Bill Davis
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And it conforms with my experience from a year ago when my then new SSD MacBook Pro seemed to FLY through projects.
Seems like “specs” truly don’t always tell the entire “how does this thing actually work in the real world?” story.
Also appears to make things a bit sticky for some of the folks who live and die by the concept that Apple hardware is so universally “overpriced.”
Yes, the next few years should be fascinating.
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For the record, I’ve posted my share of arguably “off topic” stuff here as well.
Something OT was not my concern. That’s par for the course.
Something primarily about a topic or topics where there are specific cow forums that seem to be built precisely FOR people interested in those topics – posted ONLY here was what seemed odd.
It’s like posting notices about an upcoming Mass exclusively in a neighborhood Synagogue.
Now if the Synagogue has TONS of attendees and the Church has generally poor attendance, maybe it makes more sense?
; )
FWIW.
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No problem.
Clearly the readers in the other forums I listed must not care about seeing the posts that involve their tools.
Just the folks here.
So carry on.
; )
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Jenn,
You’re not alone!
Even those of us who’ve been with X since day one – have to study new concepts as the software continues to grow.
It’s the price forever evolving, ever more powerful software!
Good luck with your project.
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Interesting, but I kinda wonder what this has to do with FCP X Debates? (Not that THAT has ever stoped a post here! ; )
Nobody I know uses X as the primary tool for ” a lot of magazine-level retouching, by which I mean fine detail VFX work.”
It’s an NLE. As is Premiere Pro.
You indicate that both those tools would conceivably have done just fine cutting the initial work – and we know that both can feed Resolve perfectly well.
So what’s the topic here, and is it relevant to “FCP X the Debates?”
You don’t seem to be advocating that X is a poor first stop on such a workflow. Nor that Premiere Pro adds some magic before you get to Resolve – or is that it, Simon? Is there step you had trouble with that caused you to originate on Premiere Pro beyond happenstance, preference, or client request? Is there a flaw we should know about?
If not, wouldn’t this be a better discussion for a different forum? Or are you just seeing this as the “central hub” of NLE debate on the Cow?Which is fine. But I’m not sure I’m understanding why this is particularly story is particularly relevant to this particular Forum?
Can you help me out in understanding the reasoning? Thanks.
Addendum: I just checked that there are specific forums here for BlackMagic General, BlackMagic Fusion, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects (Expressions AND Techniques) and Apple Motion.
Yet this one, the one that is arguably LEAST commented relevant to your post – is the one where you posted it.
Seems a bit strange. Is it just for the eyeballs? If so, fine. But it just seems a bit odd to post it to the forum MOST concerned with the software you discuss the least.FWIW.
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[Daniel Frome] “Apple to Wes: This is our new touchpad pro. Please convert this to the pro market.”
Wes to Apple: We buying Microsoft or something? Why are we chasing “Surface?”
; )
(clearly sarcasm, I don’t remotely presume to speak for Wes OR Apple, obviously.)
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I guess news is only news if you don’t already know it!
Nobody’s let the cat out of the bag, including obviously to Peter and all the other folks I regularly communicate with.
Apple “discretion” in public facing messaging…remains fully intact!
And away we go!
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OK, thanks for the link.
Seems other than the Analytics that they imply, there’s little here that I haven’t been doing for going on 6 years in X – with the addition of my Vimeo Pro account which manages and allows file tagging for search directly from within the FCP X share system.
So I’ll need to see what exactly the new mojo they plumb into this that goes beyond what I already have been doing.
That said, if it makes things easier for Premiere Pro users – it’s great that they may get even more capabilities for what hopefully remains the same monthly fee.
Useful move.
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Odd, appears I can’t edit my own post… oh well.
I was just going to add a link.
Confirmation:
https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/news/1927-wes-plate-joins-apple-as-product-designerCreator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
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[Andrew Kimery] “Whatever you do, don’t talk about the new social media publishing features Adobe is working on. You probably haven’t run into this yet, but some people don’t like talking about things outside of their own needs. ;)”
Is that where they’re trying to add more revenue streams next?
You pay for the basic software, then incrementally more for the clip media, The analytics package, and a nice chunk of any of your monitization ala Stock?
It’s likely a great business model. For Adobe. And that’s their job. Lick em in and look for incremental add on sales. As it’s ever been, I suppose.
Odd thing is, I just noticed that my Vimeo Pro account added a commenting and review system that’s very close to what Frame I/O is doing.
Vimeo has direct monetization plumbed in already.
And, of course Apple has those zillion Credit Cards on file and those ultra massive data operations around the world doing lots of tracking and bean counting and payouts to App developers and piddly little individual iBook Authors like me.
So which one makes the most sense as “the platform” going forward?
I don’t have a clue – although I have a bit direct experience with all of them. Right now, Apple seems to take the least yearly via iCloud. IF I was a CC full subscriber instead of Photo only (still X2!) that would be the most costly. And Vimeo Pro and Frame I.O are in the middle.
Personally, I’ll likely eventually take the one that extracts less monthly to play and leaves me with more in my pocket.
Only time will tell what that eventually will really turn out to be.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.