Chris Conlee
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That may be, but the tools that DO APPLY to what I’m doing are still there.
Chris
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That’s true, but Apple also can’t remove my story from FCP X and put it to tape at hour one. Hmmm. Nothing’s missing? Really?
Chris
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Be prepared for plenty of sprained necks, then. LOL.
I tend to agree that Apple makes FAR more money selling in volume to the people making YouTube videos than to the demanding professional market who has a pesky tendency to require continual updates, support, and whatnot.
No, the writing is on the wall. Apple isn’t interested in competing in that market anymore. It’s too niche, and Apple didn’t become the most valuable company in the world by playing niche. They play far and wide with the coolest gadgets for the masses.
Chris
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No Avid or Adobe salesperson here, although I own and use both (as well as FCS 3). They each have their respective strengths and weaknesses. While I agree it’s not useful to continually slam FCP X as worthless, there is some value in pointing out the strengths (and weaknesses) of competing systems, because it’s entirely truthful that FCP X will not meet the needs of a certain group of editors and it’s in their best interest to know where to turn.
I suspect in a week or two the forum will have shaken out. The lay of the land will have been established, and the people for whom FCP X is not an option will be diligently working on finding another solution instead of piping off here.
Chris
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Roger that.
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Yeah, say what you want about Avid, but they have ALWAYS focused on the professional market and will continue to do so — perhaps to their own detriment at times.
Chris
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FCP to Premiere will be a breeze. In a few days you’ll feel right at home. The original version of each program was written by the same folks, back in the day.
FCP to Avid — MUCH bigger learning curve, but in my opinion well worth it.
Chris
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What do you expect will be in 6 that you have to wait for? MC 5.5 is a pretty stellar release.
Chris
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Fair enough. As I’ve indicated in other posts, Avid is my preferred NLE by a wide margin, but I own licensed copies of FCS 3 and CS5.5. I’ll also buy FCP X at some point so I have all the tools. As a long time computer geek, I find the whole thing very interesting.
I gotta say, though, I’d rather be dependent upon Avid solutions right now than FCP solutions. Maybe the long term will prove me wrong. Who knows.
The thing Apple did do was show the rest of the world a bunch of cool things, and set the bar in terms of speed and background rendering etc. I’d be surprised to not see some of that creep into other apps that maintain the editing paradigm that people know, use, love, and feel didn’t need to be changed.
We’ll see.
Chris
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On the other hand, Avid is making incremental changes to address the needs and desires of the new breed of mouse-based (ie: FCP) editors out there, while trying to appease their long-time customers. They’re not getting is 100% correct, but they’re trying. The next step is a 64 bit engine for speed and memory. But bear in mind, Avid will already play and cut .r3d natively, no transcoding needed. It’s realtime engine is one of the best out there. Adobe is making a big deal about their Mercury playback engine, but I can get more formats and more effects to play natively on MC5.5 than I can in CS5.5.
I’d argue that Avid doesn’t NEED to make the kind of changes that Apple also didn’t NEED to make but just did. Avid’s metadata engine is already incredibly strong, they just didn’t make as big a marketing deal out of it as Apple. They also invented the compressed HD codec for NLE editing as a matter of course, because their customers needed it. Then a year later Apple released ProRes and the world went crazy like God had just shined his graces on the editing world.
Avid knows what their professional customers need and they work to deliver.