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Is Chicken Little dead?
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FCP-X is going to have the best EULA ever, based on this:
https://www.cnet.com/8301-30976_1-20068778-10348864.html?part=.com=feed&subj=Crave.com
I hope Dennis Hayesbert gets the gig.
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[Ben Holmes] “so why not wait until you actually have a product to compare before speaking to AVID?”
That’s what I just said. Once I have my answers to all my questions, then we will be able to make a decision. FCP X will be installed onto my personal iMac at home to see what it does and does not have.
As for a “perfectly good FCP 7” system. Yes, you mean the inefficient FCP 7 that we spend days converting over H.264 footage over so we can start editing? For my most recent documentary it took 3 days for a 12 core machine to convert all the GoPro footage over before I could start to edit. For an earlier documentary, over 2 weeks of time wasted during the course of the edit.
So yes, FCP is perfectly stable, but it’s incredibly inefficient for working with many of today’s digital formats.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
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Walter,
Clustering in Compressor is easy and Frikkin awesome! So much fun seeing all those cores on spare machine pegged at 100%
Just install MenuMeters, kick back and breeze through all those transcodes. Best thing in ages.Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.
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Compressor can be buggy with clusters and it takes a while to get all the processors ready and compressing. I’ve been comparing it to Adobe Media Encoder and Media Encoder smokes it every time. It’s 64-bit, multi-processor away without having to set up a cluster, starts immediately and closes files very quickly. When I used Sorenson it started faster than Compressor too (but randomly crashed when compressing more than 1 file at a time).
Compressor with clusters is nice, but it’s old and inefficient compared to pretty much everything else on the market. FCP7 is getting the same way, hence the “inefficient” statement Walter makes. FCP7 is pretty far behind everyone else at this point, so FCPX has a lot of catching up to do.
Apple really should have put on a better show and stayed around to answer questions. It would have stopped a lot of the Chicken Little stuff.
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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock] “Apple really should have put on a better show and stayed around to answer questions. It would have stopped a lot of the Chicken Little stuff.”
That’s been my position all along. It seems to me that their decision to take over the SuperMeet was simply designed primarily as a way to trump Avid.
The sneak preview had very little to do with informing customers about the Apple product(s), instead it was a way to create pent up desire to keep customers in check and to help preserve the status quo through NAB and beyond.
Though most of us now hate Apple for doing things that way, it seems to have worked.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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I was excited to see Motion screen grabs. I think Motion is a nice program that I’ve been able to create some real cool stuff with.
Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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[Stephen Smith] “I was excited to see Motion screen grabs. I think Motion is a nice program that I’ve been able to create some real cool stuff with.”
For those who don’t know (if you’ve been locked-up in a cave for instance), Stephen is one of those very talented motion graphic designers who can create real cool stuff with any app. However, he’s one of the few people who have mastered Motion, and he’s created a great training DVD that’s part of the Cow’s Master Series. I’ll bet anything there will be a Motion 5 Training DVD in his future soon.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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David,
Thanks for the kind words…it made my day.Stephen Smith
Utah Video ProductionsCheck out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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shame people not using Motion
they are missing out, much more efficient software than AE in my opinionsome things arent as good, a lot of things are better
also many people are unaware of how it works
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