Goodby to FCP 7, you will be missed

[Oliver Peters]

I have found both Avid MC 5.0.x and MC 5.5 to be as equally stable as FCP 7. That’s across a few different machines in each case.

I expect FCP X to be pretty stable, as well. Just missing plenty of features. Whether of not those features are important will be different for each user. I suspect a lot of folks will be running both FCP 7 and FCP X alongside each other for some time, just depending on whether they need a particular feature or are making changes to a past project.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Matt Callac]

Thanks Walter. May have been a Somewhat premature post. I’d poked around on google trying to find it with no luck….but I hadn’t scrolled down the page and seen the topic: “Larry Jordan speaks about FCPX”

-mattyc

[Mike Chedwick]

I use FCP 7 as well as MC 5.5 and MC is very stable. To make such a statement is childish.

[David Battistella]

[Walter Soyka] “It’s on Larry’s blog:

https://www.larryjordan.biz/goodies/blog.html
“

I juat read that “statement” and it almost looks reads like it was written by apple. It definitely has that air too it, like it went back and forth a few times before it was posted.

I’d love to read what the real conversation was.

Read the next bit as satire:

“Um. Are you effing nuts, making a statement like that before we release a piece of software we have been promising for years?”
“sorry, what should I do?”
“We’ll have our lawyers draft something up.”
“Um, OK. Do I get to keep my copy of the software.”
“Yes, and we will let you know the moment you can release the training videos after we release the software.”

The point is, everything we are hearing is exactly what apple wants us to hear. This is no big inside information. It’s a skillfully crafted portion of the release process.

It’s a way of giving the baby (FCP_X) the most legs and the fastest start it can get. Once we get our hands on it, people will rip it apart and see what the real problems are. AND we will also see how briliant this new release it.

AVID and ADOBE are watching this very closely and are doing alot to try to keep market share.

David

______________________________
Believe me. Everything is a lie.

[Matt Callac]

[David Battistella] ”

The point is, everything we are hearing is exactly what apple wants us to hear. This is no big inside information. It’s a skillfully crafted portion of the release process.”

Wait… Are you trying to say that Apple wrote his blog post for him? That makes no sense whatsoever…or are you just talking about one or two particular statements on the blog? Still, I doubt it.

[David Battistella] “The point is, everything we are hearing is exactly what apple wants us to hear. This is no big inside information. It’s a skillfully crafted portion of the release process.”

Is that not what all PR is…structuring the data and facts etc as you want them to appear which is not necessarily how they actually are.

[David Battistella] ” Once we get our hands on it, people will rip it apart and see what the real problems are.”
I’m just sort of thrown off by the term “rip it apart”. I’m not really interested in doing that. That’s language of destruction. I’m more interested in looking under the hood and seeing what it’s doing and then figuring out how to drive the damn thing and see if it handles better or worse than what I’m use too. Sure it’s gonna be weird at first..and you might ride the clutch too much or grind the gears. My point is…the language we use to talk about certain things often reveals our motives. If you’re looking for problems or ways to “tear it up” you certainly will find them, but likely at the expense of many of the things that will handle better than your certain setup. IE focusing on only the negatives blinds us from the positives.

-mattyc

[David Battistella]

Matt,

To clarify.

Rip it apart should be replaced by, “doing our own testing” . Testing is everyting to me and it will be to any major facility before implementing new software products. People are going to want to see if there are gaping holes. What is working, what isn’t and how effectively the software can be put into real world situations. I will embrace the software for sure, but I also want to know the limitations and that means deliberatly tring to “break things”.

On the other quotes. I am not suggesting Apple wrote it for him, but on reading it we can see that Larry chose his words very carefully and that is most likely Larry’s respect for the process and the NDA he is under. I guess I am underlining the fact that at moments of a release like this, the relationship between Larry and Apple (or apple and key vendors and trainers) might be more vital than a “regular software update”.

Apple needs Larry because he will bring his expertise to the floor to initiate a widely needed explaination and training with the new version. Larry needs Apple becuase his business depands on this training.

So I am just commenting on how heightened their relationship might be at this time. There seems to be a lot of interest in the software and big and small players are wathcing everything closely.

Larry is excellent at what he does. Apple is excellent at what they do. The NDA ensures that we are hearing about only what Apple wants us to hear about right now.

Satire is satire.

David

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Believe me. Everything is a lie.

[David Battistella]

accidental post…

[Matt Callac]

thanks for the clarification.

-mattyc

[Gary Hazen]

Ben has never used Media Composer. Take his comments with a grain of salt.

[Sohrab Sandhu]

[Paul Jay] “FCP7 will run for years.”

Absolutely wrong assumption.

Its like sayind SD will live for years even though HD is here. How much stuff is being shot in SD today? Leave that aside, how many new cameras shoot standard def anymore? Maybe 5 percent.

In these times when formats like AVCHD & H.264 are the order of the day,you can’t wait for days in order to transcode the footage.

If FCP X is a hit, FCP 7 will very soon be totally out of scene. The only way i see FCP 7 surviving for a few years is if FCP X is a big fail and if AVID does not bring out something remarkable.

Sohrab

2.66 GHz 8-core, ATI Radeon HD 4870,
FCS 3, AJA Kona Lhi

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