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FCPX on MBP Retina Display – WOW
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “People come to me because of the quality of my work – my abilities, my sensibility, my reputation.
[Bill Davis] “Unfortunately the old standbys like “quality” or “reliability” or “professionalism” are also decreasing in value.”
This is utterly untrue to my experience. What I see more and more is a craving for quality, engagement, responsibility.”
Absolutely agree with you. Edit and edit well are two different things and the most important for a freelancer (NOT an artist, but a professional freelancer) is reliability.
And since I use FCPX I beat deadlines many times days earlier while in FCP7 I just met them.
This allows me to a) spend time on the next project or/and b) spend time with my family. So FCPX is helping me to be more reliable and professional.And while Chris and Herb might have certain workflows that are not feasable yet with FCPX, I have shown FCPX to people who are now in London and while there are no calls for freelance FCPX editors there this time, that is due to small issues e.g. FCPX doesn´t support XDCam Disks properly yet (mxf-export)….otherwise everyone I showed FCPX to was pretty much agreeing it is faster and better for something like a sports-cast promo or news edit or to manage weeks of footage that will be edited over the course of months later on with the keywords that are dropped on it during the Olympics.
I have edited at the Ironman World Champs in Hawaii already last October and I was quicker than anyone in the room around me (NBC used FCP7 for their highlight-show of the Ironman). But we had to use FCP7 also, to get the programs on XDCam Disks to uplink them to Europe.
The next Olympics (in 2 years in Russia) there will be NOT ONE FCP7 anymore. There will be FCP-XI and PP7.5. -
[alban egger] “…otherwise everyone I showed FCPX to was pretty much agreeing it is faster …”
Alban,
Now you can just show them Steve Connor‘s chart.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/40043#40049(You’ll still have to explain why you’re comparing X to 3 year old software, but charts are persuasive.)
Franz.
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[Charlie Austin] “but I wish i could sit down with Herb and Chris and others and show them why I think so”
Well, I can do that. After summer, lets have a long lunch sometime. My treat. We’ll bring our laptops and bounce the thing around a bit. I’d really enjoy that.
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[Walter Soyka]”In summary, I think there are two production pools, they don’t really overlap, and the less-desirable of the two is growing at the faster rate. The differences between the two pools are making the jump from the low end to the high end progressively harder. The production value floor is being raised, but the production value ceiling is being raised, too. The rules of economics apply.”
On that point I would like to add another reason why the gap is harder to cross. Training and Mentor-ship which used to be an important part of an industry based on big facilities and broadcasters has vanished. When I moved my humble facility to the bottom of the planet, it was partly to get into an economy of scale that allowed me more time to contemplate such training and mentor-ship and I have had some success in that.
However I am now seeing a jack of all trades approach where young film makers are trying to fulfil all roles from producer to director, camera, editor and distributor. Ironically I feel that being at the end of my career, I am much better placed to take them on in the one man band game but the truth is I now know enough about the multi disciplines of the industry to know what I like and what I am better at.
Modern training is online forums and Google searches for tutorials. That is a much harder road trying to bridge the keen amateur to professional divide with vicarious training.
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[Chris Harlan] “Well, I can do that. After summer, lets have a long lunch sometime. My treat. We’ll bring our laptops and bounce the thing around a bit. I’d really enjoy that.”
Deal. 🙂 Sadly my Original MB Air won’t run X, but we can figure something out… On a related note…
Remember that project from hell I was talking about in my earlier post? Well, it’s taking FCP7 4-6 minutes to render a 10 second composited section. Every time I move something, I need to wait that long to see it. So… I copied that section into a new sequence, and imported it to X. Ya know… just to see the difference.
It just played. A little jumpy on a couple bits, but even the rendering only took seconds, so it didn’t force me to stop working at all. But… I gotta keep it in 7, so back to the salt mines I go. *sigh* 🙁
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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
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[Shawn Miller] “[Jerry Hofmann] “Apple writes natively for only one OS, which we all agree is currently the better OS for all round computing.”
I wasn’t there when the vote was taken, so I’ll have to disagree here.”
Dang. I missed it too. Could it be that the Mac guys are only sending out ballots to like, you know, other Mac guys?
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The best OS is the one that is robust, secure, easy to operate and has lots of nice software written for it. So for all round OS computing goodness my vote is Linux, with Apple and Win 7 photo for the silver medal depending on how highly you value choice and economics over simplicity and relative security.
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[Charlie Austin] “Remember that project from hell I was talking about in my earlier post? Well, it’s taking FCP7 4-6 minutes to render a 10 second composited section. Every time I move something, I need to wait that long to see it. So… I copied that section into a new sequence, and imported it to X. Ya know… just to see the difference.
It just played. A little jumpy on a couple bits, but even the rendering only took seconds, so it didn’t force me to stop working at all. But… I gotta keep it in 7, so back to the salt mines I go. *sigh* :-(“
Tip, Charlie, whatever else you do, just don’t claim that X is “faster” to edit with even if you actually think it is.
Makes people here CRAZY.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Chris Harlan] “[Shawn Miller] “[Jerry Hofmann] “Apple writes natively for only one OS, which we all agree is currently the better OS for all round computing.”
I wasn’t there when the vote was taken, so I’ll have to disagree here.”
Dang. I missed it too. Could it be that the Mac guys are only sending out ballots to like, you know, other Mac guys?
“Or maybe they just asked the NASA scientists?
I actually wondered if these guys were running Linux until I saw the last photo.
Not definitive and not video-related, but I’ve got to figure these guys wouldn’t want to run sub-standard hardware and this represents pretty impressive PR for Apple none the less.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Bill Davis] “I actually wondered if these guys were running Linux until I saw the last photo.
“Why would they be running Linux? The X11 support inside OS X is superb, which is why many scientists gravitate to it. They run their specialized Unix programs through the X Window. Sadly, X11–which for several years was standard with OS X –is a casualty in Mountain Lion, so I’m betting none of them are on Mountain Lion right now. There’s XQuartz support, though, with libraries and such, so hopefully X11 will continue.
[Bill Davis] ” I’ve got to figure these guys wouldn’t want to run sub-standard hardware and this represents pretty impressive PR for Apple none the less.”
No one has said anything about “sub-standard hardware.” Again, straw argument. For that matter, no one has said anything about OS X being bad. I think if you understood what these folks were doing, in terms of the specialized Unix programs they are running, and X Window’s ability to do that well, you’d understand why most of them have Macs.
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