High School Class to visit London

[Tim Wilson]

Visit Aindreas. He will buy all your students beer. LOL

This is a great idea. (The trip to London part, not the Aindreas buying beer for your students part. Although you are the better judge of that than I am.) So we’ll collectively put out some feelers for you and hopefully come up with some great ACTUAL answers.

[Oliver Peters]

You might try contacting the BBC at New Broadcasting House directly.

– Oliver

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

[David Mathis]

Tim,

Your post made my day. Thumbs up!

[Winston A. cely]

Thanks!

Right now, we’ve been talking to Education First as a tour guide company and trip coordinator. I’d really like to take advantage of meeting some of the working professionals that support the Cow as well. 🙂

Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC

17″ MacBook Pro | 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 3 | FCPX | Motion 5 | Compressor 4

“If you can talk brilliantly enough about a subject, you can create the consoling illusion it has been mastered.” – Stanley Kubrick

[Ronny Courtens]

There are many FCP X houses you can visit in London. As Oliver said, you could try the BBC. If you are more into award-winning commercial and music video work, ask TRIM (trim editing London) if they can spare some time with your students. Or you can visit the Youtube post-house from Google in Soho, which is all FCP X. Contact me if you need more addresses: ronnycourtens@mac.com

– Ronny

[James Ewart]

Hi there

London and Soho have post houses in abundance. Apart from Trim as mentioned by Ronnie you will not find many running FCPX and those that do, run it alongside FCP7/Premiere/Avid.

The only one I know of (after some extensive research last year) are both quite small “boutique” facilities:

Clear Cut Pictures https://www.clearcut.cc

Preditors https://www.preditors.tv

These are the only two I have found. The Mill I think are still using FCP7 for their main edit tool (mainly a grading and CGI house these days as are most of the big houses because that’s where there are still decent budgets).

Unit TV was exclusively an FCP house but they switched over to Avid pretty soon after the launch of FCPX.

I don’t know how many facilities houses there are in London but these are the only ones I can find. A very very small percentage indeed.

Hopefully somebody will be able to enlighten further.

Ronnie if you know of others please do post as it’s very useful info for me.

[Mark Dobson]

Well I’m about 40miles south of London in a small market town and whilst you are all welcome to come and visit and see how we use FCPX for Broadcast Spec HD and 4K editing I don’t think you would all fit into our small house.

But you could take it in turns to come into our editing room and I think we could just about find enough mugs to make tea for you all.

Seriously though from what James Ewarts says in his post I think that it’s likely that FCPX is mostly used by self shooting Producer / Directors and small production companies such as ours.

I just did a quick Google Search and I think there are a few companies in Brighton, lovely town to visit, who are using FCPX. One of these is a company called Can-b ltd.

https://can-b.co.uk/video-production

[James Ewart]

If you want to give your students a glimpse of the top end of the market then there are three companies to approach and I would imagine one of these will oblige:

The Mill

The Framestore

The Moving Picture Company

You might also approach

Rushes

Molinare

good luck

http://www.jamesewart.co.uk

[Mauricio Lleras]

Hi,
what about contacting 10dot1?
These are the guys that have published several whitepapers
on fcpx workflows and they should be able
to point you in the right direction:
https://www.10dot1.co.uk
Their website lists these as clients,
and I’m guessing at least half should be
using fcpx regularly, if not as their main NLE:
BBC Motion Gallery
BD Network
ESPN
Google
Impossible Pictures
The Mill
MUTV
Nickelodeon
Ogilvy
Tomboy Films
Unit
Viasat
360 Production

Maybe call them?

Cheers and have a good trip with you students!

[James Ewart]

[Mauricio Lleras] “what about contacting 10dot1?”

I contacted them over a year ago. No major facilities in the UK are running FCPX apart form the ones I listed earlier.

None of the facilities you list use FCPX apart from maybe Google unless they have switch in the last few months.

The BBC Motion Gallery is not a proper facility.
MUTV is in …Manchester!
Unit as I mentioned earlier switched to AVID a few years ago.
ESPN??
The Mill were running FCP 7 last time I was there for editing but most of what they do is in Flame and Smoke and some suchlike.

if any of the others are running FCPX in any meaningful way please let me know I would be very surprised.

I think maybe people answer these questions without first reading the thread?