Chris Jacek
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[Steve Connor] “There’s been plenty of time for venting, if you’re switching then there are other forums to get information about that. If your not using FCPX or you’re not planning to, why are you wasting your valuable time on here?
“The same reason you are wasting your valuable time complaining about us wasting our valuable time. I guess we just want to be heard. Sorry if you are offended by our exchange of ideas.
Professor, Producer, Editor
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[Julian Bowman] “You probably weren’t using it right / holding it right / understanding it right / stuck in your ‘old’ ways / antiquated / just not getting it / or a grandad [delete as applicable]”
You forget “afraid of change” : )
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[Norman Lang] “To be prepared for the future, you have to learn all the new stuff, even if it may fail to make it to prime time. Between, CS5.5, FCP7 and FCP X you really have the bases covered. As for Avid, it is one of the industry standard work horses and if you have the time and resources, especially with the deal they have out there right now, it would be a worthwhile learning experience. But they too will be releasing a new version soon. And on we go. “
One thing I think almost all of us can agree upon: Everything is changing right now. It may not be for the exact reasons that Apple had wanted, but the next year will probably see as much evolution in the industry as 2 or 3 typical years, and all 3 of the A’s will be involved.
For everyone working in the industry, I think it will be important to not just be proficient on all 3, but strive to be an expert on all of them. As an instructor, I think the scope is even wider. I feel compelled to teach all 4 versions (FCP7, FCPX, Premiere, Avid). It’s going to be wicked-hard for my students, but should be really fun for those who make the effort. And hopefully valuable. Thank goodness for aggressive educational pricing.
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[Rafael Amador] “Chris, the idea of working with a PC is one of my worst nightmares and I hope I can keep working with a Mac, but my concern is on how future Apple decisions may affects AVID-on-Mac or PP-on-Mac users.
I don’t know why but I don’t trust Apple as I did till few weeks ago.
rafael”Rafael,
I completely understand you and agree 100% with your concerns. I know there is a lot of frustration ahead for me in Windows world. But my thinking was that I have the opportunity to give myself transition time to become more comfortable with Windows. Like you, I do not trust Apple as much as I used to, but my mistrust started a year or two ago, and each new announcement or release seems to confirm my fears.
If the dominoes continue to fall as I suspect they will, Apple will no longer be the main hardware choice for video professionals in a couple years. Many have stuck with the Mac platform because of FCP, and the amazing Mac hardware performance, even if it came at a cost premium. Both of these reasons have been decaying in recent years, and I think they will continue to decay.
Right now I have the luxury of being able to work on Premiere and Avid on both platforms. If, over the next year or so, I find that I can be comfortable on both Windows and Mac, then I will may continue the transition. The hardware acceleration in Premiere with a CUDA NVidia card is damn impressive. Apple doesn’t even offer a laptop that is capable of this.
I feel dirty saying and thinking this as a long-time Apple fanboy and advocate, but sometimes the writing on the wall is just too hard to deny.
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[olof ekbergh] “You can easily create them in Motion and save as a FCPX generator. Then they are available in FCPX.”
If it’s so easy to create, why isn’t already included? I’m not at all arguing that it isn’t easy, but it does seem to me that their omission is yet another clue to Apple’s thinking. “Color bars are SO broadcast! Nobody BROADCASTS any more.”
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[Rafael Amador] “Great, first time in my life that I start to consider not just going PP or AVID, but even going to a PC.
I’ve started to consider dangerous any dependence on iApple as dangerous.”Though I’m not ready to abandon the Mac yet, I did buy my first PC in over 12 years. I got 17″ Dell laptop, with 2 drives (750GB each at 7200), 8 GB Ram, Sandy Bridge i7, Blu-Ray writer, and a 3GB Nvidia graphics card for about $1500 (admittedly, I get a nice educational discount). Running Premiere CS5.5 with the Mercury Acceleration on it has so far been pretty amazing. I was running 5 simultaneous layers of 1080p30 DSLR footage in real time.
Like I said, I’m not willing to jump yet (I still have 3 Macs in addition to this PC), but I am definitely starting to lose my Apple bias (some might even argue “arrogance”). Regardless of platform, I will definitely be continuing to phase in more Premiere (which I’d started over a year ago). I think anyone who does any significant AE work has to consider this.
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[Bob Woodhead] “Had one series where, with the touch of one ACE softkey, an edit would be performed with: 4 VTRs, Chyron (with anim), digi audio cart, ADO trigger, DESAM audio board triggers, D2 speed ramps – and being triggered at discreet times.”
I also suspect that most FCPX editors will probably think this sentence is in a foreign language.
Professor, Producer, Editor
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[Alan Okey] “They’ve played their hand, now you play yours. End of story.
“And I think the sad part is, they have two-pair in their hand, and they’re trying to bluff that they have a straight-flush.
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[Andree Franks] “Isn’t a professional a person that can take anything and through at him and he will make something out of it that worth awhile?”
Not really. Ask a master carpenter to build a deck with a Swiss Army Knife and balsa wood, and I don’t think the results would be too good.
Professor, Producer, Editor
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[Craig Seeman] “They’ve rethought how people use music players, smart phones, tablets, ultra lights (Airs). In every case interface was key to the success. In every case their products have creeped into professional use.”
But who’s to say that FCPX isn’t the G4 Cube, AppleTV, or MobileMe of this year?
Professor, Producer, Editor
and former Apple Employee