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Interesting you guys use the term professional a lot. Professionals I know do not switch software packages in the middle of projects. I am not pointing you out in particular, but quite a few on here have obviously done so.

It certainly makes me not take their opinion seriously. As far as not posting, I read mostly. Its where you learn the most you know? Listening and reading. To be honest the only reason I signed up to post here was the simple fact FCP X is completely new. There are no existing forums to use the search function on. I was forced to inquire rather than read existing information.

There you go, now you know why my account was created on release day.

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If I was archiving that amount of work, then sure tape is a good option. I personally do hard drives myself. When they are full I transfer projects to blue ray.

Buddy

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You do not have to do that. It is a preference.

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Why would anyone change to a software that they didn’t know in mid cycle of a high pressure project? I cannot understand this.

Before my companies would take anything mainstream, it would be tested by a select few, only then would it be seriously considered as a mainstay. If you have high pressure projects like the one you mentioned, I highly suggest you revert back to FCP7 to get it done. As I said in a previous thread, even if Final Cut X had all of the things you guys wanted right now. You would be in over your head trying to complete a professional project 35 hours after a brand new software package was installed. This was not FCP7.5, apple made this clear up front. You could see from the screen shots that it didn’t look anything like FCP7 or previous versions.

I respect your views and feel your pain, yet I have to question your thought process attempting to do a project this fast on a ver 1.0 software that was just rebuilt from the ground up. I mean no disrespect to you what so ever.

Apple should have been more clear that this wasn’t going to be something you could just install and use current knowledge to edit. This is for sure.

Buddy C

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They really should have named this Final Cut Digital Pro X. So all of the 1980’s tape users wouldn’t have had a creativecow (no pun intended). I do not mean any disrespect, but was discussing this situation with an editor I know. He has worked in television and such and ask me “who still uses tapes?”. He now works with HDSLR work flow.

Digital is where its at…even hollywood is understanding this now. Seriously though just for my knowledge, why not Solid state drive system like Red? It can’t be cost, because even at 19 grand they do not cost what your typical news crew camera runs. I believe those are around 70k, or used to be. Not to mention they film 5k.

PS Do not take my sarcasm as an insult, I am just having some fun with the negative nancys on here.

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overreact
verb
before you overreact, let’s just calmly discuss this: react disproportionately, act irrationally, lose one’s sense of proportion, blow something up out of all proportion, make a mountain out of a molehill.

🙂 I couldn’t resist.

Please jump from the Apple Train onto the Avid wagon if you must. Just make sure when your at the train station in 3 months that you haven’t used up all your money on the wagon tickets.

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Matt,
Read my response :). I have been reading the forums here for about 2 years. Do not mistake me for a fanboi or whatever you like to call someone hopelessly devoted to something.

I am upset with a few things in Final Cut X as well. I am neutral in my views, and will withhold my judgement for 6 months or so. X does what I need it too now so I am not terribly concerned from an editing standpoint.

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I agree with you and wouldn’t be to happy, BUT if they had just rewritten it from the ground up and left it out then thats a different story. Things get complex when you rewrite for 64 bit, as in your plugins are done until a rewrite can also be processed.

I would patiently wait and use my old version until they fixed it. People are so impatient these days. No wonder we have so much road rage and such going on. The world still takes 365 days to circle the earth, yet you would think someone changed it to 50.

Buddy

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Pessimistic
adjective
a pessimistic outlook on life: gloomy, negative, defeatist, downbeat, cynical, bleak, fatalistic, dark, black, despairing, despondent, depressed, hopeless; suspicious, distrustful, doubting. ANTONYMS optimistic.

Life is good and in a couple of months Final Cut Pro X will be just fine (even for the PROS!). As I said before Final Cut Pro 7 didn’t quit working yesterday did it? I could see all of this anger being well placed if it did.

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Actually I have been an avid reader of creative cow for some time. I never really wanted to post or be active in the forum community. I spent most of my time reading the AE forums. I enjoy compositing much more than editing.

I do not work for apple, I am just trying to open your eyes a tad bit, so that you can see the light. I know its hard to trust someone over the internet, but I can assure you that my intentions are sincere. I am not associated with Apple what so ever.

What I do know is that you cannot judge a book by its cover. People haven’t even had time to read the manual, much less dig into the program. I understand that its missing some very important components for which you guys rely on. I actually like the idea of being able to depend on my old faithful program while I learn a new software. As I said before, taking on new projects to cut in X would be foolish even if Final Cut X had addressed all of your issues. It is completely different and therefore will take time to get acclimated too a new work flow.