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Is FCPX gaining any ground?
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[Shane Ross] “I know of two shops in LA using it…both make content for the web. And Leverage is still reputed to be using it…and that’s a major cable show.
“FYI: Leverage is gone. Its fifth season was its last. Adding to your list, I know of one promo shop in LA using it (John’s) plus I just saw an ad for X editors for ‘TimeWarner Cable, local sports,’ so it is getting into the PEG station slots, which seem like a very good fit for it. I first got introduced to FCP (2) when I was working in a PEG station back at the turn of the century. Its a good place for it to grow.
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[Chris Harlan] ”
FYI: Leverage is gone. Its fifth season was its last.”WHAT?! Dammit. I liked that show…
Shane
Little Frog Post
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I came from VelocityQ NLE and using FCP7 I seemed to have taken a step back. With FCPX seems to have made 5 steps forward.
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[Shane Ross] “[Chris Harlan] ”
FYI: Leverage is gone. Its fifth season was its last.”WHAT?! Dammit. I liked that show…
“I hear you. I believe it was a sort of an on the bubble thing, and a sixth season was debated for some time. They were able to–as I understand it; I haven’t seen it yet–do a Show Finale and not just end. So, hats off to them.
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One of the places I’m seeing it really catch on, is with people who are primarily cinematographer/shooters and use editorial as an adjunct to that. X seems to be particularly camera-friendly.
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[Chris Harlan] “One of the places I’m seeing it really catch on, is with people who are primarily cinematographer/shooters and use editorial as an adjunct to that. X seems to be particularly camera-friendly.”
I think Chris is absolutely correct with this observation.
High on the list for the X developers was building software for a world where there were way more camera types and formats generating files – and subsequently the need for workflows that weren’t like a traditional network show where someone at the executive level can say “we’re shooting on THIS format – with THESE cameras – and editing on THIS platform.”
I’ve got footage on my rolloff drive right now that originated in GoPro, DSLR, RED, and DVCAM cameras.
And I’ve got to build stuff with all of it.
That’s the world X was designed to fit into, IMO.
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We’ve had a HUGE influx of Premiere Pro users since FCPX was launched. Not sure if FCPX is gaining ground, but Premiere Pro certainly is. We’ve seen a lot of interest in the professional broadcast realm, specifically.
Kevin Monahan
Sr. Content and Community Lead
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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My guess is yes.
There are a lot of different flavors in the “professional editors” container.
Professional means one is earning his own living doing something, so it could be a guy hired to edit on a director’s note in a large facility were audio is going to be sent to another facility and the same goes for color and so on, but also a guy working as free lancer on weddings and events, or an infinite amount of other niches where some paid video work of any kind is involved. Myself, I run a one man shop, as a director/cameraman/editor….., specialized in outdoors documentaries that are broadcasted by an important satellite tv network. Coming from former versions of FCP, my first reaction was angry, maybe more emotional than else, seeing I could not import projects from FCP/ (guess what happens if a new Word does not allow you to open .doc or .docx documents), that everything had been somehow messed up, that I was lacking a lot of features that I needed, that clips were named in a not meaningful way so that I could not really use them outside of FCPX…. Then, after the latest update, I decided I wanted to jump the gun and really try, since I could not stay with FCP7 forever, and that I was sure I did not want to go back to a Windows based editing system. So I bought a couple of Ripple Training tutorials and there I went with two brand new paid documentaries on a short time term delivery. I can say that, for my line of work, the FCPX is really good. Skimming is precious, as is the ability to work on the timeline while importing or building an archive. The magnetic timeline is something I got to like after a while, and I consider the ability to work or at least archive files that are not huge sized as pro res is great. There are still some things I don’t like, some things I think are missing, and some I maybe still have to learn or get used to, but at the moment I am certain I can work faster in FCPX. Not faster because I can skip a few clicks here and there or use a shortcut, as in my line of work that time is not relevant, since I direct while I edit, but because I can move through the media faster and better. Even if I had to click three times instead of one to achieve the same result, it would still be nothing for me. Using keywords skimming and metadata organization to find the clips I need among one hundred really makes a difference. Of course the inertia of a large editing facility is huge compared to a small one in terms of money, of time and so on, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of small facilities/freelance editors would end up adopting FCPX very soon, and it would be a lot of licenses. I guess if the first release was a bit different, and if a lot of people who had not even really tried the sw did not release bad reviews (not that the first releases did not deserve it), together with people who tried it and thought it was not for them, the licenses would be many more.
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A simple question; have you ever had to add visible time code to a 90 minute video for transcription? If you are using FCP7, be prepared to let your system render overnight (it takes about 7 hours – and I have a very powerful system). If you are using FCPX, it takes about 30 minutes. Does seeing the “writing video and audio” blue bar drive you nuts? That is something you will never see in FCPX. I understand that people have been upset by Apple’s change (comments like iMovie on steroids, etc.), but I have completed about 15 large projects on FCPX and I love it. When someone brings me an FCP7 project (I have been using FCP since Ver 1 and even did some beta testing for Macromedia when they were developing the program), it now depresses me. I can move so much faster in FCPX. It takes a little getting used to, but once you get past the “paradigm shift,” it really makes sense.
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[Clint Wardlow] “Well, I keep hoping it will gain some traction in Utah, where I am located.”
I’m just making a educated guess but my feeling is as long as Salt Lake stays mainly Avid, and Provo leaning more towards Adobe, (last time I was down there talking to there post production head) I think that FCPX will have quite a hard time gaining traction.
Here in BYU-Idaho we made the decision to become a Avid Learning partner A) we get all the support we need from Salt Lake, and B) as it is still the precieved King of the post world students coming out of here certified will have a little more clout.
That being said we will also be adding Adobe to a lot of our workflows and classes. Not so much FCPX
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho
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