[Gerald Baria]

[Scott Sheriff] “Could be any or all of these:
On camera mic for audio.
No tripod.
No lights.
No proper workstation with reference monitors for audio/video.
No office, just a noisy coffee shop for client meetings.
“

So rude.

Quobetah
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[Gerald Baria]

“If you’re talking about HP, I’m not sure you understand what really happened… HP is spinning off it’s consumer PC business. ”

Actually I completely understand, as I mentioned I have this little obsession with gadget news.:) It was mentioned in their earnings call that the ” Tablet effect is real” and they are feeling it. Majority of their revenue is on mobile pcs, majority of those mobile pc prospective buyers who will use it for simple non intensive tasks are now just buying tablets specifically iPad. If they fought, invest on webOS they are posed to loose significant amount of cash for an unforseeable profitabke future which may or may not be successful, and given the example of all competing tablets no one is successful except Apple. They cant afford to risk that much money and effort so they decided to follow a different business, Enterprise software, so they bought Autonomy,while they still have cash. PC business will be spun off, i.e sold to another vendor which may or may not make it successfull. In other words, they gave up. And its the giant ipod touch’s fault.

Quobetah
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[Gerald Baria]

Autocad?

Quobetah
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[Gerald Baria]

And the profession that were in is in a massive change due to the proliferation of all digital capture + distribution. Digital is opening up this whole new side of things where things can be done simpler, with less equipment. Yeah I know its scaring those old established post houses heavily invested on equipment, but that has already passed. Events coverage now uses cameras that cost $700 and making the same or or money, than those with $3K video cameras. And they deliver quality on par with those other guys. FCPX is the last piece of the puzzle…Its cheap, powerful and has tons of potential for improvement.

I may not understand the sentiments of those old business owners suddenly being overtaken by newbies in the industry with cheaper gear, It must hurt a lot, but thats reality. Man If I was manufacturing floppy drives back in the day apple releassed a mac without one, Id be furious too. But instead of closing, I will start investing on CD manufacturing for my futures sake.

Quobetah
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[Gerald Baria]

But all those productions are edited and finished on post houses, after being backed up on 5 secret servers right!? Because what you just shot is a multimillion dollar commodity.

And Im not saying everything will be cloud based “only”, of course you can still save local and edit there, but your file system is formatted by the OS when you get into an internet area, its backed up automatically to icloud in the background. So when your client on the other side of the contry calls up to check up on your work, he can just pull in his iPad access the project and make his notes, or revisions.

Quobetah
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[Gerald Baria]

“Why should I prefer FCPX to PPro or Avid? It is the least functional, most untested, least compatible NLE out there. Why shouldn’t I make my life easier and move to a faster, better, more robust featured program?
Am I missing something, do I owe something to Apple? As a matter of fact they just EOL’d FCP7, a decision that’s going to cost me a lot of time and money. So why on earth do they get primacy?”

Your not part of the editor demographic that will be financially sensible to “immediately” move to FCPX because of the fact that your heavily invested in FCP 7 gear, (plug ins,hardware etc.). Thats fine. But for the rest of the other guys, those that are about to go inoa transition period of upgrading their systems, those new businesses that have an al digital workflow, and all the new editors that want to get into the game and looking for a system to invest into, in short, those who are thingking about their future, FCPX should be a great option. And all the wounded group that companies like yours belong in should not jump into every single inquiry about it because a false image is being generated. It is such a powerful software. Given that there are currently stability issues, minimal plu ign support, file sharing capabilities but those have been promised to be fixed, AND WHEN THEY DO, what becomes of your previous opinion about FCPX?! Suddenly it becomes the fastest most powerful editimg software that exists…and all the new editors that youll be hiring, those exposed on an all digital workflow, will like it.

All Im saying is we should not be too quick to dismiss it. Apple has proven time and time again that it could rock an industry and be successful in it. Initially there is uproar and shock, then after some time its the greatest thing ever. The iPad have just recently made the largest PC manufacturer give up, and every other competitor fail…and to think a week after its release every major gadget site laughed at it for being a large iPod touch.

Quobetah
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[Gerald Baria]

“Re: Complicated means Pro : Simplified is Dumb/Amateurish
by Herb Sevush on Aug 24, 2011 at 10:03:43 am

What you seem to fail to realize is that it isn’t computers. or NLEs that are hard to master, that require thousands of hours of training and apprenticeship – it’s editing that is hard, the way playing a violin is hard, the way sculpting marble is difficult, the way you have to spend years to attain a black belt – and no computer ever made would have helped Davinci paint any better. The most time consuming function for an editor is thinking – this was as true in DW Griffith’s time as it is today.

There’s no free rides, even on an iPad.”

I thought that was the main point of FCPX, make editing easier so you could focus of the more important thing, “telling the story”. Its on their ads right? At the end of the day, its about that creation in your head and how you turn that into a finished file. I completely agree with that.

“On this forum we argue about functionality and paradigms, but a lot of this discussion is about the technical in’s and out’s of file creation. Most of the editors here can create good work with anything from a scissors to a Discreet smoke, given a minimum of training. But, sadly for you it seems, all of them spent years learning how.”

I assume that, so why is a lot of people keep bitching about FCPX over and over and over again, shouldn’t you just spend enough time with it that you’ll be able to do your edits as easily or even easier than you could with PPro,FCP7 or Avid?

Quobetah
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[Gerald Baria]

Eventually you may want to for the power and convenience when all other pieces are in place. If your running a mac, it will be uploaded in the background anyway. And internet will only get cheaper. Im thinking forward here.

Quobetah
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[Gerald Baria]

You probably have a gap clip at the end part of you project. Just click it and press backspace.

Quobetah
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[Gerald Baria]

One thing: Speed.

I started my editing journey with Premiere Pro CS5, I installed MB Looks for grading. I edit AVCHD native. I have a quadcore i5 desktop with 6GB RAM. I cannot in anyway have real-time playback with even just 1 layer of MB Looks applied. That’s just ONE MB Looks layer. And I have mercury playback engine activated!

Now with FCPX, after turning off “Backgroud render” in playback prefferences, I can attach 5 layers of color correction, 3 effects on a 1080p AVCHD clip (non transcoded) and I get real-time playback every time..Effects preview even works even with all those layers of edit. Hardware? I use the same desktop I have above, hackintoshed…so that is a NON-mac optimised hardware. To think that this still kick Premeire’s ass in playback is amazing!

Biggest Like No. 2: Export speed.

Same clip, same length, same color grade with MB Looks, I exported using the same bit rate. Export time = 15 mins.

With FCPX = 90 seconds.

I think that says it all. SPEED is FCPXs best attribute. You can start editing and tagging even when your just ingesting the media, hitting I+O+F is the best rough clip organization workflow ever..you can immediately separate all the usable sections of each clip youve made, and its amazing. for quick edits on an all digital capture + distribution, FCPX is king.

Quobetah
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