OTish: Turn out the lights…

[Charlie Austin]

[Scott Witthaus] “and very more than likely no incoming students will know about it. “

True. It may go even further than jut FCP 7 at some point. I saw a post recently from a guy who had learned to edit on FCP X, and was watching some MC training vids. He wanted to know what “patching tracks” meant. Like, didn’t even understand the concept, and when explained, wondered why you’d need to do such a thing. I suspect more questions like that will appear in the future. 😉

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[Bill Davis]

[Charlie Austin] “wondered why you’d need to do such a thing.”

Answer:
“Because that’s how we do things. Now shutup.”

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[David Mathis]

[Bill Davis] “[Charlie Austin] “wondered why you’d need to do such a thing.”

Answer:
“Because that’s how we do things. Now shutup.””

Make me! 🙂

Alright, serious side of me:
I turned out the lights on the very thought of even thinking of about subscribing to Adobe CC and for that matter bolted the door shut. It has nothing to do with outages or things as such but more on principal and the expensive cost over the long term.

As far as playing “Track Tetris” (a very addictive game) I prefer the trackless method though part of me says tracks please. With more efficient editing in a trackless environment I am somewhat surprised that others have not followed in the same tracks (pardon the pun).

I see FCP X getting developed more, and hope Motion can be a serious contender against After Effects, in same ways it is. Please add the ability to use expressions and I want Trapcode Particular to be supported, please.

Dealing with groups is much more efficient and fun compared to a pre-comp, those can get in the way. In fact I will even turn out the lights on a tack matte as an image mask is much more flexible and powerful then its AE cousin. Place it anywhere I like, in its own group or wherever I wish. Can even use a video clip, find the frame I want and use only that frame for the length I need it to be.

My two cents, whatever it is worth.

I am an avid user of FCP X!

[Andrew Kimery]

Not surprised, though the longer FCP7 hangs onto life the more weird the transition becomes. For example, in Los Angeles there is still a lot of FCP7 work but it can’t really recommend learning FCP7 because that knowledge will have a short shelf life compared to X, PPro or Avid MC. Odd gray zone FCP7 exists in these days.

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Andrew Kimery] “Odd gray zone FCP7 exists in these days.”

My colleagues and I still use it almost exclusively day in day out because it’s the only thing that completely matches our needs which are many and varied and very, and admittedly somewhat niche.

No doubt there will come a time when we won’t be using it but that’s not yet on the horizon.

That’s not to say I don’t use Media Composer and Premiere and FCP X and enjoy many things about all three …

But I’m very surprised that we’re still here working in Legacy after all this time – says a lot about how good it was.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo-uk.com

[Scott Witthaus]

[Simon Ubsdell] “But I’m very surprised that we’re still here working in Legacy after all this time – says a lot about how good it was.
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Agreed. The very day we delete Legacy, I get another gig at a large agency shop using FCP7. It still is a great program, but reality comes into play looking forward.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Paul Neumann]

I got a call from a director I work with just today who told me he had a new mac pro and had deleted FCP7 off the last of his machines so as to force his move to CC. I’ve showed him X, but he wasn’t too keen on it. He’s not the real editing type, but he has to get into it every once in a while. Hell he probably won’t even use PPro that much as he loves logging and rough cutting in Prelude. That makes my job easier for sure.

[David Lawrence]

I’m more than done using Legacy for editing but I’ll be keeping it on my machine for a while because it’s still useful (and in some cases required) as a conduit between FCPX and other programs.

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[Mitch Ives]

I’m kind of surprised that it took that long. The school I taught at for 5-1/2 years switched quite awhile back…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Scott Witthaus]

[Mitch Ives] “I’m kind of surprised that it took that long. The school I taught at for 5-1/2 years switched quite aw”

Well, as we know, X was a warm pile of “poo” when it was released so I waited, watched and learned the program. And you also know the old saying that “change in academia comes one funeral at a time….” 😉

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter