The Future of Editing

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Audition is phenomenal. Form what I know it has good penetration in radio broadcast since it’s inception as Cool Edit Pro. Many stations use it to cut and mix loops for promos and so on. Shame it hasn’t caught on with studio users.

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[Chris Harlan]

[Angelo Lorenzo] “Audition is phenomenal. Form what I know it has good penetration in radio broadcast since it’s inception as Cool Edit Pro. Many stations use it to cut and mix loops for promos and so on. Shame it hasn’t caught on with studio users.”

Yes. I did a Sizzle mix with it recently and quite enjoyed it. Very full featured.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Now I haven’t used FCPX, but from all accounts its initial release was like releasing Microsoft Word without a print button.

Most of these “legacy features” in Premiere are simply keyboard shortcuts and other UI improvements that FCP had been doing right in the past. Yeah, it courts to the migrating userbase… but that’s what pays the bills. What people seem to forget about Adobe is their class-leading support of native formats, advanced algorithm effects like warp stabilizer, metadata supported workflows and so on. They’re catching up with Avid in terms of media management and Adobe Anywhere looks to be on par with Avid’s Interplay.

Avid is always there with their best-in-class support for multi-user editing and storage. Media Composer brings along a lot of features to match Premiere Next like LUT support and some new audio mixing features. Dynamic folders look very interesting.

I’m looking at FCPX and its feature list but I can’t say there is any one feature that could save me more time with my workflow. No one thing makes me feel like it’s a best-in-class solution for a particular problem. While event based bins look alright, they really only offer a big advantage to those with a lot b-roll, and only then you can emulate that workflow with metadata keywords. Auditioning clips seems interesting on the face of it, but I feel like it’s more of a tool for the learning editor than the professional. It does the job but nothing makes me go WOW.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Angelo Lorenzo] “Now I haven’t used FCPX, but from all accounts…”

You should try it.

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[Chris Kenny]

[Greg Andonian] “I was thinking, If Apple really is skating to where the puck will be and FCPX really is the future of editing, you would expect the users of other NLEs to want their preffered NLE to follow in its footsteps, right? “

In this metaphor, users are the puck. The whole point of skating to where the puck is going to be is that the puck isn’t there yet. Now, maybe the puck gets there faster because you’re there waiting for it (the metaphor starts to break down here), but it still takes time. This is an industry where some facilities take a couple of years to install a routine upgrade of the same software they already use. High end adoption of FCP X was never going to happen quickly.

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[Angelo Lorenzo]

I’m a PC guy, my Mac hardware is pretty aged otherwise I’d give the demo a try. My last post isn’t meant to be belligerent so much as, on the surface, I don’t see anything enticing for the way I work.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Angelo Lorenzo] “I’m a PC guy, my Mac hardware is pretty aged otherwise I’d give the demo a try. My last post isn’t meant to be belligerent so much as, on the surface, I don’t see anything enticing for the way I work.”

Didn’t see it as belligerent, just suggesting checking out. 🙂

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[Steve Connor]

Correct me if I’m wrong but Speedgrade doesn’t have dynamic link in the new version?

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[Gary Huff]

[Chris Kenny] “Now, maybe the puck gets there faster because you’re there waiting for it (the metaphor starts to break down here), but it still takes time.”

The problem is that the “revolution” in editing is primarily the magnetic timeline…which doesn’t exactly engender warm fuzzies…plenty of people touting workarounds to get around that magnetic timeline. In my own experience, I found it worked for me about 40-50% of the time, with the rest of the time it fought me in what I wanted to do.

Everything else in FCPX is basically a “faster horse”, save for the database functionality which has already existed before (FCP Server) and has dubious benefit for someone like myself who tends to work on a one project basis and then archives it off into cold storage.

[Herb Sevush]

[Ievgenii Larin] “He said, there is only one company on the planet that can rethink process of video editing. It’s Apple.”

Which begs the question “why bother rethinking the process of video editing?” You could rethink the car as well – why not 3 wheels or 5 wheels, or lower to the ground, or made out of parmessian cheese? Many people have gone broke trying to rethink the car because the car as designed has evolved efficiently over the years. Now the point is to make it safer and more fuel efficient.

Herb Sevush
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