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FCPX-The Choice for a New Generation?
My 11.5 year old daughter is expressing interest in learning how to edit video. While I have FCP 7 and PPro CS5.5, I was wondering what the community thought of having her be the FCPX guinea pig. She is a clean slate with zero hours logged learning any other workflow or paradigm. Aside from the $299, my concern is that she learns FCPX and then has to revert to FCP7/PPro. Without any income dependent deliverables due, curious what others opinions might be.
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Sounds like the perfect guinea pig. She arrives with no preconceived notions of what the inert face should be or do. I’d be curious to see how she does. Please keep us posted.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
Please document her progress! Would make a slightly good docu.
Ewan
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My 10 year old has been watching me edit on and off over the years… recently I’ve taken to making mini films with him and his friends… we can shoot in half an hour and edit in an hour with FCP X ready for upload to youtube (most of the films involve fighting and have re-enthused me for my work 🙂 )…. I left the boys at the edit suite while I went to make some lunch and when I came back they were cutting away… adding and moving sound fx mostly but it really is very intuitive for them… they love it…
For the most part I do too…
JohnnySeanchas Productions, Galway, Ireland
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Considering plenty of adults zone out as soon as you start talking about scratch disks and easy setups, I suspect the next generation will favour FCPX.
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Funny, I’ve never ONCE discussed scratch disks and easy setups while cutting on Avid.
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[Chris Conlee] “Funny, I’ve never ONCE discussed scratch disks and easy setups while cutting on Avid.”
That’s because you were too busy trying to explain why nobody wants to be trained in Avid any more.
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My experience is give a ten-year-old just about any piece of software and they’ll be using it inside of a hour.
It’s about as meaningful a test as giving a hungry rabbit a carrot to see if he’ll eat it.
David
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That’s only half the test. After they’ve had enough carrots you give them grass and carrots and see which they eat.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2011 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
I don’t think it makes an iota of difference what they “learn on.” Lots of FCP and Avid editors (my superiors and myself included) learned editing on Premiere (before it became ‘premiere pro’) and it didn’t change the fact that we learned FCP/Avid when transitioning into the television/film market.
So… FCPX is the new Premiere, maybe. I think it’s great no matter what entry-level tool they use. It doesn’t necessarily change what they end up using if they decide to do editing for a living.
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is that cause the edit assistant and technicians set up for you
moving media from avid is easy when done correctly to begin with, if done wrong can be slow to fix without a consolidate
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