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Status of FCPX in 2019
Just curious how everyone thinks the world of FCPX is doing this year. We are now in its 8th year since release. Looking at the various sites that have posted customer use stories in the past, things have been very, very quiet. So how does this crowd see things?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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I see FCPX a lot more than I did a couple years ago.
I don’t live in an area with large production companies
though, so I’m mostly talking independent filmmakers and
small production companies. I’d guess an almost equal split
between Premiere CC and FCPX right now which was not
the case 5 years ago. I’ve also seen a notable increase in Resolve
use as an editor. It’s actually been interesting at our last couple
filmmaker meet ups to talk to everyone about which NLE they use
and why. Lots of variety in reasons out there and no real ‘dominant’
NLE anymore.Gabe Strong
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I finished a feature length documentary in FCPX 10.4.4. It went smoother than I anticipated. I used X2Pro Convert for the sound mix. All in all very stable. But I do miss tracks.
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I agree things have been quiet on the FCP X case-study front, but that’s only because we simply had no time to make them. Writing a good detailed case study takes a LOT of research and work and, unfortunately, there are only 24 hours in a day. I am preparing a ton of new case studies for the coming months. I actually have never had so many cases to pick from, especially in Europe where FCP X adoption has grown exponentially last year.
– Ronny
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Over the years FCP has altered in leaps and bounds. This software seems to focus on more complex set up for the professional market. Like a car, one could work under the bonnet but now… abit like FCP you get the swing of editing and then boom we are hit with new items.
I’m in the older brigade of people and love FCP but it frightens me of the constant alteration. I ask myself for WHO???????…Pros or amateurs or just fun people. Then again we always got iMovie.
One hate I have of APPLE they done away with IDVD which worked a treat with FCP as a end package. Please bring this software back. -
[Ronny Courtens] “Writing a good detailed case study takes a LOT of research and work”
How true!
[Ronny Courtens] “I actually have never had so many cases to pick from, especially in Europe where FCP X adoption has grown exponentially last year.”
Cool. I’m looking forward to reading those. Any sense of why the adoption rate of FCPX seems to be larger in Europe?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Working on doc project in New York; we’re hiring more young 30-something editors as it expands out to multiple “episodes” … virtually everyone of them using Premiere and AE, the whole CC in fact. Facilities, other pros we contact … all PPro CC. I’m a loner and looked at as eccentric, perhaps a notch shy of “pro” for using X. It’s almost a dirty word/joke among millennials IMO. Meanwhile I DO hear a lot of my generation, and some younger, trying out Resolve v15 and liking it.
Doug D
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[Douglas K. Dempsey] “virtually everyone of them using Premiere and AE, the whole CC in fact”
I’m finding that around me, too. Where I’ve seen X used, it’s been by a couple of groups. One is agency creatives who dabble a bit in editing just to rough something in for the editor to start with. The other is editors who use it for quick turnaround on-site edits. I’ve also run into staff editors working at a govt agency (Soc Sec Admin?) and they were using it in-house. Otherwise, I, too, work with a group of probably a dozen other freelancers and they all generally fit your description above.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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I think it has been a snowball effect. The larger corporations I have been involved with and who adopted FCP X in a quite early stage, are still using it and even have expanded their operations. This has caused smaller external production companies who work with these corporations, to also start using FCP X.
I know of some really important feature films that are currently being cut with X, quite a large amount of long-form documentaries, and some very popular Netflix Original series. I especially see a fast-growing adoption in broadcast operations, mostly in Eastern Europe. Also, I recently had an interview with a popular fiction editor in Tel Aviv who told me that there is a really fast-growing FCP X community in Israel, which I did not know. And when talking with media enterprises about high-level shared storage (as you know, I work with LumaForge), I am often totally surprised when they say that they use FCP X as their main NLE. Many of the editors there are not active on social media or online forums, so we don’t really know what they use until we get directly in touch with them.
As a side note: I also see growing adoption of Resolve as an NLE (although still quite slowly), mostly at the detriment of other track-based editing solutions. As you may recall, some years ago I said that Avid and FCP X could make a perfect combo. I think I will need to revise this opinion. I can see FCP X and Resolve evolving into a great combination for the future, while I clearly see that Avid is slowly but surely losing its grip on the high-end media market. Maybe not in Hollywood yet, but that is hardly a reference anymore.
– Ronny
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If I had to base my opinion on what I see in my country, I would probably come to the same conclusion. In Belgium, it’s mostly Avid and some Premiere Pro. But I have learned to look at the larger picture and not restrict my findings to just my neck in the woods. Once you do this, you discover a great diversity around the world that does not necessarily correspond with local situations.
– Ronny
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In my small world of indie docos at the bottom of the world X has little traction. The main trend I see is Resolve taking a place at the expense of both X and Pr.
The other trend is away from Apple hardware. I think the hardware trend might be the driver of some to abandon X. But some editors tell me the ease of handover to me by staying in Resolve is also significant.
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