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It’s business… not personal
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Not a true believer, just an experienced professional that’s worked my way through this with Media 100, FCP, Digital Performer, Logic, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and lot’s more in my studios.
I’m speaking from experience and logic.
If I’m wrong I’ll be happy to acknowledge it.I just think it’s immature to throw rants and insults at this stage, whether it’s about the app or the people who are adopting it.
A little balance, a little less vitriol and snide commentary is usually the best professional approach in my experience.I have no dog in this fight, but I do have X and Motion 5 and they’re definitely not some massive blunder, deception or cause for rage.
They look like the start of a great new 64 bit environment that I’m pretty sure Apple will be integrating powerfully with Lion and Thunderbolt.
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We’re in the same boat Al.
While we do both the creative end and production in film, audio, design and interactive we do more in film and editing on balance.
I’ve got somewhere around a dozen open projects in FCP 7 at this point and about the same to be shot and produced this summer.I realize we’re more suited to early adopting than a lot of straight editing facilities because nothing has to go out of house for any post and we have a completely digital environment. But the truth is – this isn’t just the future, it’s the now. Every TV spot that’s we’ve put out the last two years, to virtually every, station goes out h.264…that’s the HD standard and it all goes digitally.
Likewise every radio campaign goes out to every station as MP3 as does very talent file that we receive.
Obviously all of the web content is also digital as is all our photography and less and less of our design work goes to traditional print.We haven’t laid a project to tape in over a year and while it will be a while before everyone can say that, it’s never going back there.
Anyway, it’s all good IMO. We’ll happily finish up the current work in FCP 7 and I’m definitely going to produce this summer’s projects in X and Motion 5 and use it as a chance to master the new environment.
I’m really very psyched about it. I love learning and moving forward and I really do think this is forward.
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Mate, I’m glad you are not my business manager!
Is there something you did in this project that you could not do with fcp7? If so, I would be curious to know what!Mark.
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https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/3442
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Quote “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. ”
This is sounding like the Logic Pro users back in the day as Apple released Logic Pro 8. They were all angry that the app did not compliment the professionals and everyone felt that Logic Pro was targeted at consumers.
Then rumors started circling that in 6 months Apple would provide those updates/upgrades to Logic 8 and for a while everything was quiet.
6 months later we all realized that this wasn’t going to happen. And it never did.
To believe that Apple is going to turn FCP X into a professional’s dream-app – is but wishful thinking. It aint going to happen.
Ask yourself: Apple has been working on this new app for a long time. THen they release FCPx. without all those pro-features, with a notion of a 6 months later release for those features. No way, if those features had been planned, they would have been there by THIS release.
Sure, they will add a few dire features to keep the horde on ice. However, this app is NOT aimed at professionals and probably was NOT intended that way !!!
Personally, I think it is a nice app. And a game changer, indeed, for iMovie users.
What I love the most is this: FCP X now had Background rendering… Everybody be like “Yeahhhh” — I’m like, well – whether background oR foreground rendering – IT IS STILL RENDERING…
Premiere Pro with a $270 graphic card doesn’t need to render AT ALL… Think about that !
Be that as it may, I am a happy camper using PPRO & AE workflow and I am ALWAYS going to BET on the company making their revenue off of software rather than the company building software on the side….
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I agree 6 months is a reasonable time to see whether we will have the pro app everyone was expecting. It’s going to take that long to be able to have 64 bit upgrades most of the 3rd party plugins we’ve been using in the previous versions of FCP anyway.
For now I’m going to continue using my older version of Final Cut and see what happens in the future. I had no plans to immediately buy FCP X anyway. I really hope Apple hasn’t abandoned the pro market, but as a freelancer I’m going to be brushing up on PPro and MC in the next few months just in case. -
John, I just have a quick question, as I have not found any info on this. You mentioned you “rode” the levels… was that in the inspector window? I’m desperately looking for the “mixer” in this thing which I use heavily to set levels for different audio channels in real time. Any help would be appreciated.
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We adjusted the levels directly in the timeline, per clip. You can actually see the entire waveform clearly, so it was easy to average them out My editor and I switched off a bit, but he found a way to mix it better (nowhere near a protools mix, obviously). I’ll ask him tomorrow.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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“Not everything was perfect. We use 2 monitors, and during testing earlier today the program froze while video was fullscreen in monitor 2.”
Jon, are you still UNABLE to work on a 2nd monitor? Or did you get this working after all? I’m thinking of getting a 2nd display but I want to know if that is working for folks or not. What are the specs of your computer? Thanks!
-Fred Waycoot
Editor/Colorist/Filmmaking Guy
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