FCPX and the new economy.

[Timothy Auld]

Like you Jeremy, I don’t think it ever will happen. Which is why for me (and anyone else with even a seasons’ worth of FCP 7 projects) the current embodiment simply doesn’t work.

bigpine

[Jeremy Garchow]

[TImothy Auld] “Like you Jeremy, I don’t think it ever will happen. Which is why for me (and anyone else with even a seasons’ worth of FCP 7 projects) the current embodiment simply doesn’t work.”

Yeah, we have the better part of a decades worth of archive in FCP Legacy. I guess if we do decide to move to FCPX exclusively one day and we get a call to update an old project which happens frequently, we will have to figure out what to do. CS is capable, and operates similarly. We already have it, so it seems like the way to go forward with those situations.

I wouldn’t use FCPX unless it was on new projects.

When I transitioned from M100 to FCP, the same thing happened. I’m still here, still working and better than before.

As happened then, I would not let the Legacy stand in the way of what’s next. I don’t know if FCPX is it, just like I didn’t know if FCP 3 was it way back then.

Jeremy

[Timothy Auld]

I really don’t give a damn what’s next. I always find out. I care what works for me now.

bigpine

[Timothy Auld]

And, by the way, “one day I might get a call”?! I get them almost weekly.

bigpine

[Jeremy Garchow]

We get frequent calls too. Eventually we won’t as those projects will be too old, just like what happened with our M100 projects. Until then, we transition.

What did you use before FCP?

[Timothy Auld]

I use Avid, FCP, Vegas and whatever else people will pay me for. All of those will communicate with other systems by some means and in a way that those other systems will understand. FCP X does not do this. I could be remembering wrong but Media 100 was capable of EDL export, wasn’t it?

bigpine

[Jeremy Garchow]

[TImothy Auld] ” I could be remembering wrong but Media 100 was capable of EDL export, wasn’t it?”

Yes, but that’s about it. There was no way to get our M100 projects to FCP projects which is what we have been talking about here. FCP7 projects to FCPX.

I have no doubt that we will be able to export an FCP7 timeline to FCPX. We just might not be able to get 7 projects to X.

Also, as far as X getting interchange, that will come too. You can already go from X to AE to PPro. It’s convoluted, but it works and was done with no API and no official Apple XML documentation. I understand why people think X is stupid, but I’m hanging around to see what happens. I think it will be very useful in the near future but perhaps I’m just a nerd.

[Timothy Auld]

I too am hanging around and if it becomes the best option for me in the future I will not hesitate to use it. Right now though it just has way too many question marks. There are things about it I really do like about it, though. Using it as a rough kind of scratch pad I find to be quick and easy. When things have to be more precise it becomes clunky to work with. For me anyway.

And I don’t know about you but I had to present an official nerd ID card in order to join CC.

bigpine