Gustavo Bermudas
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[Steve Connor] “No it’s not, it’s a completely new piece of software, they chose to use an old name”
Then this is becoming a philosophical argument that could go either way, my point is, if they decided to call it the same, then it is (at least at a market perception level)
In a previous post I got people upset by calling it iMovie 10, but, honestly, it’s obvious they use the iMovie codebase to port it to 64 bits, probably iMovie already was, hence the opening asking you to import iMovie projects and the un-ability to open FCP ones, so, I don’t think I was that far off then…
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yeah, well, I might have gone a bit too far by calling it iMovie 10, I admit, but, it bothers me that people call it version 1.
It’s not, they decided to call it version 10, and use the name Final Cut, it’s the same company (Apple), and they’ve been working on it for at least 3 years or more.
So, people like to cut it some slack by saying it’s version 1, but in reality, it’s a rewrite to a 64 bit platform, much like Avid Media Composer did, or DaVinci Resolve, but they didn’t screw it up they way Apple did. -
[Marcus Moore] “There’s no way to qualify your stance that it will never be used in agency work again, unless you happen to have FCPX’s 5 year roadmap handy.”
I wasn’t implying “for eternity”, I was referring to the present day and immediate future, who knows what’ll happen next, but I can tell you right now that at the post production houses I work in Hollywood none of them are using FCPX, or plan to use it in the near future, they use Avid, or they plan to squeeze FCP until the last moment.
There are at least two changes that needs to happen for FCPX to be adopted in post house for what I can see (I haven’t use FCPX much BTW, so there may some workarounds)
1. Tape output from timeline (important to do insert edits)
2. Audio tracks as in FCP.[Marcus Moore] “10.0 was brand new software.”
Well, if it’s not FCP then for certain it’s iMovie 10.
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[Marcus Moore] “How short ARE people’s memories about the early days of FCP?”
The early days of FCP has nothing to do with what’s going on with FCPX today, before it was a new software causing some stir, today FCPX is a total screw up of a well matured software.
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[Bob Zelin] “You get about 3 years on an investment in technology”
hey, my Apple CinemaDisplay HD that I bought 6 years ago is still rock solid!
But yeah, I know what you mean, this Kona 3 I paid $3K a few years ago now I saw it on eBay for $350 (with breakout box) and didn’t get any bids! -
[Sascha Engel] “Could you tell me what is light works? I’m curious.”
It’s been around for ages, lots of film work, but it kind of revived now that it’s open source, and it’s coming to Mac.
I don’t know in Germany, but in the US commercial work is done though Agencies, and they like to spend a lot of money, probably the only sector in this industry that does, that means that if you need to take it to a top post facility for online and color and VFX, FCPX will never be used, it even may be rejected.
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[Fiona Fuchs] “That’s what it is like in my town too – everyone stagnated – no reason to put money into anything else FCP7 and avid do what we need. But I reckon all the kids will be well versed in X soon.”
I guess, it’s not a bad idea to learn it just in case, you could probably spend 15 minutes every day to build repetition and get used to it, so when you need to pick it up you don’t have to re-learn it, but I wouldn’t spend too much energy on it, as far of what I’m seeing in the industry today, Avid still IS the most used and trusted NLE for films and TV, there’s a lot of infrastructure built around Avids, and lots of workflows and interchange between departments, and to their merit, they’re improving but not changing the way they work, you know the expression, “if it works, don’t change it” (At least not Apple style)
I hear a lot of how fast you can edit, but will that make a better edit? I think the time to analyze and think your edit through it’s important.
I’d watch for Lightworks when it comes for Mac though, that may be a game changer.
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[Shane Ross] “they alienated a bunch of us who use it for the “hollywood type” of productions, and we are a pretty vocal bunch”
I think they actually alienated the FCPX user base to be honest, haven’t come across a single job offering asking for FCPX, and I haven’t received an offline project (I do onlines mostly) done in FCPX.
To be honest, I never received a Premiere project either, FCP is still strong in Hollywood, but Avid is stronger.
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Do you have mixed framerates in your timeline?
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Does anyone actually believe that the Adobe CEO is acting from a core belief in best practise for creative professionals? By making everyone rent the software, and throwing anything Adobe has ever made in their face to justify the decision?”
One Cloud to rule them all, One Cloud to subscribe them,
and in the darkness bind them.I read in some other forums something like “Clouds evaporate and all you got left is blue sky”
I think this subscription thing will last for a year or two at most, if you have CS6 or CS5.5 hang on tight to it, just like many of us are still using FCP7.
Every major corporation that gets too big it starts breaking apart,
I think Adobe had their apex with CS5 – CS6 and it’s all downhill from here, they are currently losing a lot of trust, I came up recently to this website, https://projectmeteor.org, which you can see the frustration of new talent with the current scheme of apps for design, and how old and outdated all of the Adobe seems for them, and this was even before Creative Cloud, and I gotta say, after playing with Pixelmator for a little bit I understood why, and it’s only $15! Pixelmator is probably going to take Photoshop’s place at some point if Adobe keeps going this route, specially for college students, that when they start working professionally they will feel more comfortable with those tools (which would have mature by then) than Adobe’s.Like you said Andreas, this is a CEO that thought he could control the web with Flash, until Steve Jobs gave him the finger, now it’s our turn.
Maybe a few years from now Adobe will be like AOL.