Jim Giberti
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[Rich Joyce] “Face it FCPX’ers It is now going to be a Premiere and Avid world instead of a FCP and Avid world. The speed of warp stabilzer is not going to veer people away. I tried to embrace FCPX but feel that Apple let me down in terms of pleasing professional editors.”
Do we really have to Rich, that’s it, you’ve got the official word?
Apple let you down, but you don’t represent professional editors.
You represent you.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “awe, come on….that’s no fun! ;)”
Yeah, why do you think Tim leaves a can of lighter fluid at the top of the forum?
Anyway, I thinks it’s great that Adobe has resolved much of the acrimony by delivering a very viable alternative for our community.
I wonder if it had been available when we all woke up with this FCP shock last June, If many of us wouldn’t have migrated immediately to it rather than go down the curvy, bumpy adaptation road of FCPX.
I say again, the ball’s in Apple’s court. If they come back quickly with a real functionality upgrade, then what could be better for the creative world than a genuine competition for our allegiance. A year from now we might have two apps that look very much like what we’ve all wanted for a number of years, actually developed and refined through this dynamic tension.
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[Neil Sadwelkar] “But if you need to quickly put together a set of disparate scenes like in a docu together, quickly classify material without making subclips and bins, to tackle the usual colour jumps, camera shake, and turn out a result and publish it to the world on YouTube or Vimeo or distribute it as a movie to a closed group via, say, Dropbox or some such resource… then FCP X does it all.”
You make it sound as if it’s not appropriate for doing broadcast work Neil, which it certainly is.
While it may not be the best tool for episodic work (depending on your workflow, it obviously is for some) It’s a lot more than a Dropbox, youtube app…I don’t get that point at all.
It outputs beautiful quality broadcast spots very quickly, and that’s a pretty big chunk of the pro work being done for broadcast.
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[Craig Seeman] “They are resource hogs and, given Apple uses software to sell hardware, you’re going to want a hogzilla. The hog doesn’t have to be a tower though.”
Zactly, it’s not going to be a surprise to anyone familiar with these Apple people that the future is not going to be based around a decade old design.
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The more I work in Motion 5 and FCPX, the more I believe Apple is going to evolve the Mac line and not end it…and soon.
There’s too much potential in these 64 bit apps they just released to relegate them to an amorphous hardware future.
Like they’re obviously not immune to criticism regarding their choices with the FCPX release, they’re not deaf regarding their hardware development. I don’t think they’re going to sit back let this thing atrophy.
I think you’ll see a pretty defined view of their creative apps in concert with a new Mac line to support it.
Not that the direction will follow the heavy iron model that a lot of pros still want, but it won’t be a retreat either. These apps are simply too powerful in their potential to be developed and then left on some barren Hackintosh landscape.
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[Chris Harlan] “Cool, man. X is still theoretically on my Summer list, buts its moved a notch or two down. I’m still interested, though.
“It could give you something to do, on break with the trees that will never be clients.
It’s a report I’d love to hear – you, X, and a long weekend in the woods.
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[Tim Wilson] “Talking to one COW who’ll be writing about it for us soon, he said that he found FCPX unusable for his workflow, he now finds FCP 7 unusable for his sanity. He was forced to realize how unhappy he’d been with 7, especially on the performance front and how “un-modern” (his word) it has felt, for a very long time.”
I’ve had to spend a good deal of time going back and forth between FCP7 and FCPX on a number of projects recently.
I found FCP7 to be as stable and stalwart as ever but un-modern as well. Apple introduced some very fast and intuitive alternatives in X – I think you could honestly say it’s an evolution in many regards. As a creative director that also floats between a Digital Performer studio and traditional and web design studios, I was increasingly tired of how tired FCP was feeling in comparison to our other tools.
In many ways X is the tool I was hoping for. In many ways it isn’t.
Here’s what I can say definitively. After a few projects in FCP7 the last month, I hopped over and got 7toX, converted all relevant FCP7 projects into XML files and haven’t looked back.
X is simply a better over all environment than 7 on most levels, in my experience.
It’s a shame that they’ve let their user base dangle while waiting for basic industry features, but as it is now, warts and all, we can do a lot more a lot faster than in 7. -
[Chris Harlan] “So 1.0.4 has given you the stability you need? No more nightmares? (touch wood)
“Overall I think the stability issues came directly from X’s lack of proper memory management and bloat – and an obvious issue with outside graphics that, when combined with the former issues, induced corrupted projects and media
Once we became scrupulous about managing this it’s been good.I haven’t had enough sample time to say anything definitively, but I noticed greater speed and fluidity immediately when moving in and out of and copying between the Project Browser. Enough so that I’m seeing the Project Browser as a very useable approach to working between multiple projects.
I can honestly say I was delighted at how fast I was able to output several adaptations of a campaign yesterday. As I evolve with it I find a lot of things that it’s very good at. I just hope they get a fire under their collective asses on the X team and realize that they need to catch up on the stuff that’s not fluid or acceptably evolved by comparison.
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I’ve only spent a little time in PP6 but we’ve been doing a ton (for a boutique shop) of fairly complex work in X since the 1.0.4 update and I at least owe Apple a little nod.
When I get a break I’m going to write something on our recent round of work in X and Motion 5, but for now I’ll say that PP6 looks nice but not enough to make me move from X.
I’m very anxious to see Apple’s promised audio upgrade.
If they give the color board the simple attention it needs in functionality and restore round-tripping to Motion, they could have a very nice, complete tool box for many/most projects that we and others will supplement as needed with MB, Resolve and DAWs. -
[Jeremy Garchow] “…and horses. Something about horses, right?
“Yeah, way too many of them too but at least they shed in their own house.