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Why Final Cut Pro X has ruined us all
Well, I hoped the rapture would fix this, but I guess it’s not. For a while now, I’ve been naively trying to keep a positive spin on Final Cut Pro X, but the reality is we’re all doomed, and here’s why.
First, and really foremost, the new Final Cut has been rewritten in some new fancy computer code, supposedly in some kind of 64 bit thingee. 64 bits? 64? That number is twice as big as the bits I’ve been using. I don’t trust 64 bits and I never will. Avid’s newest offering isn’t 64 bits, and it’s AVID for Chrissakes! They INVENTED television!
Second, this new program is horribly inexpensive. I mean, just anybody can buy this application now, which confuses me because I like telling people Final Cut costs over a thousand dollars and then watching them glaze over. For $400, I feel really unprofessional. I like my tools nice and expensive – just look at my 24 karat gold garden hoe, for example. I’m a pro gardener now, see!
Third, look at those colors in their fancy-pants interface. It’s all smug and purple and dark grey. It looks just like iMovie – and it makes me throw up in my mouth. I hate colors! I hate iMovie! I’ve never used iMovie!
Fourth, I watched that crappy keynote in Las Vegas. Awful. Apple couldn’t even hold the camera right! Plus, I know for a fact they showed us every single feature to expect in the new Final Cut Pro X, because i talked to a guy who is friends with the cousin of a guy that has a friend that works for Apple and that’s what he was told. There will be no other features besides what we saw. Steve Jobs has #$#%’ed us.
5th, everybody uses Adobe premiere now. And by everybody, I mean nobody, but that’s not the point. Adobe Premiere can do everything Final Cut X can do, before we even know what it can do, so stop telling me anything new about Final Cut Pro X.
And 6th, Steve Jobs hates everything. He hates editing. He hates movies. He hates your dog. Most importantly, Steve Jobs hates Pro users. Think that’s not the case? Pop Quiz- what’s the names of the CEO’s of AVID and ADOBE – buzzzzz – game over. You lose. You have no idea who they are, and if you did, you probably can’t spell their names anyways. Here’s what they DO know though – they love flash and premiere doesn’t work well with ProRes.
7th, I used to be able to have a life outside of editing. It was called rendering. Remember that? You could go to lunch, come back, and still be rendering. Want a dissolve with that? You got it – see you tomorrow. Now, this stupid new final cut seems to just do all the rendering on it’s own, like some kind of machine or something. I did not ask for this. I needed that extra time to post stupid things on the Creative Cow boards. Now that time is gone. GONE!
And lastly, Color. They didn’t show color at the supermeet, so it’s obviously been discontinued. In fact, the day X is released, a team of gestapo/apple agents are going to break into your home and delete color. Then, color will be taken back to the apple compound and waterboarded until it admits it’s a really ugly interface and clunky as heck. Then, it will be paraded around campus in a crown made of thorns. For the rest of our lives all our shots will be bright orange, because as the demo proved, that’s the only color FCPX can correct to.
So rather than wait for the CutPocolypse to occur next month, we’re going out of business. Clearly, Apple has left us all behind.
Premiere, anyone?
John Davidson
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44 Replies
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It’s about time you came to your senses John.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-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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I like my editing nice and destructive, thank you very much!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I made my wife get out of bed just so I could read this to her LOL. Well done . . .
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Hi John the Gardner,
i had to reply to your post, i was without words on your negative attitude towards a great product and possibly some advances for everyone in the field of editing.
1. Yes, 64 bit, if you have not noticed all computing it advancing towards 64 bit, a more high end computing with faster processing which people like me need with all our apps and plugins we use. As far as Avid goes, they are a bit like Bill Gates with Steve Jobs, a few steps behind.
2. Cost of programs going down is a must to reach the mass market, this is a great sales strategy by Apple, get their product in more hands!!!
3. Yes, the interface is different, but would you prefer it to the Avid interface that seems to be the same since 1999? advances in technology also gives way advances in looks and styles, Apple has always been ahead of everyone in that sense, they create the market, not follow it:)
4. this one sounds like a fish story from the cousin of my sisters brothers mothers son, or something like that.
5. I have used Premiere, nothing against Adobe as they make great products, but i dont know very many post houses using premiere, do you Gardner?
6. Hmm, i see you are a Steve hater, negative energy dude:( Buzz kill…. As far as Flash goes, that is a thing of the past, HTML 5 will take over and run smoother and faster than Flash ever has..
7. i cant believe you say you like rendering time, come on… Work faster, get home sooner, See the light of day possibly, you know how many times i worked 36 hours straight cause of render waiting times, this will split the time in half or more and get the post time to move faster, we all love to actually live life and not just work, extra time for the Garden:):):)
8. Good riddance with Apple Color, real color programs like Davinci and also Scratch are just around the corner with great integration with Final Cut, need i say more?
So John, next time you want to rip something, please be better informed and not try to slam lies and BS to the editorial world….
and one last thing, do you work for Adobe? Seems so…
Wayan Palmieri
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Dude, it was joke!
Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA
MacPro Two 2.8GHz Quad Core – AJA Kona LHe
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If it was a joke, i guess i am blind, but sounded like another Apple Neigh Sayer. There are loads of people putting down Apple and its products and i assume i was not the only person to not get the “Joke”, if it was..
Anyways, cant wait for Final Cut Pro X to get out, someday…..
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[Wayan Palmieri] “If it was a joke, i guess i am blind,”
Don’t worry. You won’t need sight to edit with FCPX It will gather your client lists and send it to a prince in Nigeria or request that you send emergency funds to clients who had their wallets and passports stolen in a country they would have no reason to visit. Once spread it will target Avid and Premiere system, making those programs unable to start.
Judgement day is here. Today all the good editors were lifted to the promised place and all that we are left with is those who tell jokes and those who do not understand them. It is all written in the book of (Steve) Job(s).
“The Book tells the story of an extremely pious man named Jobs, who was very prosperous . . . Constantly fearing that his customers may have sinned and “cursed them in their hearts”, he habitually offered burnt motherboards as a pardon for their sins. All of Job’s software are destroyed. The house of FCP collapses killing all of Job’s Final Cut Suite.”
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I see the Light!!!!
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[Wayan Palmieri] “If it was a joke, i guess i am blind”
Not your best opening Wayan, but I assure you, it can only get better from here. 🙂
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-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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Wayne, I’m the biggest mac shill you’ll ever meet. I was mocking all the x bashers.
Bloody amazing that you responded point by point. I feel a little bad that you wasted your time doing that, but it does make it all much funnier now :).
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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