Andrew Wilson
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I didn’t post the article for the groundbreaking content. (there isn’t any). It’s the source that I find interesting. Mainstream media gets an opinion from an academy award winning editor. A lot of people posting their opinions are self proclaimed “pros”. (myself included-I make my living using fcs3). But how many of us have an academy award on our shelves? My claim to fame is editing a feature that ended up on Mystery Science Theater 3000. 🙂
Andrew Wilson
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I thought he was pretty clear on that:
“It needs a few key things. In order for us to do a [David] Fincher film on it, you’ve got to be able to switch between multiple cameras, so with that right there, we can’t use it.”
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The standing ovation was because we thought we were being shown all these great features that would be there IN ADDITION to all the parts of the tool we professionals use everyday.
Now what I really would like to have seen was “Hey – we’ve got 64 bit editing! Background Rendering (No more progress bars)! A great new ‘magnetic’ timeline that helps keep everything in sync! Improved Nesting!
…and here are some more great features: No more multi-cam! You can’t open your old projects! We’ll make all your media management decisions for you! We’ve eliminated OMF, XML, 3rd party support, Video Output! Support for tape! Soundtrack Pro! DVD Studio Pro! Color! Isn’t that great! We’re so proud!
I wish they would have made those announcements with the pride and vigor of the rest of their tease at the SuperMeet. Believe me, the reaction would have been a lot different.
Andrew Wilson
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I think the best replacement for FCP-X is FCP 7. I’ll be staying put – making money on my current machine for the foreseeable future. I haven’t seen any features in X that are so compelling as to switch to anything else right now.
I was a Media Composer editor for many years and like the industry standard of AVID. I’ve played with Premiere 5.5 and think the metadata handling is pretty cool (especially the sound to text transcription)
If I had a crystal ball, I would say that Production Premium is going to take the place of Final Cut Studio as the go to application suite for a well-rounded solution. Look at what Adobe did to Quark when Quark pissed off its customers by not delivering an OS-X native application in an acceptable amount of time.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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You’ve nailed exactly the way I feel about it too. That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time.
I’m sure I’ll stay married to FCP too because, like marriage, sometimes it’s easier to adapt to changes than to start over. 😉
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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I find the compatibly listings from Other World Computing much more reliable and easier to understand than Apple’s.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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I knew that… but I also thought that my graphics card upgrade options were somewhat limited based on some shopping I did about a year ago.
So you forced me to do some more research (okay, it was like 10 minutes) and found that the ATI 5770 and 5870 will work in my machine (mac pro 2,1) and are open-cl cards.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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When final cut was new it was not new in many ways. I was a Media Composer editor for many years before Final Cut and what apple did was bring an AVID interface and sensibility to the apple platform for under $1000 at a time when AVID seemed to be abandoning the apple platform and was charging much more.
I know there has been a lot of talk about apple abandoning the pro market but look at cameras that apple has qualified for FCPX…. FLIP, GoPRO, Contour!??
Only 6 cameras from Sony? 5 from Canon and 9 from Panasonic?
ouch.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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If they’re full frame stills, don’t apply the fade out to the layer that’s going away. Just fade in the layer above it that’s coming in.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
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A very subtle underwater filter and ripple filter works nicely, too. The difficult part of doing this in Motion without Zaxworks is pinning one side to a pole and getting good shadows.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
http://www.westviewdigital.com