David Burch
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Honestly this is not one of the things that worries me. Compound clips seems to be the new method of nesting sequences, and I actually like that. Honestly, I think I would be happy at this point if Apple added multiclip editing and XML/OMF support. I think I can work around everything else.
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Some of us have on-going projects with repeat clients that we would really like to migrate to FCPX due to some of its features.
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Let me ask you something: did you ever use Multi-clip editing in Vegas? Is that even an option? I can tell you that for my workflow it is absolutely essential. I also have been very excited about this release, but I’m dumbfounded they left this key feature out. For many of us, the issue isn’t learning a new workflow or new mindset for editing. It’s that we depend on certain features, such as XML, editing to tape, and in my case Multiclip. If you can show me a better or even comparable way of achieving the same thing in FCPX as I could in FCP7 with multiclip, I’m all for it.
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I haven’t had much of a chance to play with it yet, but my guess is that they essentially want to do away with the need to go into the Finder to load your project. “Events” are basically project files now, except they’re accessed within FCP itself. The one thing I can’t figure out is why you can’t go deeper than the root level on any drive to save events in.
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I agree with your final point. If this really is the intended end product, then they really missed the mark. I don’t know who they think will stick with this if it doesn’t change, and amateurs that don’t need the missing features will be more than happy with the free iMovie.
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Agreed. If, however, six months go by and still no word from Apple, I’m going to seriously start looking at Avid for the first time.
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It isn’t the new features that’s the problem, or the concept of change. It’s the lack of old features that are absolutely essential to many pro workflows. Imagine you owned a kayak and were forced to “upgrade” to a new model that was very streamlined and much more maneuverable but didn’t come with a paddle. You can’t just say “Paddles are old, moving with my hands is a change I welcome!”. Change is good as long as it is in the right direction. With FCPX, many of us feel like we were just set back 10 years.
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I’m ok with the new workflow…in fact I welcome a lot of the advantages it brings. It’s the missing features I’m really concerned about. Features like multi-clip editing, being able to load old projects, and being able to export an XML so I can send my audio tracks to Logic. I’m hoping that these things will be addressed in the near future, but right now that hope is very tentative.
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My experience is that it doesn’t overwrite anything, but it does replace the icon on your hotbar. I’m not sure how to get both of them on there, and I can’t seem to make an alias of FCP or rename the original. Anybody know how I can have both versions 7 and X on my quick launch bar?
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When you’re making critical business decisions regarding the future of your company, things like this can be more than enough to make people jump ship and go with an entirely different platform. We need to know that Apple hasn’t abandoned certain features altogether, and if they haven’t how long we can expect to wait before they come back. It can mean the difference of thousands of dollars in investments. For instance, FCP was the entire reason our company invested in Apple products to begin with. Were it not for this, we would easily have gone down PC path and invested in Premiere or Avid. Today we have many thousands of dollars invested in multiple mac platforms, an AJA Kona LHe, Logic Studio, and multiple licenses of FCS3, as well as the mac versions of Adobe Creative Suite and Office.
Having so much invested in Mac means that I want desperately to be able to continue using Final Cut as our editing software. However, if these key issues are not addressed in a timely manner and I’m forced to continue using FCP7 indefinitely, this creates a HUGE problem for the future.
We are a relatively small company. The decision to stay with Apple or not is a huge one for us, but it is even bigger for larger companies with not thousands but hundreds of thousands or even millions to lose if the wrong decision is made. It really is a big deal.