Post work-rush thoughts about FCP-X

[Chris Harlan]

[Bill Davis] “Of all the people on the planet who are NOT over FCP-Legacy, I think you’re right at the front of the line.

Your own words – “Mostly people are trashing the parent’s decision to murder the Trophy winner in his sleep.”
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If you take it out of context, Bill I suppose you might have some sort of case. If you pair my response with what you said, I believe what you’ll find is that I was lampooning hyperbole. Sorry if I wasn’t clear about that.

I’m still interested in FCP X, and hope it eventually becomes useful for me. I’m also interested in what I–and others–are going to do in the interim. If it is an interim, and not an end.

But, Bill. Why are you here? If you’re such a butterfly, why haven’t you flown away to found your airline? (Ouch.) You’ve reached your decision in the FCP X or Not Debate. So why are you still here?

[Andreas Kiel]

Here’s something for Bill Davis.

Bill, I can understand that you are excited how good X is working for you. But I can’t get rid of the feeling that you imply in your responses, that most of any kind of complaints about X is based on a kind of ignorance of the user and that the user is not willing to learn X or is not willing to throw away old fashioned habits.

So it would be great to have a better description about what you are doing, which cameras/codecs you use, how the project/events are organized etc.
This will help others to understand your statements (others should do a better description as well).

If I would like to bash, for example I could say:
FCPX only supports Prores as render format dot (which is true as you can see in the developer specs).
FCPX doesn’t support chapter markers any more – makes pre-post way slower when creating rushes for review dot
X doesn’t support 3rd party codecs/accelerators – and that won’t change in the near future dot
XML export and import is crappy – which makes collaborative workflows a nightmare dot
Multiclip is missing and can’t be implemented in a usable way with this X interface dot
etc.

I do say that – but without the dot
And I try to help people to find workarounds and get a better understanding, and in some cases create scripts or little apps to help people feeling better in the X ecosystem.

Anyway the forum has a ‘debate’ extension – so anything is allowed like in a normal discussion face to face.

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Steve Connor]

[Andreas Kiel] “Anyway the forum has a ‘debate’ extension – so anything is allowed like in a normal discussion face to face.”

CreativeCow.debate, I like that!

Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
Adrenalin Television

[David Roth weiss]

[Bill Davis] “When the caterpillar morphs into the butterfly, the caterpillar doesn’t die Chris, It’s just moving on. For the folks who continue to think the finest form of transportation is remaining rooted to the traditions of soil travel – it might be confusing. But for those who want to fly a bit – not so much.”

If your intent is self-deprecation, this hilarious. Please let me know so I can decide whether to laugh or to stick my finger down my throat.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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