What does FCPX teach new editors?

[Herb Sevush]

Matt –

Nothing to apologize for, the confusion wasn’t yours.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Matt Callac]

[Herb Sevush] “Nothing to apologize for, the confusion wasn’t yours.”

but reading my joke after your post, easily could have helped him make the assumption he did.

-mattyc

[Craig Seeman]

[Herb Sevush] “Or, to reverse our analogy, as one-man-shop video pros who don’t have to deal with broadcast or films.”

So if one is a small shop that does local cable spots and digital signage and some of those things might be used in theater based advertising? So I guess I acknowledge I’m an FCPX target taxi driver and my clients might even want to work in 4K given theater is amongst the media buy (and I do the media buys too sometimes as a small ad agency).

So if you mean episodic TV and feature films only you’re talking about a very small market. In fact there are many large facilities that may focus on corporate video as their main source of revenue.

So if FCPX hits that vast “middle” (these people are decidedly not “prosumer” in the derogatory use of the term) then it really would be a great and widely used professional NLE. And if the third party support flocks to it for that reason it might creep up the food chain . . . as FCP legacy did.

[Craig Seeman]

[Matt Callac] “Taxi can maximize their profitability being inefficient from a driving standpoint.”

I can certainly tell you’ve never lived in NYC!
They are capable of handling a maze of paths, crazy obstacles, with the goal to make the fastest trips so they can make the most money.

[Matt Callac] ” so they can make more money by taking you a round about way to get somewhere”

Not true at all given the initial drop on the meter and the meter’s slow progress when “standing.” They make more money on more fast trips. BTW this is certainly on topic of “what is a pro” because of the assumptions that “one man bands” aren’t doing broadcast work. Many do local cable spots. And while not “one man bands” I know of a few reality shows that were so low budget they were happening out of somebody’s basement.

[Herb Sevush]

FCP7 worked well for both of us, FCPX only works well for you. Which is why this whole transformation leaves you smiling and me scowling. So tell me again about the greater flexibility of the relational database model.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Marvin Holdman]

Is this really as big a problem as people are making out, I wonder?

Is it prohibitive from learning? No. Will it be discriminatory when that youngster walks into an edit shop for a job and has to be told what a sequence is? Probably.

Much as I cringe when someone comes to me and tells me they “filmed a video” because the results, by and large, are predictable, I fear the same stigma will be there for FCPX. How will that affect a new editor? Someone who might be a bit insecure about their craft? I suspect it will re-enforce their doubt. Remove the confidence to reach out with their craft.

Have anything to do with their ability to edit? Probably not. Integrating into a shared environment? Going to make it a bit tougher.

Frankly, I think this will be divisive software, much as iMovie is in a professional environment. It may be used incidentally, but for any work with depth it is not useful. Because of that, most don’t really include their experience with iMovie in their resume. It speaks to naivete.

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[Matt Callac]

[Craig Seeman] “I can certainly tell you’ve never lived in NYC!”

actually I did. But I rarely rode in cabs, too cheap for that. Subway’s and buses.

[Craig Seeman] “Not true at all given the initial drop on the meter and the meter’s slow progress when “standing.” They make more money on more fast trips. BTW this is certainly on topic of “what is a pro” because of the assumptions that “one man bands” aren’t doing broadcast work. Many do local cable spots. And while not “one man bands” I know of a few reality shows that were so low budget they were happening out of somebody’s basement.”

BTW I said CAN, not do. Implying the possibility, not saying that they absolutely DO.

Also I’m not on the certain types of people aren’t pro editors wagon. I know plenty of guys that are one man bands, that like you said, do tons of local cable spots.

-mattyc

[Paul Dickin]

[Herb Sevush] “So tell me again about the greater flexibility of the relational database model….”
Hi
Sure 😉
This, O my Best Beloved, is a story–a new and a wonderful story–a story quite different from the other stories–a story about…..
…XML project management. Not just about FCP1-7 and the hundreds of COW media mangler threads…
Quote:
After you import your media, go grab some coffee or do some jumping jacks or something else interesting, and let the process finish. Now, if Premiere Pro continues to generate files, there is something wonky with the media database, and it usually means purging the PEK/CFA/etc. files and then cleaning the media cache database. Premiere Pro will have to regenerate the files (yeah, again), but this time, they’ll usually stick. I think it can be a little touchy if you continue to try to work during this process, and Premiere Pro can lose track of those files. That’s why most of us have griped again and again for this process to change or go away forever and ever.
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/871659
30th June 2011.

[Herb Sevush]

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, referring to or trying to say.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions