The FCPX Personality Types

[Daniel Frome]

Yikes…comparing a struggle for political freedom with a bad software release. I’ll have the historical record show that I’ll abstain from further comment.

[Craig Seeman]

[Chris Jacek] “angry everybody is.”

Not everybody is angry. Some can have civil discourse about disagreements.
Personally I can acknowledge every single missing feature, bug, cumbersome workaround in FCPX and still not be angry. I can also acknowledge every single feature and workflow improvement. I do know that I’d rarely display the kind of anger some are showing here, in a place that either potential clients or potential professional coworkers are displaying here. This is not a “private” location.

[Chris Jacek] “By that thinking, the protesters in Egypt should have stopped after day one. They had already made their position known, right?”

The protesting was likely only superficial to the things going on to cause change. There was organizing and economic impacts. Their goal was to foment change, not simply complain.

If you want Apple to change it’ll take a bit more than chanting slogans in a forum over and over again. You also have to ask yourself how important is it for you to get Apple to change vs moving to Premiere or Avid. Maybe they should be worried that so many people would prefer to fight rather than switch.

You might actually end up offending your fellow professionals and potential clients. That might not be good for your business.

[Jerry Hofmann]

Absolutely. Apple has had the intention to build this as a new platform for Pro’s from the get go. It’s not iMovie code for starters, and the metadata is way more sophisticated than any consumer would ever use or need. It’s a foundation with incredible possibilities, but it’s full of missing features that many of us need (me included). But I’m finding it faster to produce a finished piece with than any NLE I’ve ever worked with. Auditioning is way useful and fast. Editing from the cards while you ingest is pretty amazing too. The vertical timeline, new speed change designs et all are pretty refreshing IMHO.

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[Sean Thomas]

[Lance Bachelder] “I have to agree with you Craig – people, some of them even Cow leaders just hanging around to slam the program while talking about the big switch to Premiere Pro! So leave already! And if you’re really serious then you better be launching PPro on a Win7 machine! Thinking “I’ll show Apple!” and opening up PPro on your Mac won’t hurt Apple a bit – you’ll probably need to upgrade in a big way to get the most out of the software too. And when you discover how truly crappy PPro is don’t come crying back here… go over to the Avid forum and join them! Lol….”

Thanks for saying exactly what I’ve been wanting to say.

This forum is like having the fox guard the henhouse!

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

“You might actually end up offending your fellow professionals and potential clients. That might not be good for your business.”

Oh for the love of god. Please. What kind of comment is that? What are you doing making pronouncements like that? I myself live in terror of being on Randy Ubillos’s sh*t list. Soon I will not be able to board a plane. I’ll be black flagged.

Craig. Really.

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[John Godwin]

I think he was saying the same thought that had occurred to me over the last couple of days. In a time when it’s easy to google someone’s name and instantly get a lot of information by and about them, it’s good to consider that whatever one posts is likely to be there in the electronic ether forever. The tone and temper of one’s online remarks might be a factor when a client considers handing over work or sitting in an edit room for hours or days with someone. I didn’t take Craig’s remark remotely as a threat, more as a reminder that we’re all creating an online history that we have to live with.

Best,
John

[Craig Seeman]

Do you really thing facilities that hire staff or freelancers don’t look here?
I know otherwise and those facilities looking for “team players” might make some determinations based on what they see here. This is not theoretical.

BTW you might also look at the sticky on top of the COW business forum if you don’t think clients might look here as well.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

I am comfortable with my fate. Also there are multiple ways in donegal Irish to spell my second name. I avail myself of variations. As to anyone reading the rants, I’m comfortable with that – I do not rant alone, and there is a lot to be annoyed about. There is an energized discussion here. I’m ok with it. Besides, on the outside of the bell curve, some of the passive aggressive moonie like support for this app might raise eyebrows too.

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[John Godwin]

I can’t speak for anyone but myself. That “passive-agressive” is getting tired. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone here say Apple hasn’t screwed up the release of FCPx and the retirement of FCP7. Generally the comments from the positive side are that FCPX is an unfinished product with great potential, and requests to tone down the comments a little.

I’ve had two previous systems EOL’d out from under me, and I wasn’t very happy when that happened, either, so I’m not without sympathy and I’m certainly not entirely happy with this current situation either. (And frankly I’ve enjoyed some of your comments particularly for entertainment value as well as valid criticisms.)

The knee-jerk kicking by some folks on here of anyone who actually likes or is even interested in FCPX is pretty interesting, though. There’s a guy who started a thread a couple of days ago praising FCPX and the way he got pounded made me wonder if he was just jerking people’s chains. If so, it sure worked.

Best,
John

[David Roth weiss]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “there are multiple ways in donegal Irish to spell my second name. I avail myself of variations.”

Though slightly off-topic, let me be the first here to congratulate on the excellent play of your fellow countryman, golfer Darren Clark, who earlier today won The Open Championship contested at England’s Royal St. George links.

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