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Serious X Editors needed in LA.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What about “funny” editors in Chicago? Do they need those?”
Stoic editors in NYC?
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Really good editors from anywhere, able to work with all NLE software and platforms available? I know a lot of those guys.
Tim
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OK,I am in, at least to spend 15 bucks at the multiplex to see FOCUS and assuage all the doubts generated by going with FCPX in 2011 and reading this forum over the years. Of course my 600,000 plus views on Youtube and monetized earnings of $17.31 may not qualify me as a “serious editor”, but I always enjoy the lively debates generated by this subject.
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I was working with a producer recently recutting a film that was done in FCP X. It’s a horror film with a massive thirty sfx/music tracks going at times.
After his experience with it and how much time and money he saved he doesn’t want to work with editors who won’t use it.
Rereading the “Cold Mountain” book now, there were so many legitimate reasons to stay far away from FCP 3-4 for features. It started to take off because it was inexpensive and didn’t require extra hardware on top of the computer to run.
It’s the people who write the checks who will ultimately make the transition happen.
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I don’t think there is a single editor out there who will refuse to use FCPX. If someone offered me a good job and using FCPX was a deal breaker then I would accept in a second. Any good editor can make any NLE do what he/she needs it to do. The oft repeated myth that there is an Illuminati of editors out there who will reject working with X in any circumstance is just that: A myth. The market governs here.
Tim
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Hi Timothy, you are coming at this from a fair and reasonable point of view. You are actually the exception to what I’ve experienced.
I agree that most editors, even the ones who make the “what smells in here” face when FCP X is mentioned would learn it and use it if it meant getting a job or not. (Just not without protest!)
My point is that once word gets out how much faster a film can be prepped for the edit and sent to finishing*, (Red esp) that’s what will start the demand to rise.
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I’ve met a few. Hollywood folks can be pretty hide-bound. Most of these naysayers I’ve come across would be so obnoxious in showing their distaste/disapproval of X that they’d never be given the chance to learn X in order to get the gig. Who needs to work with somebody with such a bad attitude? Lots of editors in this town…
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[TImothy Auld] “I don’t think there is a single editor out there who will refuse to use FCPX. If someone offered me a good job and using FCPX was a deal breaker then I would accept in a second.”
Exactly. Which is why I learned Premiere. I think the editing experience on PP is solidly “meh”, but there are jobs out there to be had on it. God, we editors are so easy…. 😉
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter
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