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Interview with Randy Ubillos and How I came to enjoy FCP X
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[Steve Connor] “[andy patterson] “we don’t say the GUI of FCPX is cringe worthy or hideous. ”
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t you call it “Fisher Price” ?”
You are correct. I said the same exact thing about Premiere and Edius. Not Premiere Pro but Premiere 5.0 and 6.0. It is honest criticism. I will try to have a video demo showing the differences between the two GUIs (Premiere Pro and FCPX). As you can imagine my video will not be laced with bias but honest criticisms. I have stated the biggest downfall for FCPX is the GUI. Unlike people who like to talk rhetoric I will provide evidence of why that is the case. I might have the video ready in a week or two.
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‘Cause each time I feel it slipping away, just makes me wanna cry,
What’s so funny ’bout peace, love, and understanding?,– Elvis Costello
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Thanks again Tim for the “ignore” button, really helps clean up the forum feed from people saying the same thing over and over and over again 🙂
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[greg janza] “Just to clarify, for those of us who had established freelance careers when FCPX was introduced it made absolutely no sense to waste any energy learning and adopting FCPX. In my market no post house even considered converting to it and so over time some freelancers started dabbling in it on their own but from a purely business perspective there was very little upside to learning it or incorporating it into a real workflow.”
Most freelancers I know do side jobs on their own to bring in extra cash. They could do that with the same software they use at work or a different one. It doesn’t really matter what work has in that scenario. When X came out it so affordable, It made all the “cents” in the world from that perspective.
Really no different from people working on AVID at work and Legacy on the side back in the day.
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That makes sense. I’ve been out of the freelance biz for about 10 years now and never was a job to job type person. I had a very small cadre of regular clients.
One also wonders how much resentment also played into facilities moving to other platforms. Though FCP X at the beginning had some crucial deficiencies for larger facilities. As I mentioned before which caused issues for me, the lack of being able to store libraries on a central server would be a big hurdle for them.
Which makes me wonder, if FCP X had library organization, SMB support, media storage outside the library, audio lanes from the get go, whether it’s support would have plummeted so much. Sure there were those that didn’t like the trackless arrangement. But having switched from tracks to trackless, I can say that the hurdles would not have been as great as imagined. Especially if lanes had been there to partially mollify the switch.
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Brett Sherman
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[Brett Sherman] “Which makes me wonder, if FCP X had library organization, SMB support, media storage outside the library, audio lanes from the get go, whether it’s support would have plummeted so much. Sure there were those that didn’t like the trackless arrangement. But having switched from tracks to trackless, I can say that the hurdles would not have been as great as imagined. Especially if lanes had been there to partially mollify the switch.
“I certainly think it would have been less, but there was a belief for many that Apple didn’t care about “pros” anymore and that fueled a lot of distrust.
I never believed that myself. I never believed they were making iMovie 2. They didn’t need 2 iMovies.
People said that they were not going to build a new mac pro and that was wrong also.
They missed the mark with it and now they are coming back with another one.
I read Herb’s account on the other thread and I totally see his frustration. I had never seen him describe it in that kind of detail.
I was lucky I guess. I liked X better than 7 out of the box. 7 could do things it couldn’t but X could do things 7 couldn’t and I believed they would keep improving X and they did. I used it just fine for broadcast work but I understand why others couldn’t.
I believed you could cut a feature film with it before they cut a feature film with it.
Apple doesn’t tell anybody anything because they know folks will just copy their stuff. That’s just how it is with them. Always has been.
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[Tony West] “Apple doesn’t tell anybody anything because they know folks will just copy their stuff. That’s just how it is with them. Always has been.”
Wait, Tony… are you telling me that other companies watch Apple just to COPY ideas –
Naw, that will NEVER happen. Nobody EVER copies from Apple….
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[Bill Davis] “Naw, that will NEVER happen. Nobody EVER copies from Apple….”
Great artists steal?
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Walter Soyka
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[Tony West] “Apple doesn’t tell anybody anything because they know folks will just copy their stuff. That’s just how it is with them. Always has been.”
I dunno. I think it mainly had to do with Jobs’ desire to control the narrative. I mean, even when they were sucking wind in the late 90’s/early 00’s they were secretive, but it’s not like anyone wanted to copy what Apple was doing at that time. Put Jobs on the stage though revealing a new piece of hardware or software for the first time and he could sell wool to a sheep (which helps a lot when your company is sucking wind).
The iPod and aluminum enclosed computers started an upward trajectory and a design trend in the mid 2000’s, but I don’t think it was until we were 2-3 generations into the iPhone before Apple was solidifying it’s status as a company with the Midas touch. Of course even then other companies still rolled out features, such as biometric security, way before Apple did. It’s just that when you have the brightest spotlight people tend to pay the most attention to you (both your successes and your failures).
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[Andrew Kimery] “Of course even then other companies still rolled out features, such as biometric security, way before Apple did. It’s just that when you have the brightest spotlight people tend to pay the most attention to you (both your successes and your failures).”
That’s totally true.
But biometric security on a pad in front of a corporate lab managed by security professionals is one thing.
Biometric security that 100 million people can learn to use in one minute for access to a device that they have never touched before – but will go on to live in their pockets and purses and become part of their daily lives –
those are two VASTLY different games, IMO.
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The shortest path to FCP X mastery.
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