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It’s business… not personal
To continue the metaphor…
If the pro features we all know should be there are there in six months, I’ll know that I have a partner.
Mark
PS. We all know what Michael did!!!
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[Mark Raudonis] “PS. We all know what Michael did!!!”
Hmmm. The question is…who is Michael Corleone? If Michael is Steve Jobs, then the heads of Adobe and Avid might be sweating…
My final offer is: nothing. No multicam. No XML. No Plug ins. And I would appreciate it if you downloaded each and every copy with your personal Apple ID.
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WOW!
The guy with one of the largest commercial FCP shops in the world isn’t jumping off any bridges!
Maybe the Chicken Littles around here could learn something from him…
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[Mark Raudonis] “If the pro features we all know should be there are there in six months, I’ll know that I have a partner.
I think thats a very fair & practical call. 6 months is a good enough window for apple to show its seriousness & users to wait before they go their separate ways.
Sohrab
2.66 GHz 8-core, ATI Radeon HD 4870,
FCS 3, AJA Kona Lhi“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.” — Carl Ally
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He knew this was coming quite a while ago so Im sure some contingency plans were made. No need to jump off a bridge when you have a backup plan.
Tom Daigon
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Agreed. If, however, six months go by and still no word from Apple, I’m going to seriously start looking at Avid for the first time.
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sure lets wait 6 months…no maybe 9 months seems fair… but in 12 months we are sure to get what we need…then again 15…
Tom Daigon
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[Tom Daigon] “He knew this was coming quite a while ago so Im sure some contingency plans were made. No need to jump off a bridge when you have a backup plan.”
And how are you any different? Mark may have had early access to FCPX in the private beta, but what advantage does that give him planning what to do next?
None.
Every pro making a living on FCP is in the same boat; either FCPX is ready for them to use today or it isn’t, and they can wait for it to get there or they can say “screw it” and jump to another platform.
The sky didn’t fall today. No one is forcing any FCP7 users to adopt FCPX. You’d think Apple had automatically invalidated all the FCP7 licenses over the Internet the way people are reacting around here…
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It’s interesting reading the backlash to the backlash…
“The sky isn’t falling”
“The Haters”
“Jump off a bridge chicken littles!!”
A consistent theme on every forum. People are sharing experiences, frustration (especially those that paid for something that was advertised as something else) and have justifiable criticisms, especially when Apple is keeping the future of this program a mystery….
It doesn’t have xml support…”oh, you’re just a hater!”
please.
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[Tom Daigon] “sure lets wait 6 months…no maybe 9 months seems fair… but in 12 months we are sure to get what we need…then again 15…”
Sorry, not following. You absolutely MUST upgrade your editing software NOW?
All I’m saying is everyone needs to judge for himself what the right path forward is. FCPX is brand new, v1.0, not even 24 hours on the market. It is also probably just as big a leap from FCP7 as Premiere Pro or Media Composer would be. If today is all you needed to see to feel justified in switching to Adobe or Avid for your NLE, then by all means do what you need to do.
If FCPX hasn’t seen a few incremental updates over the next several months, I’ll be disappointed. I’m not prepared to write it off as a failure before it is a day old.
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There is a lot of focus on those ho already have FCP7. Just don’t upgrade. Fine. But happen to thbose folks that already have a couple of seats of FCP7, work on a SAN, need those features in FCP7 that are missing in FCPX AND need to add more licenses?
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