My thoughts on the FCPX FAQ

[Andrew Stone]

It matters not. Apple in continuing its stance on the discontinuation of FCS 3 has shown to the industry, its approach as a vendor to the film industry is incompatible with the industry’s requirements.

Too much time has now passed on this decision. The industry will move on and Apple will not be a proper player any more.

The push-me-pull-you should stop and we should focus our efforts on bettering our business and getting back to work.

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[Richard Harrington]

Well… I’ve always kept my eggs in more than one basket.

I guess I’m looking to know if I need to move on, or if they reallly do care.

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[Stephen Smith]

[Richard]

I guess I’m looking to know if I need to move on, or if they reallly do care.

You bring up a very good question.

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[Andrew Stone]

Richard I just finished reading this…

https://bit.ly/jWcpsa

…It really gives a well grounded history of the lead up to this and why we simply should move on and not continue to revisit the collective conclusion that has occurred this week. Apple’s near complete modality shift is not in concert with our business requirements.

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Steadicam & Camera Operator

[Tom Wolsky]

For pro editors it’s time to move on. Avid or Premiere at the moment. Apple’s done in this market. They’ve kicked us to the curb. I wouldn’t look back.

All the best,

Tom

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[Chris Kenny]

[Andrew Stone] “It matters not. Apple in continuing its stance on the discontinuation of FCS 3 has shown to the industry, its approach as a vendor to the film industry is incompatible with the industry’s requirements.

Too much time has now passed on this decision. The industry will move on and Apple will not be a proper player any more.
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Again, it seems ludicrously unlikely to me that in a year or two, any non-trivial number of people will still be evaluating FCP X in terms of how Apple handled its introduction, rather than its then-current suitability for their uses. Maybe you could argue that people should do this (though my counterpoint would be that once this transition is done, there probably won’t be nearly this much drama for the rest of the decade), but the phenomenon of temporal discounting means they mostly won’t.

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[Andrew Stone]

Chris the film industry operates like an organism. If there has been a major form of cell disruption, the anti-bodies will remove it.

Goes something like this… Major production houses go through a process of deciding on their workflow, it is based on a myriad of factors. Some financial, others involve risk mitigation, insurance considerations and so on. Once a product or vendor is deemed to be not suitable it goes and the effect will ripple. This has been played out many times over the history of the industry.

You are looking at it from largely a freelancer point of view of which many of us are but the industry rides largely on the business decisions of big production houses and standard industry workflows. FCP will quickly be removed from the workflow simply due to Apple’s decision to not allow future licenses of FCS/FCP.

Apple can choose what it wants to do but so can the film industry and do it will.

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Steadicam & Camera Operator

[Tom Wolsky]

I think you underestimate the significance of the bitterness and loathing this has engendered in many users.

All the best,

Tom

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[Chris Kenny]

[Tom Wolsky] “I think you underestimate the significance of the bitterness and loathing this has engendered in many users.”

I think I’ve seen a lot of Internet freak-outs related to Apple announcements over the years, and have a pretty good idea of what the long-term implications tend to be. In fact, people’s long-term projections of the impact of this announcement may be even more overstated than usual, because a lot of the bitterness is a consequence of people believing Apple is deliberately abandoning the pro market, and it is my opinion that Apple is not actually doing this and future events will make that obvious.

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[John Chay]

I honestly don’t care if they are deliberately abandoning the Pro market or not. But looking at Final Cut Pro X the way it stands today and with an uncertain future….our facility is switching all of our FCP edit suites to Avid. It was a pretty easy decision actually.

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