Carsten Orlt
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See you at the next ‘KoolAid’ party. My shout. You deserve more than one free drink 🙂
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[Don Walker] “She takes one look at my monitor, and says. “That looks like imovie”.”
could also mean: J how great is iMovie that they made the big brother feel and look similar.
We just never bothered looking because its that amateur stuff that makes you sick and could kill you ….
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[Michael Gissing] “making two year old hardware on the verge of obsolete”
Name one PC manufacturer who prides themselves that they still support any odd 10 year old standard.
Maybe all these arguments are only expressing the frustration of former PC people that got onto the Apple bandwagon because of FCP and now feel their ride was a waste of time because the route has changed. God how beautiful was the time when we were just riding in circles through the same scenery again and again.
Somebody took a new route and the undiscovered lands could be full of ugly, annoying consumers wanting to eat your children. Scary..
Yep lets all stay at home!
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[Darren Kelly] ” the motherboard or the main system drive dies. You get to send in your computer for 1-3 weeks of service time.
Nope, it’s time to move on.”
J, I instantly have to buy a PC because their hard drives never crash and the motherboard goes on forever….
People who do think Apple is not doing too bad are constantly accused of drinking the ‘KoolAid’
Time to complain about the ‘Anti-KoolAid’ gang! -
Curious thing is that FCPx doesn’t understand anamorphic video. Its square pixels only.
So do not bother using FCPx but go straight to compressor. You have to enable to frame control and choose better fps change. search to cow for the right setting as it has been discussed a lot in the FCP7 forum.
Cheers
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I more or less think FCPX is aperture, with all the implications that follow.”
and they are?
(just curious as I see similarities but not sure what you mean specifically?)
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Mark,
I really do admire your staying power to keep trying to make it work even though you see so many difficulties.
One question, and this is not a snipe but true interest, why do you stick with FCPx and not go to Premiere or Avid?
Best
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[Herb Sevush] “What did they risk?”
To be the laughing stock of an entire industry and being hated by most editors who are using FCP 🙂
[Herb Sevush] “Maybe they’re a bunch of incompetent drug addled coders. Maybe they’re clairvoyant visionaries. Obviously neither you nor I know the answer, you’re just assuming you do.”
True. I should written that it is the only explanation that makes sense to me personally. If they wouldn’t be interested in the pro market anymore that wouldn’t have done the things they did as eg. presenting it at NAB or saying that broadcast monitoring will come. Would have been way cheaper just to change the website and put it on the App store without another word. Or better not to have it at all. just keep iMovie and do the usual touch ups to it. But yes you’re right, who knows 🙂
[Herb Sevush] “Speak for yourself, I don’t work with any editor who struggles with tracks once a year, let alone once a day.”
As written to David: ‘To deal with’ would have been the better expression. Apologies.
[Herb Sevush] “Your statement has a nice ring to it but is totally without basis in fact.”
Neither can you prove that it is not. Let’s agree to disagree as I still think that Avid had VTR’s and not flatbed in mind when they started the whole 2 monitor and track approach. Sure you have more tracks in software and other details but I always saw it like this. Again I should have made a disclaimer that this is my opinion. My bad
[Herb Sevush] “Many are, in droves.”
And I honestly hope that they will find the software that best suites them. Nothing worse to work with something you hate.
Herb, all I’m trying to say is that there are other opinions to what is a good or better way to work. I struggled a lot with FCPx when I first saw it and was very nervous as to what my future NLE would be as I really liked FCP legacy. But after reading a lot and editing with it, I start to understand (or at least I think I do) why they did what they did. And I see the benefits. And specially the long term benefits. Lets see.
Cheers
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[David Lawrence] “[Carsten Orlt] “Having tracks is something editors have to struggle with everyday because all tracks have to do everything at once. ”
I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve never struggled with tracks. Understanding tracks is part of my job.”
You’re right. Struggle was the wrong word and too harsh. ‘To deal with’ would have been the better term.
[David Lawrence] “Again, I’ve never had any difficulty. It’s easy once you learn. Knowing how to do this is part of my job.”
Fair enough. But you could use this argument as well to defend FCPx 🙂
[David Lawrence] “how long do you think it will take to become an industry standard? Will DAW venders begin using a trackless approach to match Apple’s? Will Logic X be trackless?”
Honestly I do not know. I do not think that necessarily it should be the standard either. It is just something that appeals to me. And I think editors can benefit from it. Of course I think this because I like it. If it doesn’t work for you that’s ok. Luckily there are different options. That Apple made the decision to go in a direction that doesn’t work for you may be a hassle for you and I understand if people are frustrated. But I do not agree with the assumption that trackless is bad. In regard to DAW I can’t answer that question because I do not know what sound editors require. I do know what I require as a picture editor to edit my audio, and I do not need tracks.
Cheers
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[Mark Morache] ” I believe that this whole magnetic timeline thing was the result of a double-dog-dare between software designers.”
Couldn’t disagree more! I congratulate whoever was responsible at Apple to have the guts to risk everything for what they believe in. And they sure thought very hard about this. Why do you think it took so long to release a software that has quite a few things missing?
Having tracks is something editors have to struggle with everyday because all tracks have to do everything at once. FCP legacy was already better than Avid because it already made the doing it all at once the default. But you are facing difficulties again when you wanted to only change one clips in/out on one track. What about the other tracks? I could give you plenty examples why FCPx is the logical evolution what FCP legacy already started. Plus you have to constantly assign track panels to make sure what you put in goes where you want it.
All NLE’s before FCPx are basically software forms of a 2 VTR edit suite. That’s why you have tracks, why you have 2 monitors for source and recorder and so forth. Surely its time to move on (specially because tape is history) (it will be by the time FCP7 stops working)When you start with the premise to get rid of tracks you will end up with this new timeline system. Now of course this will change how things are done. But if the one overriding premise is: no tracks, than you can’t put things back that effectively re-instate tracks.
So yes you can improve the workflow by adding shortcuts to do things quicker than when doing them manually one after the other (normal evolution of every software ever created) (converting connected to storyline when adding dissolve is best example) but you can’t change the basic idea behind it because that would mean you’re back to tracks.
So simple decision for everybody. If you want tracks: go somewhere else. If you do not like tracks (or do not need them) hang around.
I’m sure hanging around!my 2 cents