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So has the 10.3 Update calmed your fears on the Future of FCPX?
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[Oliver Peters] “Just not irrationally exuberant like many others”
Many? You’re painting FCP X users with a ridiculously broad brush Oliver. You should step outside the Cow now and again. 😉
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[Mark Smith] “For those of us laboring in these niches, the feeling is one of insecurity, because some of the tools we like and use could dry up at some random moment.”
FCP 7 Still works. And I guarantee you it’s not just luck. So whether they can make promises or not (they can’t, nobody who sells software can anymore) In general, they don’t just drop stuff. And if they do? We’ll all move on. To Lightworks!
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[Charlie Austin] “Nope.
“Just coincidence, then.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Charlie Austin] “Nope.
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Just coincidence, then.”Well, maybe the MBP release/FCP X Summit was the deadline, that seems logical. I really doubt it was held back for that at all. I’m speculating though…
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[Charlie Austin] “You should step outside the Cow now and again. ;-)”
I do. Do you mean that world that doesn’t even know FCPX exists? ?
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[Oliver Peters] “In the context of this question, my fear is that Apple will get to a 10 year mark with X and it either stays there in that state (whatever that will be) or it will be killed off. That’s been Apple’s track record with nearly everything”
As far as video editing, the sample size for this study is 2. Not nearly enough to draw a conclusion from. I don’t think Apple will kill off FCP X just for the heck of it. The reason why they discontinued FCP 7 is pretty clear. It simply didn’t have the architecture to do what Apple wanted to do with trackless editing. There essentially was no way forward with it.
I don’t see a similar problem with FCP X. I think the architecture is a lot more flexible. And as such it may last a lot longer. But, ultimately I only commit to a particular editing program for 6 years or so. I’m happy to get more than that out of it. But, my needs change.
I believe the next landmark change in editing will be integration of video clips with text of what is said in the video. The productivity advances this will create are massive – and almost unimaginable at this point. I’m not sure any video editing program has the architecture to deal with this. The first one there will probably be my editing system for the next 6 years or more.
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[Brett Sherman] “As far as video editing, the sample size for this study is 2.”
Well, actually no, because I include Color, Shake and other Apple software into that mix.
[Brett Sherman] “I believe the next landmark change in editing will be integration of video clips with text of what is said in the video.”
You mean like Avid’s Script Integration?
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It’s going to come down to how many people are using the program like any other product and I think to that end their changes are going to cause even more people to start using the program.
I don’t think Shake is a good product comparison because not even enough editors used it. It was a niche of a niche market.
I try to pay attention to marketing. Heck, that’s what many of us do for a living. It’s all right there on their page.
They are using the product to sell their latest hardware.
This is almost the first thing you see on the page, unlike the consumer iPhone and watch that you have to scroll almost to the bottom of the page to see. Placement folks.
Look at the first 4 apps showed. That’s pretty much what people do, take pictures, shoot video, email and search the web.
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[Oliver Peters] “You mean like Avid’s Script Integration?”
Which doesn’t exist anymore. But that is an extremely limited application of what I’m talking about. It seems like those who work primarily on scripted pieces have trouble imagining anything outside of that.
I’m talking about text data integrated into the clip itself. So no matter where you are in the clip, it knows what is being said. Here is some the potential it could unleash. You can export a transcript as a Word doc. You could highlight that word doc, reimport and have keyword collections created from that. You can search for words and phrases with boolean parameters. You can spit out an SRT file automatically with control of the timing of subtitle changes, all done within the timeline – having it quantize to video cuts. You can find all takes where the same sentence is said and have them automatically placed in an audition clip. You can see the text of what’s being said in the timeline as you are editing. You could get a quick and dirty translation into other languages.
Before anyone responds with the obvious. Yes, accuracy is an issue. You’d have the opportunity to correct the automatic transcription or send it off to a third party to correct. The going rate for human-assisted, automatic transcription is about $1/minute. And accuracy is increasing monthly for automatic word recognition. By the time this kind of thing gets integrated into an editing program, it would not surprise me if it would be 95%+
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[Oliver Peters] “I do. Do you mean that world that doesn’t even know FCPX exists? ?
“lol. Yes Oliver, that’s exactly what I meant…
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