Andy Field
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Bill Davis
“you mean I can’t pop a video track below track one? – I WANT that clip in the background for compositing below my primary – and you’re telling me that there’s no workspace below track 1? How can you work this way?”
sentences never heard in FCP 7 either (can’t put a track below track 1? Seriously? just add more tracks…)
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Lets see – they’re counting me as one of those 1 million downloads….
Yet after paying with it for a month or so….and then again when they updated a dozen times to get it from Alpha to Beta to what should have been the first paying release……
I use it not at all
how many of the original downloads are like that?
I know a very large organization that bought and downloaded quite a few licenses….only to realize it didn’t work well with their network, “old time” editors couldn’t get their head around the new Apple way…..and they gave up and moved on to Premiere Pro
Guessing those are counted in the million downloads too?
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Dennis – new features are outstanding – especially the new built in masking….retain scrub pitch and AE text template changes. Adobe is about the most responsive NLE creator out there. Keep up the great work
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Best Hal Douglas performance ever
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[Bill Davis] “Interested in why you think you’ll get better advice here than in the Adobe or AVID forums?”
Because the forum says FCPX or Not….not “we’ll only tolerate FCP X comments” Forum
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Here’s why FCP X doesn’t work for them. A real life story.
I consulted with a major international broadcaster who’s evaluating FCP X, Premiere Pro and Avid to replace nearly a 1000 seats of FCP 7.
FCPX was instantly out of the game even though it was “simple” for the cut cut push push editing you describe. The reason. It didn’t interface with there server and archive systems. Didn’t mater how user friendly it was – it lost the fight before the first bell
Premiere Pro worked better but not perfectly with their server system. Adobe folks bending themselves into a pretzel to help make it happen – personally – on site
Avid – they’re still evaluating but they already have seats installed ….the reluctance there – the steep learning curve for thousands of FCP 7 editors (most of them really reporters who edit) moving to Avid….the networking isn’t a problem there.
bottom line – no matter how easy FCPX is – if it Apple isn’t willing to invest the people time and equipment to support large operations….it’s not going to happen.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Also news is more than cut and air. There are enormous archiving challenges for future historical footage. Networks have small battalions of people that just do this and they need a solid networked structure to make it accessible to everyone who needs the clips.
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FCP 7
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Yes but networks aren’t islands of individual self contained reporters. They must settle on one platform across many bureaus where most of the editing happens on shared networked servers
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Network news is all about sharing and accessing material everywhere all the time in multiple far flung cities. This is Avid and now adobe’s strong suit. For this it doesn’t seem as though Apple is interested in this market.