What’s your FCPX plan?

[Bill Davis]

I used to drive a big, oversized, gas guzzling, heavy, but very useful and business-appropriate van.

Then I realized that I had enough money to also afford a smaller, quicker and more agile sporty vehicle for day to day driving.

My new vehicle was MUCH more fun to drive. And I noticed as industry standards changed and my equipment package got smaller and smaller, the I used the big, bloated van less and less, until one day I realized I hadn’t driven it in months – and it was just gathering dust in the parking lot.

And so it goes…

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Conner

[Tom Wolsky]

“I believe FCS3 will still be for sale at $999”

This may not be the case. Apple may well shut off sales of this product and announce that the remaining items in the suite will be available in the App Store in the near future, at least those apps it wants to continue supporting. I think it unlike Apple will continue to support some of these applications going forward, so if you have an older version of FCP now might be a good time to upgrade to the full suite if you want things like DVD Studio Pro and Color.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[John Davidson]

For us, it’ll be more about how quickly 3rd party plugin makers adapt. Assuming Apple is kind enough to make older fxscript plugins work natively within the new system, we’ll be all over X right out of the gate. Our work demands lots of various transitions, so plugins are very important. The AJA/Blackmagic issues are less important, because we can always lay back qt’s to tape via FCP7.

For sure though, we’ll have one room fully FCPx’ed out on day one.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Tom Wolsky]

“Assuming Apple is kind enough to make older fxscript plugins work natively within the new system”

I’m thinking that’s very unlikely. The entire effects interface is completely different.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Craig Seeman]

I remember how I broke in FCP 1 after 10 years or so on Avid Media Composer.

The first day I cursed at it because I couldn’t understand how to “step into” a sequence and why I could only access the Motion Tab before editing clips because I didn’t realize you could double click a clip back into the Viewer.

By the end of the week I cursed at Avid because even after 10 years it still took more steps to do things than version 1 of FCP. Why did Avid have all these “modes” I had to go into to rearrange parts of sequences.

I spent the next week cursing at FCP because it still couldn’t do things that Avid did very well (media management for example) even though it was so far ahead in some areas.

I suspect I will repeat this behavior with FCPX compared to FCP7. I plan on ordering lots of pizza, my favorite comfort food.

After a few weeks I’ll be a bit fatter and happier as well with FCPX, hoping that Apple will progress quickly in the areas FCPX is deficient in compared to FCP7. The speed at which Apple rolls out these improves will be directly proportional to the weight I will lose as I ween myself from the pizza.

I will keep the COW FCPX forum open which will transmute from speculation to, “how do I . . ?, another stupid bug, what were they thinking of,” posts.

[Gregory Butner]

It is cheap enough for me to buy it and try it at home. If it has all of the features I require for work then I’ll recommend it for the businesses I work for. Judging by the preview FCPX will at least be a very useful tool for some of my personal film projects. I’m hoping that it will be complete enough for me to not need to go back to the old FCP Studio for things like color correction. One major question for me is: How fast will the Matrox MXO2 get an upgrade for the new Final Cut.

[John Pale]

I plan to not read the manual and ask you guys how to do even the most simplest of tasks.
Repeatedly.

[Craig Seeman]

[John Pale] “I plan to not read the manual”

Manual? There’s a manual?

[John Pale]

“Manual? There’s a manual?”

How silly of me. I think the You Tube of the sneak peek pretty much answer all the questions anyone might have.

[Lucas Merino]

Here’s my guess… Apple knows it’s not a professional grade product, but they are gonna market it like it ‘might be’ until it’s released. They set a low price point at which all of us will willingly purchase it to try it out… who wouldn’t, you know I will for $299. Then we will all find out it’s not a product built to the level professional’s need, but at that point Apple will at least have made $299 from all of us to recoup some costs of development.

Some hissy-fits will be thrown and Apple will listen silently and decide what to do based on how we start using it. They may develop it further if people keep using it (which I feel they are not expecting) or they will decide to just keep it how it is or go the Shake route.