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Re: After a year has perception of FCPX changed?
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[Herb Sevush] “Maybe not to you. It will always matter to me.”
That’s fine. It will always matter to me as I we have a legacy library to maintain and update, but if this means that we will essentially move on to a more capable tool, then working in the present on current projects with that tool will be worth it.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “if you’re curious, I can show you a few ideas.”
Actually that would be great. That is one reason I posed the question. Although I wonder if we should move this over to the FCPX techniques form once I have FCPX in hand?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Well, I guess that’s one view of it.”
I was trying to offer an even-handed summary. Sincere apologies if I’ve failed at that.
How about this?
There are some legit reasons why traditional PIOPs in FCPX are not be a good idea. Favorites cover all traditional PIOP use cases, and offer other advantages besides. Learning to use the F key to save a range as a favorite requires some muscle re-memorizing (and with it the pain of losing marked ranges until marking favorites is habit), but once learned, FCPX’s favorites have no discernible downsides over PIOPs. Though FCPX’s favorites could be improved (notably by allowing overlaps), adding FCP7-style PIOPs would require spending a lot of developer time and adding some potentially strange abstractions to FCPX for arguably negligible benefit.
I do believe this is one of the areas where the user needs to adjust to a different way of thinking and working to reap the benefits of a different (and not inferior!) system.
Walter Soyka
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[Craig Seeman] “I . . . just like to paint things in broader strokes because I am not the only person who might read this. It’s just the area that . . . I . . . focus on.”
The way you worded your last post implied that I thought I was the market. Generalize away.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Liam Hall] “Who
As you know, there is a growing suspicion among professionals that Apple no longer cares about them or their products – be them hardware or software. Indeed, many long term Apple customers have been purchasing PCs to do their editing, compositing and other work on for the first time in their careers.”Really? I guess in the “Mac only” crowd in my local arena, I know one person who is even thinking about switching. I don’t know everyone, and I don’t communicate with the world, but from my vantage point, the people I see switching first and the ones switching to CS6, and the ones working with native Red footage as they need all the horsepower they can squeeze out of their machines if they aren’t plunking down for a Red Rocket.
I also see that some people have been working in a mixed mac and PC enviro for years, so this is nothing new.
I can understand the suspicion, but it’s more of a public relations type of problem at this point. Not one corporation is perfect, and they will all kill something that you are using for no reason but that it didn’t make business sense on the 28th page of a spreadsheet.
Apple just happens to be the most recent company to do it.
[Liam Hall] “Why
Apple claim professional users are important to them – they’ve said this many times in the last eighteen months. Of course, we are small beer in their global success story and we’re a PITA to boot but I’ll take them at their word.I do see a change in their communications strategy lately, but they need to step it up and some if they are to win back the respect they held a couple of short years ago.”
Well, you can’t have it both ways. Which is it?
They have communicated and delivered on their communications. What else more do you need them to say? Whether or not a MacPro is coming?
Look at other companies, do you know when Avid MC7 is coming out or the plans for it?
CS7?
No, some things are still sacred. Even though it might not be what you WANT to hear exactly, I don’t think what Apple has said is a lie. i think they are interested and perhaps their view of “pro” is different from your view.
They jury is till out for me, mostly due to FCPX reliability (or lack there of), but as a “pro” software it does somethings much better than other more commonly accepted and mature “pro” software.
Jeremy
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[Clint Wardlow] “Actually that would be great. That is one reason I posed the question. Although I wonder if we should move this over to the FCPX techniques form once I have FCPX in hand?”
Yes. Yes indeed.
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Sometimes a post is a catalyst for a thought from me, not meant to directly counter what the poster was saying.
Clearly we all have specific priorities and they are important to use whether our workflows are majority or niche. I don’t mean to contest that at all. Even if only one person with one workflow needs one feature, it’s supremely and justifiably important to that individual.
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[Clint Wardlow] “It is the complex layers of image and audio that I use so often, that worries me”
Not so stuff to learn either. The really difficult part for me has been abandoning “capture scratch” mentality.
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[Bill Davis] “new and really interesting things that have caused me to question how my entire workflow might change to take advantages of new opportunities that X makes it easier to explore”
Please write these down and share them.
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