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What I plan On Doing and After A week my Take…
So everybody is upset at apple and I believe everyone has absolutely every right to be. But apple has shown us what they’re doing, They are getting out of the PRO industry. Do we have a right to be enraged? absolutely! But it doesn’t change the fact that I think apple is waving goodbye to the industry. Everything the company is doing points to this. Allot of people are hopeful that updates are coming and they’ll fix missing features and such, but honestly…can you really see this app in a professional Broadcast house in the next 5 years? Its not that I dont think it can be used in a professional way, I know it will get to that point in a couple of years, but the fact of the matter is FCP X presented itself as a Consumer product and I dont think CEOs and Presidents of Post houses that have more than 4 seats are going to put money into investing in FCpX to deliver there spots., the damage to Apples reputation has been done. I even remember reading a Article about how the designer (Randy) and how he designed the program from the point of view on a vacation, and how he could make editing easier while on a boat or in an RV. Any who, I’m very sad and angry to see apple going this way, especially since FCP started to really get its name in the industry and pushing AVid Aside. FCP is dead/dying but Im sure FCp7 will live on like Shake due to its high community. I recently Bought Avid 5.5, and Premiere pro, and Am training extensively, to become an asset in the Post world. ITs hard, I have to get out of my mindset of how Final Cut edits but I’m prepared to move into avid. I advise all Tier 2 editors to do the same. I think the Rants are starting to settle down on the cow now. and I hope you take my 2 cents lightly.
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I agree with you. After a week of reading and ranting, i am calm now. I really would like to be proven wrong, but I can’t see FCPx arriving at the overall level of usability of FCP7 for at least a couple of years. That’s really too bad. I think Apple has made a big mistake and underestimated the worth of the huge amount of cache it had garnered by having one of the most useful and professional editing tools in this market place. They made evangelists out of many of us, but now have turned as many into detractors. Not a wise business move in my opinion, but i am not privy to their books and projections. Their stock holders will have to decide for themselves – and they don’t care about my disruptions.
In the meantime, FCP7 still works, and will for long enough for us to decide on what tools will replace it, and train ourselves to use them. PPro 5.5 is looking good, as is AVID MC. Editors know that the hard and creative part of editing is done in our heads, the tools are just that. But I will miss this particular tool. That is all.
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[Greg Burke] “Allot of people are hopeful that updates are coming and they’ll fix missing features and such, but honestly…can you really see this app in a professional Broadcast house in the next 5 years?”
More like 2 or 3. Or less. The delta between FCPX today and where it needs to be in order to anchor a high-end workflow isn’t nearly as wide as everyone seems to think. Everyone is upset Apple is passing a lot of the pro feature responsibility off to third parties, but this is how FCPX will get full-on pro a lot faster than if Apple had to do it all itself.
[Greg Burke] “but the fact of the matter is FCP X presented itself as a Consumer product”
Oh? As far as I can tell that is a only the opinion of disaffected FCP users. Apple seems to think they built a pro app.
[Greg Burke] “I even remember reading a Article about how the designer (Randy) and how he designed the program from the point of view on a vacation, and how he could make editing easier while on a boat or in an RV”
Yeah. He designed what ultimately became the new iMovie as a logging tool because all other logging tools sucked. They did, and the fact that Apple morphed that project into iMovie, which bears a superficial resemblance to FCPX, has nothing at all to do with what FCPX can and cannot do in a professional setting, now or in the future. Nothing.
[Greg Burke] “I recently Bought Avid 5.5, and Premiere pro, and Am training extensively, to become an asset in the Post world.”
Knowing multiple tools is a good thing for any editor. You won’t go hungry knowing how to cut on Avid, and that was true for the last ten years as well. Hone your craft. I’ll bet you a beer you’ll want to know FCPX one day too.
Good luck and good hunting!
Best,
Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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[james carey] “I think Apple has made a big mistake and underestimated the worth of the huge amount of cache it had garnered by having one of the most useful and professional editing tools in this market place. They made evangelists out of many of us, but now have turned as many into detractors. Not a wise business move in my opinion, but i am not privy to their books and projections. Their stock holders will have to decide for themselves – and they don’t care about my disruptions.”
Agree! Apple utterly failed at PR on this one. They made some pretty obvious mistakes for a company that should know better about uncomfortable transitions (OS X? Intel? Seriously?). Apple usually abhors bad PR, so we may not have seen the end of this (but it sure is taking them a long time if we haven’t heard the last of them on this). This is at least as bad PR-wise as Antenna-gate, even if the stakes aren’t as high. Conan? The WSJ? FCP went mainstream news and it was all bad press.
All they have to do is put FCS2009 back on the market and hold up their end of the bargain on the potential of FCPX and all will be forgiven (at least for my part).
