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To Editors thinking of switching to FCPX 10.1
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I am still waiting for you to save me and give me a clue what NLE I should use instead of FCPX? Keep in mind I have used most of them. I have FCPX, FCP7, Lightworks, and Premiere Pro 6 installed. And I’m not in Lalaland, Gotham, or Foggy London. I need real facts, not just your facts.
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[Jack Zahran] “There also appears to be a larger community online supporting FCPX than Avid and Premiere.”
I don’t know if that’s really true. Look outside the COW and there’s a strong community on the Avid-L2 Yahoo Groups list, the Avid Community forums and so on.
[Jack Zahran] “it continues to be the top grossing App on the Mac App Store amongst all Apps sold there”
I’m not sure that translates into professional use as the primary editing tool. It could be, but we just don’t know. I know a lot of people who own FCP X as one of several tools they use. Yet, it isn’t their go-to editing application.
[Jack Zahran] “but I suspect that more and more indie films will be cut with FCPX, followed by big budget movies.”
I would agree. Even at the highest levels, if you look at Oscar nominations for documentaries, FCP “legacy” dominated over Media Composer in recent years.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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You should use the NLE which gets the job done for you, and you enjoy working on. Anyone who works on an NLE that doesn’t get the job done isn’t a professional editor!!! How’s that for a sweeping, blind generalization? Of course results may vary, and product may settle during shipping…
Joe Bourke
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GTX 760
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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Gotham is Chicago.
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[Lance Bachelder] “GTX 760”
Got it. I had a PC GTX 680 and had to tinker with the drivers to get it to work well in FCPX in a 2008 MP, but it was great for Premiere & Resolve out of the box. The fix kept breaking with updates so I switched to a 7950 and FCX now works great. Without the fix it was unusably sluggish like you said in other posts.
I’m interested to know if your card has the same issues with FCPX than mine did.
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[Michael Sanders] “Er… you might want to double check your facts first.
BBC 2’s The Culture Show has been cut on FCP X almost exclusively since the start of 2013. According to the senior editor who posts here occasionally. If that has changed I think its down to politics at the BBC rather than problems with the SW.
If you read between the lines of Larry Jordans Amsterdam Supermeet keynote , there is a multi million dollar movie currently begin cut on X – and doing well and quickly thanks to programs like Sync and Link from IA.
“I’m not going to overstate this, but both those examples are open to interpretation – craig slattery cuts at a high level freelance on X – i’m not sure the show is a predominantly X cut show. Say bullshitting that I spoke with a workflow dude who visited most of the BBC sites on a form of d.i.t. workflow reconnoiter for the higher brass, as far as i can understand, FCPX effectively does not currently exist within the BBC.
In any context or scenario pertaining to their concerns regarding new media workflow.
Nor does it in SKY for instance, or within Soho in any shape or form. the fcp.dot.one guys are weirdly interesting, given all their testimonial examples are years old and relate to 7. Including places like UNIT and VIASAT where I’ve periodically knocked around. UNIT were notable for having had a locked keycode door for the apple room where they cut the localised apple ads. UNIT were an FCP7 house. UNIT are not an FCPX house.As to the hundred million dollar film – on some level, the less said about Larry Jordan’s PT Barnum show in Amsterdam the better. I’m grinding a saw there though. its not like X can’t do it – but where he went with that demo is arguably dodgy. And the guy he cited, mestman, after his FCP.CO splash is, I hear, launching a motivational tour and X merchandise range.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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[Steve Connor] “Very true, let’s remember FCPX is the newest NLE on the market and it has improved faster than any other NLE I have seen over the last twenty years. “
has it really? where was that software coming from anyway? it just took them a year to come up with a library container. We’ve got a company half literally reshaping human computing – that is now attached to editing by something like sentiment if we’re being honest.
then we’ve got another company suddenly highly motivated to produce permanent rental extraction for a working lifetime, and then we’ve got another company that used to know how to squeeze money until the pips squeak – in a financial meltdown and getting de-listed from the NASDAQ.
so everyone gets three market providers for 99% of editing software positions in the field: a capricious god, a fresh loan shark, and a really angry old man, wearing horribly old clothing.
superb, just – superb.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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According to what he has posted here, it’s the majority of the show but what the hell does he know, he’s only the senior editor. You are obviously better informed than he is.
I’d suggest you search the posts here ..
Also FWIW, not that you seem to care about the real world but Knut Hake appears to be cutting “Dani lowinski” a German primtime Sat 1show on X – according to his twitter feed.
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sure – I definitely didn’t realise he was the senior editor for the series – that’s very interesting – he had some arguments with other senior avid based BBC editors on here about FCPX. they were extremely forthright with him. I’m a lowly corpo guy largely. I had some arguments with craig too on some stuff.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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