[David Mathis]

[Andrew Kimery] “What are you talking about Bill? You can pay for a year up front. One time annual charge (not to mention the grace period). You can even pay for multiple years up front if you are worried about price creep.

I guess your anti-FUD stance is limited to just FCPX. ;)”

How much difference in cost is there between a 12 month plan upfront compared to pay on a monthly basis? I would have no issue going this direction but at present no clear exit strategy. This is why I am not willing to subscribe at the moment. Offer an exit strategy, and one that is fair for everyone then I will consider joining. Until then I am taking the other fork in the road.

[David Mathis]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “As an aside – I just got my first paid gig on premiere CC. To be fair – it really is lovely: sliding your finger up on the magic mouse to expand VA tracks is honestly something of a little dream.
And that timeline will eat literally anything. I think if I tossed a beta SP tape physically at the imac, Premiere would try and get it on the timeline.”

I am thinking about jumping in with both feet but not head first. Not sure how deep the water is or if there is a huge rock for me to get injured on. Besides the undercurrent I am not sure what might be in the water.

Looks like we have arrived at “The Twilight Zone” kids!

[David Mathis]

[Richard Herd] ”
I’m about an inch from going to 7 for it’s fields and then XML over to CS6.”

Is it safe to have 7 and X on the same drive? I prefer not to have the need to partition the drive unless it is necessary. I assume Color and Resolve can be on the same drive as well.

[David Mathis]

[Darren Roark] ”
No it’s not just you. Just turn off ‘background rendering’ in the prefs if your GPU can handle it.”

On occasion I get a message about dropped frames but that is specific so far to one plug-in, everything else works fine. I have it turned off now which does help.

[David Mathis]

[Richard Herd] “Don’t omit Speed Grade! WOW!!”

I have never used Speed Grade before as I really like Resolve which is really nice.

I am thinking of going back to Premiere Pro as it seems a better tool than FCP X at the moment. For some reason in X there are areas where there are more extra steps to go through than is really necessary, just my opinion.

I also like to save several versions of a project, this way if something gets corrupted there is always another version available.

Not sure if it is me but FCP loves to create all kinds of render files which can quickly eat up drive space if you are not careful. Not a real issue with Premiere Pro as far as my experience has been.

I also love the “Dynamic Link” feature that Adobe has. I also like the fact you can import an AE project into Premiere, make any necessary changes and everything will update like it should, for the most part. At present there is no way of directly importing a Motion project in FCP X, why I will never know. There is no fast way of getting a FCP X timeline into Motion as well. Very disappointing to say the least.

I will say the color correction tools in X are nice for simple to intermediate stuff. Anything that is more involved or can be done better there is Resolve ready for action.

[David Mathis]

[Marcus Moore] ”
AE has built-in particles, but anyone who’s serious uses Particular.”

Zing! Particular rocks! It is powerful, flexible and fun!

[David Mathis]

[Charlie Austin] “Bio-Sensing Edit Hat.”

Sounds like something from that movie where Christopher Lloyd plays a deranged scientist that went off the deep end.

[David Mathis]

Four things I would like to see:

1. More plug-ins Adobe wins hands down
2. Expressions, parameters seem to require a couple of steps too many and are not as flexible
3. Null object
4. The ability to parent layers together

Bonus round:
Sent To Motion in X Why is this feature no longer there?

[David Mathis]

I am keeping my eye on Resolve for the moment. At present it is not meant to be a NLE like Avid, FCP, Premiere or any other NLE out there. It does like it could be a competitor to Smoke should it continue to go where I think it is going. That would be a great thing. Resolve is powerful, gets the job done and could very well become even better. Interesting times are just around the corner.

[David Mathis]

A big thanks to everyone who participated and gave feedback. It was both entertaining and useful. The only other thing missing is the “Send To Motion” command. Perhaps there is a reason this has not been implemented as of yet.