James Ewart
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Not in the UK.. other way round. Vast majority of cars are manual I would say. What does that say about us? Don’t know a good thing when it’s staring us in the face?
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Another vote for the automatic. Changing gear manually is somewhat tedious.
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Yup 1.2.5 was the first PAL version that actually worked. Before that it was was super buggy. I had a miserable time thinking it was my fault. And that first PAL version (1.2.1) was responsible for a lot of people turning their backs on the software and not giving it a second chance (sound familiar?), by the time version 1.2.5 arrived most if the bugs were fixed but it got off to a bad start. (For quite a while I recall, things like colour bars and slug were still NTSC)
Avid was pretty much the only editing tool at the time (Media 100?) so I suppose there were quite a few of us who saw an AFFORDABLE opportunity if it worked. Premiere was not fit at the time.
I know a fair smattering of Avid MC and Symphony editors who still do not consider FCP7 to be a professional tool. Let alone X!
Certainly if it were not for forums like this, living in the UK, I would be under the impression that FCPX was not even worth installing such is the bad rap it got/continues to get.
I actually think a lot of the Avid-based facilities have seen the somewhat botched release of X as an opportunity to try and kill it off.
I’m sure Adobe were/are hoping that Apple would leave the professional market and that X would fail. In their position I guess so would I.
It just feels to me like there is a lot of “wanting” X to fail to the extent that they are not really looking too hard at it. It’s very dismissive. And of course nobody wants to be seen to have been “wrong” do they?
The only people who are not slagging it off are the people who are quietly getting on using it.
There’s a new feature length doc on Muhammad Ali being cut with X as we speak by the way. A few Mac Pros with X wheedling their way into the BBC. Once you start using it all the time and thinking like it thinks, you realise it’s too clever to expire. For me the experience gets better and better.
So… would you bet against Apple?
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All I can say is I had the exact same problem and it drove me nuts and I found one frame from a compound clip in one of my timelines.
May well be different for you.
what would be useful would be a shortcut “reveal in project timeline”
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I had this. I am fairly certain you will find a little bit of the compound clip in one of your project timelines if you look very carefully.
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Actually I think it’s a very valid comparison. Of course different software but the reaction to FCP 1 back in 1999 or so, was very similar to the reaction from the “professional community” (by which I mean the facilities houses in the main) to FCPX.
No not just similar. IDENTICAL.
But our friends in the states were more receptive to something “new” and “different” (as they always are) and slowly but surely… well you know the rest.
So if we can go from FCP 1.2 which nobody liked to FCP 7 which even The Mill use as their principal “editing” tool who is to say where we will be four years from now or less.
I certainly wouldn’t bet against it. Would you?
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All those tedious system settings and user preferences in FCP7.
Having to reset scratch disks for ever project. So dull. Do some people actually enjoy all that bollocks?
Does that make me a “Prosumer”? If so I’m fine with that.
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I’m pretty happy with X. Plenty of people are. It seems more people seem to be taking notice. It’s rather fun to work with. To me going back into 7 or PP feels like the stone age.
But if FCP X disappears tomorrow and I end up using Premiere after all I won’t lose any sleep either.
After all it’s only a bit of software.
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I think we’re probably going full circle. Nobody will care too much what software anything is cut on apart from a few (entrenched) editors.
FCPX will slowly be taken up as with last time and will find its natural place.
How many years after the release of FCP1 was it before Cold Mountain? It’s the same story probably.
As predicted by many.
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For sure. With Mac Pros.
I think for mainstream broadcasts and such like (Match of the Day, the News etc.) Avid is the weapon of choice and will always be so unless something cataclysmic happens. But for the segments and Docs (as a film editing tool) for which FCP7 is the current tool they are most likely going to slowly move over to X and not go the Adobe route.
I am not pretending to be an authority here. I work in a bubble.
I kind of like Premiere and am not technical enough to know what the objections are but for some reason they don’t seem keen on that route.
Anyone anyone?
Bueller Bueller?