So what is happening with NLE’s in your area

[Kim Krause]

just got my new mac at work and it came loaded with fcpx…..looks like the whole place is almost switched over now…..a few hold outs but i think after the next training sessions we will all be x users…the only thing i miss is the export to tape functions but we seldom do tape anymore and there is always black magic media express which is way better than tcp 7 ever was.

[Adam White]

Currently I’m editing on either Avid Media Composer 6 or Final Cut Pro 7. FCP is still tool of choice where I know there is going to be a need for extensive FX work, or graphics. Avid for anything else – I try and use Avid as much as possible (to aid with getting more and more comfortable with it) but there are some jobs that instinctively feel like they might be painful with it.

Here in London, I still just see loads of FCP Legacy seats. I don’t think that’s going tp change until it is irretreavably broken by some OSX update at some point. There is a great deal of interest in Premiere Pro, and I think most FCP legacy users here will probably head towards that – I’m not sure they will until there is no choice but to do so, however.

I have yet to encounter any FCPX seats. All the conversations I have seem to end with the sentiment of ”Anything but X” and I think, fairly or unfairly, it’s reputation hasn’t really changed since the abysmal launch. I dare say there will be more proponents of it here over time but I honestly haven’t met any yet.

I’ve been really surprised by how little things have changed since the launch of X. At the time I thought things would start to change within a year or so, but its over 2 years later and in reality virtually nothing has changed in terms of the ubiquity of FCP legacy. That has surprised me somewhat.