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Just the Messinger…Vincent LaForets Blog today – FWIW.
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[Laura Scott] “FCPX appeals to the amateur who wants to do more than iMovie stuff. YouTubers etc. Some pros find value in it as well, since it does quite a lot of the basics quickly.”
Seriously??
\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka
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[Laura Scott] “FCPX appeals to the amateur who wants to do more than iMovie stuff. YouTubers etc.”
Damn. 35 years in the business and I am no more than an amateur. Wish I would have found out earlier and let my clients know that….
This is my best answer to something as silly as this statement. 😉
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
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[Laura Scott] “Whereas FCP has always been a quirky bizarre app designed by people who apparently had no familiarity with existing editing systems.”
Interesting thoughts, overall, but I can tell you from first-hand knowledge, this statement isn’t true.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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I seem to have struck a sensitive spot. My apologies. I did also say, “I think it’s great that pro shops have found ways to leverage FXPX/Motion into paying operations, btw. I’m not knocking their choices.”
But I’ve been using NLEs for only 33 years, so what do I know? 🙂
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[Jeremy Garchow] “They write around it, because they have to, in order to develop one software that’s cross platform than develop multiple softwares for multiple platforms.”
Both Adobe and Avid have also had to (re)write their own support for certain legacy Apple codecs that are no longer supported by Apple itself, within the current AV Foundations media architecture.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Laura Scott] “But I’ve been using NLEs for only 33 years, so what do I know? :)”
I beat your NLE longevity by 4 years, Laura.
Your pre-conditioned thinking is serving you VERY poorly and blinding you to a very significant wider reality.
I personally know many, many editors who are editing at the highest levels of multiple content creation disciplines – and NONE of them think like you apparently still do. Feature films, long form documentaries, global reach car commercials, global pop star music videos..
All cut in X by top tier professionals trusted with multi-million dollar (and eyeball) projects.
I fear you’re slipping WAY behind in your understanding of the editorial landscape, today.
Please get educated on this so you can speak from a more reasonable perspective on it.
Respectfully.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
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This is apropos of NOTHING.
But my wife just needed to add a mouse for her laptop to do stand up video presentations and control them at arms length.
So Amazon dropped off a brand new MagicMouse for her yesterday.
I was all set to help her with Bluetooth pairing – but before I entered the room – she had read in the instructions that basically said “connect ONCE to the target machine via Lightening cable” – and sure enough everything set itself up automatically with absolutely zero user intervention.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if video editing configuration worked like that? Your profile of current settings lived in your cloud account – and when you connect a machine to “setup” IT looked around, identified the iOt machines available – and got it OWN act ideally together.
Think of the hours it would save all of us!
Just musing.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
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[Bill Davis] “[Laura Scott] “But I’ve been using NLEs for only 33 years, so what do I know? :)”
I beat your NLE longevity by 4 years, Laura. “
No offense guys, and not to quibble, but 33 years ago is 1985. Since Avid came out later than that, just exactly which NLEs are you guys referring to? I presume you are really meaning linear editing back in those days. Unless, of course, you were physically cutting film or working on one of the tape/disc-based systems, like Montage or Ediflex. Or maybe Premiere 1.0?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Bill Davis] “Wouldn’t it be awesome if video editing configuration worked like that? Your profile of current settings lived in your cloud account”
You can have that with Creative Cloud. ☺
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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1. Paying orders of magnitude more for editing software over time.
2. Allowing a big company to gatekeeper my personal IP rights.Totally NOT worth those two huge “gotchas” IMO.
For easing my wifes Mouse config process – they asked NOTHING beyond the basic purchase.
Just as they’ve done since I purchased FCP X going on seven years ago.
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Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.
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