Best,
Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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[Andrew Richards] “More like 2 or 3. Or less. The delta between FCPX today and where it needs to be in order to anchor a high-end workflow isn’t nearly as wide as everyone seems to think. Everyone is upset Apple is passing a lot of the pro feature responsibility off to third parties, but this is how FCPX will get full-on pro a lot faster than if Apple had to do it all itself.”
Well At the Post House I work at, as well as 4 other creative houses in the area that we work with have sworn off Apple “Pro” Products altogether so I have a hard time believing that Post houses will depend on such a consumer based program to get he job done. I mean it took FCP 10 Years to get respect in the Film and Broadcast industry. and apple just hit the reset switch.
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[Greg Burke] “I mean it took FCP 10 Years to get respect in the Film and Broadcast industry. and apple just hit the reset switch.”
And that is the heartbreak.
Jim Carey
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[Greg Burke] “apple just hit the reset switch.”
To me this is half the story. They also disingenuously told people this would be a replacement to FCS and the pros weren’t being left behind during the rumourfest surrounding the supermeet…people were right to have suspicions, but they tried to dismiss them knowing full well what they were unleashing…
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[Greg Burke] “Well At the Post House I work at, as well as 4 other creative houses in the area that we work with have sworn off Apple “Pro” Products altogether so I have a hard time believing that Post houses will depend on such a consumer based program to get he job done. I mean it took FCP 10 Years to get respect in the Film and Broadcast industry. and apple just hit the reset switch.”
That may be, but that doesn’t mean the capabilities won’t be there. And again with the “consumer-based” canard; if superficial UI similarities to iMovie are where you stopped evaluating FCPX, then you really gave it short shrift. I won’t argue it is ready for broadcast/film/tape workflows today. It isn’t. But it has a very solid base on which it can rapidly eclipse the feature set of FCP7, and that seems to pass the “pro” litmus test, don’t you think? FCP7 was a hodgepodge of archaic code for deprecated APIs all based on a media playback architecture (QuickTime) that was built for event-based media and not time-based media. Hardly the platform to continue developing if you want to compete in a world of multiple cores and 64-bit OSes.
Also, it did not take ten years for FCP to get respect. It took more like 4 or 5. Ten years would have meant no one took FCP seriously till FCP7. It was a serious player at v4.5 in 2004, and Murch cut Cold Mountain on v3 in 2003. FCPX, if Apple follows through with it, will be ready for prime time in a much shorter interval. If the jilted FCP users of today want to hold a grudge after FCPX matures, that is their (and your) prerogative.
Avid and Adobe will surely benefit from all this, and that is a good thing. Competition breeds innovation from all players and delivers choice to us all.
Best,
Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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[Jamie Franklin] “They also disingenuously told people this would be a replacement to FCS and the pros weren’t being left behind during the rumourfest surrounding the supermeet…people were right to have suspicions, but they tried to dismiss them knowing full well what they were unleashing…”
Totally true. They completely mismanaged expectations for FCPX and continue to botch the response with their inaction. The FAQ is not an effective response to the situation. Pulling FCStudio from the market exacerbated the problem, and in my opinion is the the worst part of all this. The company that shifted its users from OS 9 to OS X and from PPC to Intel should know better.
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Andy RichardsVP of Product Development
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[Andrew Richards] “Also, it did not take ten years for FCP to get respect. It took more like 4 or 5. “
true enough, but it did take ten years for apple to grow its market share to just north of 50%. It will be interesting to see where they sit one year from now. Or if they even care.
Jim Carey
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[Andrew Richards] “That may be, but that doesn’t mean the capabilities won’t be there. And again with the “consumer-based” canard; if superficial UI similarities to iMovie are where you stopped evaluating FCPX, then you really gave it short shrift. I won’t argue it is ready for broadcast/film/tape workflows today. It isn’t. But it has a very solid base on which it can rapidly eclipse the feature set of FCP7, and that seems to pass the “pro” litmus test, don’t you think? FCP7 was a hodgepodge of archaic code for deprecated APIs all based on a media playback architecture (QuickTime) that was built for event-based media and not time-based media. Hardly the platform to continue developing if you want to compete in a world of multiple cores and 64-bit OSes.
Also, it did not take ten years for FCP to get respect. It took more like 4 or 5. Ten years would have meant no one took FCP seriously till FCP7. It was a serious player at v4.5 in 2004, and Murch cut Cold Mountain on v3 in 2003. FCPX, if Apple follows through with it, will be ready for prime time in a much shorter interval. If the jilted FCP users of today want to hold a grudge after FCPX matures, that is their (and your) prerogative.
Do you remember the “tucker” a car that was made in the 50’s it was safer, cheaper and better than allot of current cars out at the time, but then you remember what happened to it. This is how I personally see FCPX i dont think its bad program by any means, Its actually very different and intuitive, but….After using it for 2 weeks, I wouldn’t/Can’t use on any of my 3 current gigs. it just isn’t ready like you said it will take time to mature. And hey I might be wrong and people may start using it on a professional basis and if so I’ll learn it better.
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