Overwhelmed: what is the best solution?

[Alan Lacey]

Whereabouts in the World are you Lynette?

I’ve recently retired and have a shedload of modern production and post production equipment looking for something worthwhile to do. If you’re in the UK perhaps I could help?

Alan (on the East Coast of the UK)

FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
FCS,AE,Combustion,LiquidSilver,Vegas,Edius,
G5,MBP,Vista64,XP

[Lynette Gilbert]

[Alan Lacey] “Whereabouts in the World are you Lynette?”

Thanks for the offer, but I’m in the US.

Lynette

[Robert Bracken]

Keep in mind how long it took for you to become solid with Final Cut 7.

It will take a few more years for FCP X to reach the level of FCP 7 but the foundation will stay the same. It’s my opinion that FCP X is going to be far and above better than FCP 7.

I say get Final Cut X. Get some lessons from the Apple store. The one-to-one cost about $99 a year and you can do one lesson a week. And you’ll find yourself hating the FCP 7 interface like I currently do!

Keep us updated!

[Jason Porthouse]

Well, I’ll offer a counter view. I agree that going to HD would be a smart move – you’ll have a library of footage that is much more saleable if you should ever choose to go down this route. But I’m of a firm view that if something ain’t broke, don’t fix it. You could go to PPro or Avid, but what in your shoes would it achieve? On a professional level you would become familiar with them, but they’re not a million miles different from 7 and you could pick them up pretty quickly. It sounds like there’s no budge for serious hardware upgrades, so I wouldn’t bother. I’ve a very old system at home (the first gen Mac Pro with a Blackmagic Multibridge) and it’s fine still – it’ll cope with 99% of what my clients require (and I’m almost solely HD now) and the most I’ll gain from upgrading is a better render/export time. If this ever became an issue for you a beefy iMac could be used as a render station pretty painlessly…

Meanwhile get hold of X for your home system, learn to love it (and hate it too – I have a kind of schizophrenic relationship with it at the moment) or not and keep a system that works in place at work. Sometimes the best tools are ones that have evolved to fit the job they need to and yours seems to work quite well – don’t add to the stress by changing stuff unnecessarily!

J

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[Chris Conlee]

Since you’re familiar with FCP7, moving to PP CS6 would be super easy. Also, you can get the cloud membership for only $50/month, which might help the organization’s cash flow. With that, you could get a Matrox Mini (which works AWESOMELY with PP, btw) and you’re rocking.

Once you start using Adobe Media Encoder, you’ll wonder why you’re still trying to use compressor. It’s THAT much faster.

Like most others on this thread, I’d suggest you have no need for panic. If what you have now is getting the job done, then you’re not in an emergency just yet.

Good luck,
Chris

[Jules Bowman]

Lynette,

In case you do trawl through Bill’s evangelical post which from the little I read seemed to ignore your current set up in terms of formats you use and the fact the zoo probably doesn’t have the budget for wholesale changes despite, apparently, the past being eradicated last June, do take into account he is like the Jehovah’s Witnesses who knock on your door trying to sell you Jesus, though unfortunately there is no way or saying ‘sorry, fundamentalism isn’t for me and I believe in Darwin’ then shutting the door on the forum.

Stick with FCP7 for now. Demo PP6. The future is changing for some but to be honest X isn’t the editing messiah, it is just a very naughty boy.

[Lynette Gilbert]

::snort:: You just made my day.

From what everyone is saying, it looks like PP6 might be the way to go in the future. Since I’m thinking of getting it for my home setup, we’ll see how it goes on the editing front before I try to worry about if it will work with my configuration at the zoo.

Thanks!

[Chris Harlan]

[Jules bowman] “Stick with FCP7 for now. Demo PP6. The future is changing for some but to be honest X isn’t the editing messiah, it is just a very naughty boy.
“

And remember to always look on the bright side of life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOuWWzP7wl0

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[Jules Bowman]

Indeed 🙂