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Going to Avid…but don’t want to
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FCP X provides an extremely strong technical foundation for Apple to build on. The number of features that need to be added to make it suitable for high-end workflows is relatively small, and we already have what appear to be reliable indications that several of them are in the works. Jumping to Avid now is almost precisely equivalent to having choosing to jump to Windows back in 2001, one day after Mac OS X 10.0 shipped. Except that FCP X will probably get up to speed faster than OS X did.
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Jason “This isn’t an Avid vs war. Use what you’re comfortable with… good god.”
Just to clarify, I am responding to the ” Going to Avid, but dont want to” theme of this thread. I stated why I wouldn’t go to Avid and a good alternative way to go. Clear?
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Chris, I don’t know you but I have to commend you for keeping your head. I have trouble understanding why so many people here are planning to jump ship immediately. Seems to me they could simply wait a few months and see what Apple and 3rd paries bring to flesh out the FCP X foundation.
And before anyone jumps on me, I’m hardly an Apple fanboy – I just don’t get why FCP 7 worked adequately for everyone 2 days ago and now is toast, and, yes, I’ve been reading all the posts here. Personally I think Apple released FCP X because it was far enough along to be useful to a huge number of people, and that there will be other features rolled out fairly quickly. That’s just opinion, and I’ll be very disappointed if I’m wrong. But if I am wrong Avid and Adobe will still be there, right? And if I’m right I won’t have spent a long more money changing to a different system unnecessarily.
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Just curious, why not Adobe?
It’s pretty solid. Some minor quibbles here and there…or what can’t it do for you, should be my question…?
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If you don’t want to, you don’t have to switch to Avid.
And predicting the future of your pay as an editor is about as up in the air as predicting when Apple adds EDL support. So you can’t say that it’s bullsh*t to not have a roadmap while at the same time lamenting your “future”.
You must not be a very skilled editor if you see your pay rate declining like that. Anyone worth their salt knows that it’s not the tools, it’s the editor that gets hired. I still know FCP 7 and will cut on that, now I will know FCP X too and because I’ll know it like the back of my hand while everyone else is whining about what it doesn’t do, I’ll have a serious leg up. I have my system and I rock it. All my employers know that and that’s why I get work. They just care that their movie is good.
So I propose that everyone who is so upset, just pretend that it never came out today while the rest of us help each other out in figuring out the ins and outs of the new software like what I expected from the COW instead of this rant fest.
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@Matthew Celia
Come on man…I worked really Hard to get where I am today and I STILL work very hard,for very very little. I have People Who love my work and want to hire me…..for free. I have trouble getting my Hour Rate of $25.00/hourly. I really think(THINK MIND YOU IM NOT SAYING THEY DONT) that Seasoned Vets have no clue the state of entry level editing in 2009-2011. I know allot and I’m skilled but I have no people willing to give a chance. Thats not fair to call me a non skilled editor. Today at work I had to explain to our 95.00/hour editor how a FTP works, and I had to install Plug ins for her she (didnt know how). In hollywood I guess you fail upwards.
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Premiere Pro in osx is also very mature since last versions
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[Paul Jay] “Premiere Pro in osx is also very mature since last versions
Great BMD, AJA support. Real native tapeless support. Native RED etc.”I should point out that Matrox just released their new drivers for CS5.5 which, among other things, provides for CS5.5 support of closed captioning in the PTT…no added hardware required.
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[David Cherniack] “I should point out that Matrox just released their new drivers for CS5.5 which, among other things, provides for CS5.5 support of closed captioning in the PTT…no added hardware required.
“Jeeze, go to sleep David.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comDon’t miss my new tutorial: Prepare for a seamless transition to FCP X and OS X Lion
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Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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Sleep? I just woke up less than an hour ago.
David
AllinOneFilms.com
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