[Herb Sevush]

[Bill Davis] “Voice One: See – Final Cut Pro X is just too different for me to learn and use.

Voice Two: See – Every OTHER software also does everything that X can do!”

Apparently Bill, your hearing voices. You might want to have that checked out.

But if your referring to my post, I will try to make it clear enough for you to understand without the aid of voices. It is my contention that you can do the same things, although not with the same tools, with all modern NLE software, which is why they all earn the sobriquet “Pro” – Avid, Edius, Vegas, Ppro, FCPX, FCP 7, Lightworks – you could cut a feature or any other type of media with any of them. Each would have strengths and weaknesses that differ from the others, and it is in matching those strengths to an editor’s own workflow preferences that choice is found.

As to why I don’t personally use FCPX, the answer is the same as for Vegas or Lightworks – at the moment I don’t see a compelling reason to switch. There’s nothing you’ve ever described with X that makes me want to invest the time and energy – other than Audtions, which alone is still not enough. It doesn’t sound, from all the descriptions I’ve heard, that it suits my personal editing preferences. Neither does Avid by the way, and at least there I do have compelling professional reasons to learn it. Still I’ve avoided Avid for the past 20 years – a mere 5 years of avoiding FCPX is just a trifle compared to that.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

Thank you for that Oliver. I loved the Marlon Brando story, although I don’t know if I believe Brando at all. As for shooting wide to reframe – well it’s fortunate that John Ford and Hitchcock are too dead to be infuriated by the concept – on the other hand, they probably couldn’t get a job in today’s Hollywood, so what does it matter.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Oliver Peters] “At the risk of tossing fuel on the fire of the audio discussion…”

Lovely piece, thanks for posting. Cione is obviously a very talented guy, and except for the line “I’ve never seen an NLE offer as much with the sound side” very informative. If indeed he’s never seen this ability elsewhere then I can only suppose that he hasn’t tried looking. Ppro could accomplish the same thing without having to create compounds – just by using the track mixer. I did have to chuckle a little bit at his use of the term “magnetic timeline” when he opened up the track — as though he was doing something that any timeline in history couldn’t do as easily. Also notice how the various music clips jump lanes at cut points even though it’s the same instrument (look at 1:57) – that must be fun to work with in a large piece. However it does demonstrate the fact that FCPX has all the tools necessary to create wonderful sound – not better tools, just different tools. As always it’s up to the user to find the tool he prefers.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

I consider it as professional as any other NLE. I still find people who do not and I try to educate them, but the “prefect” roll out by Apple still has consequences.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Andrew Kimery] “Since you guys keep talking about Audition, how does its audio repair tools compare to something like iZotope’s RX 5Audio Editor?”

Audition has many of the same tools, but they’re not quite as good. I have only played with RX5 but I am familiar with Sony Soundforge, which is similar to RX5 (it actually has some of the iZotope filters packaged with it)and the Izotope noise reduction filter in Soundforge gets better results and is easier to use than the same filters in Audition. also RX5 Pro has some filters that you won’t find anywhere else – reverb/echo eliminator, ambiance filter (create room tone) to name two. On the other hand I’m thrilled to be able to use the spectral analysis tool in Audition because of it’s very tight integration into Ppro. It might not be quite as good as the RX version, but it’s plenty good enough for most of my needs.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

Vashi –

Thank you for that informative post.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Robin S. Kurz] “You know what they say about people reduced to having to play the tired “fanboi!” card…”

Yes, the say we are very good looking and debonair. I don’t know if I agree with that characterization, but I do think we are attracted to stylish shoes.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Mark Suszko] “As polite as he was, you could tell just how stung Murch continues to feel about the 7/x change-over drama. Years from now, I’m sure it will remain a case study in business school lectures.”

Mark, you just don’t get it. The roll out of X was a perfect marketing plan, it’s just that the dumb customers were too stupid to appreciate it. It had to be perfect because everything Apple does is perfect, therefore if people are still bugged it’s obviously their fault.

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves…”

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

When Murch talks about how responsive Adobe has been to the Coen Brothers and himself in terms of adding new features it reminded me of EMC, the original PC NLE. If someone suggested a feature that was later implemented, that person would get credited in the EMC update documentation – a small thing but recognition is both free and powerful.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] “FCPX has velocity controls, but they are convoluted and weird. This was made in FCPX all with position keyframes and velocity control.”

Can you control both scale and position the same way?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf