Live tomorrow night…

[Craig Seeman]

Maybe you should get the group listed on Apple’s site.
https://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/resources/communities.html

BTW many of the former FCP user groups are now no longer FCP(S) specific.

[Bill Davis]

[Craig Seeman] “BTW many of the former FCP user groups are now no longer FCP(S) specific.”

And there’s the rub.

We’re kinda going the opposite direction. There’s SO MUCH to explore and learn about X, that the groups who are doing content on everything from iMovie to Premier to camera shootouts – just can’t focus enough on the needs of those who wish to learn more about FCP-X specifically, IMO.

So that’s where I’m headed.

This webcast will be about X top to bottom.

We’ll surely compare and contrast other platforms and software but there will be absolutely NO “other platform bashing” while I’m involved.

I just have too little time in life to run a thing trying to be everything for everyone.
So this will be just be a place to immerse ones brain in all things X – for a couple hours once a month.

Hopefully it won’t get so complex that I can’t personally sustain it financially. And maybe people will like it enough to support it via internally generated sales or donations. We’ll see in time. Right now, it’s just an experiment. If it’s valuable, maybe people will want to keep it going. If not, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

And so it goes.

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[Craig Seeman]

[Bill Davis] “We’re kinda going the opposite direction. There’s SO MUCH to explore and learn about X, that the groups who are doing content on everything from iMovie to Premier to camera shootouts – just can’t focus enough on the needs of those who wish to learn more about FCP-X specifically, IMO. “

Three thumbs up from me on that one. Personally I think there’s a big need for FCPX specific user groups because it really takes that kind of focus to understand it’s unique workflows. That should be evident by the challenges and misunderstanding people have in transferring skills from other NLEs to FCPX.

[Ronny Courtens]

Bill, I think this is an excellent initiative and I agree with Craig: all thumbs up.

Having added this event to my calendar I can see it will start on Thursday morning 4 a.m. in my part of the world. So I will be watching you while sipping a strong cup of coffee (-:

– Ronny

[David Eaks]

Add a couple more thumbs up to the FCPX specific user group!

Could you create a shared iCal Calendar that we can subscribe to (or be invited to)? It would be great to have these events automatically added to all my devices through the cloud, then maybe I won’t miss as many (like so many of the moviola events I’ve missed, as one example).

[William Davis]

Hey Bill-

The “other” FCP-centric Bill Davis will be there (virtually) too. Looking forward to it!

Bill

[Craig Seeman]

Noticing there’s no hyperlink in this thread to the webcast so I’m adding it here

https://azfcpug.org/livewebcast/

And directly to Livestream
https://new.livestream.com/accounts/5442265/azfcpug

[Andrew Kimery]

[Bill Davis] “And there’s the rub.

We’re kinda going the opposite direction. There’s SO MUCH to explore and learn about X, that the groups who are doing content on everything from iMovie to Premier to camera shootouts – just can’t focus enough on the needs of those who wish to learn more about FCP-X specifically, IMO.

So that’s where I’m headed.

This webcast will be about X top to bottom. “

I’ll miss it due to work but in your heart know that I’ll be heckling you the whole time. 😉 Will it be available for streaming/download after the event is over?

On a more serious note, I’m not surprised the already established groups branched out to cover other NLEs and it makes since that brand new groups, like yours Bill, have sprung up that focus only on X.

[Craig Seeman]

[Andrew Kimery] “On a more serious note, I’m not surprised the already established groups branched out to cover other NLEs”

If their objective was to maintain their membership they had to as much of the base was moving elsewhere. Unfortunately that didn’t help those who wanted to learn this entirely new NLE which also involved exploring new workflows.

While MC and PPro have a history of experience to draw from, everyone looking at FCXP were grappling with a “new paradigm” and had no place to go for “shared group intensive.” Normally a user group allows for people to share as they learn so others can benefit. It’s hard for that to take place when a user group is divided between production, MC post, PPro post, FCPX post. This put FCPX users at a further disadvantage in the “NLE culture.”

I do hope there’s some movement in FCPX specific user group growth. I think it’s badly needed.

[Andrew Kimery]

[Craig Seeman] “While MC and PPro have a history of experience to draw from, everyone looking at FCXP were grappling with a “new paradigm” and had no place to go for “shared group intensive.” Normally a user group allows for people to share as they learn so others can benefit. It’s hard for that to take place when a user group is divided between production, MC post, PPro post, FCPX post. This put FCPX users at a further disadvantage in the “NLE culture.””

I’m sure as FCP X gains more traction more groups will pop up and more time will be spent on it w/existing groups. For groups original built on FCP (like LAFCPUG) I’m sure their attendance would’ve dropped to unsustainable levels if they focused only on X as there just wasn’t enough interest in X in LA to sustain a user group that size.

That’s one of the cool things about user groups is how grass roots they are. If there’s sufficient need people will come together and make it happen.