Jim Giberti
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They even change the way they number the updates!
Kidding, I read the same thing, I think from LJ.
Given what I’ve been reading for months and then my limited experience so far, It seems like a real .1 update.
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[Chris Harlan] “from Yosemite, and about the same from Mammoth, though separated from them by tall peeks and deep canyons, the circumnavigation of which, makes the drive to either place about eight to ten hours. Its elevation is about 7000 Ft., in what is known as the Canadian Zone, so its winters can be fierce. 25-35 ft of snow is not unusual. The roads to our half of the lake close after first snowfall, but I’ve been back there on a cat and it is a little freaky knowing that two story cabins are below your feet. In summer, it is heaven on earth.
“It is heaven up there.
We do a lot of outdoor winter stuff, ski resorts, ski manufacturers and snowmobiling. Spent a lot of last winter hanging from one shooting the new promo spots for the SM industry. Ironically I was up checking out Mammoth while develop a campaign to keep the LA market from driving up there.
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[Andrew Richards] “That sounds awesome!
“Hey Andy, it can be even with the constant hay, fur and yes, manure.
However, remember the devastation on the news after hurricane Irene? We were at ground zero and one of the areas completely cut off from civilization. It was pretty strange to have Blackhawks hovering over the mountain top and National Guard and FEMA forces being dropped in.
We fired everything back up on generator power but you couldn’t get in or out for a long while and even now our main access roads are barley passable emergency paths. It was very surreal going back and forth between fixing roads with farm equipment and rescuing stranded families and then coming back in and producing a music video or TV spot.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Jim,
It appears that you are not aware that Creative Cow makes it quite easy for you to quote another human being, and with automatic attribution too.
“You mean as opposed to quoting a poodle?
[David Roth Weiss] “The instructions are right above the response window. If you use the technology as intended it’s faster and easier for you and better for everyone else too, because we know whom you’re actually quoting.”
Thank you for pointing that out David, it certainly beats my Rube Goldberg technique.
[David Roth Weiss] “Kind of qualifies as a win/win for all. Right?”
That was rhetorical, right?
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“Each year, I have a fantasy about it being all year long. Er, all Summer long. Winters there are not pretty. Where’s your bit mountain top?”
I know that fantasy – and winter is definitely a real part of it . I made the decision to move my biz from the city (primarily Boston and NY market) to Vermont. Initially we bought a farm in the Green Mountains and an historic brownstone on the river that I renovated with three floors of studios and offices.
A few years ago even the 10 minute commute seemed unnecessary and I bought the old farm across from ours and built all new facilities up here surrounded by hundreds of acres of mountain forest and pasture. We also have a horse farm here so it enables me to be around it all (and our 8 yellow labs).
Where abouts in the Sierras is the family place? I’ve had some great experiences in the CA mountains. Mostly San Gabriel with some ski resort clients out in LA and further north in Santa Ynez.
We’re just getting our new site up this month with a video tour of the farm and studios…I’ll send you a link.
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“You might want to rethink that as people ARE using it on laptops for the sake of testing the damn thing – witch is a V1 software, but I’m not sure if you care about that.
Why put in the desktop if it is not talking to the card? You’re blind right there, aren’t you?”No I’m not blind to anything. I understand that you have strong opinions about why you don’t like the program. I’m offering my real world experience as a pretty accomplished pro using it for a couple of days. I have no other motives for what I write, my experience is what it is.
“I agree. Especially If only we could see those actual projects and workflows wonders that FCPX is always touting. That alone would make those generalizations vanish immediately. ”
Even if I could show you my client work in progress, I don’t have the time or desire to pull that together. This is an opinion forum. You can either accept my experience or not. I’m not asking you to show me physical evidence to back up your generalizations.
“Ah, “reconnect walls”, yes. Indeed, there are big thick walls in FCPX regarding “reconnect media”.
FCPX can’t be set up to reconnect media – as it did before.
It is a feature request, by many here, but maybe not that important for you, or the “new file concept”
but for some, yes. It should work as it did before.
