Time to change the forum name yet?

[Kevin Patrick]

I think you have to wait until early 2012.

When FCP X supports multicam and broadcast quality video monitoring.

I’m sure, whenever this happens, there will be some interesting discussions. Like when FCP X added support for XML.

[Steve Connor]

[Kevin Patrick] “Didn’t that just happen?

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/22901
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I think that may have been the humour in Shanes post

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

[Ben Scott] “I think it should be changed

but then where would Aindreas Gallagher bless us with his insights

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Aindreas won’t have any time to post in the New Year as he’ll be busy learning Avid 🙂

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Dennis Radeke]

[Craig Seeman] “Premiere has been on the cusp of wide spread acceptance for so long that the EOL of FCS was only the smallest incidental factor. <… the grin continues>”

I know you’re teasing Craig, but the truth of this is pretty evident to me!

[Walter Soyka]

[Craig Seeman] “For me it started when I was using a CMX6000 and I saw Avid as the future and all my boss could say, “those pictures look like cr*p, you can’t do a professional offline with it.””

I think you were both right. Avid was the future, those pictures did look like crap, and because of that limitation, you couldn’t do a professional offline with it.

There was a funny story in the Editor’s Lounge about an early Avid offline where they chose some footage of an actor who was supposed to be dead in the scene; because the resolution was so poor, they couldn’t see the actor breathing in the shot until the online. Oops.

Do you remember actually using FCP v1? Was it the future? Yes. Were the Avid editors of the time right to call it unprofessional? Yes. Two different questions!

So much of the back and forth on this forum is due to us focusing separately on the present versus the future, or about pragmatism versus possibility.

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[Chris Harlan]

[Walter Soyka] “So much of the back and forth on this forum is due to us focusing separately on the present versus the future, or about pragmatism versus possibility.”

Add to that the question of Apple’s actual interest and willingness to develop and further open up the power of the initial offering, and I think you’ve got it.

[Kevin Patrick]

You know, I couldn’t decide. You’re probably right, but that might be his first humorous post on the topic of FCP X. (at least that I can recall and I have recall issues)

So, if Shane can find some humor in FCP X, then perhaps you are right. It might be time to change the title of this forum.

[Craig Seeman]

[Walter Soyka] “I think you were both right. Avid was the future, those pictures did look like crap, and because of that limitation, you couldn’t do a professional offline with it.”

[Walter Soyka] “Do you remember actually using FCP v1? Was it the future? Yes. Were the Avid editors of the time right to call it unprofessional? Yes. Two different questions!”

[Walter Soyka] “So much of the back and forth on this forum is due to us focusing separately on the present versus the future, or about pragmatism versus possibility.”

Yes. I believe we’ll see the same growth with FCPX. There’s no way to prove that will happen. Certainly many products fail in the market place. EMC2 was competitive in the early NLE days for example. Apple tends to be good at reconnoiter when products go wrong so I think we’ll end up with an extremely powerful and cost effective NLE within a year or so.

[Herb Sevush]

[Craig Seeman] “Yet I think madding crowds will steer the conversation into the lack of trust for Apple.”

As opposed to others who bow and pray while facing west to await the Steve Jobs resurrection on the third day of the third month, when he will arise in a rainbow over Cupertino to usher in the modern world with a MacMiniProIpad that shoots thunderbolts out our collective ass, attaching us to the internet through a gaseous ether that constantly renews a never ending RSS stream of eternally unfinished media bulls**t.

Or something like that.

I guess I’m just channeling Aindreas at this point.

Herb Sevush
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[David Lawrence]

[Mark Dobson] “I wouldn’t change the name right now. It’s a great forum, why dissipate its focus.

Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate has still got wheels and will rejuvenate itself with the release of the first major update to FCPX due imminently.

This is the moment that many people who have switched from FCP7 will reconsider their options and many people who have embraced FCPX will see whether enough fundamental changes have taken place to keep them on board.”

Yep, I agree for all those reasons. My understanding is that this forum generates a high amount of traffic probably due in large part to the name and focus on FCPX. I don’t see any benefits to changing the name now.

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