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I could see FCP X being useful for something professional…
When FCP X becomes available for the iPad I could definitely see myself using it in the field to rough out cuts, make string outs, etc. As long as I can get an XML out of it once I get back to the shop to load on the Avids, it could make for a convienent little tool.
Sadly this looks like the only way we’d be able to use FCP X in any professional manner on our show. It’s an interesting idea though.
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yeah…but I bet that Ipad FCP will be able to do a killer real time Ken Burns effect! That’s all you really need.
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Actually with some clients tendency to want to do their own selects and rough cuts, iMovie desktop import could be valuable. Granted that’s a small niche I suspect.
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baby yes, I just can’t, you know – I can’t quite believe that this is our little own software cliff?
that we’re all standing here?
(and so.. he continues his ever-living rant)
that we all get handed the apple sod off cards? And then we get to stare at the PPro, avid welcome gift packs, when we had all sweated blood to push the victory of FCP. FCP was supposed to be the democratic answer, the embodiment of the craft. But sure of course apple couldn’t give two shites about us, our craft, or the basic tenets of editing itself.
You know? I can’t believe that for all apple’s dangerous bollocks in the past, this is where we would all get to – we are the last quirk to be told to sod off – we are the last of the professional creative community to depend on that creature apple, that weird little lately large shark, to pray that they give the vaguest shite about the financial smudge on their left last heel – some tens of thousands of editors of various skills competing and attempting to express editing as a craft individually every single day – but we really do not make enough coin for them at apple; those quiet, deadly, shitty, money men in cupertino.
here’s to the crazy ones.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “FCP was supposed to be the democratic answer, the embodiment of the craft. But sure of course apple couldn’t give two shites about us, our craft, or the basic tenets of editing itself. “
You don’t think this is a slightly… melodramatic way to react to the absence of about four features, which Apple has independently told several media outlets are being added back in?
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[Chris Kenny] “… which Apple has independently told several media outlets are being added back in”
Why is Apple hiding behind David Pogue’s skirt?
That’s one of the many things I don’t understand about Apple’s self-inflicted PR disaster AKA FCPX.
Trying to figure out Apple next move by studying David Pogue bizarre & ill-informed articles & blog comments is literally maddening.
If Apple has something to communicate to the adults who use their products professionally, why don’t they just come out and address them/us directly?
To paraphrase Mr. Steve Jobs, a man whom I greatly admire: Apple’s handling of the transition from FCP-7 to FCPX is brain dead. Period.
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[Peter J. DeCrescenzo] “If Apple has something to communicate to the adults who use their products professionally, why don’t they just come out and address them/us directly?”
If Apple choses to do this, they’ll take a week or two to formulate their response. That has been the pattern with things like the iPhone 4 antenna response and, more recently, the “My iPhone is tracking me!” silliness.
Talking through Pogue, etc. might seem like Apple being oddly coy, but it’s more openness than we usually see from Apple. Ditto for having people like Philip Hodgetts talk to FCP X team members before the app even shipped. Apple seems to understand they need to be a little more open with pro apps than with consumer stuff, at least during this transitional period, but I think they haven’t quite gotten the hang of it yet.
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Wait: I may have missed it (really, I may have), but did Philip H. publicize a list of FCPX’s “missing features” before it shipped?
If he did, I’m sorry I missed it.
If not, then Philip’s insider’s knowledge has no bearing on the subject at hand.
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[Peter J. DeCrescenzo] “Wait: I may have missed it (really, I may have), but did Philip H. publicize a list of FCPX’s “missing features” before it shipped?
If he did, I’m sorry I missed it.
If not, then Philip’s insider’s knowledge has no bearing on the subject at hand.”
Err… I’m not entirely sure what your point is here. Apple doesn’t appear to have told Hodgetts specifically what features were and weren’t in the release before it happened. However, they do seem to have briefed him on the day of the release, and they told him that while XML wasn’t there yet, it (or something to take its place) would be.
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[Chris Kenny] “Apple doesn’t appear to have told Hodgetts specifically what features were and weren’t in the release before it happened. However, they do seem to have briefed him on the day of the release, and they told him that while XML wasn’t there yet, it (or something to take its place) would be.”
Are you saying Mr. Hodgetts didn’t tell the rest of us anything more than what many others told us soon after they purchased the app?
If the above is true, then what value are his comments compared to those of others?
I’m not saying his comments/info are not valuable, I’m just trying to figure out if he told “us” anything more — especially regarding FCPX’s missing features — than what was obvious to many others.
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You don’t think this is a slightly… melodramatic way to react to the absence of about four features, which Apple has independently told several media outlets are being added back in?
At the FCPUG in London the other night, reportedly the Apple representative stated that Apple is not interested in pursuing XML support…
Even David Pogue, speaking supposedly for Apple, said FCX would never support import of Final Cut Pro projects, and that Apple thought EDLs were crude and should be dropped.
How does that equate to adding back those features?
Patrick
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