Andrew Kimery
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[Oliver Peters] “It really begs the question, why do so many FCPX users really hate Avid and Avid users? It certainly doesn’t seem that the feeling is reciprocal. And before someone chimes in with the reaction of 6 years ago – that largely came from FCP “legacy” users. From what I can tell, most Media Composer users have been indifferent towards FCPX, until they’ve had to deal with it in a job situation, just like they were with “legacy”. We’d all be better off if everyone could dial back on the rhetoric.”
Mac/PC, Chevy/Ford, Playstation/Xbox… why do any flame wars exist?
I belong to Facebook groups for all the A’s and there are members of each community that revel in throwing shade at other NLEs and their users.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Agreed. Sadly I have started going to other sources for answers to real NLE questions as I want to avoid the “static” on this site. “
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean by ‘real NLE questions’, but aren’t the program-specific forums on the COW the best place to ask those questions? Where as this specific forum is designed for, well, debates?
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Shame there isn’t a keyboard shortcut for it (why are there so many odd lacunas in the shortcuts system?) because I use it all the time now. “
Thank’s Simon, I wasn’t aware of that function.
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[Tony West] “You are leaving out the step of patching a track. “
Sorry for not being clear, that’s what I meant by choosing where audio and video go separately (ex. you have to patch video to V1 and audio to A7 and A8). So you when said you don’t make horizontal and vertical choices in X, you meant you don’t have to worry about track patching?
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[Tony West] “before X, you were making 2 decisions in the timeline for position placement of a clip. 1. Where you wanted the clip vertically (picking a track) and 2. where you wanted the clip Horizontally in the timeline.
With X you are only selecting the horizontal part (you have the option to change that in Lanes mode but it’s not required) So instead of doing 2 things you are doing 1.
“I thought you were going to say the two decisions being made were one for video tracks and the other for audio tracks. In X aren’t you making both horizontal and vertical decisions when you are deciding whether or not a clip is part of the primary storyline or a connected clip/secondary storyline?
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[Michael Gissing] “Lets workshop it over a bucket of koolaid.”
LOL
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[Michael Gissing] “I’m writing an article for Audio Technology magazine about the Fairlight/ Resolve juggernaut. Any keen film makers want to make a doco about it???”
Sure. Do you mind if I use Media Composer First? I hear it’s both easy enough for a novice master but powerful enough to edit an episode of Better Call Saul. 😉
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Here’s my two scents from just watching the video and reading the interview.
They said it took so long because they couldn’t just ‘turn off’ MC features, they had to make it more approachable to novices. But in the video it looks like that they just turned off MC features and didn’t change anythig in the UI to make it more approachable to novices. Of course, making significant UI changes isn’t doable if they are trying to easy people into MC.
Also, having a bunch of editors and AE’s that have spent years (if not decades) using MC going “Wow, this is so simple!” doesn’t exactly sell me that it is, in fact, simple. Put a novice edit in front of it and tell me that it’s simple. Save the experts/advanced users for when you tell me that it’s capable as well.
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[Joe Marler] “Was it a focus group? Was it Randy Ubillos’ alleged difficulty organizing his own vacation videos? Were there influential academic white papers? Was there a “Xerox PARC visit” event? For the origins of the Mac, these have been well covered historically. The jump to FCPX was nearly as great a disruption. “
As I recall Randy was making a companion app for FCP Legend that would be used as a logging to (maybe something similar in functionality to Adobe’s Prelude) and when he showed the work in progress to Jobs, Jobs said that’s what he wanted the next FCP to be like. Presumably work on FCP Legend was abruptly halted as Randy and his team had to go way off the reservation to make this new NLE. IMO that would explain why the last Final Cut Studio was such a meager release and why FCP X
I would’ve loved to have been a fly on the wall for that and other moments such as they first time they showed it to select group of influential industry insiders and editors, as well as when the decision was made at the last minute to take over the NAB Supermeet
[Joe Marler] “Tracy Kidder won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1981 novel Soul of a New Machine,”
I’ll have to check that out.
Another great book on the topic is George Lucas And the Digital Revolution (You used to be able to find it as a free PDF, but I don’t know if that exists any more). It’s about the 5 or 6 guys that are pretty much responsible for CGI, Pixar and every NLE (if I’m overstating it’s not by much).
https://www.droidmaker.com/contents.html
Hopefully the X doc avoids the pitfall of being too focused on an event (the release of X) or about a thing (X itself) instead of being focused on the people behind the thing or the people impacted by the event. Even acclaimed docs like The Corporation were dry as a bone, IMO, because it was a lecture instead of a story. On the flip side, I thought Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room was great because it wasn’t about the Enron scandal, it was about the guys that created the scandal and helped foster a business culture that also took down the likes of WorldCom and Arthur Andersen. It was a character study using the Enron as the case in point. 60 Minutes has always been my go to example for this type of storytelling because they are always able to take a huge story like pollution and distill it down to one family in Wisconsin that everyone can relate to.
How does that Stalin quote go, “The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.”
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SpeedScriber is also in Beta.