Is it all over?

[Oliver Peters]

Yes, it’s over. Avid won. 😉

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Timothy Auld]

If only that were my world, Oliver.

Tim

[Daniel Frome]

Well they did get one new customer .. me… .finally (after how many years??).

I don’t have a specific project I need FCPX for, but I finally felt confident that my purchase would eventually yield itself beneficial. Especially for those times when I’m rendering every Avid effect on my timeline, pondering the purpose of it all 😉

[Charlie Austin]

[Oliver Peters] “Yes, it’s over. Avid won. ;-)”

I heard R11 won. :-}

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Lance Bachelder]

I’ve been a casual user since the beginning – very casual love/hate user – but now attempting full-time use! Also plan to cancel my CC at the end of the month. I still need Photoshop and AE here and there but fine using older versions. After a full year with Premiere CC used on a wide variety of paid gigs I’m done.

I even bought some new FCPX plug-ins this weekend 🙂

Only issue I still have with FCPX is that it just holds on to RAM so much that I need to restart machine almost every hour under heavy use…

It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Marcus Moore]

Even with 10.1.2? Though I’m stuck on the last version mid-project- it’s killing me because I’ve been hearing about a lot of overall performance and stability improvements.

[Rich Rubasch]

I so much want to commit to FCP X. I am not convinced yet that Apple is as serious about editing as I am (with my 13 year old company on the line).

But I am an old Filemaker guy so I get the power of a database.

I want it! But I have a staff of five who are old Media 100/Final Cut guys. Big step.

Premier…not.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com

[Lance Bachelder]

Yes latest version – stability is fine, just the resource hogging. I installed a new Sapphire 7950 just to give the system a little more GPU memory but didn’t solve the slow down problem after a lot of heavy lifting. Hopefully just a hardware thing I can find.

It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Charlie Austin]

[Lance Bachelder] “Only issue I still have with FCPX is that it just holds on to RAM so much that I need to restart machine almost every hour under heavy use…”

Please bug Apple about this 🙂 I find that just relaunching X frees up the RAM it’s hogged. I’ve used activity monitor as well as a couple other utilities to confirm that:

A- X doesn’t like to release RAM (it will eventually, but not before it starts bogging). and…

B- Simply relaunching the app does free it up.

Also, some plugins/generators tend to make it worse. I haven’t bothered to try and track ’em down, since relaunching only takes about 15 seconds.

Also… and you may know this… keeping the inspector closed makes a big difference. Bit of a PITA, but worth it under heavy loads…

EDIT: R.E. RAM hogging… 10.1.2 is way better than previous versions, and all versions of X play nicer with newer hardware. When I moved from a maxed out (old style) Mac Pro to a 2012 iMac while ago the difference (for the better) was really noticeable… It still needs a “kick” every now and then even now. But like I said… 15 seconds. 🙂
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~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Marcus Moore]

The only way to dive in is to start driving it on some real jobs- probably just one editor to start so they can figure out process and workflow and can pass that practical knowledge onto the others. But someone’s going to have to go thru the frustrating process and come out the other side knowing and understanding the app really well.

The people making the app take it very seriously from everything I’ve heard. At the company level, theres no writing on the wall now to suggest Apple is softening on either FCPX or Logic. If Apple wasn’t committed to it, then I think we would have seen the axe fall 2 years ago.