Andy Field
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and the first thoughtful reply arrives
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
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Guys, Guys…..you love FCP X — great — but why does everything have to be disparaging of other options?
I posted that video that started this because this is the FCP X or NOT debate….the or NOT includes all other NLE’s including AVID and Premiere Pro CC – which I use every day and it light years speedier and more useful than FCP 7
I’ve tried to love X…..just doesn’t fit my style — doesn’t make the folks who use and like it ogres….. I only forwarded that excellent TOP 10 differences between FCP 7 and PP CC for people interested….and yet it was a springboard to another flame war….
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
If the interview subject speaks clear standard English, the transcriptions work fairly well. The problem is, very few people speak clear standard English. We’ve had hit and miss luck with it.
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Herb, settle down and drink the Kool Aid.
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Sorry, I did not realize this was Final Cut Pro X, I drank the Kool-Aid forum
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Wait…it has tracks! Tracks are so 90’s…..
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
OK – solved my own problem – turns out I’d put a slug on the KEM sequence on Video track two to use for a time code burn…..and you must specify which video track you want to insert into the new sequence…..as Emily Latella used to say “never mind”
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Not a macbook air but on a Macbook Pro Retina…which is really a souped up macbook air (SSD) FCPX and FCP 7 rocks on this machine – super fast
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Bob – thanks for solving that problem….good work around…but it’s the structure of effects in FCP X that requires that work around in the first place….there’s no way even an intermediate skilled FCP X editor would have figured that out….Apple has taken things that worked in one step and required a half dozen in some cases.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
[Nicholas Zimmerman] “I honestly can’t see any reason to stick with Legacy other than an aversion to change.”
Actually there are quite a few reasons. I’m consulting with a large federal agency that has over 500 seats of FCP 7 and 6. It integrates with their Dalet server and they broadcast programs around the world. Some are still on FCP 6…some are still cutting SD DV material……
it will cost them 10’s millions of dollars to switch over to another system – and they are evaluating FCP X (which their engineers view as a closed island and too much trouble to network with what they need)….also the downtime to train thousands of editors/reporters/shooters on a system that is unlike anything they’ve worked with.
They can’t even upgrade some systems to FCP 7 because Apple won’t sell them the seats.
So they are evaluating Premiere Pro – who’s engineers are gladly twisting themselves into pretzels to accommodate this potential multi-illion dollar contract.
so it’s not just about “we don’t want to change” but in many cases it’s the time and cost of retraining many people.
As for FCP X – even a simple thing as “bluring” in a title doesn’t work correctly – I tried showing someone how to do it (in FCP 7 – you apply the blur transition to a title above a main track of video – voila – no fuss – it blurs In FCP X the blur also blurs the underlying video? Have tried nesting, making connected clips, secondary story lines…doesn’t work.
Try explaining the nuances of the FCP X workarounds for split track outputs..multi-language splits and translations in FCP X to thousands of workers just trying to do their job…and you quickly see it’s not all about people afraid of change.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852