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WOW – Apple promotes how to switch from imovie to FCP
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[Chris Kenny] ” a decision to ship a UI that was less than ideally responsive on some currently deployed hardware makes a certain amount of sense. Apple did the exact same thing with the initial release of OS X.”
I’ll let other people rip that one apart as they choose.
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[Chris Kenny] “On my 2007 MacBook Pro? No.”
what the h–l kind of software are you thinking of chris? are we all to dance a money jig to have any efficacy expressing our basic cut in a four year cycle?
its slicing video chris – it may not be halving a paragraph in MS word, but by god, its not unwrapping a UV mesh in max either.
Its an edit decision Chris. Thats all it is. It doesn’t take 46 cores to note a decision point in a standing video asset.
Apple have grotesquely twisted necessary horsepower into every inch of this thing.
besides its other failings – it is not an honest endevour.
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[Chris Kenny] ” a decision to ship a UI that was less than ideally responsive on some currently deployed hardware makes a certain amount of sense. Apple did the exact same thing with the initial release of OS X.”
Can you say “River in Egypt?”
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And yet you do. Funny that.
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if i may draw a comparison…when i first started to use logic i found it a bit daunting, especially the earlier versions….so i ended up using garage band cause it was so much easier and had the basic functions i needed….when logic gained the ability to import garage band projects i was hooked and now hardly ever go back to g.b. i see the same thing happening with fcpx…first off i have to say i never liked the new imovie (i still don’t) but it seems to me that any program that can import imovie projects is going to open up a lot more doors for people who were intimidated by the original fcp and are now finding that imovie doesnt offer enough features. i learned fcp and still love it but i really think people should give fcpx a chance. i think it is great that we can do a rough cut of some sort in imovie…even on an ipad from footage shot on our iphones or ipad2. having the ability to import that project into a more “professional” program surely must be a good thing. i can just see all those field reporters sitting in the coffee shop with their ipads after interviewing someone on their iphone then heading back to the shop to do a final cut on fcpx…..it’s just a new way to work and i believe one that is ahead of its time! now if only they would figure out a way to get that footage out of fcp and into color or resolve so i can continue to make a living!
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “what the h–l kind of software are you thinking of chris? are we all to dance a money jig to have any efficacy expressing our basic cut in a four year cycle?
its slicing video chris – it may not be halving a paragraph in MS word, but by god, its not unwrapping a UV mesh in max either.”
Its an edit decision Chris. Thats all it is. It doesn’t take 46 cores to note a decision point in a standing video asset.
There was a time when GUI word processors were taxing on hardware, and people asked similar questions.
“The interface isn’t that responsive on some hardware” may be a valid reason not to use the app today, but it’s not really a sensible criticism of where Apple is headed or evidence of poor UI designed on Apple’s part.
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What they should have done was made an iMovie pro and then bring an update to finalcut pro which includes all pro features that we want: the ability to import old fcp projects is one thing that comes to mind right off the bat, but by not offering this and so many other things it seems like apple has decided to let go of their professional users. I hear people saying that it’s a new way to work and then we need to adapt… But honestly that is just an excuse because why would we adapt to something that is going backwards
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[Chris Kenny] ” evidence of poor UI designed on Apple’s part.”
that’s precisely what it is.
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You will definitely see FCPX for the iPad before you see Multicam in FCPX.
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To an iMovie09 user + beginner FCP7 consumer user myself, FCP X obviously got its DNA from iMovie.
Events, projects/folders, timeline, metadata (keyword, favorites) were all there in iMovie and I believe iMovie11 is 64bit.
Only thing that I missed from iMovie was the “maps and places”. If somehow Motion 5 have maps built in!
May be to assist iMovie migration, most/all of the iMovie generators / effects / text are present in FCP X where are FCP “classic” generators are not (bars for example).
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Ray
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