[Gary Huff]

[Bill Davis] “I respect your opinion, but it’s an increasingly uncommon one.”

Not in my world. I routinely see “Final Cut Pro experience requires (NOT X)” and hear similar things dismissive of it. I do believe it is rather unfair as FCPX has come a long way since its debut, but I still see no reason to switch back to an NLE that ties my entirely into the OSX ecosystem with little tangible benefit over my current setup with Premiere CS6.

[Bill Davis] “”take away” is that it’s possible to use FCP-X for high-level broadcast work if you’re willing and flexible enough to adapt to how it operates.”

Back to my original point, I routinely see “flexible” as involving workarounds and “tricks” in order to make FCPX “behave”. I have no interest in tricking the NLE to work the way I need it to.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a lot of going from FCP7 to FCPX, with no in-depth investigation of Premiere CS6 or AVID or Vegas Edius or any of the others. I guess that would make FCPX seem far more interesting than it actually is when comparing directly with FCP7. I have worked with FCP7 and Premiere since version 5 (non pro) and Vegas up to version 8 and a bit of FCPX. Premiere CS6 does what I need, and I enjoy editing in it, and nothing I’ve played with in FCPX or seen from the updates gives me any desire to switch.

[Gary Huff]

[Robin lewis] “I enjoy it a lot, with the third party extras like X2Pro ECT its faster, more fun and just feels better than all the other NLE.”

In your opinion. I’ve worked with it before and I still enjoy editing in Premiere CS6 far more. And this “faster” thing is completely nebulous.

[Robin lewis] “of course still has a long way to go but certainly is not as bad as people make out!”

Which is funny, because I read of people’s workflows on here and they all seem to be filled with work-arounds and attempts to “trick” the magnetic timeline to do what they want it to. It seems like a lot of effort just to use the NLE, and feels like, “I’m going to make this work if it kills me!” I’d prefer to work in something that doesn’t require that right off the bat.

[Gary Huff]

[Benjamin Mullins] “is it reasonable to expect touchscreen NLE’s in the near future and do you think this would be an even faster workflow? What would you like to see in a touchscreen NLE and how do you think it might work for the user?”

I think it’s reasonable to expect someone to try it. It will be physically tiring to use and you won’t have fine control without having to massively zoom in the interface. It’s something that looks cool, but otherwise isn’t very practical for day-to-day editing.

[Gary Huff]

[Mark Dobson] “but at the end of day it can work really well and produces sparklingly good results”

But that’s the thing…so can every other NLE out there.

[Gary Huff]

[alban egger] “In his initial postings about FCPX and CS6 it seemed like he had deadlines and no time to learn anything new on that side of the production.”

Or maybe he just doesn’t want to fight the timeline in order to edit the way he wants?

[Gary Huff]

[Tim Wilson] “Sorry to be repetitious, but I think this is pretty cool stuff.”

Yes, all we need now is for Apple to open source ProRes like they did their lossless codec, and there will be peace in our time.

[Gary Huff]

[Oliver Peters] “The big exception is native camera codecs on the timeline (something I’m not a fan of BTW).”

Yes. I just love telling a client, “Sorry, but I have to spend a few hours transcoding all this footage before I can start working on it.”

[Gary Huff]

[Craig Seeman] “Telestream Episode Engine can encode to ProRes on Windows. Not cheap but for bigger facilities that can afford the $4k for an enterprise encoder, it can be done.”

5DtoRGB can do it on Windows…for free. Though, admittedly, only one file at a time.

EDIT: Tim beat me to it.

[Gary Huff]

Jackson seems like a young guy, so he may not be aware of his ability to re-sell this software. Jackson, you should be more specific about how the auction winner will actually end up possessing FCPX.

[Gary Huff]

[Bernard Newnham] “The switch to PCs at this point is a no-brainer. That doesn’t mean that it’s a permanent answer, but if you need to be up with the pack, or preferably ahead, there’s no point in locking yourself into a customer base where products are limited and mostly out-dated. Buy a PC, use it.”

And you can even hedge your bets and purchase components that are ripe for turning your PC into a Hackintosh if you ever decide to go back to OSX.