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Thoughts from the departed?
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Went full force with Avid 6, as it made sense cause while my home office/freelance setup has always been FCP 7, work has always been MC, it didn’t cost a lot to make the transition and it was pretty much painless.
Still have a couple lingering FCP 7 projects. Been poking FCP X with a stick, dabbling in each of the updates. Still not sold on it yet, but am hoping it becomes a great tool to one day that i can find a use for.
Havent touched PPr 6 yet. Looks cool but don’t really see a reason to dive in yet, MC 6 is working great, roundtripping with Resolve is working pretty good, and stuff is getting done faster than i did with FCP 7 and color.
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal
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Moved on to AVID 6 and ISIS 5000 shared storage.
The deeper I get into our shared storage workflow, the more confident I am that
I made the right choice. Here we are more than one year later, and nothing that
I’ve seen from X so far has made me question my decision to go back to Avid.mark
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Moved on…
My FCS system is stable, and X just isn’t all that, and a bag of chips.
Since X doesn’t really offer anything new or worthwhile for me, I took that money and bought a NOS copy of Shake 4.1. So for less than the cost of X, I was able to greatly enhance my capabilities, and add a new range of services. Much more so than buying a redundant prosumer NLE like X. In a way, apple abandoning the pro market has produced some real bargains.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[alban egger] ” I can’t believe there are so many still using FCP7.”
I don’t. It still works very well for most of the jobs that people are using it for.
I still use it, but also have moved onto Avid. The future for me is Avid/Adobe.
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[Shane Ross] “I don’t. It still works very well for most of the jobs that people are using it for.
I still use it, but also have moved onto Avid. The future for me is Avid/Adobe.
“That’s where I am as well. There are a few things in FCP 7 that are still better than anything else, and I still use it, but I find that I’ve moved on as well. My future is also Avid/Adobe, and though there are, to my mind, some things that could use improvement–Avid needs to improve its Audio implementation, for instance, and Adobe needs to make things like Media Management work better–both current versions of the software shine.
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[Mark Raudonis] “Here we are more than one year later, and nothing that
I’ve seen from X so far has made me question my decision to go back to Avid.
“Agreed. I’m quite happy with Mc6, though I would like to see a more robust audio implementation, i.e. more tracks, busses, and a master track that could accept filters and plugins. But, yes, nothing about X makes me pause at all about embracing Avid.
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Another 6 months for FCP 7 and I am all Adobe then. Bought a License of CS 5.5 last year but was not very happy running it on a Mac Pro. Now I have a PC running CS6 and its a lot better! Its not what FCP & was but I guess we all have to live with some compromises.
Sohrab
FCS 3 & Adobe PPro
AJA Kona Lhi, Mac Pro 2 X 2.66 Ghz Quad Core
Flanders Scientific LM-1760W“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.” — Carl Ally
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OK, the subject of this thread is “Thoughts from the departed?”, so is that you? Have you departed, or moved on?
Or are you here just to cheerlead for apple? If so, start a new thread.[alban egger] “I can’t believe there are so many still using FCP7”
It’s not that hard to understand.
Most editors don’t have a compelling need to constantly dump something that is working well, just because something new comes out. The operative term here is “new”.
Now if something better comes out, or what you have doesn’t do what you need, that’s a different story.
I’d rather edit, than be an unpaid beta tester. And I’m not interested in learning a “new editing paradigm”. The one I’m using works fine for me, and apples new editing paradigm isn’t going to make me, or anyone else a better editor. But I understand that there are those out that are more into the ‘geek factor’ of bragging about having every new app under the sun, and not so much about the editing part. Whatever floats your boat. I’d rather spend my time editing rather than loading and tweaking new software.[alban egger] “After a year of FCPX it is such a huge step backwards to 32-bit, tracks, unusable binstructure.”
I doubt that the audience cares about your NLE, much less if it’s a 32, or 64 bit app. 64 bit apps may be faster, but IMO the bottleneck in most systems is the editor, not whether its a 32 or 64 bit app. Reading the forums for any length of time will confirm that.
And what is better, a 32 bit app that is completely stable and proven, with a large pool of available editors with years of experience or a 64 bit app that is not stable, missing key features, that no one has more than a year experience using?Tracks are a step backwards?
LOL! That sounds very much like these new 5D shooters that think lights and tripods are outdated, or a step backwards.
Unusable bin structure?
Seems like others have used bins successfully for decades.
These are strictly opinion, stated as if it they were a fact. Which they are not. If you have any facts to back up these assertions, please share them.[alban egger] “because FCP7 is outdated soon.”
I noticed you hedged you bet with the word “soon”. Either FCP is, or isn’t out of date. Once again, another opinion stated as if it were fact. While some shops and the big gun freelancers feel the need to have other NLE’s on their system, this is not direct evidence the FCP7 is outdated, now or anytime “soon”.
Tomorrow, and many days after that, editors all over the world will wake up and start cutting on “outdated” software, including FCP7.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
Where were you on 6/21?
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Man, Scott. You said it better than I could. I agree with your words 10,000 percent (That’s a Seuss-ian number)
Shane
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Well said.
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