The FCPX Personality Types

[Chris Jacek]

[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.”

That’s why I was clear to point out that part about “FCPX not being 1% as important” as the situation I was comparing it to. If you still can’t touch the topic, that’s fine. There are plenty of us on here who aren’t afraid to dabble in a bit of rhetoric and conjecture. Maybe even a little vitriol to keep things interesting.

My point was about affecting change. People do read these posts, and if we help potential buyers avoid the mistake of buying FCPX now (at least for NOW, I find it very difficult to argue that buying it isn’t a mistake, unless you’re just interesting in tinkering).

To those who suggest we should just switch to Premiere or Avid now, rather than complaining, do you really think we are incapable of doing both? Personally, I started migrating some of my projects to Premiere Pro last year, because my crystal ball told me something like this may happen. Plus the AE integration is great. Just because we accept the potential need to switch, does not mean that we shouldn’t abandon our efforts to force Apple to listen to us.

Though seemingly unlikely, I still secretly hope for a Windows 7-esque replacement to the FCP Vista.

Professor, Producer, Editor
and former Apple Employee

[Aindreas Gallagher]

Hear hear! Great result. Class bloke.

http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Aindreas Gallagher]

Nah fair enough. I personally like to argue the issue as opposed to the man. By and large. Plus I don’t know how to stop posting at this point.

http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[John Godwin]

Well, your posts are passionate, and that’s great. Some other folks just sound mean-spirited.

Best,
John

[Jamie Franklin]

[John Godwin] ” ago praising FCPX”

Oh, is that all he did? Pfft

[Jamie Franklin]

See to them, being able to get a copy of FCP3 in the back alley of the net is apparently a sign of your delusional rage and speaks to your inability to adapt to this new paradigm…. /eyeroll

[Walter Soyka]

I like to think my attitude toward FCPX is a bit more nuanced than the three (or four) options provided.

I love the FCPX imaging engine and I think that pervasive metadata is the future of editorial.

I cannot use FCPX for the vast majority of my work, because it’s an island than can’t interchange. XML out is only half of the solution.

I’m puzzled by Apple showing a sneak peek to an audience at the National Association of Broadcasters conference and trade show, then releasing a product with no broadcast monitoring.

I’m still on the fence about the UI. I am concerned that the interface favors simplicity over flexibility and abstracts too much away from the editor by hiding details. I’m inclined to think that the trackless magnetic timeline is a solution to the beginner problem of clip collision during re-arrangement, rather than a re-thinking of the way we arrange images and sounds to create meaning and the way we represent that arrangement to the editor.

I’m angry about the sudden EOL of products that I’ve used and that I’ve recommended to my clients. I’m angry about Apple’s decision to orphan 10 years of project file across the entire industry. I’m angry about Apple excluding developers from the pre-release versions they would have needed to ready their products for the market. No matter how many times Chris tells me I’m wrong, I struggle to see how things like this don’t indicate that Apple has abandoned the pro market. I think the question is not if they have abandoned pros; I think the questions are when and to what extent they’ll come back.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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