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As I said, I like FCP so I won’t argue against it, but some of our clients can’t wrap their thinking around it when they see it advertised in a Mac Warehouse catalog (actually what they see is the $495 upgrade price). They think of wedding videos on VHS, edited on Premiere (nothing against Premiere except that they dropped Mac).

We know some guys in this area with FCP on a G4 laptop that will shoot on a handheld DV camcorder, then edit in their van and give the client a VHS copy within 2 hours total.

It looks cheap, and that’s why so many of our clients shy away from FCP and say that it is not professional.

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A lot of my clients will walk out of an edit suite that is running FCP since it is still considered a prosumer product. Image is everything in this business. That’s why we just added an older Avid system. Now we have “bragging rights” with the Avid name. If I was going to add a FCP system (for color corrections, etc.) I would hide it and not let the clients even know that I had it.

I do like FCP, it just has the stigma of being a cheap (under $1000) system, so it obviously cannot be “professional” in the clients thinking.

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Thanks. I did not shoot it, the ad agency hired a shooter out of Dallas to shoot the project. He told me that he always shoots in 24p and never has a problem with it on his FCP or Avid DVX. I should have told him to use a professional editing system instead of a prosumer system. I did notice that when I played it back on my DSR-30 that it looked like crap. I just thought I could do something to “Fix it in post.” Thanks again.