Lightworks – As Popular As FCPX?

[Chris Kenny]

It’s free. As such, the download number is probably more representative of the level of casual interest than the level of serious use.

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[Herb Sevush]

[Chris Kenny] “It’s free. As such, the download number is probably more representative of the level of casual interest than the level of serious use.”

Was I dreaming or was it you talking about the future of editing belonging to whoever could capture the kids downloading cheap software to work on their skateboard videos. I guess these 250000 casual users
don’t count.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Joseph Owens]

[Herb Sevush] ” I guess these 250000 casual users
don’t count.”

Not unless they were Creative Enthusiasts. Man that was hard to type. My Apple software auto-correct kept changing the words to “Pro”.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Walter Soyka]

My purchase of an FCPX license turned out to be more representative of my level of professional interest in it than my level of serious use.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Michael Gissing]

[Chris Kenny] “It’s free. As such, the download number is probably more representative of the level of casual interest than the level of serious use.”

I am one of those casually interested people that are amongst the 250,000. I also have a casual interest in FCPX but haven’t downloaded the trial yet as there is too much work required to partition a drive and install a different OS on a working FCS3 machine.

I am building a WIN screamer at the moment to run da Vinci and that machine will have Lightworks on it. I know plenty of people who have downloaded FCPX but are not seriously using it. Ignoring both FCPX and Lightworks would be silly.

[Joseph Owens]

[Walter Soyka] “professional interest”

which is a good thing. Over the past year, I have had exactly two encounters with FCX. One TV commercial which was a multi-layered green screen that worked out fine – unpacked nicely in Resolve (which is all I cared about). The other instance I actually coached a former iMovie user through using the application to make some nicer slide shows to showcase his original music. He didn’t like iMovie because it wasn’t sophisticated enough, but he wasn’t all that excited about FCX, either, because it was way too complex for his purposes…. but it was cheap and did have better audio editing.

But locally anyway, my market was previously an AVID stronghold, and although that camp has made strides, most locals, having switched to Final Cut Studio, are loathe make another leap of faith to anything. The sentiment expressed most often is the sense of moving backwards and everything seems to be getting monstrously complicated again. I interpret that as referring to ambiguity in product placement, capricious and arbitrary operational changes and of course the total format/codec chaos that has erupted over the last couple of years. At the end of the day, many are choosing not to choose.

jPo

You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?

[Andrew Kimery]

[Joseph Owens] “At the end of the day, many are choosing not to choose.”

As a great man once said, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”

-Andrew

2.9 GHz 8-core (4,1), FCP 7.0.3, 10.6.6
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (7.9.5)

[Dominic Deacon]

Lightworks is in a strange place at the moment. I love it’s interface. It’s alien but just feels custom built for cutting features. The problem is it is totally alien so it’s does take a lot of learning and who can committ the time to learning a program that you can’t yet use on serious work?

No doubt it’s up to serious work but you’d be silly to trust such work to a beta.

Once the full version is released- in a week or two I believe- I think this is going to be a very interesting alternative to anyone cutting narrative.

[Mike Fitzsimmons]

I run both on same drive. Never had an issue…

[Michael Gissing]

I make my living by having stable systems that work. FCPX cannot be used as a finishing tool in my area of broadcast doco so why would I risk my mothballed EOL version of FCS3 with SL?

If and when FCPX is needed in my workflow, I will partition and install the approriate OS. The justification might be Smoke and then I will get FCPX as an ancilliary software in case people actually bring me an FCPX project rather than an XML.