Andy Field
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Bill Davis will jump in here and say it was perfect from version 1.0 (see previous thread)
PS — this is just lighthearted banter Bill……not a thermonuclear FCP X diss.
Andy Field
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Bill – you take this so personally.
It was a metaphor……i was referring to dinosaurs as my own expression not Apple’s or any one else —
and there was a lot broken – no more round trips to Motion or Apple’s old sound mixing program..or color correction ….no more audio mixer or tracks (or roles at that point) ….dozens of things that were in Legacy that vanished in version 1.0
We get it …you LOVE FCP X and will defend it to the death. Good for you you. Enjoy it…..just because someone offers a critique or theory doesn’t mean it’s a personal Bill Davis attack.
As i mentioned – i keep trying to go back and use FCP X with each revision….but years of working a different way makes that difficult and i see no reason to change when Premiere Pro is essentially FCP 7 on steroids
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
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Here’s why many legacy Editors may have turned to PP rather than learn the “new way” of FCP X editing.
Lets say Editors are Olympic runners. They’re used to lacing their running shoes, drinking water, training, and competing the way runners have for…oh, centuries.
Apple comes along and says. “That old way of running is for dinosaurs…here let me put these cement army boots on you, backwards and tie the laces together…no go out there and have fun guys”
That was FCP X v 1.0
God bless ’em — editors so wanted to believe in the Oracles at Apple, they hopped in those boots and tried.
Apple eventually came around to replacing the boots with high heals and removed some of the cement, but those professional runners saw a competitor who simply gave its editors performance enhancing drugs so they could run faster (no rendering, easy back and forth between applications, familiar interface, etc) and they said to FCP X – ” we’re out of here.”
When you make a first misstep that big, it’s hard to win hearts and minds back
Even this afternoon I dove back into FCP x trying to find a way/reason to love it….and i’m sure there is….but that race left the starting block several years ago and there’s little incentive for veteran editors to return and try to get back in
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
If there are hundreds of thousands of people trying to get adobe products for free how bad can they be to send people running to FCP X?
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Lillian Young : “When I could be pirating it li like so many others do”
Actually that would make you a thief. And how do you know that “so many others do that?” I’m sure Adobe’s intellectual property lawyers would love to hear what you know.
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Have freelance network photograher friends with once “state of the art” 60 thousand dollar betacams they can no longer give away as ship’s anchors. The beat goes on…..
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
I think he meant what Premiere used to do (but they killed it recently) Voice recognition that would log and transcribe interviews — when Premiere’s worked – it was great (for standard clear slow spoken English) when it didn’t, it was worthless — Adobe gave up on it – but if you are a CC subscriber, you can download an earlier version of Premiere pro CS 6 (and even some early CC versions) and it still works
What i don’t get is that Dragon’s Voice Recognition app (free on IPhone) works great and is about 90 percent accurate for most speakers — why can’t they incorporate that in some of the NLE’s and take away hours of logging headaches for documentaries and news?
Boris’s work’s phonetically and only for searching something you know is already there — not for transcription.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Think you’ll need to find a Mac and FCP7 – there didn’t seem to be much demand for a stand alone file converter when FCP 7 already did it with XML…..if you want to email me the FCP 7 file i’ll try to turn it into an xml for you and email it back andyfield@aol.com
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
not sure why – but it is serious
What: The 2015 Nashville Filmmakers Guild NLE Debate
When: Monday, December 14 2015 2 7:00 PM
Where: Studio 615, 272 Broadmoor Drive Nashville, TN 37207
How Much: Free! (donations will be accepted after the event)
Who: Meet the candidates –
Avid Media Composer – A native of Portland, Oregon, Matt Pfingsten has worked as an editor and shooter in the Nashville area for ten years. After graduating from Watkins Film School, Matt spent several years freelancing for the recording industry and various production companies before being hired by Quaver’s Marvelous World of Music, a video-based music education curriculum, where he has worked since 2011.Apple Final Cut Pro X – Jeffrey Holland is a Director of Photography located in Nashville, TN. He has worked on a diverse set of projects including feature length documentaries, short films, music videos, commercials, and more with some of the most well known names in the industry. He has been a FCPX user and fan since it’s beginning, even attending the keynote at NAB when Apple first revealed it.
Adobe Premiere Pro CC – Joel Evans is an MTSU graduate with a Bachelors of Science degree. Originally from Belize, Joel has spent tremendous time developing his craft as a producer and editor.Over the years, the technology has evolved in an impressive way, and Joel Evans has been utilizing these technologies to hep enhance his productions.
Moderator – Scott Simmons was born in rural West Tennessee and didn’t really realize that movies and television had to be made by actual people until he went to college. After getting degrees in both Television Production and Graphic Design he was in one of the early graduating classes at the Watkins Film School in Nashville, Tennessee. During that time at Watkins he discovered editing. With well over a decade of experience in all areas of post-production he has edited a diverse number of projects ranging from music videos, to live concert productions, to commercials, to documentaries and everything in between.
– See more at: https://www.provideocoalition.com/the-nashville-filmmakers-guild-nle-debate#sthash.DCQKwzxi.dpuf
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
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I don’t want to sell you on any idea — as for the x number of improvements on FCP X — that’s pretty funny — the “updates” were to get it close to parity with the product apple had previously sold and then abandoned – Apple is in the HARDWARE business – they use the software to entice you to buy beefier hardware. That’s why you get the updates for free.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852