Is FCPX gaining any ground?

[Aindreas Gallagher]

well, as each day is a dawn, that dawn calls you forth to kick that timeline in the groin.
As it is currently organised.

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[Mike Fernanandes]

What do you want to know…

I’ve been using it for a while in my shop and I’m always happy to talk about X.

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[Bill Davis]

[Walter Soyka] “That’s exactly what I said. It removes the interaction required (the click) to place footage in the viewer.

And I love skimming. One of my favorite features in FCPX.”

I’d also argue that “skimming” in Legacy was severely limited.

X took the behavior and baked it so deeply into the interface that the user is allowed to employ it literally everywhere in the interface.

I can skim the clip in the event, skim the clip in a search result, skim the storyline, skim a connected clip, skim a project, skim an audio track…

I’m not sure that’s particularly equivalent to how “skimming” was expressed in Legacy.

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[Bill Davis]

[Herb Sevush] “we now have 2 years of the competition eating up the FCP7 market, with X creeping in to slowly regain a small portion of the market Apple used to own.

And from this we are to project that the gravity of the X paradigm is now bending the orbits of the rest of the NLE market? I don’t think so.”

Woah, nellie.

Once again you’re stuck on thinking that “the FCP-7 market” was something that was exclusive to high end facilities editors. It was most decidedly NOT. Not unless you think there are 2 MILLION high end facility seats scattered around the planet.

I’d bet there are more likely no more than a hundred thousand of those kind of users.

The rest of the FCP-Legacy paid owners were more likely to be guys like me than guys like you.

Every corporate editor, every event videographer, every small town ad agency doing 30 local car spots , ad nauseum was every bit as important to Legacy’s growth as the big city large shop guys.

And I think it’s this elite attitude that keeps so many here from understanding the development and growth dynamic that X is serving.

Exactly like Legacy, it’s coming out of it’s infancy trying to be the best tool for the MOST editing functions first. And to view it as something that FIRST has to compete with AVID and even PPro is to woefully misunderstand the REAL modern world of content editing.

Or so I believe.

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