Jan Maitland
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Gary
This post just got you 7 more seats of 5.5 from my company. Thank you for this sale-price extension, thank you for being sensitive to our community’s needs and thank you, perhaps most of all, for listening.
As an aside: I downloaded the trial last week after a decade-plus away and I was shocked by the improvements. So much so, that I ordered a full version bundled with the AJA i/o Express and will be doing my next TVC project on it, starting today.
I’m thrilled by what I’m seeing within Media Composer and I’m looking forward to learning more about where it’s headed. So much so, that I’m contemplating flying out to L.A. for your event Gary.
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@Gergo
This puzzled me too, but how I got it to work like final cut was to open up your command palette (command+3) and open up your keyboard preferences (project window>settings>keyboard preferences). Then, in your command palette, go to the “move” tab and drag REWIND and FAST FORWARD to your up and down arrow keys respectively.
Voila!
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Michael hit the nail on the head. I downloaded the 5.5 demo the other day and I was shocked that, after. 14 year hiatus, I still had some deep-rooted muscle memory for where the hotkeys were, how to navigate, etc…
It’s also true that, while the UI looks more or less the same, The newly added features are not only evident while cutting, but have had a profound impact on my experience with the software.
Everything old is new again and, after the last week and a half, I have to say: it’s refreshing.
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Thank you Robert. I’ll take a look at Cineform for sure, but it’s reassuring to know that we can continue to specify ProRes for the time being.
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Very well said Jeremy.
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This post does a great job of revealing a fundamental issue with the release of FCP-X and that is this question: do you want the same tool set as Walter Murch or that of your neighbor’s 14-year old kid?
Apple has spent a lot of energy the last few years showing the world (through marketing) that real filmmakers use FCP to accomplish real, high-end things. The Cohen brothers anyone? And now Conan O’Brien and his staff are mocking it. Sigh…
It’s hard to feel good about a product that releases with an “export to CNN iReport” coded before edl.
Loss of professional cachet? Check.
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To quote a famous animated character: you’re saying what I’m thinking!
The trials, the tribulations, the rewards and, ultimately, the perceived debt of what is owed to those that invested time, energy and money.
Your post hits the nail, or at least my nail, right on the head.
Thanks for that.
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Given it’s timeline-based workflow, Premiere seems like a logical go-to, even more so when you consider that it can/will run on the same AJA cards that, and internal graphic cards, that FCP 7 can (excluding the CUDA factor, of course). Also, it plays well with After Effects and, very likely, is already installed on many people’s FCP 7 rigs thanks to being bundled with CS5.
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Yes, I did ask our reseller if they had any copies for sale and they told me not only no, they don’t have any, but that they were in the midsts of building out a large order of FCP systems for customers and have no software to install and configure for them and that their Apple rep had no answers for how they can/should fulfill their orders.
Apple has gone, for all intents and purposes, radio-silent with regards to their equipment resellers giving them no information on how to handle pre-existing FCP 7 orders, nor what the new procedures are regarding new system sales involving FCP-X.
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I wasn’t aware that the sale was still in effect. I’ve shot a call out to our reseller about this.
I’d love to have the luxury of time before making a purchase like this, but at that price, it’s really too tempting to not go after.