is there a single person on this forum making a living with FCP X ?

[Ethan Young]

FCPX just appears amateur and barren on the surface. The fact is the underlying platform upon which it is designed is what will make it the future of editing. Apple seems to realize that some incredible bells and whistles will be coming out in the form of plugins and third party hardware (which is already happening). FCPX and Motion 5 are very easy to design for.

Within 1 year it will eclipse Avid and Adobe. The only ones to suffer in the interim are the very high end post houses, they’ll come around.

[Chris Jacek]

[Ethan Young] “Within 1 year it will eclipse Avid and Adobe. The only ones to suffer in the interim are the very high end post houses, they’ll come around.”

That sounds like a bit of hyperbole. I see zero chance of this happening, especially the high end post houses “coming around.” That won’t happen in 5 years, much less one.

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and former Apple Employee

[David Battistella]

Yep.

Paid gigs with the new software. Gotta recover that 299$ investment, you know. 🙂

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[Geoff Dills]

I’m married, sorry. 🙂

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Geoff

[Chris Kenny]

[Ethan Young] “Within 1 year it will eclipse Avid and Adobe. The only ones to suffer in the interim are the very high end post houses, they’ll come around.”

I’m going to tell you the same thing I keep telling the “Apple has no time to fix anything because everyone will be on Avid by October” crowd: nothing moves that fast, least of all large facilities.

I believe there is a distinct possibility FCP X could dominate the industry in the long run, but if it does it will be because it builds bottom-up momentum that eventually overwhelms other options even at the high end. That sort of thing takes years.

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[Shawn Bockoven]

Yes, we have moved 75% of our work to X.

[Noah Kadner]

I edited this training video with X and I have to say it’s paid pretty well so far 🙂

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[Mario Gongora]

We’re editing a spanish-language weekly “behind the scenes of blockbuster movies” package that airs nationally on U.S. cable and has an average of a million viewers (at least that’s what they’ve told us). It’s 4 minutes long and it runs on a show called “En Pantalla”. We also Post-produce the entire show, but we still do THAT on FCP7 because of deadline issues (FCPX hangs a lot with large projects), we also edit the weekly promos in FCPX with no problem whatsoever. All this is definitely paid, so the answer would be “yes, partly”.

[Alban Egger]

Check our blog about a rather big project here:
https://fcpxmegatest.blogspot.com/

we won´t be able to do it all in FCPX, because we miss audio-outputs etc, but until the last finishing touches we try to stay in the new tool.

we are now at 5400+ clips and it runs relatively smooth after a few hickups early especially with more than one machine used and we needed to work out a new workflow. by relatively smooth I mean it works….and FCP7 would not be smooth anymore with this project either. In fact I doubt I would be so far in FCP7 yet.

check it out