Christian Schumacher
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For the record this is my credential – but also my say-goodbye;
I am an experienced broadcast editor since 1997.
Came to Apple’s platform on the Pinnacle’s Cinewave with FCP2 in 2001.
I’ve worked on tons of AVID and Discreet solutions, like MC, PT, DS, Symph, Edit, Combustion and Smoke.I’ve been there and I’ve done that. Been to more than 20 countries. Lived on three of them.
I have a daughter and have been married to a beautiful woman, a psychologist, for more than 10 yrs.
Let me be bold and scram here many other very cute girls too – blah, blah, blah…er, let’s talk FCP, eh?
I did mostly all of the FCP’s transitions known; from G4 OS9 to OSX, from G5 to INTEL
From KONA SD to KONA LS and all HD KONAs, 2/3 – also have worked in many Black Magics.
All professional transitions at Apple’s Pro Apps – from FCP 2, 3, 4.1, 4.5, 5.1, 6 all the way to the 7.
And now X.And I don’t just sit there and push buttons, despite having lots of hands-on experience.
I’ve edited, I’ve produced, I’ve directed, I’ve owned, I’ve assisted, I’ve consulted, I’ve taught.
I’ve mastered all of the Final Cut Studio apps and all Adobe’s Creative Suite apps as well.I would also add that I have plenty more of FCPX experience than “a couple of days” for the record.
And that’s is real experience. Not reading off the freaking internet, no,no.Well, but that’s where Creative Cow comes in – and why i recommend it to anybody in need i know.
When i found about this site many, many years ago and its focused approach to postproduction,
I loved it. But only joined it in 2008 to ask for help once and for an AVID – On a Mac, mind you!
But I never have written anything further than that, mostly because all the answers were covered.i hate to talk online, I deleted my Facebook account, I abandoned my Twitter account.
I’d rather research among the technical wise ones to gather input about workflows and equipment.But now, “things changed in post” and accordingly things have changed here too.
This forum being named “Final Cut X or Not – The Debate” is what reflects off that.
I am sorry for any emotional response at any emotional post within this emotional forum.The early birdies must be aware that the main theme here is still controversial, right?
The game is far, very far from over. Whether they like it – Or not!I don’t intend to pass as one trying to start up a fight so just let me refrain from posting any longer.
Carry on with the show. Let the alpha monkeys set in.
I have stepped on some bananas, allrite, but I bet that other cute chimp likes me though… -
Gee, man. I was talking about being blind on the desktop.
FCPX won’t let you see the card, hence no monitoring.That’s it.
No “arguing online”. I was responding to your comments on my opinion on FCPIf only you calmly read my answer instead of jumping on me…
Talking about argue online, eh? Nice lecture. -
[Chris Harlan] ” Yeah. I learned how to use Shake.”
And Cinema Tools and DVD Studio Pro and Live Type and Soundtrack and Color…
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[Jim Giberti] “I don’t do anything on a laptop except write and present. In my firm, FCPX is sitting on big systems in studios with state of the art gear.”
You might want to rethink that as people ARE using it on laptops for the sake of testing the damn thing – witch is a V1 software, but I’m not sure if you care about that.
Why put in the desktop if it is not talking to the card? You’re blind right there, aren’t you?[Jim Giberti] “It would be good to have a substantive, factual conversation with some of the new users regarding their experiences without the generalizations.”
I agree. Especially If only we could see those actual projects and workflows wonders that FCPX is always touting. That alone would make those generalizations vanish immediately.[Jim Giberti] “Now I don’t think there are “reconnect walls” if you understand the new file concept. And I don’t know of any actual “undo walls””
Ah, “reconnect walls”, yes. Indeed, there are big thick walls in FCPX regarding “reconnect media”.FCPX can’t be set up to reconnect media – as it did before.
It is a feature request, by many here, but maybe not that important for you, or the “new file concept”
but for some, yes. It should work as it did before.
And there’s also a problem that offlines FCPX media when simply opened in Adobe’s AFX.You’ll hit the “undo walls” when the “undo” stops working, then FCPX stops saving your project. You might pay attention to that. Not sure if loosing hours of work could be good in a sense, but who knows?
Search “auto-save not saving” or “undo not working” and “how to reconnect in FCPX”.
You will find them. There are plenty of reported problems on this matter. I am sure you didn’t had the time to learn them. And if you are using it for paying jobs, that’s not something that will help you accomplishing that. -
[jurriaan van der kamp] “Does nobody no this?! is this a pro forum?”
No, you’ve got it backwards.
This forum is about figuring out if the software itself is. Literally. -
That’s fine, Steve. You’re clear.
Let me take this chance now to propose one thing.
Somebody in another thread asked for this already.The FCPX users that are into complex and/or long form projects
should post those timeline printscreens to show how far it goes.
Remember not to “size to fit” them though, ‘cos there’s a bug there, mind you…Don’t be shy, c’mon!
Share your adventures with the people.I expect all the high profile paying jobs won’t make it though,
due to the corporate privacy policies, but that’s OK.
We can stick to one or another of a number of several ones being cut. -
“I’ve enjoyed learning it and finding what it is capable of and for me in most respects it’s faster than FCP7
I’ve actually used much buggier software from both Avid and Adobe in the past.”
I’m sorry but that was what I’ve got from your earlier statement above.
Aren’t you saying that FCPX is much better than other NLE releases?
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OK, very strong argument you have there…
Just because sometime in a decade ago there were buggy NLEs
we’re supposed to embrace all buggyness now and just go for a V1 software ?Yeah, that’s a sound advice….not!
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Steve, you wouldn’t recommend a V1 software, right?
But at the same time you’re gonna edit a feature with it, though?
WOW! talking about Knight-errant…
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It seems obvious by now that people using FCPX for paid jobs
are using it as a tool for cutting small DSLR projects onto their laptops.That’s fine for me BTW, but once they hit the “undo” wall or “reconnect” wall
(or many other walls that are part of a beta program)
they can just start over from scratch, and all for the speed, right?If only these DSLR-three-minute-jobs were the entirety of the industry…
Life would be easier with FCPX, indeed.Thank you all beta-testers and Knights-errant out there!