Justifying Transition to FCP

[Bob Flood]

Naiche

I know of one show……nothing big really….only the top rated show on food network….Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. Cut on FCP from start to finish.

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Chris Borjis]

[Shane Ross] “OK, but CHEERS was shot on film. T”

YES! and in front of a live studio audience lol

[Michael Gossen]

Where’s Raudonis? The bottom line is many companies including television, films, commercials, VFX, etc are embracing FCP all over the place. There is plenty of literature out there. Bunim/Murray Productions, Stardust Studios, TBWA/Chiat/Day (Apple Commercials?!) and on and on…

Michael Gossen
Helium Digital Media

[Shane Ross]

OH…and more recently…

https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/action/button/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss

Shane

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[Mark Raudonis]

I’ve been busy! Churning out hours upon hours of reality TV shows on FCP…

For those that may not know, Bunim-Murray Productions (MTV’s “The Real World”, Fox’s “The Simple Life”, E! “Keeping up with the Kardashians”, Oxygen, “The Bad Girls”, and many, many more) has been ALL FCP, ALL THE TIME for over four years now.

We switched to FCP so long ago everyone thought we were nuts! We weren’t nuts, just ahead of the curve.

Good luck with your efforts to educate your boss!

mark Raudonis

[Will Eccleston]

I’d spent thousands of hours sitting at AVIDs when Final Cut came on the scene. The first time I was forced to use it, I hated it. It was so much different than AVID, and I was slow and frustrated. Gradually, as I was forced to use it more, I realized that I was developing a whole different mindset when sitting in front of FCP as opposed to AVID. Eventually the scales tipped entirely over to Final Cut. As a freelancer, I’m still required to run both at various houses, many times in the same week, or even day. There will always be bits and pieces of he AVID interface that I miss, but the combo of Motion and Final Cut allows me to do much, much prettier work, with a better user experience, and in the end, that’s what really matters.

Most people who think Final Cut is not a REAL professional tool have not spent enough time with their face in front of it to divorce themselves from the AVID mindset. One recommendation – DO NOT set up your FCP keyboard to match your AVID keyboard. It will only help keep you in the mindset that you’re sitting at an AVID, trying to edit like an AVID.

I edit all over Atlanta, at post houses, various corporate headquarters, and at home, and the day is rapidly approaching that I won’t have a client that has an AVID.

– Will

Will Eccleston
Kinetiscape Films