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[Alan Okey] “…Avid are way behind the times for not including advanced masking tools “
Avid’s Animatte is a pretty sophisticated set of integrated masking tools. Here’s a picture from an overview our pal Oliver Peters wrote in 2009.
I haven’t checked it recently vs. built-in masking tools in other NLEs, so I can’t evaluate how “fresh” these features feel, but the paint and tracking features in Animatte are also pretty cool, and when I was still editing, I wasn’t aware of anything else as sophisticated in its price range.
And if we’re talking plug-ins, Boris has had masking and motion tracking for masks built into ALL of the Continuum Complete filters, for 10 years.
But it doesn’t plug into X yet, and costs a lot more than SliceX’s $49. 🙂 That’s an insane price, and CoreMelt makes really good, really fast filters. Even without seeing SliceX, I can recommend it based on Roger’s previous work.
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[Michael Gissing] “Rather than neutral it seems like a highjack – but nice try Bill.”
LOL
But agreed, Michael. Some of the most valuable discussions here have been very much about the “or not,” involving Premiere and Media Composer of course, but also Sony Vegas on home-built PCs, Pro Tools, hackintoshes, non-product-specific workflows, and much more. Frankly, if the forum was even MOSTLY about FCPX, it’d be kind of dull at this point…but that’s nowhere true.
(Of course, if you want to talk about getting dull, I have to admit that this topic is at the tippy top of my list right now.)
And even though most of the threads are mostly positive at this point, the “whether or not” debate is not only not settled, but changes with every new update for FCPX, Media Composer, Premiere, iMac, you name it.
If anything, the word in the title that should go is FCPX…except that none of the other discussions would be happening at all without it.
Moving on now…please?
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[Paul Jay] “It should be Final Cut Pro X . It’s here to stay”
Guys, you get that there’s an FCPX forum that’s focused on using FCPX rather than talking about it, right? You can find it in THIS LINK, or in the orange nav bar above, right where it’s been for over a year. It’s the second-busiest at the COW, and one of the busiest single forums on any technical topic, anywhere on the web.
And just in case you missed the link in my previous paragraph, or in the orange nav bar at the top of the page, HERE IT IS AGAIN.
[Paul Jay] “And i like Premiere too! Which can be found in the PREMIERE PRO forum.”
Those are the equivalent of the FCPX forum FOUND HERE.
In general, forums go away when nobody posts in them anymore…so being in a forum and posting that it needs to go away isn’t exactly helping. It’s more effective when you contribute to the LACK of posts here….which in fact are not lacking at all, which is why this forum ain’t going anywhere.
And hey, if you’re looking for a forum that talks about using FCPX, the best and biggest on the web is RIGHT HERE.
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[Chris Jacek] “my mental roledex of Beatles songs has taught me that most of the silly lyrics were sung by John and Ringo.”
I’ll remind you of Ob-la-di Ob-la-da and the entirety of Blue Jay Way – plenty of silliness from Paul and George too. 🙂
[willy pimentel] “And there is also another forum that is for techniques .. This is confusing … The name of the forum should be Fcp x.”
This forum is shaped differently than any others in the COW because FCPX evolved differently. It started with the debate!
The COW’s original FCP forum was the most trafficked on the web — and still is! — but FCPX posts were coming in like wildfire during Apple’s presentation at NAB 2011. We formed THIS forum while Apple was still on stage, to keep the signal high in the FCP forum.
In fact, there was only one thread when we flipped the switch on the FCPX or Not: The Debate! It was a long thread mind you, and getting longer fast — and it was obvious that there were going to be a lot more threads in short order. They needed a place where they could be their own signal.
If admittedly sometimes a very noisy signal. LOL But I hadn’t actually thought about that process in a long time. This forum wasn’t invented. It evolved out of the original FCP forum in real time, starting with one very spirited thread.
Once FCPX was available to actually USE, ironically, the “work” of FCPX became its own kind of noise in THIS forum, so we did the same thing as before: lit up a forum for a community that was already underway, but needed its own home for “signal.”
So, renaming this forum is possible, if for now unlikely. The consensus remains that it’s working.
Merging the two FCPX forums: impossible. They formed organically from the conversations among our members as their own communities, to respond to very different needs, each of which is incompatible with the other, and each incredibly valuable.
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Hey Nick, sorry I misread your post…we’re in agreement…
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[Neil Goodman] “Not to mention ive learned more from this forum about FCX and other NLES than i have anywhere on the net.”
I think you’re kind of both right. Willy, you’re certainly right that many people who’ve been here for a while are settling into a position that’s only occasionally a hard yes or a hard no…
…but Neil is right that each new release brings a new set of issues, and a new set of people coming to the forum who are encountering X for the first time, or in a new context.
Neil is also right that we’re talking about many more topics than FCPX…almost all of them more interesting. LOL
Since we’re not necessarily debating FCPX or not anymore, and there’s a panoply of debates, maybe we should rename it FCPX And The Debates, like Martha And The Vandellas.
In the meantime, come for the FCPX, stay for The Eebates!
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[Bret Williams] “More evidence that there’s an iMac pro in the works, and not a MacPro.”
Probably truer than not, but not based on the Intel intel. (See what I did there?)
Apple has been the top OEM semiconductor buyer since 2010 – they bought 24% of everything out there in 2011. (#2 was Samsung, with 14.8%.) And Apple is expected to show a 12% increase over that in 2012! Linky.
When you’re buying up 27% of an entire tech sector all by yourself, you’re in a position to dictate pretty strong terms. They’ve also bought a number of chip companies, and entered into strong partnerships with others. I know that building desktop chips isn’t the same as building mobile chips, which is what most of their custom fab has been until now….but who knows? This could be the shot fired over Intel’s bow for them to get more aligned with Apple’s needs…or maybe Apple is ready to put its stamp on another business.
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[Nick Griffin] “I suspect that much of what we hear from Bob is more a reflection of how hard he pushes himself, not the prospects.”
It’s actually the opposite. He’s not annoying in any individual contact, because who wants to work with somebody annoying? He’s gracious, warm, humble, witty, one of the most enjoyable guys you’ll ever spend time with. A lot of his clients are in the world of GOLF. Annoying doesn’t sell. SELLING sells, and when it comes to selling, Bob absolutely is that relentless.
To use his example of needing 8 years to get Disney as a client — if you think he’s exaggerating, you haven’t been a one-man band in Orlando trying to get Disney as a client. He didn’t ask them just once. He didn’t just ask them 8 times. Or just 16 times. Or a couple of times in the beginning and check back later. That’s not how you get a job with Disney.
The fact is that we have it easy in this business. We really do. Insurance guys, they push this hard all the time. Realtors, even harder. They literally put their face out there. If Rick Marotta or Wendy Lewis isn’t getting it done, you can see their face on that sign, staring back at you for months and months while the property doesn’t sell. Those guys don’t get to sniff around a couple of times and walk away for a year, or put out a sign and hope for the best.
You come back week after week after week. EVERY week.Why do you think that Rotary, Chamber of Commerce and all those other guys keep getting together? Some of it is to swap stories and get support, but some of it is because THOSE ARE THEIR PROSPECTS. And they work them every Tuesday for breakfast, and every Wednesday for lunch.
Maybe because I hustled my video business the same way, but I don’t think Bob exaggerates at all. If anything, I think he makes it sound easy because he paints such a clear picture of it. Finding new ways of asking the same prospects over and over without being annoying is HARD. But you have to play for keeps, and keep playing, or think of a way to get your resume to the top of the stack with all the 60 year olds wanting $9/hr assistant manager jobs at Petco.
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Congratulations on doing something. An awful lot of people make an awful lot of noise without moving forward, and it sounds like you’ve taken good steps toward a more secure future.
I gotta know, though. What was your move? How FAR out of the industry? Because I saw a sign at Petco that they needed an assistant manager and nearly jumped at it….
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This was an administrative “typo” on my part. Sorry about that. I was trying to save our heavily-burdened IT department a few steps, and just clicked the wrong thing.
I pledge that I will return to burdening our IT department. 🙂
My apologies. I agree, Mark — this is the last forum on the COW that needed any tinkering.
Thanks,
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