Jamie Franklin
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[Peter Chamberlain] “• Projects can now be arranged and saved within project folders for easy organisation”
My personal fav. It’s the little things that do so much in a busy, multi-project environment. Kudos.
While the onlining/conforming tools are getting stronger, my only gripe is how “loose” the timeline control is getting. The playhead just “feels” so loose and out of control since 9…and the more time I spend in that timeline, the more noticeable and annoying it can be constantly locking and unlocking the offline, playhead sticking to the pen…it’s the little things 🙂
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[Gerry Fraiberg] “Apple’s update to its video-editing software Final Cut Pro included additional features that would make it easier for editors preparing video for broadcast. The update hampered Avid’s efforts of courting Final Cut X users because its first release didn’t include specific features needed by professional editors.”
Um…is this an Onion article?
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Tape is not dead, nor is it sleeping. In the last year alone, to 30+ different broadcasters and international broadcasters and distributors, I have delivered hundreds of HDSR, HDCAM, DBETA…(yes, DBETA….yikes) masters.
Completion Bonds prefer them. Copyright is now wanting DBETA Masters. I don’t see this transitioning anytime soon. If anything, it is still years away…
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Oh please Bill, if anyone would be pushing for an “app” to do all of those things, it would be you….
And in fact, when I want to calculate file format sizes and frame rate conversions, I do just that….
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[Bill Davis] ” In mostly the same sense that MATH is a cognitive hinderance to those who don’t have much familiarity with it.”
Wow…you finally said something I agree with. It is like MATH, something we all have to learn, the majority find unpleasant and hope in our adult life we don’t have to use much of, if at all…
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oops mistook you for Steve when replying. You are a cheerleader without question. 😛
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I don’t find it open. I may have an opinion derived entirely from my own tastes, and I have said that many times.
When I cut a sequence, I work with the cliched concept of “it’s in there somewhere”. I drop the material in and go until I develop pink eye. If I feel a sequence isn’t working, I drop in the bits again in the same sequence and cut away. I build my main timeline with the finished drafts and start a new sequence. Tabbing back and forth. Cutting and pasting and massaging. It’s meat and potatoes. Maybe redundant to some, but I work how I want…
I realize I may be unnecessarily hard on X in your eyes, but 7 is more of a sandbox than you give it credit for here. What gets in the way in X is a not perception. It’s impossible to work the way I want to. And the networks of workarounds don’t come into play until I’m re-linking or taking what elements I do need elsewhere. Which is basically the same with any other nle. The wall is in the architecture of X.
I get that you find this tool useful. And I don’t think you are cheerleading it from any other position. You like having it in your arsenal. And I always say it has it’s place. The cheerleading that separates you though (and I wouldn’t even consider you a cheerleader tbh) is those prognosticating that X will move into the temple and cut off the head of the king. And, from my experiences as stated in this thread, the comparisons to early FCP aren’t there. The evidence is not there. Editors that I come across, myself included, don’t have any interest in the way X cuts…FCP in its development years, wasn’t a terrible editor from the beginning. We all discussed it as something to watch and use. It may have had more limitations to the desired work, but it wasn’t cutting you off at the knees when you wanted to find the film you are looking for, you could chip away at the marble, instead of dragging it through a table saw…the bottom line is 7 was inclusive. It is a sandbox.
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Well, from the point of view from someone who heard ad nauseum about the parallels of early FCP1 users that this was no different, there wasn’t the degree of abstaining of the interest and use of something new and intriguing. I’m sure there are those who could analyze the merits of the lack of feature sets then, but it still contained the truth of what was becoming increasing more useful and a staple of Nle. Track based yadda yadda yadda.
I think this is rather constructive to understanding the contempt towards this “paradigm”. It won’t be widely accepted. While some undoubtedly find its uses. It’s becoming clear it’s not utilitarian, it’s not a jeep, its the deep fried Twinkie of the editing world.
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I wouldn’t even qualify it as the parachute pants of this decade. With all the cheerleading I have read by those that think it’s Hammer time, I still have yet to cross paths with one editor who even uses it for his vacation vids….I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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I still enjoy using 7 whenever possible. The limitations are so well known to me, as to everyone else, that it really is a get in and out experience.
I’m just happy I still have material I can throw in the timeline I am so at ease with. Most NLE’s haven’t come close. I didn’t expect this thing to still be kicking 2 years ago, hence my overzealous fanatical reaction to the EOL. I’m glad I can still produce delivery spec’d quality.
Once I migrate officially to Avid, I know I will still miss this beast.
I’ve always maintained X will have it’s place, I just wish it took iMovie’s and the upward momentum of 7 would shine on into 8 and beyond. But when it comes to shared networks and editorial in facilities. X is an unwelcome joke, imo. And I don’t say that with glee. I was suckered into the FCX expectation Apple presented like many who thought finally! We’re getting what we asked for…instead of a fork in our b*lls