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Have Some Tough Desions to make…..
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greg writes –
Oh…I’m sorry. I spent 11 years Learning and master this Software, and apple threw it away 2 days agoREPLY –
do you want us to cry for you? We have been learning new crap OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER our entire lives. This is the technology part of the entertainment industry, and it is constantly changing, and instead of HAVING A LIFE, we are stuck inside reading manuals, playing with new software, and suffering year after year on how to make the same living, with new tools. If you have come from a background of linear editing, where you were a CMX expert, then it dies, and you then go to AVID (or EMC) and then to FCP, and then to all the graphics programs, etc, etc, etc. YOU BET it’s frustrating. Should this make you feel better – OF COURSE NOT – you should feel SICK – we all feel sick – and you know what – if you don’t like feeling sick, then GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS, becuase whatever we learn next (FCP-X, Premier, etc.) will be useless 5 years from now, and we will have to do it all over again.
So stop your damn whining, and OPEN A MANUAL. It’s Saturday – no pleasant life your you, my friend – you are in SHOW BUSINESS.I am taking my frustrations out on you, because I am in the same boat as you, and I am getting sick of it, but I ain’t giving up.
Bob Zelin
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Is this how you feel, Greg?
W.
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Ummmm, I think it may work better if I include the link:
W.
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I got a call a couple of weeks ago to go into a production company to do a few days cutting using their in house kit, which is Avid. OK, fine, I said. So I went in and sat down and the kit in front of me was Express Pro HD, and guess what? It was fine, perfectly good for doing the job, even though that version of the software was discontinued three years ago…
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[Greg Burke] ”
Needless to say I feel that I somewhat wasted my time and money investing into FCS in general. I can still use 7 (for now) but how long until its retired form the post world 1,2,3,4 years from now?What should I do? Im freaking out. I feel like I was just raped on a pinball machine buy APPLE, while Steve Jobs watched.”
If you’re a freelancer you really should at least be familiar with Adobe and Avid products. Take some introductory training courses if you need or online training.
We’re transitioning away and in the process testing Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer and even Autodesk Smoke as they were kind enough to send us an evaluation copy.
In our limited testing so far I will say that your FCP skills will transition very nicely to Premiere Pro and from what I’ve been able to glean, CS6 will be even easier. We’re just installing Avid MC now and Smoke is not here yet so I can’t comment on those yet, but quite honestly both Adobe and Avid should be fairly easy transitions.
I have two video blogs on transitioning from FCP to Premiere up on my blog here on the Cow.
https://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/5131/transitioning-part-2-fcp-workflow-in-adobe-premiere-pro
I’ve already had a lot of folks tell me these videos put their minds at ease over the uproar caused by Final Cut Pro X. by the way, if you want a tutorial for that here’s a great one by a kid who looks to be 12. I will have to try to hire this kid in a few years because he reminds me of myself at that age, only I was using 8mm film cameras….
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
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Avid, Vegas or Premiere. Not that hard of a decision.
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I must admit (being a PC user through-out – edit*, Adobe and Avid) that I do not understand why the “Mac brigade” is surprised about about FCP’s death and no backward compatibility – after all, through nineties they were known for treating their third party soft and hardware developers very badly by always introducing upgrades that would force a complete rewrite or just kill of products if “management” didn’t like them.
Plus, Apple’s future are in apps and content for the masses. There is no money in producing “also ran” packages, when you can sell the software as a premium app to the affluent consumer iphone & ipad market 😉
However, there is plenty of tools out there that will allow you to convert FCP projects into Avid and/or Premiere Pro + if you hand over your FCP to Avid, they’ll for now give you a competitive upgrade path too.
The only thing to hope for is that the competitors to FCP doesn’t see this latest under-development as an opportunity to hike their prices back up – after all, as a buyer I do like competition between my suppliers. Where as a supplier, I like to sell it as high as possible – just normal market-forces at play
All the Best
Mads
London, UKPlease do visit our faceBook page here: https://www.facebook.com/MacMillionProductions
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if you know FCP7 then you basically know Premiere Pro, that is how similar they are, just a few minor differences. There is even a FCP keyboard shortcuts preset so you don’t have to learn new shortcuts. I learned it for an internship originally and picked it up very quickly, now I use it at my job and have used it on my last few freelance projects also.
Also, check out the book “An Editor’s Guide To Premiere Pro” by Rich Harrington, it’s a great book and will help with the transition; even after using Premiere Pro for close to a year I still learned things about it from that book that I didn’t know before.
Cinematographer – Editor – Motion Graphics Artist – Colorist
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Apple came in to the market after the AVID money (and got it) Now instead of competing with Adobe for professional market share, seems like there turning there attention over to the home user that wants to be the “I do this on the side” professional.
Tough break.
I bet after you get over the inital shock of being dumped by Apple, you’ll realize your closer to your next editor than you think.
Keep using the version you have, you were going to have to upgrade anyway. So the next time somebody else will be getting your money. You get use to it.Even through FCP or Premire are not my first choice, everyone, at one point or another has to come back to Adobe. If nothing else for Photoshop and After Effects sake. But if you know After Effects your not that far from Premire and Premier and FCP uses the same aproach systematicly.
If your livelihood is dependent on you staying current with the industry, I’d bet on Premire filling the void. If your in high demand and choose when and where, I’d find what ever makes me feel the most creative and stick with it. If you like FPC7 keep cutting with it nobody will ask or care as long as it looks great.
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Greg
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I didn’t think so.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
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