Andy Neil
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[Bill Davis] ” saw the Bunim-Murray story here too. But I’m not sure it’s fair to say “shops like” B/M. Do you know for a fact that other similar major producers have made the same switch?”
Bill, did you read my post? I didn’t say other facilities have switched. I said other facilities where I’ve worked and have TALKED to, have indicated that FCPX is not even on their radar.
In fact, most places haven’t switched because most places aren’t in the position that B/M was in. And I’m sorry, but citing Bunim-Murray is completely fair (if you were confused about my word choice, “like Bunim-Murray” was to mean “such as Bunim-Murray,” not “similar to B/M”)
I talked personally to Mark R. weeks before he announced where B/M was headed and I could tell which way he was leaning even then. I’ve had similar conversations with other post houses that I’ve worked in that are FCP shops and it goes the same. Most shrug their shoulders and say that they’ll probably go to Avid. Not one has suggested that they’ll even look at X as a possible replacement.
[Bill Davis] “Also, from what I read, B/M was pretty much a specific type of post house dealing primarily with modern reality television production and were expanding incredibly fast with the wave of reality (not sure what noun to use here since I like some of the reality genre and loath other aspects of it!) programming.
I haven’t seen a whole lot of stories where there’s a massive shift in any particular direction in the wider Post industry.
“I find this section extremely funny. You make it sound like B/M is working in some niche market. Do you realize that there is more reality tv being produced than scripted tv? A lot more.
And the “wider post industry?” Well, technically that would be corporate and industrial and individual client based work, not ABC’s Castle.
But the black eye that FCPX took when it was released was not given to it by a few disgruntled wedding videographers and a guy that makes internal corporate videos. The bad press was generated by TV show and film editors and facility’s managers and business owners AND all those other people in the wider post industry.
I’m hoping to try and change the minds of the people I work with about FCPX, but it’s slow going. Most of the people who have bitched to me about FCPX haven’t even tried it. That’s pretty much the definition of a stigma. We just disagree on how fast it’ll go away.
Andy
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[Bill Davis] “The “stigma” will last precisely until somebody does something different enough and cool enough with it and that supplants the old meme.”
[Bill Davis] “If X on a MacBook Pro satisfies an editor who wants to cut their extreme skiing GoPro clips from fireside at the chalet – and comes to understand that with proper planning, they can turn out a killer promo video for their boss and upload it to the web between drinks – then game over.”
I think you’re overstating it a bit. My stigma comment wasn’t tied to whether or not an individual finds it useful for their work. I was speaking specifically for post facilities who buy hundreds of seats and do the bulk of TV and film editing. FCP7 has a pretty significant presence in post here in LA. Shops like Bunim-Murray have already moved away from it and in all the other FCP shops that I’ve been to and talked with, they have been vacillating on where they might go, but most aren’t even considering FCPX as a possibility. Even if they don’t plan on upgrading for a year or so. And why is that? The most common answer I get is that they don’t know where FCPX is headed (fair enough), but there is also a distrust of Apple. No facility’s manager wants to commit to FCPX only to have Apple pull the rug out from under them again.
Now these opinions are not my own. I’m a pretty big supporter of the current FCPX, and I’m confident that it’s updates are heading in the right direction. But I also don’t have a hundred seats to consider. Nor do I have post shop owners who hold the purse strings asking me to justify why their company should continue with Apple after they just EOL’d their entire facility. This is the stigma to which I’m referring. This will take more time than a year to blow over.
As Shane mentioned, FCPX (despite the name) cannot build upon the reputation of FCP7. No one who is in the position of purchasing equipment and software for an entire building is thinking of X as an upgrade from 7. That’s just the way it is.
I like X. I think it’s great and I have more fun editing on it than on Avid, or FCP7 or Premiere. In another year, it’s going to be solid. In 2 more, I suspect it’ll be one of the best out there. But it’ll take at least that long to get post houses who’ve listened to all the criticism to even consider it. Aside from the outliers of course who are working closely with Apple right now.
It’s too bad. The show I’m working on right now could really benefit from it.
Andy
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[Walter Soyka] “I think one thing that hasn’t changed since last June is that a lot of people are still making up their minds about FCPX without really using it”
Incredibly true statement. I occasionally teach editing at a college and last year we taught FCP7. This year we’re teaching Avid because you have to train students on what’s being used. However, I talked the head of the dept. into doing a few FCPX seminars for people who want to learn.
Anyway, I was talking to one of my students about it, and he just went off on FCPX. He was saying basically, no one’s using it, right? I heard it sucked. If no ones using it, it probably isn’t worth learning.
And this was from a kid who’s probably been editing on FCP7 since high school. He’s never downloaded X, never played with it, but since he’s always online, he’s heard about it and de facto made up his mind on it.
I had to talk with him for 15 minutes explaining that he should look into it, that it’s much better than he’s heard.
I figure X needs about 4 years to start making a dent in post facilities again. Judging by the update path, it could be a quality high-end NLE at the end of year 2, but the stigma will last longer than that.
Andy
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It’s kinda fun looking at the auto-corrected sentence and trying to figure out exactly what he was trying to say.
Andy
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In the US (and probably UK), there is only one word for both: Tips.
The only time I’d expect to see the word “Tipps” is if it were someone’s last name (surname).
Andy
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This is a serious deficiency in the nature of compound clips. One that nearly prevents me from using them at all. Hopefully this is just an oversight which will get corrected, but in the meantime, do what I did and file a feedback report (in the Final Cut Pro menu I believe) requesting it as a feature enhancement. They do read those and the more people who complain…er…request…
Andy
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Not to be a grammar nazi, but you’ve misspelled the word “tips” all over your blog.
Andy
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What you say is not technically correct. As long as one clip in a project or event contains a custom role, then that custom role can be used in any event or project.
Or more specifically, custom roles only exist if there are clips in projects or events using them. I touch on this in my Roles tutorial.
Andy
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[Jason Brown] “I’ve setup the keyboard to quickly remove keyframes by using the shortcut for next and previous keyframes…however, it requires you to click on the audio line before you can use that keyboard shortcut.”
I agree that keyframing needs work. Editing audio in general can be difficult in X. As you mention, you can quickly jump to keyframes in a clip with the next/prev keyframe shortcuts (OPT+; and OPT+’). However, you don’t need to select the line. you can select a keyframe as well (which tends to be easier to select in most views)
Andy
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[Joseph W. Bourke] “What’s next – meaningless icons where you have to take a course because they’re not intuitive?”
That reminds me of the other day. I don’t know when they changed it, but the Avid icon for the shortcut “lift” used to be a bodybuilder hefting a barbell. I was telling my students about that yesterday, thinking that the icon hadn’t changed. Now I’m a little sad that it has because that was damn funny.
Andy
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