And there’s also a problem that offlines FCPX media when simply opened in Adobe’s AFX.”I’ve got 11 years experience with FCP, I understand the differences fully. Because I understand the new program, I don’t hit any reconnect walls. You might see it differently if you understood the new approach. How much experience do you have with X?
“”You’ll hit the “undo walls” when the “undo” stops working, then FCPX stops saving your project. You might pay attention to that. Not sure if loosing hours of work could be good in a sense, but who knows?””
“And you’ll hit the same wall if something doesn’t work for you. Do you have some evidence, other than some posts on the internet regarding 1.0 that undo doesn’t work?
And if you’re not sure that losing hours of work is a bad thing, I can help you with that conundrum.“Search “auto-save not saving” or “undo not working” and “how to reconnect in FCPX”.
You will find them. There are plenty of reported problems on this matter. I am sure you didn’t had the time to learn them. And if you are using it for paying jobs, that’s not something that will help you accomplishing that. ”I’ll ignore your condescending tone and assume that your fairly young and like to argue online. I’m fully aware of all of the posts and threads, the good and the bad. I’ve probably done more research than you as my decisions impact a 7 figure facility. You don’t build a company like mine by doing things blindly or stupidly. I haven’t written a thing about what I’ve read, only what I’ve experienced.
The only reason I’m posting here is to help further an honest and respectful discussion of a fairly important decision for a lot of people. I’ve been very frank in my criticisms of X while discussing our decision making process regarding FCP, PrP, Avid. As someone with a reasonable resume in the creative and production world I think it may have value to new users and people wrestling with the same decision
Good luck with your editing.
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Chris, this is why I think Apple developed X not so much with a big middle finger to the upper end of post, but probably with a real awareness that their new direction was going to alienate that end of the market and they consider that a reasonable business decision. It’s also why I think most of the frustration/anger from this end of the market is justified.
I’ll leave the deeper, UI philosophical, reasoning to David L and other very smart folks and just give my personal experience. I think that my company is probably representative of the majority of the industry today and going forward (in numbers not dollars). That is that we shoot and post all aspects of our work ourselves, whether for broadcast, DVD etc.
On the other end is the independent laptop producer with a DSLR that gets bandied about so often here. That’s not a negative reference but a really accurate one I think regarding the new generation of content producers and I think clearly that Apple is looking at them (and us in the middle) and accepting your situation as collateral damage.
If X had much of the great improvements AND tracks, it might have been the new idea that could have straddled all ends of the industry. I haven’t used it long enough to say I understand why they chose this route but I definitely empathize and agree with your situation.
Coming from a guy with offices and studios on a mountain top that hasn’t had a client sit in on an edit in 10 years.
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“With FCPX is the opposite. I feel lost.
I feel that my 25 years editing are not just of no help, but even a burden.
Is like starting from zero.
Needing a teacher get the basic concept of an NLE makes me really down”Not to disagree with you Rafael but to offer a counter point of view:
I too have over 25 years experience editing on virtually every serious system in both video and audio going back to the first transitions from analogue to digital.
The point of my post agreeing with Bill’s is how surprised I was at how quickly I transitioned to X given the different paradigm.
There is no question that my FCP experience made the transition fast. It really doesn’t change the essential concepts of editing.
Perhaps it’s because I’m used to adjusting my thinking and command routines as I bounce between FCP, PS, Motion, Digital Performer etc everyday. But honestly – cutting nice work in 48 hours and being impressed with the speed and ease of use was something I wasn’t anticipating after reading so much negativity.
That’s been my experience so far.
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“It seems obvious by now that people using FCPX for paid jobs
are using it as a tool for cutting small DSLR projects onto their laptops.”I don’t do anything on a laptop except write and present. In my firm, FCPX is sitting on big systems in studios with state of the art gear.
It would be good to have a substantive, factual conversation with some of the new users regarding their experiences without the generalizations.
Now I don’t think there are “reconnect walls” if you understand the new file concept. And I don’t know of any actual “undo walls”.
That said, I fully anticipate the same type of early adopter issues that I’ve encountered over the years moving our company into new technology.
So far, so good though and mostly I think my experience is similar to the original post.
peace.
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I had a clip catch on fire in 7 when I mistakenly tried to drag it over the line.