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Why most of the the “Trainers” are so positive about X-FCP
Is it just me or do you notice the most enthusiastic supporters of X-FCP (a phrase I didn’t come up with – but seems appropriate) seem to be a lot of the trainers. With the exception of Richard Harrington, Walter Biscardi and a few others, most of the trainers are promoting the hell out of their new X-FCP training, and “Media Management” books.
More than a few of them had the software a week before the rest of us.
Did they think the “Pros” were going to just accept this?What do they have to lose? Apple just opened them up to a lot more potential purchasers of their training.
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Well… A good teacher needs to be enthusiastic about the stuff that he teaches. A good teacher knows that and it’s common teaching practice to make yourself enthusiastic about something in order to be a better teacher. You want your training to be good in order for people to watch it.
Imagine your trainer explains you something with an attitude like “Yeah that’s rubbish anyway, just kill yourself.” 😀
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cause how would they make money if they tell everybody it sucks!
not saying it does, i am keeping my opinion to myselt until i did a full project and received a crash course on it. -
Guys, know what would be awesome?
A training series titled “Honest FCPX training”. The teacher would constantly rant and bitch about the bugs and missing features in FCPX, heavily breathing every time he is confronted with one, and show workarounds for them, while concluding every episode with “man this sucks, I might also just go ahead an kill myself”.
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Yes, they act as if we’re all crazy. Do they not realize that 90% of their piers feel exactly the opposite? Maybe they have too much of a financial stake in the training to be completely honest. Whatever the reason, it seems very disingenuous, and a bit insulting to the collective intelligence of the professional community. Sadly, I feel like both Apple and the evangelist / trainers are all loosing a lot of credibility.
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In every situation, there is opportunity, many times multiple opportunities…. the gift is to be able to see through all the crap with a clear vision and actually be able to see it. It is what separates the very successful business people from the rest….
You can liken it to he “gold rush”…
Most of the stampeders toiled away for years never to find any gold at all… Only to leave broken, beaten down and destitute… If they even made it out alive. They were blinded by “gold fever” and missed the “real opportunity” to actually get rich during this time because they could not see the “real opportunity”.The only people that actually made any real money in the “gold rush” were the ones selling services and supplies to the miners. “Mining the miners” so to speak…. It is actually very smart from a business standpoint….
More power to them! They provide a valuable service…. One that people are free to use… Or not.
In general, and not specifically regarding this forum, I have seen that most successful people already have a plan when a roadblock appears and are already in the process of implementing that plan while every one else is running around screaming and complaining and yelling about how bad everything is. This is human nature and certainly NOT unique to FCPX.
One of the things that I have noticed on the Cow this week is a lot of the people I have come to respect over the years here have been noticeably less active than usual… No doubt they are busy implementing their plan and working hard to make sure they remain ahead of the curve when the dust settles and everyone decides to get back to work.Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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A good business person who happens to train others, will see this as a wonderful opportunity to make lots of money as well. Nothing wrong with that, but they have a vested interest in folks wanting to learn the new software. And therefore most wont undermine themselves and the situation.
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / FCP / After Effects Editor
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[Micajah Smithson] “Is it just me or do you notice the most enthusiastic supporters of X-FCP (a phrase I didn’t come up with – but seems appropriate) seem to be a lot of the trainers. With the exception of Richard Harrington, Walter Biscardi and a few others, most of the trainers are promoting the hell out of their new X-FCP training, and “Media Management” books.
More than a few of them had the software a week before the rest of us.
Did they think the “Pros” were going to just accept this?What do they have to lose? Apple just opened them up to a lot more potential purchasers of their training.”
No, it’s not just you that have noticed that.
It’s pretty clear they have a financial dog in the fight. It’s too bad most won’t own up to it.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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You mean like “You Suck at Photoshop” but instead, “Final Cut Pro X Sucks at You”.
Oh man, we’re onto something. Call the investors.
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[Scott Sheriff] “No, it’s not just you that have noticed that. It’s pretty clear they have a financial dog in the fight. It’s too bad most won’t own up to it.”
It’s funny, over the years some people have accused us at the COW of trying to control opinion and I just smile at that. Control the opinion of people like Bob Zelin, Walter Biscardi, Craig Seeman, and hundreds of other COW leaders? You cannot be serious. ;o)
We have lost a lot of leaders over the years because manufacturers and publishers get them to leave by currying favors like getting them onto the beta programs and other things. Many have fallen for it and their opinions become the best that money can buy.
Our goal here at the COW has always been to find a “balanced” discussion, one wherein both the antagonists and the protagonists court as respectful a dialogue as is possible when worlds collide. It doesn’t always happen perfectly but over the years, it all balances out and in the end it becomes a discussion in which there is much to learn and draw from.
Yes, we have a financial dog in the fight but one thing about ole Cowdog, he’d bite the crap out of anyone who tries to make him slip on any suit wherein the label reads, “One Size Fits All.”
A healthy dairy farm, as I learned growing up on one, is made up of Holsteins, Guernseys, Brown Swiss, Jerseys, Ayrshires, and a few others that strengthen the overall herd as they swap genes, bringing their best characteristics to the whole. You often start with pure breds, but you build your dairy with them to insure that the “destination” of the herd is one in which the gene pool is diverse and strong, protecting it from becoming merely a bunch of sickly in-bred “pure breds.”
There’s a metaphor in there if you want to discern our strategy in action.
And that, my friends, is what I love best about the COW.
;o)
Best regards,
Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC
Publisher, Creative COW MagazineCreativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.
“Incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.” – Woody Allen
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I like Walter Biscardi!
All caused by FCPX? lol the power baby
Oh one thing I don#t like about some leaders and users here is the arrogance and how rude they are! :p
got to go…
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