[Greg Janza]

[Bill Davis] “Those “look – wait – then maybe” come back folks are NOT snagging those gigs. Perhaps because with just “look occasionally” and use it now and then – they aren’t particularly qualified for them? The guys I see who ARE getting excellent FCP X gigs – are the guys who started learning it 5 and 6 YEARS ago. “

With all due respect Bill, this ain’t brain surgery. a NLE is an NLE is an NLE. Any veteran editor can pick up FCPX very quickly and so the notion of not getting a gig just because you aren’t a so-called FCPX expert is ridiculous.

Editors are first and foremost storytellers and the technical guru part of our job is neccesary but secondary.

[Bill Davis] “I understand that real editors are NOT “button pushers” as much as “idea flow constructionists” but we’ve all seen editors approaching X with poor to moderate seat experience – rapidly reach the point of frustrated bitching, because what they REALLY want is to transport their AVID or Premiere cutting styles as closely as possible into X and just leave it at that.
“

A veteran editor should be highly adaptive to new NLE’s. Going from AVID to FCP to Premiere to FCPX is really not that big a leap if you have the basic skills already under your belt.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

[Steve Connor] “I really don’t think this forum is about people making demo videos, generally here on the COW we trust what people say based on their experience ☺
“

Amen. Could there be anything more boring than demo videos? If people haven’t figured out what the benefits of each NLE are by this point, them there’s little hope for them.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

[Bill Davis] “Not when off the shelf with APPLE is CRUSHING it for me.”

I was an unhappy Apple customer because I took a look at what other options were out there and I discovered that the competition had a wide variety of offerings that delivered superior performance and were cheaper.

But if you’re happy that’s all that matters.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

[Gabriel Spaulding] “I’ve seen people get over national tragedies in far less time.”

Gabriel, you win for single best line in this long thread.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

yeah I can see the ipad as a potential. not for me personally though. Computers have already done significant damage to my body so ipad editing sounds like more repetitive motion pain.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

[Bill Davis] “Oops – clearly you’re correct. Of course EVERYONE “got” X out of the gate. How silly of me to think otherwise.”

Bill, forgive me if this has already been brought up in the conversation but I think there’s a huge upside to having many professionals laugh and make fun of FCPX when it was first released. Naturally those folks probably didn’t even try it out. I know I’m one of those people. I heard about all of the painful misery that early adopters encountered due to lack of features. If I had tried it out then I might have been scared away permanently.

However, I didn’t touch it until 2015 and I’m glad I waited because by then it was ready for prime time. And now I’m relatively neutral on the product. It’s not my NLE of choice but I can appreciate it’s merits.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

[Walter Soyka] “How do you move a whole shop or production onto a new workflow — without skipping a beat?”

and perhaps more importantly since our industry relies heavily on a freelance pool, if you switch will you have a large enough group of talented editors to hire for projects?

Any facility would be foolish not to take that into consideration.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

Charlie, obviously I’m way behind the technological times.

Any editing app made for an iphone is created by a team of sadists.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

[Herb Sevush] “This is a text book case of marketing failure, which is all the more interesting coming from a company that’s brilliant in consumer marketing. “

And with Apple’s current valuation inching it’s way towards $1 trillion, I’m guessing that Apple could care less about one failure.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

that’s the annoying part of proxies. I no longer use proxies but I think my solution to this issue was to create a custom ingest preset. It’s a bit cumbersome but it can be done. You need to actually make the ingest preset in media encoder (with 8 channels of audio to match your files), save it somewhere accessible and then when you are attempting to make your proxies you select the button “Add ingest preset”.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles