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What Do we Do now? How Do you Feel?
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It’s not even ‘clumsy,’ once you get used to it. It was and still remains extremely well designed for doing one thing: editing. The trick is to let go of your old way of doing things, and simply adopt the Avid way of doing it. I wasn’t always an Avid fanboy: I came from many other systems on the Amiga, PC, and Mac and it took me a good couple of months to get used to Avid too. But now I wouldn’t cut with anything else unless somebody puts a gun to my head. It’s just rock solid, and it now feels like an extension of my hands.
Chris
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Agreed wholeheartedly. I learned Avid by jumping into a small feature film editing gig, without ever having touched it. Believe me, I learned fast. I had a few days of dailies to cut on my own and then when the director first showed up and started asking for changes, whew! I had no idea what I was doing! Thankfully, back then, he was new to the NLE business as well and we muddled thru together. But by being in the hotseat, I realized the things I NEEDED to know and I went to the manual and called friends and did whatever I needed to do to figure those things out first. Then, over time, I expanded my knowledge to the point where Avid is second nature.
Chris
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I can’t speak for Avid, but I edited on Premiere on a PC from 1998 until 2006 when I bought my first Mac and FCP.
I’ve now gone back to Premiere – CS5.5, (it’s changed a bit in the 5 years I’ve been on FCP)and my gut feeling is that if you know FCP 7, you pretty much have the basics of Premiere – yes you may have to look in other places to find effects transitions, etc, yes, keyboard shortcuts are different, but these are things you get accustomed to in days, not years.
Give the 30 day trial version a shot, good chance to get the feel of it.
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How do I feel?
Pretty confident it is better to wait for FCPX to grow up than jumping to a ship that is admittedly based on 90’s or older paradigms. Are they the right paradigms for some….maybe. But if I would jump into something “new” I would jump into the new “new”, not the old “new”.For now I am in FCP7 and do as much as possible with FCPX and it is a very good experience using it.
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I agree with you to a point but…
I went with what will work for me now. I’m no longer looking at any software, platform or hardware with anymore than 3 year life – needs change, technology changes, corporate decisions and directions change as Apple has so bluntly informed us.
In 3 years I may use Premiere, FCPX or something that doesn’t exist yet.
It’ll be based on what allows me to do what I need to do.
If Apple felt they didn’t want to keep building on a 10 year old design, and wanted to start something for the next 10 years, great – but I don’t have a 10 year investment in mind for any software, nor am I waiting for it to mature. -
Why do you call it iMovie X Pro are you trying to trick the google god?
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[Andree Franks] “Why do you call it iMovie X Pro”
Because Thats what it is, Apple Slapped the FInal Cut Name On it to give it better marketing angles.
It was designed By Randy Ubillos who designed the Last 3 iMovies
FCPX can open iMovie Projects.
The Interface is Copied from iMovie (save for the timeline)
The Naming, Tagging, and Interface are based off the iFamily Software.
So I will call it was it is. iMovie X Pro, ITs not a bad program but I wont call it Final Cut. Thats just me.
I wear many hats.
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Maybe the iMovie was created after final cut pro model? Hihihihi
Naming and Tagging yeah I know what you mean, we do the similar thing in EditShare and that is why I call it iTunes Server. Doh -
[Andree Franks]Maybe the iMovie was created after final cut pro model? Hihihihi
You’ve left a lot of comments on here that are simply head-scratching.
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[Chris Conlee] “Agreed wholeheartedly. I learned Avid by jumping into a small feature film editing gig, without ever having touched it. Believe me, I learned fast. I had a few days of dailies to cut on my own and then when the director first showed up and started asking for changes, whew! I had no idea what I was doing! Thankfully, back then, he was new to the NLE business as well and we muddled thru together. But by being in the hotseat, I realized the things I NEEDED to know and I went to the manual and called friends and did whatever I needed to do to figure those things out first. “
Yeah I’ve had a few “bathroom break” lifeline calls myself. It sux only knowing something halfway with paying clients but you do what you gotta do.
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