FCPX on MBP Retina Display – WOW

[Shane Ross]

[Bill Davis] “[Charlie Austin] “If not, what is it exactly you are trying to say? In any case… here’s my rebuttal: I am an award winning professional editor, I work with big, important movie studios on big, important movies and television shows and I like FCPX. It is great. 🙂
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Game. Set. Match.”

Liking it is one thing. USING it on those “important movie and television shows” is another.

Have you?

Shane
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[Aindreas Gallagher]

“before speaking, hold a doughnut, compress snow, and sneeze”

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[Michael Gissing]

[Bill Davis] “Game. Set. Match.”

I haven’t had the first serve of a Broadcast FCPX job going through my facility to date so the game hasn’t even started yet Bill. I know you’re enthusiastic but the game has a long way to go yet.

[Charlie Austin]

[Shane Ross] “Liking it is one thing. USING it on those “important movie and television shows” is another.

Have you?”

Yep. Got some spots on the air and in theaters as we speak. I don’t use it exclusively yet, there are a few things that need to happen before I can, but I’d like to. I’ll be the first to admit that X still needs some work and functionality, but I really do prefer it to FCP 7.

Also, all due respect to Bill, the “game, set, match” comment doesn’t help. Nor does the whole “new paradigm” narrative. It’s not a new paradigm, it’s just a new NLE with a different interface, IMHO.

I’m not trying to “win” anything here, Just dispel misconceptions. If X doesn’t work for someone for technical or personal preference reasons, fine. But I have issues with people who loudly proclaim it’s not a “professional” app. That’s horseshit.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Michael Gissing] “[Bill Davis] “Game. Set. Match.”

I haven’t had the first serve of a Broadcast FCPX job going through my facility to date so the game hasn’t even started yet Bill. I know you’re enthusiastic but the game has a long way to go yet.”

You are correct. Actually, I think the game has started, but the players are still just starting to warm up. 😉 In my case, X has only been useable since 10.0.4… And I still feel like I’m walking on eggshells at times, but it’s worth it. For me anyway…

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~

[Jerry Hofmann]

But you want said audio to go in a certan place in the sequence, no?

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[Michael Gissing]

In my case Charlie the game hasn’t started. I know of one editor out of around 50 that feed work through my post house from time to time and he is the only one using FCPX although on a recent job he used FCP7 due to the facility he was hired by.

I know the game has started elsewhere but Bill needs a reminder that we are far from anything remotely conclusive about FCPX’s role in features & broadcast. Potential yes but long way to go.

[Charlie Austin]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “Dandy. call it out mate – call out the involved studios and shows, that’s very worth while –

I happily quoted a BBC factual editor a while back who was pitching a flag for an exclusive FCPX doco site in london. off a chat like this over at fcpx.co –

its all good.

but, to be fair, in the end, judgement will eventually be called on this software and the whole secondary/roles/connected whatever

I think its us because our nose is at the grindstone – we get to have every wrinkle at the worst possible moment.

however – if judgements on the scale you are referencing are actually happening at major studios with major projects – you really should lay that out.

that could have me instantly back at the app for the simplest bread hungry reasons.

(and I really have spent half-decent time at the app)”

Sorry if I came off as a dick, that really wasn’t my intention. I guess the “Walmart” comment just sort of rubbed me the wrong way. 🙂 And to be fair, FCPX, much as I like it, really is very immature at this point in many areas. But it’s really a great tool, and once you “get it”, which doesn’t take that long if you force yourself to, it’s a joy to work with. Seriously, it makes me smile daily. Also, it drives me nuts, but only because I can see where they’re going with a lot of the features, and wish they’d hurry up and get there. Anyway… my apologies if I was sort of a jerk back there. 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Charlie Austin] “That’s horseshit.”

it bloody well is not.

“The goal for every Apple software product is to sell more hardware.
Even the Mac operating system is just trying to get people to buy more Mac computers.

The pro market is too small for Apple to care about it.
Instead of trying to get hundreds or even thousands of video professionals to buy new Macs,
they can nail the pro-sumer market and sell to hundreds of thousands of hobbyists like me.”

https://sachin.posterous.com/why-apple-built-final-cut-pro-x

That bloke, Charlie, was on the FCP staff for over half a decade. that is his determination of FCPX.

A question to you ok?

Is there actually, ever, a valid point beyond which editors should, or are bound to, defend the essential characteristics of professional software? When does dumb get really really dumb? when the primary is green and the secondary is orange? mmm?

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

ha! I come off *resplendently* as a dick 😉 – repeatedly. (please ignore arsey FCP engineer quote above…)

half suspect I haven’t given the software enough time of day – makes for a dodgy perspective.

but there’s a real bull mood over here. herd says no.

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