[David Roth weiss]

Oleg,

Please use the Cow search function and search for VFX.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Yes, that definitely possible, but you’ll have to either purchase one of the many terrific tutorials available (I recommend Ripple Training), or download on of the many free offerings on YouTube.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

It’s called VFX (i.e. visual effects), and you either go to a school that specializes in VFX or start at the very bottom working for a company that specializes in VFX.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Bingo Herb!!!

Had Apple handled the migration with even a modicum of dignity and respect for their customers, the same love that users still have for their legacy product would still be bestowed on the entire company and its other products. But, I’d bet Apple lost just as many fanboys and fangirls in one day as they’ve gained in the five years since. (***One need only compare the FCP Forum, both past and present, with this place to see how the level of Apple excitement went from many individuals to just a few – of course that could also be attributed to the relative coolness of the forum leaders on FCP Legacy Forum.)

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

[Tim Wilson] ” Is it now easier to find a job in LA with Premiere than X?”

While I have no official polling results, I can assure you, finding knowlegable Premiere editors is much, much easier here than finding knowledgable FCPX editors, . And, for those of you who think experience and expertise are overvalued, they certainly aren’t considered so in the top markets, such as LA.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Why Shawn? Adobe just made their 64-bit full rewrite of Premiere into a very FCP 8-like NLE with better support for migrating from FCP 7 than Apple’s own replacement product. They had no need to purchase FCP and we’re obviously already in progress on CC long before Apple gave them the big boost that FCPX handed over to them.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Sorry Tim, but Andrew’s play by play resonates with me more than yours. You certainly know about about the inner workings of the manufacturers, developers, and marketers, but your take on the reason FCP users were so pissed- off sounds more like a reaction from an Apple insider than someone who understands the customer response, and you seem to have an “open market” mentality, that all is fair in business, not matter who gets hurt in the process. The reality is, Apple abandoned its customers with NO warning (not 3-weeks or 3-months), gave no thought to providing an interim solution to ease the pain of those who had invested long-term in the legacy product, and in fact, as you nicely pointed out, planned that long before springing it on their loyal customer base.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Tim,

While I’m not 100% up to date on all QT vulnerabilities, I do know that this is not going away anytime soon, and anyone with any assets and information they value should get a strategic plan underway to migrate away from the QT crutch as soon as possible. As you well know, when it comes to security, the cost of complacency is exponentially greater than the cost of the security measures necessary to protect your livelihood.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Certainly it does… All NLEs work with Kona cards except Resolve, which requires a Blackmagic card.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

X does indeed support 4K both natively and by transcoding to a mezzanine codec such as ProRes, which it does in the background. That being said, X does require that experienced users learn entirely new and unfamiliar nomenclature and editing techniques that are unfamiliar to most and require a learning curve that many are not willing to take the time to learn. In my opinion Premirre and Resolve offer most FCP user the easiest and most inuitve path for migration to a new NLE.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.