Cécile Féat
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Interesting thread, I’ve been battling with sort of the same issues lately, and was wondering if both of you could give me an insight since I know Bill is a fervant FCPX admirer (no offence!! :-)) and Jonathan seems to be used to PPro.
Before I explain, I’m still working on FCP7 (ok you can start booing now…). The company I work for (In Belgium and I’m French so I apologize in advance for any mistakes :p) has been holding up on all the updating and upgrading process these past years. Was never the right time, always extremely busy and therefore just not ready to upgrade and risk being out of the system for a while (TV channels don’t appreciate that very much, especially when you’re supposed to deliver over 15 hours of TV shows a week every week for two different countries.) But now is the time for change at last! YAY!
We essentially work with light multi-cam footage (by light I mean 2 to 4 cameras, so max 4 layers after synch, not 100. Yikes!), and interviews. (Seen Hell’s Kithchen? Pretty much the same thing for example).
But our editing technique is exactly the same. We tower up the layers, and toggle/untoggle them at will. The reason we work like this is because we constantly need to shift the clips around. The synch is important at first, but to “illustrate” we always need to fetch other shots from other parts of the masterclip (ie Headshots, food shots whatever). Which makes using the Multi-Cam features a huge pain in the back ^^ Or maybe we just got it wrong ? We’re so used to getting things done that way that we never really took (or had for that matter) time to think about working differently.So here’s my question: we’re thinking of upgrading either to FCPX or PPro CC. What are your thoughts?
We have approx 15 stations, old Macpros we’re bound to change anyway, work with a RAID and a SAN with access for every station of course, have 2 sound stations with Protools and Nuendo also linked, mostly receive XDCAM footage (although regularly input some other formats), occasionnally need to handle 4K for publicity jobs (although we all now 4K is going to spread everywhere so we have to prepare). But most of our jobs really consist of entertainment, broadcasting, reality TV shows. Handling huge amount of data with each time several hours of footage, and long timelines once the edit is done (always over 30min, frequently over 1H30).
AND our journalists start working on the program before us (Haha the assistant editor returns!) so you can double up the number of workstations and access for them (imac or mini). Projects switch hands numerous times before the final export, and ounce the sounmix is done there are always important editing changes after client viewing. So we need to be able to jump around the heavy projects easily, make the changes easily on all tracks (often at this stage we have over 50 audio tracks)Do you think Première would handle it correctly? I’ve been hearing people saying PPro isn’t that much liked by editors who work on documentaries or with large amount of data. Do you find it to be true? Or is it running ok?
And what of FCPX? Seems very interesting for plenty of reasons, but I’ve never read anything about using it in a linked environment, with multiple access and again large amount of data, and the libraries will have to be organised by the ingest department so we won’t have much access to it (probably almost none). I’m not even going to start on the time it’s going to take for our editors to get used to the timeline ^^ but they’ll have to anyway!Sorry for the long post, maybe I should have posted this directly in the top section. But I wanted to have your feedback 🙂
Cécile