James Culbertson
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[Aindreas Gallagher] ”
jesus christ please.”Sorry Aindreas, I can’t help you there.
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[Mike Warmels] “Thinking about story, structure and pace is crucial, but I want my NLE not to be an obstacle. I don’t want to lose precious time on pressing buttons. I want to be able to change, shape, try, form and shape. So speed in trying and shaping IS important, I want to see if it works or how it can work better.”
This is precisely why I choose to use FCPX over AVID or Premiere. Like naming conventions, it should be very clear that we each have our relative preferences and working styles. No different from the days of the FCP legacy / AVID wars.
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[Steve Connor] “Good grief, it’s just a name, there are many things to think about in this business, what Apple decided to call a timeline isn’t really one of them.”
Bingo. I just don’t understand why folks are so bothered by names. Let’s see, I could use FCPX because (for me) it is faster and more efficient, or I could go back to using AVID because it uses all the names I learned long ago… because names are more important than making money.
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[James Ewart] “I can change I just think it’s immature to change the nomanclature. Change for change sake.”
I can see it being irritating until someone gets used to it. But I’m not sure how it would be immature.
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[James Ewart] “Language is language. To start calling carrots bananas just for the sake of being different is beyond ridiculous don’t you think? How many years in and it still grates.
Call it a timeline. A timeline is not a project.”
This is pure semantics, and semantics is completely relative. This has never been an issue for me or for anyone I interact with whether client, editing colleague, or students. If you need to call it a timeline call it a timeline; I did the same with FCP legacy. I can understand this being an issue for others, but that is a personal choice to not let it go and make the translation in your mind.
This has nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with personal linguistic stuckness. Time to take personal responsibility and move on, or accept that you personally cannot or do not want to change.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “well no. this forum, ideally, exists to remind any potential reader, viewing it in a debate context, that X is kind of irritatingly awful, and that they should salt the earth before they would lay hands on it given how crazy apple’s decision making has been over time – and how utterly insane the random distressed chrome 3D type updates have been lately.”
Wouldn’t that be more accurately called “Aindreas Gallagher’s FCPX World”?
Kind of a reality TV show… sort of in this style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVdqwD_bcPs
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[Andrew Kimery] “No other NLE gets crapped on? Really?”
How about the “Your NLE is crappier than mine” forum?
I think we can all agree that a ridiculously large group of very smart editors will never agree on anything.
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[David Lawrence] “Which is exactly why the name of this forum is still perfect!!! ;)”
Except that folks who have not been here before might get the idea it is about personal preferences specific to FCPX when it is really more about general NLE preferences at this point.
What about “My NLE or not”?
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[David Lawrence] “I’m not assuming, this is exactly what Apple told the professional editing community when they revealed FCPX at NAB 2011. Here’s the proof:”
Interesting.
In practice, in my experience, the magnetic (and trackless) timeline is more important for its new more efficient (and freeform) way of allowing us to edit. Any problems it may or may not solve are secondary to me. Classic law of unintended consequences I guess.
In any case, this debate is entirely about personal preference. Nothing wrong with that; it is always interesting to hear how others experience things.
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[Shawn Miller] “So, what in PPro CC 2014 feels like engineer driven design vs user driven design?”
Like I said it is a feel thing. FCPX feels more user friendly to me, more intuitive, more free form. It gets out of the way more and I just work.
I felt the same about FCP7 relative to AVID MC when I first took it up.
But then, this whole discussion is about how we each feel. There are no absolutes in this kind of comparison, so it comes down to personal preference.