Chris Harlan
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Hey, maybe you are right. My gut sez you ain’t. But it is all tea leaves. Whatever may happen to Avid, Media Composer and FCP 7 are the most useful NLE’s to know how to use in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles for 2012. Premiere is a hopeful with very few seats. And FCP X lives in the neighborhood of zero seats, and is not currently functional for many entertainment tasks. My best guess is that it will be the same for 2013. I plan on working both of those years. In 2014 or 2015, I might have to pick up some new skills. I’d love it if FCP X would dazzle me. I’d jump right in. But right now, it is not just that the water is too cold; it ain’t even there.
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[Craig Seeman] “Apple and FCP are only one part of a big post picture in a “tightening” economy that it would seem to be a smaller number of chairs remain in each round for those in and/or servicing the upper echelon of the post industry.”
Very true. Which is why the questions here–whether FCP X represents A) a helium ballon or B) a lead weight for those wishing to participate in that industry–are so interesting.
BTW–it is my observation that there are FAR more post jobs than there were two decades ago. There is also MUCH more programing than there was two decades ago.
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[Herb Sevush] “…when he will arise in a rainbow over Cupertino to usher in the modern world with a MacMiniProIpad that shoots thunderbolts… “
Infidel! He will arise in a rainbow over Cupertino to usher in the modern world AS a MacMiniProIpad that shoots thunderbolts.
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[David Lawrence] “[Mark Dobson] “I wouldn’t change the name right now. It’s a great forum, why dissipate its focus.
Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate has still got wheels and will rejuvenate itself with the release of the first major update to FCPX due imminently.
This is the moment that many people who have switched from FCP7 will reconsider their options and many people who have embraced FCPX will see whether enough fundamental changes have taken place to keep them on board.”
Yep, I agree for all those reasons. My understanding is that this forum generates a high amount of traffic probably due in large part to the name and focus on FCPX. I don’t see any benefits to changing the name now.”
Agreed. With the coming updates, it is probably still the perfect name.
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[Craig Seeman] ” Apple tends to be good at reconnoiter when products go wrong so I think we’ll end up with an extremely powerful and cost effective NLE within a year or so.”
That would be great. I guess most of that depends on how much of Apple still is what it once was.
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[Walter Soyka] “So much of the back and forth on this forum is due to us focusing separately on the present versus the future, or about pragmatism versus possibility.”
Add to that the question of Apple’s actual interest and willingness to develop and further open up the power of the initial offering, and I think you’ve got it.
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[David Lawrence] “I’m also skeptical of metadata driven auto assembly. Sure, maybe as a first pass instead of an assistant’s manual assembly. But to do anything good beyond that, there’s never a substitute for knowing the material. “
I can see it working particularly well in the cruise industry, where you have essentially one voyage video that you are updating every seven days with fresh footage to include the passengers of that voyage. If you always shoot the belly flop contest from the same angle, etc. fast rough assembly by the numbers could make something like that work pretty quickly. Using table number and seating assignments, you could probably design a system that insured that passengers buying the video could get themselves seen in it, at least at dinner and a few other pre-arranged spots.
When I first heard of FCP X’s “powerful metadata” underbelly, I thought it might be working along these lines; I was kind of surprised to see that it wasn’t.
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[Oliver Peters] “y making all the acquisition folks decide to incorporate DNxHD and MXF 😉
– Oliver
“Yup.
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Good read.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Chris Harlan] “I’d probably be interested in Smoke, if it weren’t unjustifiable overkill for what I do. But, if the right project comes…”
By the way, Smoke would seemingly be awesome for us too, but alas to get 4 seats of it isn’t quite practical at this time, even 2 seats. I have high hopes for the next CS release. We use the rest of the Adobe suite all the time, and I am curious what’s going to happen with the Speedgrade acquisition.
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Keep it down. Oliver doesn’t want us talking about this.