[Carsten Orlt]

Because apart from Photoshop I personally do not like Adobe software, specially the UI. Way to many buttons, symbols, etc.
Another big factor is that Adobe’s accounting policy to inflate overseas prices (I pay double! in Aus than you guys pay in the US) is ridiculous. Plus the fact that I would need another 5 K for new i/o and GPU…

Just after FCPx came out I had a good look at Avid and Adobe and don’t like either of them. I did actually own an Avid for 5 years 12 years ago and when I saw 5.5 I felt nothing much has changed :-).

FCP 7 works fine and because we do in house only, we can transcode to ProRes to have everything working smoothly.

So I can understand why a guy like Walter with a big facility has to change if he can’t wait, but for us it’s not necessary.

All the best
Carsten

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I do our in-house doc editing, so no client looking over my shoulder and no ‘a million’ formats for me.

A: Getting rid of all the tape based stuff, or at least putting it to the side and out of view. Haven’t even connected it yet.

B. getting rid of the old CRT broadcast monitor and making space just for a good 2nd comp monitor.

C. Thinking instead of doing everything myself, actually getting the expertise of specialist involved. So need for proper CC monitoring etc.

D. All compis still working now, but I know the next machine will be one mac mini and one thunderbolt raid. Couple of monitors and your done. Finally stop with all this specialty i/o hardware which always gets obsolete when the next standard of pci/thunderbolt/firewire or whatever comes out. Don’t want to think about how much money I sank into technology that was dead after a couple of years.

I was never a fan of software that has a million buttons all doing the same thing or just in different combinations. Editing is actually quite a simple process. Everything else is FX . No need to have that in the editing software. Yes I know FCPx is not talking to the rest yet. If it never does I will not update and use FCP 7 quite happily. But I’d rather use FCPx.

[Carsten Orlt]

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Thanks Jeremy,
another thumb up here.

I pretty much had the same ‘old’ feeling going back to FCP 7 🙂
Hope they will get it right and are not to under staffed.

Carsten

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Thanks Gerald for a really great post. might not all come true but I think you’re not far off. Lots of hurdles still to jump but the direction is obvious.

Really interesting happened the other day. A distant friend coming over and not having seen my edit suite. She was really disappointed to not see a million monitors and pieces of equipment as I just reduced everything getting ready for the slim lined world of FCP x. So very true that a lot of people still relate professional to complicated.

Interesting times.

Carsten

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Dear Chris,

You’re right, I shouldn’t have called you names. I apologize. I actually did what I was criticizing.

But I still stand by my critic of David. Glen below made some valid points, but I think they are missing one crucial difference to what David is doing, and I have called it out before. He makes it personal, very personal. While I believe most people here argue against the opinion someone else has, he argues against the person directly.

Now it might be the case that David is actually not mean spirited and just uses his language skills as a weapon because he loves an intellectual fight. But this is for him to say.

I will continue to speak out against what I call bullying.

Best wishes
Carsten

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And so it continues by the followers of the ‘Ober’ Bulli.

I’m not a linguist, not even a native speaker, but I do understand rude and bully behaviour. If someone things that something is not as bad as some try to make it, and the latter constantly starts personal attacks, while the former never ever did so, than sure it is the fault of the former……NOT

The one who screams the loudest is always right, right?
Mr Weiss you are a bully and long ago stopped actually arguing the case, and instead like to pick people apart. And Mr. Wilson your way of ‘Cut it out’ is just avoiding the problem. Mr. Weiss needs to be opposed as otherwise the bullies just get their way again.

Ok guys, now it is your turn. Rally behind him and blast away.

I fully support you Bill and Steve!!

Carsten

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Andy, you seem well intentioned, but it’s baffling why you are such an hater for this new baked FCPX software. Your posts wax poetic on what the software is not while editors work with it now. FCP7 works now but I for one won’t update another piece of system software or Quicktime component now fearing Lion 1 point something might break the editing system that powers and funds my business. FCPX doesn’t do half of what the previous version did amateurishly (we’ve detailed it ad nauseum) Yes it does some things faster (no transcoding….and…well that’s about it) And the – as one video reviewer graphically put it — “kick in the weiner” – not opening old timelines effectively killed FCP as a amateur platform for 10 percent of the editors who loved the program from version 1 through 7.

Seriously Andy, is Andreas hiring you to cheer lead this slap in the face to the amateur community?

All the best to all you nerds :-))

[Carsten Orlt]

oops, should of course read: …to you, you never faulter and inch…