[Andrew Corneles]

[Lance Bachelder] “Let’s hope their programmers are working as hard as their marketing dept. to fix the many missing “pro” features…”
I wish they would, but i’m not one of the ones that
thinks they’ll come to their senses and add stuff back in…

If they would give me the “old days, film era” timeline,
viewer, multicam (negotiable), bins, and aja/bm with
all of the new, awesome features…

I would have easily paid a “no upgrade price” of 2K.

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[Andrew Corneles]

[Rob Tinworth] “You can create bins to organise your media, you can create subclips to organise your media, you can name and copy your clips (what are they talking about, “duplicating the media”) you can organise your media in sequences, you can organise all those bins with folders. Oh, so many ways to organise media in Avid, Premiere and FCP7. What a weakness!

You can overwrite edit in from the source window, you can drag in from the browser, you can drag in from the desktop, you can trim by entering a trim mode or by trimming in the timeline, or by using extend edit or by selecting down the timeline or by… Goodness me what a lot of ways to edit. It’s all too complicated.”

exactly what i was feeling while watching. subclips? GOODNESS NO!
Archaic BIN organization? Whatever shall we do? These videos are an
epic FAIL.

Some of the features of FCPX are just so enticing though…
Why couldn’t they have just made fcp8?????!?!?!?!!!!

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[Andrew Corneles]

Yeah I really have been bamboozled by all the people that
are defending apple from scorned editors by saying:
“Use FCPX, or just keep using FCP”
As if the third option of moving to say, PP5.5 is
just out of the question.

As many have said before – and I include myself –
This is really NOT a knee jerk “urgent” jump.

I’ve been at peace with a possible switch since fcp7, which
I felt wasn’t worthy of more than a .5 upgrade.

To me, it was just dependent on what apple’s next move was.
They delivered a product that can’t open any legacy projects
(even a limited option would have been acceptable ie base edl)
at the same time EOL’ed FC7, leaving us no option.

Honestly, my argument for moving to PP has been that it’s closer
to FCP7 – than FCPX is. I can fiddle my way through Premiere
and it’s not the giant paradigm shift that fcpx is.
Now for some this may be outrageous, but I dare any FCPX
proponents to point to any glaring deficiencies that PP has to FCPx.

Interestingly, Adobe pulled off quite a trojan horse with lots of
us, using after effects daily and having premiere waiting in
the wings for just this occasion… I guess the package pricing
will pay off for them!

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[Andrew Corneles]

one of the comments said that QT7pro is NOT an option, any confirmation?

Andrew Corneles – editorial and mograph in the 585

[Andrew Corneles]

After watching, I’m reminded that they really did add some interesting
features, and if they had just been smart enough to let me open my existing projects – I might have bought into this. I’ve always been
very open to the motion / fcx workflow with the variable linky thing.

And what the hell is so wrong with bins and folders?
Couldn’t they just leave that alone, and ADD all the meta-tagging?

If they had just left a few things alone, I might be editing with it now.

specifically:

1) open legacy projects
2) keep the “project” workflow, bins etc
3) give me static tracks for god’s sake

everything else I could probably live with to gain the performance
of 64 – plus some of the other nifty gadgets that they’ve added.

[Andrew Corneles]

I took a week off to actually get some editing done (in fcp)
and it seems like the same fcpx champions are out in full swing… I’ve gotta say some of the defending that goes on here is just amazing.

In other threads, even calling out people that dare recommend
someone go to a different suite if they need certain workflows,
totally ignoring the fact that PP is less of a paradigm shift
than going to FCPX.

Personally, can’t wait until it’s 79 bucks like aperture.
I’ll give it a shot then.

I really love when they talk about how apple isn’t abandoning
pro apps, when it’s SO obviously true. like BLATANTLY OBVIOUS.

for YEARS.

We should all just buy fcpx and like it, I suppose. To utter
any criticism of apple will just entice long winded doubleplusgood
applethink.

[Andrew Corneles]

couldnt it be fair use?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html

just wondering…

[Andrew Corneles]

I was wondering about this as well,
coming from fcp and having the horrible pd –
hopefully pp does it better.

[Andrew Corneles]

with this whole fiasco, apple will be lucky if I even install lion.
maybe just shrink wrap the 8core, as to protect the 8 years
of projects – while editing on a new W7 workstation.. Does adobe support linux yet?

[Andrew Corneles]

maybe even SJ?

Yeah, you guys have it right, we’re scared, or just scorned
that we weren’t involved in the beta…. riiiiight.