Lance Bachelder
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C’mon… this is hater central. Do you have a mirror in your edit bay?
Lance Bachelder
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I keep checking every Tuesday… gotta happen right? Though I would be happy with a new 6 core i7 EE machine that was a tad smaller and lighter than current tower as long as it has Thunderbolt and a couple of open pcie slots. As long as we have fast GPU’s we really don’t need 12 core machines anymore?
Lance Bachelder
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I will continue to have my complaints about FCPX…and FCP 7…and Avid…and Premiere.
True words and don’t forget Vegas Pro! At least these paid Editors gave it a fair shake and tried it on some paying gigs, that’s really the only way to get into it and make a real decision.
Funny how all the haters just can’t stand that FCPX might actually catch on…
Lance Bachelder
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It was bad to the tune of thousands of dollars and lawyers getting involved to settle all the extra costs incurred by attempting to use the software on a feature and then getting abandoned by Adobe as the entire team that launched PPro left the company.
I know it’s not as bad as it was in the early days but we still found it unusable up to version 5 for feature film editing. This was strictly a bug and crash issue, not a lack of features. I’m hearing that 5.5 is great but for me I’ll stick with FCPX for now…
Lance Bachelder
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I keep the current viewer on my 2nd display which is a calibrated Dreamcolor attached via Display Port. I have had success color timing etc without using external. Only problem is scopes and now angle viewer split up that real estate which won’t be a prob once I hook up one of my AJA devices.
Lance Bachelder
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Yeah it’s the same window as the scopes so obviously they could do it – would be great if was something that could be in the pulldown menu – so choices might be scopes, angles, viewer? And could easily be turned off?
Lance Bachelder
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Cash is cool 🙂
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
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If you go to Apple site and download a variety of trailers and play them back frame by frame, looking at show length and especially how sound and visual transitions are built. You’ll see single frames of white, black, how some rely on VO, some graphics and other just great storytelling to create the great “trailer moments”.
Couple of my favs from last year were WIN WIN and The Descendants.
Lance Bachelder
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I’ve used all the aforementioned NLE’s for pay over the years and have always been a Mac AND PC guy. I’ve used FCP since June 1999 (right after it was introduced at NAB), Avid since 2000, legacy Premiere and was a beta tester for Vegas Pro for 10 years and PPro for 2 or 3. I also cut film and tape dating back to the 80’s.
I think FCPX has the best foundation of any NLE that I’ve seen. The rapid pace that Apple has shown in getting useable updates and fixes into it show they are fully committed to making it even greater than legacy FCP. The biggest thing for me is that it’s making editing fun again – fast, intuitive, modern… yeah it has some things lacking and some things bug me about it but I think it’s gonna be HUGE!
As far as Avid – still strong, solid, great for delivery but kinda boring and I need more than 8 stereo pairs! Premiere Pro has always longed to be FCP and aside from the 64bit and CUDA goodness, is still playing catch up to legacy FCP in features and use – I mean I don’t know anyone using it to deliver shows for national TV let alone doing frame-accurate inserts to tape to fix QC issues. Things FCP did ok and Avid does great. I’m sure that’s changing it will take time to see who really wins since the original FCPX release…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California