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It. Will. Never. Ever. Die.
The king is dead… no wait..
https://www.philiphodgetts.com/2014/01/a-year-in-software-releases/
“57 releases for Final Cut Pro X apps, including two new apps: Producer’s Best Friend and Change List X, with the rest being updates.
But there were also 13 updates to our various Final Cut Pro 6/7 apps.
Our Final Cut Pro 7 apps are selling in roughly the same numbers as they did before the release of Final Cut Pro X.
For us, Final Cut Pro X and Premiere Pro, have been additional business.
I mean come on that is insane – great news for hodgetts as he has three businesses to tend to, but seriously? Isn’t that mental? its 2014 for gods sake. the thing hasn’t been updated for half a decade.
cue scene:
the universe, pleading arms wide: come on, look, please? it’s been EOL for nearly three years, the quicktime foundations are falling apart, it can address 2.5 GB of ram for gods sake. what are you playing at?
improbable number of editors across the globe: you can sod. right. off. mate. she is staying right here on my little dock. don’t test me.
seriously – hands up who has taken FCP7 off their dock?
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I still use it. I have clients still cutting on it, so I use it when onlining. And I still use COLOR too…
Shane
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[Shane Ross] “And I still use COLOR too…”
the only part of me that cheered when FCP went down was the part that never bothered to learn Colour. I always felt bad not having learnt it.
cutting a brand film thing on 7 the last and next week.
six seasons and a movie for 7.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXqLCM0d0Os
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I cut animated shows for a network.
Our biggest shows are still cut and finished in Final Cut 7, but all new shows are getting started in Premiere CC.
I usually have both applications open at the same time.Final Cut X doesn’t seem to work well with the RADIOPLAY -> ANIMATIC -> ANIMATION workflow. We tried. We failed. But the transition from 7 to CC is slowwwww. Can’t just do it overnight.
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I was chatting with my editor friends at a New Year’s party and FCP7 is very much alive an kicking all around DC. It sure looks like back in the day when there when all those old Power Mac 9600 Avids plugging along as FCP3/4/5 was coming into its own.
I thought by now we’d at least know which way the wind was blowing.
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I can’t stand subscriptions, so my way forward to a ‘familiar’ style editor is blocked. Because of
this, I have 3 NLEs on my computer FCP 7, CS6, and FCP X. I use them all, depending on
the project. Still am best when using FCP 7 as I just know how it ‘thinks’ and how everything
works in that suite of software. I have no plans to get rid of it anytime soon either.Gabe Strong
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[Gabe Strong] “I can’t stand subscriptions, so my way forward to a ‘familiar’ style editor is blocked.”
It’s a shame because CC would be a very easy transition.
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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[Al LeVine] “Final Cut X doesn’t seem to work well with the RADIOPLAY -> ANIMATIC -> ANIMATION workflow.”
yeah, in as far as i was ever taught, I got taught the particulars of a radio edit for structure and timing? goes to quite a few things? more short form my way.
although the thing I’m at is at animatic stage at the mo. please god the client buys it.I’m not saying that you can’t in X (honestly) – but really and truly to god, all I want to see at the outset is a horizontal tracked timeline that contains clean, david lawrence style, universal time and logical vertical space to stack in.
that does it for me personally – it can go all kinds of places from there.
i’m not personally madly keen to initially meet secondary storylines, connected clips, auditions, roles and all the other zany kids.I can do without it.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “seriously – hands up who has taken FCP7 off their dock?”
Ain’t taken it off the dock, BUT… I just got a new Macbook Pro and I’ve pretty much decided not to put it on there. Avid and CC are already there. Both are really fast on it. Still, I have it on three active machines, and I expect to continue to use it, occasionally, for some time to come. I still like to version promos on it, as I’ve built up some very solid shortcuts over the years. But with this new Macbook pro, I did finally have the “ah, here at last” moment. Avid and CC for me.
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Similar, but different here. I was provided a new rMBP by work and installed FCPX on it. First computer in 8 years that hasn’t had legacy FCP automatically installed on it. There are computers with 7 and Premiere available to me, but I haven’t needed to use either. So far so good.
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Still in my dock and I still use it albeit less than I used to. I did my first freelance FCP7 edit in a few months just before Xmas so it is slowing down but still way from dead. Avid seems to largely have taken up the slack around here (London)
best wishes
Neil
http://www.patience.tv8 Core MacPro, Kona 3, Tangent Wave, Mackie Universal Symphony 6.5 or MC V 7 with Symphony option. FCP7, Color, Media creation and conversion. Adobe Encore DVD creation and authoring.
i7 2.7 Gig MBP (non retina) 16Gigs Ram Blackmagic Monitor Mini Symphony 6.5 or MC v7 with Symphony option FCP7
7TB raid 5 fibre storage.
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