Don Scioli
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Bill -I was one of the most virulent critics of X when it came out, cursing it on a daily basis. But one they improved it and I took the time to learn it, it has really saved me time and effort. For a small production operation like I have, it meets every requirement I can think of. It took me much less time to become fluent on X than on 7, Avid, or PP.
Go for the gusto, baby, and dive in. You can charge the same yet work less time on projects with X, and the client will never know.
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Though I purchased FCPX when it came out, I messed around with it for a while, then took a course when 10.05 was released and I haven;t even opened 7 in over a year.
I cut a feature length doc with it, using hours of raw footage, in such a quick turnaround using the awesome skimmer, that it took me less than a month to have a fine cut. 7 would have taken much longer, at least 2-3 months.We’ve also done a bunch of commercials, marketing tapes, web videos and even some 2 hour long conference videos with multi cam. Allow me to say that multi cam on X is one of the man made wonders of the modern world. It’s quick, fun, intuitive and fast as hell. I don’t even know if 7 did multi cam, but X did it great…I watched one video on how to do multi cam and off to the races.
I’ve been involved in film/video since the days of the Moviola in film school and X is the best editing platform yet.
I have Avid 6, PP5.5 and 7 on my Mac Pro and haven’t even opened them in over a year.
And these were all paying gigs.BTW, I have it right from the horses mouth that Apple is 100% behind FCPX and will continue to innovate it from here on.
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That’s great info, MIchael, thanks!
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Linda.com was the best for me, really helped me get into it and I have been using it on paying jobs for over a year now.
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I like the shot selection and composition, but i don’t like the desaturated/monochromatic/Matrix/Live Free or Die Hard film stock look, it’s too common today and i just don’t think it’s pretty.
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What about something radical, like Quantum computing?
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Outside of just p[laying around with X, I really learned how to use it well with the lynda.com series on FPCX :essential training. Well worth the price and very easy to follow and understand.
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the Northern California film community, industrial, education, feature indie and commercials seems to have embraced FCPX pretty well, especially with 10.0.6. It’s also all over the educational market and schools as well.
We’re doing all our feature doc work and wine films with it as well.
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Duh, i could have told you it was fast 6 months ago,
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Rich- No tape used, all original photography was done to a CF card, the archival stuff was downloaded from online sources such as YouTube or iTunes, or given to me by the producers from a download site. All stills were downloaded from the net or captured by my mac.
Hope this helps.
Don