) but OS X does things differently…
Mea culpa
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If Apple doesn’t add these features, others will…
Take a look at this: https://www.automaticduck.com/products/pefcp/
They are getting on it already…
There’s little doubt that FCP 7 will run in Lion BTW. It should do just fine.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
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