John Chay
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You can’t run a business on uncertainty. At my facility we were ready to purchase 3 brand new mac based editing suites running FCP. After the release of FCPx we have decided to go another direction.
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The big difference…Apple can take the hit where Avid could afford not to. Apple could drop all editing software all together and be just fine. If Avid dropped editing software there would be no Avid.
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[Chris Kenny] “A lot of facilities weren’t going to upgrade to a new version of FCP for 12 or 18 months even if it had just been an incremental, backwards compatible update. This gives Apple a little time to continue adding pro features to FCP X, to try to get facilities to choose that, rather than Premiere Pro or Avid,”
Your logic is flawed. Facilities had no intentions of transitioning towards Avid or Premiere until they released Final Cut X. Apple could have bought themselves some time by doing nothing at all or releasing FCPx as a Beta version first. But to scrap FCS3 all together is ludicrous and a clear signal that the Pro Editing App from Apple is dead.
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Actually the real question is why is there a platform change to begin with? To me the answer is obvious.
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Avid was expensive. FCP was not. That’s the reason people went to FCP including myself. Avid as an editing tool has been consistent. They have never completely changed the format.
FCP did one thing I will always appreciate…they forced prices to drop for editing software.
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Nothing abstract about it. There are companies like Avid and Adobe that have treated the professional community well. Avid has been around longer than FCP and they have never treated their customers like this. Avid is the same platform when I started using it 10 years ago.
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I think the biggest thing that has people upset is pulling CS3 all together and forcing everyone into FCPX. If they would have just kept CS3 and allowed people to gradually transition into FCPX when it was ready for Professional Post work then you wouldn’t see the outrage.
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Time to move on. FCP 7 was a major disappointment. Many of us were waiting for a major IMPROVEMENT with the next Final Cut 8. Instead, FCPX went 30 steps backwards. If you already know FCP then Premiere will be easy to learn. Avid is not that difficult either.
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