Gary Huff
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[Steve Connor] David, can you elaborate, what exactly stops you from doing the same thing in an FCPX timeline than you do in a FCP7 timeline?
Steve, perhaps you would like to re-read David’s comment that you yourself quoted?
[David Lawrence] “BTW, I’ve never said you can’t build a project like my example in FCPX. I’ve done it. My issue is that the constraints of the magnetic timeline make the process inefficient.“
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No, what I’m saying is that what you did with the hard drives shouldn’t have impact how much CPU was being utilized.
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[David Lawrence]On the project I just finished, I posted a four and a half minute segment cut from a ~1 hour interview with a single subject. The speaker is interesting and engaging, but his speaking style is full of pauses and tangential thoughts. His final ~4 minute actuality has close to 300 edits. I craft the pauses, add or pull breaths and even construct entirely new sentences to make him succinct and editorially on point. It sounds perfect. You accept it as his actual speech without question. This is pretty typical of the work I do.
I do this a lot too, even on videos that, to someone ignorant of what was actually shot, seem simple enough. And this is also why FCPX is slower for me than using track-based NLEs.
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[Michael Brassert]You have to wonder how much damage has been done to the Apple brand.
I would say: not much. Apple is far above now a consumer gadget company, and boy do we love those gadgets. A very small (REALLY small) segment of Apple’s customer base is miffed at them for FCPX.
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[Jeremy Garchow]Oh, I like this. I don’t like the personal insults.
Is this sarcasm?
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[Jeremy Garchow]I don’t care for Avid MC5. I don’t go hanging around the Avid forums stirring up noise. I am not talking directly about you, I am just making an observation about the types of side bars that have been happening for the past three months (!), in the midst of the “interesting discussions” you mention.
If you dropped into the AVID forums to stir up noise, you’d be trolling. But, Jeremy, I’m not sure if you’re aware of this or not, but the thread topic is titled: Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate. If you’d prefer to hang out with people who just want to talk about the program, and help out those who are having issues working with it, then may I suggest you spend more of your time here? There’s where you should be if you don’t like the discussions taking place.
Otherwise, myself and others like me will continue to use this place to hash out what we think about FCPX and even the industry as a whole.
Thanks.
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[Craig Seeman]My job is to show them I can tell a better story so that they get better results.
But isn’t that “better” just a nebulous term? Are the results you give them going to be demonstratively better than if they just did it themselves with consumer gadget tools?
The writing’s on the wall, Craig. FCPX has shown the way. For a one time charge of $200, someone who wants good video can do it all themselves and they don’t need to pay people to do the job they can do now. And if they simply don’t have the time, then just toss $50 towards someone who’ll do it for them quick and easy. What is the benefit otherwise?
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[Jeremy Garchow]I have to ask, man and I seriously mean this with all due respect. Why do you waste your time around here if there’s seeming nothing for you?
This really comes across as, “If you don’t like it, then why don’t you just shut up about it?”
Just because it’s broken now doesn’t mean it always be. Plus, it has prompted some interesting discussion about where the industry is going. And Apple may not have a place in that future. It’s not an automatic given that they will.
Apple Inc. is just a company and FCPX is just a piece of software. Don’t take it so personally.
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[Jeremy Garchow]Are you faster in Premiere than Smoke?
I don’t use Smoke. But going to After Effects isn’t difficult. Even when I was first one FCP7 it wasn’t that much of a difference. But FCPX irritates me every time I’m in it. For me, it’s one step forward and two steps back.
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