Gary Pollard
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[Andrew Kimery] ” The people that are in danger of getting left behind, IMO, are those steadfastly sticking with Apple and hopping that FCP 10 will quickly blossom into a tool that possesses many, if not all, of the features they need that FCP 7, Avid MC and Premiere Pro currently have today.”
Couldn’t agree more. I often wish Steve Jobs would let me do what I want to do, and not what Steve Jobs thinks I should want to do because Apple knows better/the future.
I find this infects too much of Apple’s output, from file management inabilities on the iPad (what are those?), to BluRay, to the hideous iTunes, to the fact I shouldn’t want to view Flash, to – now – the fact I shouldn’t want tracks in an editor.
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[Bill Davis] “Once upon a time the few made all the video for the many. Today, there are 2 million FCP editors alone.”
Almost all of us can write. Almost none of us will achieve the audience
share of JK Rowling, or Steig Larsson (I’m not commenting on literary merit). I have often said I’m all for democratization and removal of high barriers to entry. A pen and paper, or even a laptop, is not expensive. Let’s not pretend video is an entirely different proposition. It is not.Some are still going to require extra skills and extra abilities from the software. And a simple track-based sound mix should not be beyond it.
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It just seems to me that too often people are searching for solutions to fit the capabilities of the program here (no matter how limited they might be in the real world) while simultaneously wanting to skim over VERY basic editing requirements that the program is currently incapable of.
I’ve heard of problems in search of a solution, but I can’t defend Final Cut Pro X, some aspects of which I do like, by arguing that it’s a solution in search of a problem (or a set of future problems).
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[Bill Davis] “Tomorrows production WILL NOT be the same as yesterdays. Sorry, but as with all massive industrial change – we adapt or die.”
Tomorrow’s production didn’t ought to do LESS than yesterdays. A great many videos in the brave new world will still require an at least moderately acceptable sound mix.
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On a recent project in Premiere, I set specific tracks for narration, interviews, soundtrack music, and others as needed for background and other sounds.
Then I ran through the timeline with the Premiere audio mixer, mostly in real time, and got the balance I wanted for the final product. It’s great because you can just mix one or two elements at a time if you wish, drop in or drop out.
As this programme went on air in two languages, I then stripped the English narration out and put the other language narration in and most of my mix held.
How do I do this with FCP X, and – if I can’t – how likely is a metadata solution to fix the fact that I can’t?
And no, I don’t want the standard Steve Jobs answer: “Well, you shouldn’t want to.”
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It’s not as if ANY previous version of FCP was exactly instinctive.
It’s just that many are now familiar with it, sometimes after a bastard of a learning curve, and mistake current familiarity with ease of use.
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Thanks for the answer Dennis. In fact, I’m one of those editors who rarely uses many transitions. But a nice two-sided page turn would be nice. The single-sided one in there right now is amateur hour.
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Apple tends to be a few steps ahead … except where they haven’t caught up yet or offer limited feature sets.
And where they haven’t caught up, die hard Apple worshippers tell you:
“That’s what’s good about Apple. They don’t introduce a feature until they can do it properly.”
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Hi Dennis
Premiere Pro CS 5.5 on Windows can open and work with projects created and edited in Premiere Elements. Premiere Pro CS 5.5 on Mac doesn’t.
Premiere Pro CS 5.5 on Windows has many more video transitions and video effects available than Premiere Pro CS 5.5 on Mac.
As many moving from Final Cut will be considering using Premiere Pro on existing Mac systems rather than Windows, I’m just wondering if there’s a technical or marketing reason for this limitation in abilities on the Mac.
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Hi Dennis, these limitations are in BOTH Pro and Elements.
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