FCPX’s core market is the “tweeners” – a little above iMovie, a lot below FCP

[Aindreas Gallagher]

Well that, god knows, is cake I would wear with a smile.

but to you sir so – what make you of the statements from the men referenced in the video above? They carry a tad of weight no?

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[Richard Clark]

from the WSJ article of FCP angst.

“If you need to get a project out I suggest using Avid. Yes, that truly professional tool made for true professionals for 23 years”

. . . No way Jose. Back in the 90’s, yep last century AVIG gave the finger to 40000 Apple users by stating they would no longer support Apple, how the worm turns, that was when I got off AVID and will persevere with FCP, my old version works just fine. I don’t buy a new car unless the old one is broke or is no longer cost effective, simple really.

thanks for the common sense Bill, all these 23 year old TV Producers make me laugh. She-it I didn’t get in the Biz til I was 24 and we had so many changes from Upright Moviolas to Flatbed KEM/Steenbeck et and then came the god aweful off line era and then I discovered AVID at NAB around 1988, saw the future but didn’t embrace it till 93 and then saw FCP and I was hooked into the future, 44years+ later, still there 🙂

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[Jamie Franklin]

[Richard Clark] ”
the beginning of the end to the obsfucation :)”

Really? I think R.Harrington laid out a very good response, as did Walter, who feel more questions were raised than answers.

[Richard Clark]

and I believe, they spoke too soon. It has created a firestorm of misinformation. The same thing happened when Leica went Digital and Leica Lovers aka Strokers went Ballistic. Storm in a tea cup. Just my view and, of course, I may be totally wrong, I was once 🙂

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Film | Photography | Writing
http://www.kiwicafe.com/
Aotearoa New Zealand

[Jamie Franklin]

While it has probably been argued at length and to death in other threads, sorry OP, some issues do prop up. Export XML seemed rather explicit. No mention of import. Some of the wording kinda, slightly, ruffled my hope with the reliance on 3rd party applications…especially the very costly ones that run over the price of the platform for one feature they said, “we know it’s important” (well, ya)…kinda gets the fires burning I’m sure in some that reacted with pause then bombast. If it was important…then, um…it makes one wonder, what editors were consulted on it’s development…

Then it comes full circle to iMovie8…I’m running out of gas on blasting this thing too, but that response, I will admit, didn’t shake my squirrel cage. Like I said, if we have to pay for the app/upgrades lets hope the market is large enough they give them reasonable price points…

[Aindreas Gallagher]

but surely, by going digital, Leica did not alter the grammar of the lenses, the casing, threw out film, half the buttons, and the basic understanding of what the art of photography, and indeed who the practitioners of photography should be, simply based on Leica’s wildly successful range of Leica light cameras, that they realised they could sell an awful lot more of, if only they shifted the entire market by fief?

the point is Leica would have been in no position to pull off that kind of ludicrous insanity – photography professionals would have been protected against that insanity by a true craft professional market of competitive machined objects – but we’re in software now, and we only had premiere and avid left as bulwark, the flatbeds are gone – and that was not enough to stop apple’s insane, world anew posturing.

I’m still ranty.

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promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Mike Guidotti]

[Richard Clark] “The same thing happened when Leica went Digital”

Not exactly, Leica didn’t abandon exposure controls and the shutter release… They didn’t say our camera is going to automatically frame your picture and set exposure because we knew your creative intent before you ever bought the camera…

[Aindreas Gallagher]

I should also say – my point about skills attainment came off incredibly high and mighty – “I dont know about you” schtick – so – here I am, as a tit.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3421180/me.jpg

I’m the moron at the right, making a weird prince Charles hand move, I’m the one who *barely* got a 2.1. (thats a low B)

I just sort of believe that apple are making weirdly reductive points about everything chance makes to construct an editor, it feels like they are grimacing very hard with every sinew of their being and attempting to produce truth for everyone simultaneously across the world, like season three end of lost when the sky shimmered —
when… they don’t actually have to? There has to be a way for apple to envision this software – staged complexity, while ungainly, is not unheard of. something – god anything –

look – apple realistically cannot hope to hit two cultural points five hundred yards apart with a single intellectual gun. The craftsmanship of the bullet – that is not in question, but the exercise is, one might scream endlessly, lunacy.

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promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Derek Andonian]

Import

Can I import projects from Final Cut Pro 7 into Final Cut Pro X?

Final Cut Pro X includes an all-new project architecture structured around a trackless timeline and connected clips. In addition, Final Cut Pro X features new and redesigned audio effects, video effects, and color grading tools. Because of these changes, there is no way to “translate” or bring in old projects without changing or losing data. But if you’re already working with Final Cut Pro 7, you can continue to do so after installing Final Cut Pro X, and Final Cut Pro 7 will work with Mac OS X Lion. You can also import your media files from previous versions into Final Cut Pro X.

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I stopped reading after this part. What was the rest of it about?

[Jason Porthouse]

‘Oh sigh my little heart, we are at a wake, on a forum, with no booze.’

That’s one of the best lines I’ve ever read on this forum. Glad you’re still ranty, It fair warms my heart.

Jason

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