Gary Pollard
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I didn’t say they did it ONLY for love, but it’s a necessary component.
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I have sympathy for that issue.
But this is certainly not the first time Apple have ignored backward compatibility. Maybe I’m less horrified than some because it is really standard operating procedure for them.
I’m cross platform.
I like my Mac stuff, but I’ve always felt I could do anything I want on Windows and I can do anything Steve Jobs thinks I SHOULD want on Mac. SOP. People love that arrogance when they think it works FOR them.
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I am just seeing a huge gap in opinion on this between people actually getting to grips with it and those who are not. (And two weeks is a short time even for those doing so).
As the very worst of all TV reports tend to end, “only time will tell”.
My bet is FCP X is in a lot of pro suites in five years. And AVID and Premiere are borrowing more from it. (And I’m not anti-Premiere by any means), I’m completing a project on it right now.
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[Joe Moya] “To say FCPX’s approach makes more sense is perhaps a bit “knee jerk”ish of a assumption…”
No more than saying it doesn’t.
It’s a rethinking. Not always bad.
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[Joe Moya] “Where is the assumption that dumbing down an editing applications suddenly becomes a new paradyne… or, an innovation? “
Right next to the knee-jerk assumption that a new paradigm is “dumbing down”. It may be “increasing efficiency”.
In non-linear, an editing job is a relational database. Final Cut Pro has always had PLENTY of non intuitive, and even clumsy, editing procedures. Hearing people ooh and aah over simply dragging audio and video fades, which Vegas has had since inception, has been a hoot. You learn them and you forget how tough the learning curve was. That doesn’t make them intuitive.
Many of us who’ve been around a long time tend to see computer editing as a 2D representation of an old Steenbeck or Prevost.
For good or bad, this steps away from that. Even some of the defaults in FCP X seem to make more sense than previous ones, being based on probability of what you want rather than default linear editing styles. I like that.
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It’s there. Maybe you are just missing it.
And the problem with “Heaven’s Gate” (which I happen to like as a movie) was the exact opposite of being a small Indie production.
It was that Cimino bought into the “production value makes quality” philosophy.
Give me “Heaven’s Gate” over “Transformers” any time.
Other people’s mileage may vary.
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You’re right Justin. The organisation for which I predominantly work, like many, puts a very great deal of its programme content on Youtube too. I sometimes feel that corporations using Youtube for a PR boost is a bit of a distortion of its main value.
Frankly, I think the wisest thing is to be, as much as we can, software and even platform agnostic, although it’s harder for corporate production houses. I know one editor of two dozen European feature films, some of which some here will probably have seen, who tells me she has even edited a documentary on iMovie.
The horror. The horror.
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Nope. I’m saying two weeks is just a tad too early to call it.
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You celebrate the inertia of mid-level industry.
Frankly, the new Coen brothers won’t come from the ranks of those people giggling. They will come from Youtube and the subculture. And the upgrade paths will always be there.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Without the tools to learn and to collaborate and to work and to exchange like professionals do (now and in the past), Youtubers will remain Youtubers.””
You are assuming after all of two weeks that those tools will never exist. Or that an entirely new subset of them will not grow up. Whatever else it is, this is a smaller leap than from film to video, or from linear to non-linear. I used to shoot on, and edit, 16mm sepmag. I used to edit 2″ ampex tapes of studio stuff where you’d have to try and manually roll in sync to make an edit.
There’ve been bigger changes than this that have changed the industry. And the careers of every single person on this forum would not exist without them.
I haven’t come to a final determination on FCP X yet, but I am sure it will sink or swim without me. I am 100% sure those Youtubers will find their upgrade path. I am just not ready to strangle the baby at birth. Some of the things FCP X does are a lot better than the way previous iterations have done them. Too many people confuse familiarity (often VERY hard-earned) with functionality, as with the “Apple/Windows is just more instinctive” discussion.
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