James Ewart
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I’m running quite old machines (Imac and Mac book Pro) with Yosemite and never have they been more stable than since I installed th
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You build that thing from scratch and it doesn’t work ? What then? Can you take it back to the shop? Doing something like ta is so far beyond me the very notion terrifies me!
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Wow that sounds like a major unsupported hassle.
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Thanks Oliver.
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FCP Extreme???
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Out of interest Oliver as you seem to have practical experience of pretty much every bit of software that is mentioned here may I probe a little about your views?
Clearly you are an Avid MC user but also something of a fan of FCPX? (I noted your thoughts on it being an excellent creative offline tool).
In terms of editing applications what do you use for what? By which I mean upon what criteria do you decide to use (or advise the use of) one of the three (or four if you include 7) current main applications for a project? I understand Avid might always be the front runner for media sharing and multi user projects. And I guess for finishing Symphony is perhaps a front runner? Does Adobe have the same capabilities as Symphony in this respect? (Anyone can answer please).
But I think you have also mentioned a liking for Resolve as a potential editing application even though I always have thought of it as a grading tool.
And nobody seems to mention Smoke much as a potential competitor to the Big Three although I recall it being talked about a fair bit a couple of years ago or so. (Looked at it myself in fact but decided it was too complicated for me)
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
Regards
James
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[James Ewart] “I would say that the negativity I experience towards FCPX (that echoes Legacy) is irrational and has an agenda.”
Sorry should have written “or”
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Bill Davis And they stepped aside from the fools mission of engineering in color GRADING tools, because – well – maybe it’s like music, where the number of people who wish to perform is way less than the number of those who wish to compose?
Well for sure that’s where I’m at.
Are we forgetting the price of FCPX?
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[James Ewart] “Lack of sync indicators annoyed me too because the first thing I did to make FCPX work like 7 was detach the audio.
I still find the notion annoying but I found that once I started working the FCPX way I almost never detach the audio because I never need to.
I campaigned hard for “Override Connections” too. But I never use the tilde key function or hardly ever anyway.”
[Bill Davis] An excellent description of where Herb is and will likely remain.
I can’t help thinking Herb and a fair few others here have nagging doubts that maybe they are missing something by turning their backs on FCPX. Because … well because they haven’t turned their backs have they? They are still here. Reminding us of how deficient and cumbersome FCPX is “hasn’t got this” “can’t do that”.
May I say here and now I am pleased they are still here by the way. It makes for a much livelier healthier and wittier debate. But I haven’t spent much time on the PP forums of late myself.
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but for now Adobe is the best place for me.
I so nearly made the switch to Adobe. Downloaded it (pre-subscription model). Started learning it and cut a couple of small projects but kept looking over my shoulder because I had this nagging doubt I might be missing something with FCPX. I was … but it just took me much longer than I had ever imagined it would to understand it and give in to its ways. I don’t blame anyone for finding that too annoying especially if the switch to Adobe is simpler.
The Adobe website has (or had anyway) nice tutorials for those moving across from Apple. Who can imagine Apple ever doing that?
You even find the Adobe guy on the Creative Cow Adobe forums for goodness sake.