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FCPX users – stand up and be counted!
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I use it for 90% of my work but I have had to run back to 7 because of major issues outlined here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/28153I like the promise of X, but I too will be watching what happens at the Adobe booth in Vegas, albeit on the web from Texarkana, Texas.don walker
texarkana, texasJohn 3:16
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Here.
But I also use legacy and PP.
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[Walter Soyka] “what’s the one top feature in FCPX you can’t imagine giving up”
Keywords.
[Walter Soyka] “change you’d most like to see in the next release”
Color code roles
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[Richard Herd] “[Walter Soyka] “what’s the one top feature in FCPX you can’t imagine giving up”
“The skimmer!
[Richard Herd] “[Walter Soyka] “change you’d most like to see in the next release”
Color code roles” Agree with this
Steve Connor
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[Walter Soyka] “Among those using FCPX for work, what’s the one top feature in FCPX you can’t imagine giving up, and what’s the one change you’d most like to see in the next release?”
I’m using it for everything I do at the moment; (mostly 1-4 minute direct-to-the-web stuff), except if I’m doing effects or animation (then it’s After Effects).
Top feature for me: Editing on my Macbook Pro without rendering. Also, I wouldn’t want to give up the Motion created graphics templates that save me so much time. Third best feature: Keywording.
One feature I’d like to see in the next release: even more realtime performance!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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I’ve tried many times, each time a new update comes out I try it with new fervor. But it lets me down every time, with by crashing, the magnetic timeline, pulling my hair out trying to delete one frame, on and on. So I’m still using 7 and making the move to Avid.
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I’ve been using it on “at home”, unsupervised projects. Both freebees for clients and paid projects. Mostly commercials or shorter (under 5 min.) web marketing videos. No local clients (production companies and facilities) have migrated yet that I’m aware of. (A few independents, yes.) I also use FCP 7, PPro CS 5.5, Avid Symphony/MC 6 and Smoke on the same system. FCP 7 continues to be the dominant client software for me.
Right now I feel X is too buggy and too unreliable to put in front of a client. Most of the bugs are major annoyances rather than deal-breakers. Most of the big-name 3rd party plug-ins are a bit touchy and many quite sluggish, leaning on unusable. Built-ins and a lot of the freebees some of you have created are pretty good and responsive.
Stability for me (i.e. crashes) has been reasonably good; but as far as flat out rock-n-roll sturdiness, it doesn’t come anywhere close to Avid or even FCP 7 yet. Because it isn’t a complete dog – and some things are very fast and innovative – I’m still willing to give a chance. It will be critical that Apple fix the very real performance issues this year, though.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Oliver Peters] “It will be critical that Apple fix the very real performance issues this year, though.”
It will be interesting to see how far this gets how quickly.
There are loads of voices loudly proclaiming that it’s blindingly fast and reliable, so will Apple see it as a priority or will they do the easier thing and keep adding “features” that will do the job of selling more units more effectively?
Fixing performance issues just isn’t that sexy, as we all know.
(I’d also say that it’s probably only the more demanding users (of which there clearly aren’t that many as yet) who will be experiencing the worst problems.)
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Fixing performance issues just isn’t that sexy, as we all know.”
I doubt Apple will be let off the hook either way. If they focus on performance, people will claim that they’ve topped out on their features. If they add features, people will complain that they have no interest in improving performance.
Andy
https://www.timesavertutorials.com
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[Simon Ubsdell] “There are loads of voices loudly proclaiming that it’s blindingly fast and reliable, so will Apple see it as a priority or will they do the easier thing and keep adding “features” that will do the job of selling more units more effectively?”
The thing I find with most of the local, fellow users I know is the initial experience is that they are impressed by the speed. Then, once they actually dig in with real projects, they start to run into the pitfalls, like the title issues discussed in several threads.
[Simon Ubsdell] “(I’d also say that it’s probably only the more demanding users (of which there clearly aren’t that many as yet) who will be experiencing the worst problems.)”
I know for a fact that Apple is in contact with a number of demanding customers and partners, too. There is at least recognition of items to be addressed. Where that falls into the list of priorities will be an unknown. I think an interesting “tell” will be at NAB in a few weeks. Not Apple, per se, but rather how many other folks demonstrate a product or a workflow as “working with” FCP X.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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