[Gary Huff]

[Charlie Austin] “And I think that many folks, particularly those who are busy, don’t get there. Whether due to time constraints, or just feeling like it’s not worth it. That’s not a “you just don’t get it” statement, I had to push myself to get over it. For me, it was worth it. For others, maybe not. All I can tell you is that I spend more time cursing at the screen in other NLE’s now because of all the stuff I now take for granted that they can’t do. YMMV. :-)”

But here’s the thing, it totally comes across as a “you just don’t get it” statement. I have done an entire project in FCPX, and had both good times and bad. But, at the end of the day, it was simply refreshing for me to return to Premiere for then next project. I feel like I know FCPX pretty well, and I absolutely do not hate it. But it’s a little too “pretty” in a way that takes up screen real-estate (not that Premiere couldn’t use some UI overhaul itself), and ultimately it’s just a different way of doing things…nothing of which I felt saved me time or headache.

[Charlie Austin] ” I’m curious what you felt was fighting you.”

Replacing clips in the timeline. My project was a music video and so it’s the constantly evolving piece. I found that the clips would go out of sync with the music if you tried to replace or trim anything (say you wanted to shorten one clip and extend another to keep everything else surrounding it in time with the music, but just wanted to trim up a particular section to make it work better. FCPX would constantly move things around on you and when you selected the mode to add the gaps, then you’d have to remove the gaps, sometimes which left just the littlest black space in the video…totally annoying).

[Gary Huff]

[Chris Kenny] “Now, maybe the puck gets there faster because you’re there waiting for it (the metaphor starts to break down here), but it still takes time.”

The problem is that the “revolution” in editing is primarily the magnetic timeline…which doesn’t exactly engender warm fuzzies…plenty of people touting workarounds to get around that magnetic timeline. In my own experience, I found it worked for me about 40-50% of the time, with the rest of the time it fought me in what I wanted to do.

Everything else in FCPX is basically a “faster horse”, save for the database functionality which has already existed before (FCP Server) and has dubious benefit for someone like myself who tends to work on a one project basis and then archives it off into cold storage.

[Gary Huff]

[Joseph W. Bourke] ”
Unproven claims and fiery rhetoric seems to be the theme of the day…”

There must have been some Merlot involved!

[Gary Huff]

[Joseph W. Bourke] “Have you tried SoShare? It’s found at SoShareIt.com, and it lets you send up to a TB for free. You create an account – free – then you just email the link to the receiving party. I’ve used it on several large projects recently, and it works like a charm!”

Joseph, I signed up based on your recommendation, but haven’t used it yet. Glad to see you still pimping it, because I plan to try it with the very next client who already doesn’t have a pre-set solution I have to use.

[Gary Huff]

[John Davidson] “If you had watched my workflow videos this would not be news to you. The last plugins I bought were the Tiffen filters, which just operated slowly and we have never used them again since purchase. As we add systems life is just dramatically simpler if we don’t have to deal with any third party plugins. I want to be able to open up my project on an air if I want without some ridiculous license. This is how we work and it works well for us.”

That’s fine, but I find great benefit from the plugins I use and find the idea to not use 3rd party plugins to be patently ridiculous.

If that was the case with any other NLE, there would be howls of derision.

[Gary Huff]

[John Davidson] “We don’t work with third party plugins that aren’t sold off the Mac App store, not even FX Factory ones. You can build so many of your own in motion without all the hassle of maintaining them, checking if they’re updated, reinstalling, etc.”

I’m at a loss for words. Seriously? Come on, now.

[Gary Huff]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Especially since an iCould sync will not update you and might delete your appointments/reminders.”

This does seem to explain why my synced Bookmarks go missing about once a week, which requires a reboot every time.

Just works.

[Gary Huff]

[Steve Connor] “We do, because of all the paid work we are doing with it!”

Paid work you’d still be getting with AVID or Premiere…and no green frames.

But then you wouldn’t be worshiping APPLE.

EDIT: Oh I guess you could do a lot internally…like Curv…nevermind.

[Gary Huff]

[Franz Bieberkopf] “I suggest that a name change might be considered for the forum, to reflect both the shift in discussion (and the hope that it broadens further), and – perhaps more importantly – to rather dampen the temptation to invective that “The Debate” moniker may be contributing to, above and beyond its use as a lightning rod and beacon for exchange of information, data, views, and object graph management.”

…what is this, the like tenth time now this has been brought up?

[Gary Huff]

[Craig Seeman] “But no “professional” uses FCPX. Why oh why would the company that makes Mocha have any interest in providing a Roto feature for FCPX”

Because they know that FCPX users have cash to burn!