FCPX at the tipping point? Sync-N-Link X outselling Sync-N-Link says Intelligent Assistance

[Herb Sevush]

[Bill Davis] “So this must mean your contention is that everyone’s stopped using Legacy?”

No Bill, my contention is that no one is buying Legacy. There are no new users, and that’s been true for almost 2 years now.

All the older users are
1) considering jumping to a new NLE and/or
2) have already bought the plug-ins they need.

Because of these facts no one is developing new plug-ins for this market and very few are still buying old plug-ins – why waste the money when you’re going to be jumping ship soon enough?

Speaking for myself I now only buy plug-ins that are cross platform and that I can take with me when I make my move – I doubt I am alone in this strategy. Which is why I’m not surprised or impressed with the news that a given plug-in, no matter how high-end the workflow, is selling more to X than to Legacy. After all 1 is infinitely larger than 0.

The larger point, which I have been making for awhile now, is that comparing X to Legacy in any way is moot – it’s like telling me a certain girl is prettier than a corpse – that doesn’t tell me too much about the girl.

[Bill Davis] “So Herb, what are you cutting on these days?”

Legacy, for one more year, and not exactly thrilled with the notion.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Steve Connor]

[Herb Sevush] “Legacy, for one more year, and not exactly thrilled with the notion.
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So even with the new updates is PPro still not suited for what you do?

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Marcus Moore]

The information is interesting in that it show an uptick in usage, vs stagnant or declining.

FCPX hasn’t reached widespread acceptance/adoption, but data points like this are a heathy indicator that the market is growing among a non-trivial group of users.

Philip outlined the data clearly.

[Herb Sevush]

[Steve Connor] “So even with the new updates is PPro still not suited for what you do?”

Still to soon for me to commit, since I’m hoping my next workflow decision will be good for 5 – 7 years. The list of improvements from Adobe is impressive, but I’ll wait to hear from the hands on reviews before I get too excited.

I start my next season end of May and if history is a guide I doubt PPro 7 will be available at that point, and I’m not so crazy as to switch platforms in the middle of a year long project.

More crucially I’m waiting on Apple to either deliver or not the next generation of Mac Pro’s before I decide on my next workflow – my next NLe just might be Lightworks on Linux. Or it might be either Avid or PPro on a PC. Or, heavens to murgatroid, it might be X on a new MacPro.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf