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Why does Panic and Paranoia Rule some “Pros”?
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[Chris Kenny] “By the way, I can’t hep but notice that you completely ignored the substance of my post in favor of picking a fight over a single word.”
Of course, I tired of the substantive parts of the discussion because that’s the goal of your style of argumentation.
There you go, applaud yourself. You win.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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[Chris Kenny] “What does option-R do on your version?”
It does completely useless and redundant 3-point overwrite. Replace operation worth introducing dedicated command takes current frame in the master and replaces it with current frame in the source trimming source head and tail to fit the clip it replacing. Preferably without any need to set in, out or cue of any sort on either the source or the master.
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[Michael Aranyshev] “It does completely useless and redundant 3-point overwrite. Replace operation worth introducing dedicated command takes current frame in the master and replaces it with current frame in the source trimming source head and tail to fit the clip it replacing. Preferably without any need to set in, out or cue of any sort on either the source or the master.”
You’re not demanding particular capabilities here, you’re demanding particular extremely specific behaviors. At that level of specificity, you’re probably never going to be happy with a tool other than the one you’re using.
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Overwrite, Insert, Roll, Ripple, Slip and Slide are all very particular extremely specific behaviors. Having these behaviors separate an editing application from just something having a timeline.
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It’s not so much panic and paranoia as it is the impact that the discontinuation of an entire pipeline of FCP is having on professionals who have spent time and money fitting FCP into their professional workflows. And at it’s core, it is the philosphical paradigm shift that Apple is proposing with FCPX.
Implementing FCPX is not as simple as installing FCPX and continuing working your professional workflow like any other day. It is the fact that we have to unlearn how to edit professionally, and learn to work within the limitations of a trackless iMovie platform that FCPX is based on.
And before anyone argues that FCPX is not iMovie, just look at the similarity between FCPX and iMovie UI and the fact that FCPX only imports iMovie project files and will never import FCP7 files, not to mention the price point of $299. All this clearly indicates that FCPX was built from the iMovie platform and is targeted for iMovie users who need more “oompf”.
With that being said, if you want to say FCPX is the future of editing, then you must say that iMovie is the future of editing. And the limitations of the iMovie platform is what irks most professionals.
The stripped down functionality of the iMovie platform forces professionals to convert to the limitations of the iMovie platform that is FCPX. And instead of working in the manual flexibility of FCP7, professionals working in FCPX must find workarounds and purchase plug-ins to do what FCP7 could do innately.
For most professionals, the conversion from an FCP7 pipeline to an iMovie-based FCPX pipeline is more arduous and costly than switching to Avid or Adobe platforms.
Now people can argue the technical pluses and minuses or the price of FCPX or the promise of updates all they want, but the main stumbling block is that not only does FCPX require technical re-training, but it requires a radical philosophical re-indoctrination of the editing process (such as changing project files to events, etc).
And when you look at the philosophy behind FCPX, and you look at its creators, you have to ask yourself where the creators of FCPX came from? They came from iMovie. And since FCPX is based on the iMovie platform, you have to ask, what is the philosophy of iMovie?
The answer is iMovie was built for the consumer, not the professional. Therefore, since FCPX is based on iMovie and built by the creators of iMovie, you can see that the philosophy of FCPX is that it is built for the consumer – not the professional. And based on this philosophy, the creators of the iMovie platform have done away with the manual flexibility that professionals require to do their jobs, interpretting them as ‘hinderances’ probably because the creators of iMovie/FCPX interpret manual flexibility as something consumers don’t require.
Not to get further into semantics here, but even the definition of a ‘professional’ has been philosophically re-defined by Steve Jobs, skewing the term ‘professional’ to bleed into Apple’s general consumerist base.
And that is the core of the “FCPX is a non-professional platform” argument and the reason why professionals are so upset. It is because the philosophy of FCPX and Apple’s definition of a professional has shifted, and is forcing professionals to either buy into the limitations of the iMovie platform, or get out. There is no middle ground.
*Just to clarify, when I say professional workflow, I mean all the other aspects of post-production that constitutes a professional production. I know that many of this forum’s members are one-man/woman shops that might require only the use of FCPX for their sound design and color grading needs, but for those of us who work in high-end post-production facilities, a professional workflow goes beyond just an editing suite.
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[Stevo Chang] “For most professionals, the conversion from an FCP7 pipeline to an iMovie-based FCPX pipeline is more arduous and costly than switching to Avid or Adobe platforms. “
Very well stated Stevo.
[Stevo Chang] “…the main stumbling block is that not only does FCPX require technical re-training, but it requires a radical philosophical re-indoctrination of the editing process (such as changing project files to events, etc)”
Another good point.
[Stevo Chang] “the philosophy of FCPX and Apple’s definition of a professional has shifted, and is forcing professionals to either buy into the limitations of the iMovie platform, or get out. There is no middle ground.”
Bingo again!
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comDon’t miss my new tutorial: Prepare for a seamless transition to FCP X and OS X Lion
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/FCP-10-MAC-Lion/1POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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