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Who is Going To Switch?
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My answer now is the same as it’s been the past year or so. Once companies I want to work for start using FCPX I’ll learn FCPX. Until then it makes more sense for me sharpen my skills on Avid, AE or Resolve.
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The shipped sailed for me a while ago. I own a copy of FCPX, but I’ve been using PPRO for over a year now. It will take something special for me to switch from PPRO to anything else right now. I opened up FCPX 10.0.6 today and played with it for a few minutes, but I have to tell you, PPRO does everything that FCPX does and a whole lot more. That being said, if I had a client who was adamant about a project needing to be done in X, I would not hesitate to do it.
Greg Jones
D7,Inc.Greg Jones
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A lot of what you say sounds like internalization rather than feature issues.
I came from 10 years of linear editing and my first NLE was a CMX6000.
Avid was a strange beast especially compared to the CMX6000.
I spent about 12 years on Avid right on up through being an Engineer and Trainer. I still felt I was fighting the paradigm although maybe not conscious of what I was fighting all the time. I became “used” to it. Modes were restrictive. Stepping into was restrictive. FCP legacy freed me from that. FCPX freed me from tracks serving multiple overlapping and sometimes conflicting purposes. I want one function for compositing, layering, cutaways, titles. I want another function for organizing. FCPX comes close and, given the improvements headed in the right direction. Heck FCP legacy felt odd after 12 years on Avid.It’s like learning a new language. New vocabulary, new syntax. Words that describe things that only exist in the new language. Of course you have to see the value in learning the new language. For me I finally have one thing for piling things on (connected clips and secondary story lines) and a separate thing for organizing (roles). They both need improvement but the language is the thing. I like the language and look forward to the improvements.
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[Andrew Kimery] “My answer now is the same as it’s been the past year or so. Once companies I want to work for start using FCPX I’ll learn FCPX. Until then it makes more sense for me sharpen my skills on Avid, AE or Resolve.
“this…ill be poking around until that day comes so i can dive right in, but until then i feel like i need to focus on what people are paying for and for now, at least where i am, that aint X. even PPRO hasnt really saturated here, mostly still FCP 7 adn MC.
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal
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We’ve switched fully to Edius with three edit bays with a bit of Premiere here and there.
There is nothing in X or in Apple’s hardware line-up that intrigues me these days and makes me want to go back; I dislike Mountain Lion and its direction, add the attitude issue to the mix and I doubt I’ll ever consider another Apple product. I couldn’t care less what’s coming or won’t be coming from them.——
“You also agree that you will not use these products for… the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.”
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[Clint Wardlow] “Don’t know if switch is the right word.”
As a predominantly Grade/OnLine facility, for me its not really about mass assembly or relational databases, its about round trips, revisions, versions, exports, disks, masters, archives…. so can I now master an SR tape with a discrete Surround 1-6 track hierarchy, Stereo LtRt on 7,8, Dolby E on 9,10 and described video on 11, 12 with closed captioning?
That’s really all I need. All the rest is the trombone music that Charlie Brown’s teacher sounds like.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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As I said in an earlier post, I switched to FCPX full time with version 10.0.5 last June and have not looked back to either 7, PP6 or Avid 6 sitting on my computer. This latest upgrade just adds icing on the cake as far as I’m concerned. I through everything at it, including a lot of crap from YouTube up-converted to 1080p @ 24 and it doesn’t even spit.
The future is here…now.
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Seriously at the rate Apple is going, maybe sometime in 2014 FCP X might be up to Pro snuff, with all that it should’ve had in 2011…all these hard/software people spitting out continuous BETA product is SO boring, but they control what we get, not the end user…
again, touch screen, in conjunction with voice command if/as you want it is what would be more natural, faster, better – but you’re talking another 20 years minimum – and even then they (Apple, whoever) will piece-meal it very slowly for continued revenue stream purposes. Just my 50-cents
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Same ol’ same ol’
Two polarized camps. It’s wonderful or it’s crap.
The only thing I’ll say after a continuous deep dive into it since version 1 would be that if it does continue to build traction in working editorial circles – and it starts ending up in the shops where you want to work – and you have little beyond a cursory “features overview” kind of understanding of it – I kinda think you’re going to be in a world of hurt trying to wrestle whatever seats there are away from the folks who’ve put their 6 months to a year into the software and know where all it’s bodies are burried.
It’s always a bet. Just like Legacy was a bet back in it’s early days.
Back then a LOT of businesses were jump started by those who felt that duriing a transition, a lighter more affordable approach (FCP on a Mac with DV) was a smarter “developing industry” bet than AVID with BVW series Betacam decks and $$$ AVID spec’d storage style shops.
Not saying that’s gonna happen here.
But considering the pace of X development – I wouldn’t bet against it either.
FWIW.
Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.
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[Greg Jones] “That being said, if I had a client who was adamant about a project needing to be done in X, I would not hesitate to do it.”
I completely agree with this sentiment.
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