[Aindreas Gallagher]

sweet jesus no. i’m barely able to raise a rage post here at this point. I think I’m entering FCPX rant menopause.

plus that’s a pretty full on update from apple. They’re delivered rather a ton of stuff there – I’ve got to go from 10.8 to 8.2 to go from .5 to .6 my mac tells me, and I duly will.

If only to stare at the (sort of) source monitor.

Also – PIOP!
my **Good God** the threads that ran on that. there has to be 20,000 words just on that on this forum.

And Apple did sit down and figure that whole thing out.

Didn’t Hodgetts say PIOP would break the second law of thermodynamics or something?

tee hee.

Still – any forum that brawls on the semantics and meaning of persistence and user action in cut points like a university debating society on crack has to have some merit.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[alban egger] “So stop calling us amateurs and yourself soooo professional. You start pissing me off with your biased trolling.”

yes, thats what I said alright, and i was talking to you the whole time Alban. You’re on to me.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

i have no excuse, its habit at this point.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Walter Soyka] “are you saying that you are being hired specifically as an FCPX editor here? Is there a production company or agency you’re working with that has a specific need for FCPX freelance talent?

Or are you saying you are hired as an editor, free to use any tool you want, and you choose FCPX because it works best for your needs?
“

that’s really my point – pretty much everyone here espousing FCPX has the latitude to employ their own editing system as a sole operator, thats fine, but it doesn’t represent the vast majority of paid for use cases for editing – I kind of said this below, so I’ll just re-post, this explains my point pretty well:

when you talk about editing as a thing a place does where they put down seats and pay the heating, or a thing where they ask you what you can use – there have been two applications – AVID and FCP, you don’t see places with multiple suites running vegas, I dimly understand that there is a lot of great stuff in vegas, some of the killer features get posted here occasionally as prior art. but vegas sort of doesn’t matter in the broader scheme of things. and it hasn’t for its fairly long existence.

its not what the courses in the colleges teach.

I’m saying that this is FCPX’s destination, and its approaching it more rapidly than people might think.

its timeline particularly is off in the crazy weeds, and apple being apple, as a fundamental – this is our philosophical call thing – its likely going to stay there.

that is completely outside the issue of the editor’s innate skill and craft – brilliant people, with the latitude to cut completely on their own kit, who have made FCPX their own, are choosing and crafting approaches with a tool that suits them – there are plenty on here who could lay me to waste as a neophyte editor, using nothing but a scissors and some twine, as it were.

I just think apple have sent this software far out to a weird, peripheral, motion application type orbit, and it really is not coming back.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

you win the hamper.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Bill Davis] “Appears that BB King is STILL the only human being who can play the same single note over and over and over again and still be entertaining.
“

you are, god love us both, one to talk.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Marcus Moore] “You DON’T like FCPX…?”

incorrect marcus – I simply don’t respect it as software.

[Marcus Moore] “‘Im hired at least 40hrs every week to do exactly what you say no one… “

Well done. I get paid too.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Steve Connor] “over and over and over again
“

you and me both connor.

I say this software is a mess made for confused reasons that don’t favour editing as a craft. I’ll kick it ad infinitum.

when I stop kicking it – it’s market dead. which it deserves to be.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Richard Herd] “1-word answer: Hardware.”

that is an incorrect answer. what has hardware got to do with the price of bread in this particular argument?

the complete absence of FCPX in paid for jobs, either in the people offering them, or the people applying for them is – in absolutely no way – predicated on available hardware.

FCPX is simply non-existent software, if you want to be paid to edit. As software, it turned out far too weird. Almost laughably weird in retrospect.

(lets all dis-connect our secondaries from the primary, unless we’re doing a music edit – my god, evacuate the primary – it doesn’t work – detach the audio – we’ve lost sync? light the flares!!! where is the colour corrector? IT’s SQAURE? Help me Jesus – who came UP with this semantic mess?)

LAFCPUG (wrong name now) tossed FCP – their name and focus has changed – everyone tossed it. It’s motion. Apple went off into their own weeds. they are more than able to do that.

FCPX Is not an editing platform, its not an editing solution, it represents no editing practise – its just very slightly weird apple software.

It is motion to after effects, aperture to lightroom.

Apple gave in to their worst instincts, ignored the industry, and came out with a personal sonata that no one cared about the minute they heard it.

FCPX will be on the appstore for a long, long time, at least as long as aperture or motion, but it is of a piece as a half dead internal proof of apple methodology sent to apple, by apple, for apple, where they assert their point of view, and ignore all external signals.

FCP as was, with its basic logic and craft built in, that apple bought, is the outlier.

Apple couldn’t make professional software, to sustain professional craft, to save its life.

As people tasked with correctly perceiving needs and producing software, in a timely fashion, for creative mission critical industries, Apple are either the titanic, or the iceberg.

take your pick.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Chris Harlan] ” start seeing it as a complex and fairly advanced Titling and masking tool “

sure god chris – I think I’ve said this before, but here is my lament:

I ended up hacking a bodge for all of the GMT promo endboards across the entire bloody schedule of Aljazeera English to be produced, using a database motion companion application available at the time – that fed into Motion via an excel sheet. Motion would output five second endboard with alpha .mtn thing clip slugs based on the schedule GMTs in the excel sheet provided by scheduling.

This hilariously, was because the pres system at the time, at launch, that barely worked, called octopus (?) if I remember, couldn’t manage it – there were no front desk style chyron time title overlays that could be triggered. there was *no* pres titling triggered off the schedule. We had to burn in every single GMT time variable on end programme title lower third for every promo we cut, in the suite.
Each promo master had to be strung out with 12-20 different GMT broadcast time duplicates, with endboard slugs generated from motion, laid to hdcam tape with paper notes (four bloody time zone broadcasts for each showing) for every single promo made each week with maybe twenty odd promos as 15 and 30’s pushed out each week in the four suites across all the docs and specials.

I do, I swear to you, know that motion as titler!

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