Just finished first real project – experiences

[Rick Lang]

Frank, refreshing post that must bring a smile to someone’s face after the downpour of criticism being heard. I was reviewing some of the same day and next day posts when FCP X was released and in retrospect, it’s amazing that many of the posts’ negative comments were due to inexperience with the product however those were reason enough to abandon FCP X for competitors’ products.

I’m not talking about the legitimate complaints about the well-documented shortcomings related to professional house workflows and the inability to import FC Studio projects or easily use multi-camera or dedicated audio tracks. I mean the “can’t do this” and “can’t do that” litany of complaints which we are frequently seeing now as “can do” and sometimes people are now writing about things that they have discovered only FCP X “can do” and wishing it could be done in FCP 6/7.

I think it’s reasonable to expect many of the technique limitations in this first release (10.0) will be addressed by 10.1 or 10.2. We already have a commitment that features such as Multi-camera support are coming in the next major release and workflow features coming soon in point releases, meaning 10.0.1 or 10.0.2 etc. I’m thinking someone may have a solid solution to the multi-camera problem even using the current product’s capabilities since secondary storylines and compound clips seem to point to a solution—just need to solve the edit limitations. Perhaps those limits will be removed by a future update.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Frank Stäudtner]

Rick, I completely agree 🙂 – I feel it’s a very exciting journey we are one….

David, I though about it… and will try it when I edit something like a music video….

cheers, frank, sonicVision.de