Chris Harlan
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[Herb Sevush] “[Jeremy Garchow] “OK. If Apple had released FCP8, would we feel any different or have they done you a favor?”
If they released 8 I would have purchased a used MacPro as I waited for the upgrade. I would not have feared the end of MacPro’s because there wouldn’t have been the same indication of Apple’s indifference to the high end market. If and when they eol’d the Pro line I would have been more open to the idea of a Thunderbolt alternative. In other words I would have been happy in my blindness.”
Me too!
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[Jeremy Garchow] “And my dog is sleeping on the floor next to me.
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Boutique! So Boutique.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “We don’t wear berets when we edit, so boutique isn’t quite right either.”
Sorry, dude. The official boutique uniform is jeans, black tee-shirt, and running shoes. No berets. I bet you guys fit right in.
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[Scott Sheriff] “What the heck? As long as you have what you want, who cares about the rest of us? Right?”
Scott, I agree with most of what you are saying, but frankly, I’ve just given up. X is what it is and making the demand that it be something else seems fruitless.
After all the NAB news this year, I’ve decided to stop comparing X to FCS. They unfortunately share a name, but thats ALL they have in common. I believe it was a poor decision on Apple’s part to kill FCS. I still use it nearly every day, and frankly it was a b!tch to start retooling again, but I’m on that path now, so ‘uk ’em. There are really great choices that tower over X for the kind of work I do, and a fortunate side effect of the killing of FCS is that these choices are much more affordable. So, nasty problems, but a wee bit of win-win, as well.
X is this interesting $300-400 program that I’m intrigued by, but not particularly crazy about. Some of its thinking is kind of cool, but a lot of it seems muddled by its own glitzy training wheels. It is unsuitable for my professional use, and there is nothing to lead me to believe that it ever will be. I don’t believe that Apple is working in that direction. X is not a valid replacement for FCP 7, but in my world all the people who need to know that, pretty much know that now.
When people call X revolutionary, I think that’s a bit delusional, but I’ve also been trying to recognize that it has its uses for many people. I think Carsten’s right–that it shouldn’t change course. Mostly I think this because its too late. It is what it is now. And, I guess, after a year–for me–that’s just a big “Oh, well.”
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[Carsten Orlt] “That is my story. What is yours?
“Very well said! I don’t think you need to worry about FCP X changing direction too much, because it very much IS what it is, and any change aimed at making it more in line with traditional NLEs would have to be much more than cosmetic.
I’ve pretty much accepted that it isn’t for me as my tier one NLE, but I can easily see using it for certain kinds of things, and I can imagine projects where it would be the best choice, though they are not the kind of projects I generally work on.
Hopefully, the changes that do get made will be more reflective of the kind of things YOU need, and not as an attempt to win people like me over. Things like a better back-up system and a slightly better way to handle and split apart audio. I’ll never be completely happy with it without tracks, but I agree with you, and don’t think it should be mercilessly mutated into something that appeases me but takes the ease of use away from you.
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[Jim Giberti] “It is crazy not to have it, and the 15 minute, hidden autosave is unfathomably misconceived.
TimeMachine is the only reliable autosave you have.
Why?
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Who knows?! OVer the years, being able to go back 3,4,5, maybe 6 autosaves to a version of the project that wasn’t corrupted wasn’t often essential, but when it was essential–a couple of times a year–it was ESSENTIAL.
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[David Lawrence] “Like FCP, audio and video elements from the same source should always show sync markers if slipped, regardless of whether the elements are linked or not.”
Indeed! I find this very, very useful.
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[Herb Sevush] “Leaning to Adobe, but the Symphony crossgrade is also very tempting.”
I’m guessing I will need to straddle them both, though which I will lean to as “mine” I have no idea yet.
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Thanks! It looks pretty acceptable!
[Jeremy Garchow] “As with Cs 5.5, the mixer only works on a track level, not on a clip level.
“I the tutorial, it seemed he was able to independently adjust clip volume. Did I understand that correctly?
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[Lance Bachelder] “Audio is MUCH improved and you can now have mono and stereo tracks without the goofy separation of earlier versions. Mixer is new and much like Audition though I didn’t get to try sending mix to Audition yet.
“Cool!