FCPX is the best NLE on the market

[Devin Crane]

Not much different than cameras I guess, the camera itself may be $3-$5k but you can spend $20k+ on a single lenses not to mention tripods, booms and ect.

[Bill Davis]

Maybe it is.

The code base, top to bottom, is newer.
The software takes advantage of the latest Apple hardware and OS improvements, brilliantly.
The metadata foundation and built-in range based database is perfect for taming the increasing chaos of more cameras, more footage and more job complexity.
The software leverages OS X implementations like Core Graphics and Core Audio, etc. To provide a better user experience without needing expensive add-on hardware.
The software scales brilliantly from MacBook Pros to MacPros.
The output engine benefits from Apples lead positions in phones and tablets along with their codec invention and licensing to allowing one-click publishing to hundreds of millions of personal and desktop devices, worldwide.

and it’s simply more fun to use than other NLE programs. (Source: people I meet who have switched!)

(Shields gleefully up for the onslaught of what still sucks about it – you may all fire when ready… )

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[Timothy Auld]

As stated recently, I know and accept what’s good about it.

Tim

[Charlie Austin]

[Bill Davis] ” you may all fire when ready”

I think, at least here, that battle is pretty much done. FCP X is a great NLE. You like it and it suits your workflow or you don’t and it doesn’t.

There’s plenty of new territory though. I suggest the Facebook “Ask an Editor” page if you’d like to continue the game. 🙂

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~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Andrew Kimery]

FCP X is the best NLE on the market.

Except when it’s not.

Same as most other tools.

[Charlie Austin]

[Andrew Kimery] “Except when it’s not.

Same as most other tools.”

Yep. Though as someone who, for a variety of reasons, bounces between the “big 3” nle’s… I have more “F&%^ this nonsense, I’m gonna move the project to X” moments than I do the opposite. Meaningless personal anecdote. 😉

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~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Andrew Kimery]

[Charlie Austin] “Yep. Though as someone who, for a variety of reasons, bounces between the “big 3” nle’s… I have more “F&%^ this nonsense, I’m gonna move the project to X” moments than I do the opposite. Meaningless personal anecdote. 😉
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One personal anecdote deservers another… knowing FCP X in LA won’t currently land me any worthwhile gigs so aside from not being able to make a living using it I don’t have any real beef with FCP X at this point in time. 😉

[Charlie Austin]

[Andrew Kimery] “so aside from not being able to make a living using it I don’t have any real beef with FCP X at this point in time. ;-)”

Fair enough. lol

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~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[David Mathis]

Resolve could become the next great NLE, after all it does have tracks! 🙂

[Scott Witthaus]

[David Mathis] “after all it does have tracks!”

Thats great if you charge by the hour! Certainly a slower way to work….

😉

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter