Nobody Panic

[Aindreas Gallagher]

yeeaahhhh, thats the thing – lets start editing with a two finger wipe, on a ten inch ipad, man I can see walter murch just jumping on that one… as long as apple pays him like, ten million to do so, and buys him a really nice AGA stove..

Sorry – I jest, but seriously – everyone is freaking out enough already – no need to introduce “we’re going to start using our fingers” stuff… 😉

http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Steve Brame]

Strangely enough, back when Avid was ‘keyboard centric’, and Premiere and FCP introduced a more ‘mouse-centric’ form of editing, it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. And now this…

Are we watching the newest release of ‘Back to the Future’?

Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions

[Daniel Frome]

We’ve started a migration back to AVID too (well…our studio was never AVID based in the first place actually). The problem is not the “new” way of editing in FCP X. The problem is that we were hoping that FCP would introduce a few items that AVID already had…and instead we saw no new features to compete with AVID, just a better way of doing the stuff FCP already does.

[Ben Hendriks]

Hi Daniël,

How do you know that?
Do you have a list of all the features of X?

Best Ben

[Daniel Frome]

Oh, we definitely don’t know for sure. Only a combination of a factors:
– We need some of these features NOW – waiting until June would be annoying
– The $995 special from AVID and the FCP X $299 price make it affordable to own both if FCP X ends up having said features

Win/Win situation in my opinion.

[Simon Ubsdell]

Seriously, if you want those feature NOW – well, most of them – go get yourself iMovie.

I never thought I’d look at it until last week when it became obvious that FCPX was essentially iMovie’s new big brother.

Having started to get used to iMovie, I’ve found there is so much FCPX stuff already in there that is just brilliant, that I’m seriously thinking of using it for my next (not-too-demanding) “pro” project (the only downside being the lack of OMF audio export – yes, it’s got XML export but most of your audio events don’t get carried through).

Do check out the keyboard shortcuts, which make the whole experience much more precise and will change your view of the software.

Check out Ken Stone’s amazingly in-depth review of iMovie for a really good introduction/manual to get you started:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/imovie_09_stone.html

Just to be clear about this (because I can see this comment getting shot down in flames), discovering iMovie has got me seriously enthused about FCPX. I am absolutely not belittling FCPX in making the comparison.

Plus unless I’m completely deluded, I’m getting to learn how it will essentially work and that has to be a good thing.

[Mark Suszko]

I think a haptic interface, using a large touch pad, could do things that a mouse or keystrokes alone would be less efficient at. For sure, playing with audio levels, and being able to physically drag corners to adjust transitions and adjust mattes or change proportions in composites, could be quite effective tools. I don’t mean something like the effects in “Minority Report”: I’m not interested in doing 8 hours of tai-chi to edit every day – but if I could use my Wacom pad like a touch pad, I can imagine some work techniques that would benefit. Like color correction and live audio mixing.

[Chris Walsh]

I reactivated an old Avid dongle a year ago, mainly for freelance flexibility, and the great price they offered. It was worth it just for the production suite – especially Squeeze, which has become my preferred compressor (since it can do wmv and flvs and the all the formats still in use back on planet earth).

For a recent flash output delivery, I dipped back into Premiere CS5, and was pleasantly surprised – not the slow, buggy nightmare I remember.

FC is still my primary software, but it’s great to have options.

Chris Walsh

http://www.musicfog.com
Silver Spring, MD
Final Cut & AVID MC5
Former Windows User and edit* lover

[Robb Albrecht]

Hi Michael,

After watching the sneak peak videos I can really see how a touch control could work but as always I’m skeptical. 😉
Will Apple actually do it? Possibly.. Adobe already has a cool iPad/Photoshop combo working.

Robb