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Why most of the the “Trainers” are so positive about X-FCP
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as one who rants here, and hopefully to god occasionally says something vaguely useful – I trust the cow completely and implicitly; the management of, and voices expressed on, this forum are those of a true town hall.
As far as I can tell, the quoted public discussion of FCPX is, in large part, the discussions and leader pieces taking place on the cow –
god bless this place frankly.http://www.ogallchoir.net
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yep. you were at the london supermeet? – that man was glowing with financial opportunity.
(I was the one who shouted at him to explain eye matching shots with one viewer – when he was going to drop the question request card referring to it. I’m not proud of it, but that solution he produced was balls.)
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What was the solution that he produced Aindreas Gallagher?
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How many jobs do you turn down because you don’t believe in it?
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Suffice it to say, that whichever way you cut it, Larry (along with the other lucky “trainers” who got advance copies) is going to be making a ton of money out of Apple’s decision to create a brand new product ex nihilo.”
That I agree with, to a point. To be quite honest, people are becoming less and less willing by the day to pay for training. Why? They can use as-I-need-it training from Google for free.
Companies like Total Training, Lynda, Ripple Training, Larry Jordan — yes, the Creative COW Master Series also — are finding it harder and harder to sell training. Conferences in industry events also report the same phenomenon.
Last year, thanks to Google searches, we had over 18 million unique people log-in over the year. Most came looking for an answer, found it, and moved on.
This is “training in the cloud.” Why buy a disc when the cloud updates daily?
This is the future and people who are professional trainers are going to find it harder and harder to make a living in the days ahead.
And yes, Simon, I agree with you about people posing with the self-aggrandized preening as the unequaled authority on FCP. Some do that, but the smart ones — like Gary Adcock, Walter Biscardi, Richard Harrington, etc. — know that as much as they know in this area or that, they are also likely to be found holding hands with another area in which they can learn from an expert with an adjacent area of expertise. No one knows everything about anything, especially in a world that is moving at today’s breakneck speed of change.
Thank you for clarifying, Simon. It is appreciated. I’m sorry to have misunderstood your intent.
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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[Andree Franks] “Ronald Lindeboom, your answer to my comment sounds like you felt attacked from em. hmmm?”
No, I do not feel threatened or attacked by you. My point is that I think you did a GREAT disservice to the many leaders and members here who have made hundreds of thousands of posts helping people and interacting. Today, there are well over two million posts in the COW and the number of slaps, insults, and barbs, is infinitesimally low.
Sure, there are times when things go awry, but much like travel on major airlines, the percentage is so low we buy our tickets and get on the plane anyway.
At least here when things break down, no one gets killed.
;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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[Scott Sheriff] “Every product has some spokesperson. Many are paid, some are getting in-kind, or comps. There is no shame in any of that, and it doesn’t necessarily invalidate their opinion. But disclosing those relationships, not matter how small gives the rest of us a baseline to go by.”
We agree, Scott. So much so that in the next issue of Creative COW Magazine we asked every writer to tell us their affiliations, paid relationships, free gear, etc., so that we could ascertain their prejudice in what they were saying. We disclosed it.
We are talking about extending this to the web and making sure that our sponsors and participating companies who have forums here, know that they must tell us who they are “seeding” with gear, etc., so that we can keep things balanced and ethical here at the COW.
Over the years we have done a very good job of this but as markets get more and more desperate, we have seen a few companies use some very clandestine methods to try to get themselves some extra advantage. We have warned them and we plan to get even more aggressive in the days ahead.
People trust the COW and we want to keep it that way.
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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[Stefan Buhrmester] “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”.”
There was such a beast: it was called Tom Wolsky’s ‘Final Cut Editing Workshop’ and it sold some but was blasted because Tom could be so forthright about things. His comments and asides were sometimes quite barbed and bordered on your proposed training model, Stefan.
It should have sold far more than it did.
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 am still a big believer in full training then google knowledge. Like they Jack in all trades Master of none.
Will be starting check out some FCPX training next so I will see how well this new kid is. 😀
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[Andree Franks] “I am still more of a believer in full training than Google knowledge — the Jack of All Trades, Master of None.”
I am, too.
(Though I feel that I must disclose that we sell training tools in the Creative COW Master Series and so my opinion is hardly one without prejudice.) 😉
But as always, it is a case of Different Strokes for Different Folks and from surveys that we have done, it is clear that many people are regularly using “Google training.” Partly because it’s free, and partly because it’s convenient — but most importantly, it solves the problem at hand for many busy working people.
In that world, it is “good enough.”
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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