Why abandon FCP7 now?

[Andrew Richards]

[Richard Cardonna] “If you have nothing intelligent to say don’t say anything.”

Says the guy who copied and pasted someone else’s words without any attribution or embellishment.

Best,
Andy

[David Roth weiss]

[Pierre Jasmin] “Will you see on some blog that “someone at Apple said” that FCP7 works under Lion. Yes.
Will ChrisK say every 3 mails on this list to hold on and wait before we speculate otherwise?”

Of course – both can be counted upon.

David Roth Weiss
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[Richard Cardonna]

I guess you can only answer by side stepping,

I posted data, If you can’t differentiate between data and comments that’s your problem.

I guess that’s why you have been ranting the same thing all over time and time again.

You should have asked where the link is and i would have said sorry i thought i had pasted it.

richard

[Andrew Richards]

I’m not going to engage in a discussion with anyone who can’t produce their own thoughts. If I wanted to comment on the list you posted I’d do it on the original author’s post.

[Franz Bieberkopf]

Summary:

Apple has announced that if you are a FCP user, your next piece of software will be something new you have to learn and build your edit room around.

Top contenders seem to be Avid, Adobe, and maybe Apple; there are others.

Stir and serve.

(Note, the above doesn’t apply if FCP will meet all your needs forever.)

Franz.

[Richard Cardonna]

I cannot believe that you replied to proven data with mere supposition. And actually believe that you answered. You can base your businessa on rumors I base it on facts.

Richard

[Chris Kenny]

[Richard Cardonna] “I cannot believe that you replied to proven data with mere supposition. And actually believe that you answered. You can base your businessa on rumors I base it on facts.”

Huh? You offered some facts that you implied pointed to a specific conclusion. I pointed out alternative explanations of those facts, and then pointed to some additional facts that didn’t fit your conclusion at all.

The simple truth is that the “Apple is abandoning pros” narrative — no matter how many people seem to accept it without question — has next to no unambiguous evidence in its favor.

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[Bret Williams]

Yup. And for an FCP user, Premiere is simple to learn and has the most features. But many of us oldies came from Avid. (The muscle memory is slowly coming back. Now if I could just find that old settings floppy disk I used to carry around…)

Put them both on your machine (free 30 day trial) and go at it. But shame on you if you didn’t already have Premiere via a Production Premium bundle. You kinda have to have Ilustrator, Phothoshop, and AE installed to work in this industry.

I’m finding that Premiere would be great. If it worked like it says. For a 64 bit app it’s really underpowered on my machine. But my machine will run many ProRes 422 layers atop one another in full rez without rendering. Good luck even playing one prores file in full rez on Premiere Pro. It will drop frames on my old Mac Pro at least. And, it seems to just stop once in awhile. Unresponsive. Then, a little drive chug and it works. But the whole think feels clunky and like it’s always about to crash.

Avid is smooth. Does what it does without hesitation or hiccup. A little more mysterious. Feels more professional but it still takes a lot of steps to do things.

[Dennis Radeke]

The biggest thing about Premiere Pro for Mac or PC is making sure there’s enough memory to really drive it. I’ve seen 8 core systems have 4GB of memory and that’s just wrong. 😉

Other than that, the standard stuff applies to all pro apps.
– clean install
– all the current drivers
– system drive + second drive(s) for media

Ping me if you want to discuss.

[Gary Huff]

And you really need a supported NVIDIA card for the best performance.