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why would anyone want to use FCPX (SERIOUS discussion – no bashing)
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Adobe’s UI is very messy and cluttered in my opinion. I like simple.
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[Brian Seegmiller] “Adobe’s UI is very messy and cluttered in my opinion. I like simple.”
Because it’s modular, Adobe’s UI is as cluttered as you make it.
The touch-friendly layouts are nice and simple. You also have the flexibility to scale that up to a 747 cockpit view. In Ae specifically, I really like a 747 cockpit layout on a large monitor, in order to keep as many controls accessible at the same time as possible.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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Why didn’t the 747 view come preloaded with my version?
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It really pays to spend time finding the layouts that work for you and saving them as workspaces.
Where someone like you, Walter, favours a NASA-complex wall of controls, I like the exact opposite – everything stripped right down to the few options that I need for the task in hand.
Custom workspaces mean that you can easily swap to something completely different for a different task.
In other words, Adobe offers you whatever you want and the flexibility to swap to anything else at any time – it’s as simple or as complex as you want it to be.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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[Simon Ubsdell] “In other words, Adobe offers you whatever you want and the flexibility to swap to anything else at any time – it’s as simple or as complex as you want it to be.”
But that’s sacrilegious in this forum 🙂
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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Of course, if you wanted, you could build a layout that looks exactly the same as the FCP X layout.
How cool is that?!
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Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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[Simon Ubsdell] ” you could build a layout that looks exactly the same as the FCP X layout”
Actually that’s what Adobe’s default “Assembly” workspace more or less is.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Yes, indeed.
My point of course is that if you can set up Premiere to have the exact same layout as FCP X offers you, it’s hard to understand the argument that it’s somehow inferior in terms of layout options.
Or maybe nobody’s actually said that …
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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[Simon Ubsdell] “it’s hard to understand the argument that it’s somehow inferior in terms of layout options”
A number of editors I know are using the Dell Ultrawide 34″ displays (single, replacing dual screens). The Premiere layout works quite nicely on these. I dare say better than the FCPX layout.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Alright so I am a power user. I want my programs to do exactly what I want them to do. I feel like I have to ADJUST to Final Cut and I have to do as Apple intended me to do – there is no other way. Take it or leave it. This forcing something down your throat mentality is VERY Apple like. Now I know we are talking about an Apple product here so of course people who are CONVINCED of Apple’s mentality and mindset will be using those so I would be barking at the wrong tree here. It just won’t make me any friends here so lets not go there also Apple bashing or bashing in general is pretty immature.
Thing is: I WANT TO LEARN FCPX and I want to learn to love it. Overall you people are HAPPY with it and there must be reasons for it.
If I ignore the time line it seems pretty great. I really love how it organizes stuff. I also have no problem with how you select your footage- this is all great. I enjoy it but that time line…
I always read DON’T FIGHT THE MAGNETIC TIME LINE. Do not use it like any other NLE and don’t try to force your old work flow into FCPX – once you understand it and accepted it you will love it and you will never want back.
Those are phrases I hear everywhere but they seem to be without any meaning- like marketing mubo jumbo people bought in just like “Macs JUST WORK” (No they don’t. They are computers like any other computer). So PLEASE and I really BEG YOU and mean PLEASE what is so great about the magnetic time line? What is that mentality I have to accept- the mentality and mindset of doing WHAT exactly? I can’t exactly grasp yet what you guys mean.
I also FAIL at selecting stuff. I love features like that arrow you had in Final Cut 7 (or Avid or what not) where I can select EVERYTHING from the right of my play head or everything from the left of my play head. That way I can just move it all away. Do I seriously need to draw a rectangle each time? -
I really do urge you to check out Charlie Austin’s entertaining and extremely enlightening blog:
You will find answers to many of your questions and gain seriously valuable insights into how a power user of FCP X makes it work – I defy you not to be impressed after seeing some of things that Charlie does with it.
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki
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