Laura Scott
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I wonder if it’s related to the issue I posted last night. https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/351/2132
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[Oliver Peters] “No offense guys, and not to quibble, but 33 years ago is 1985. “
HA! In another universe, I can do math. You’re right. Whew! Now I don’t feel so old. Started with NLEs in 1995 (or maybe 1994). Analog video in 1985. Film a few years before that.
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I seem to have struck a sensitive spot. My apologies. I did also say, “I think it’s great that pro shops have found ways to leverage FXPX/Motion into paying operations, btw. I’m not knocking their choices.”
But I’ve been using NLEs for only 33 years, so what do I know? 🙂
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[Tim Wilson] “It’s conceivable to me that both perspectives are true in a way. Apple cares about high end video professionals, as long as they’re running FCPX. “
I believe Apple’s pattern over the past 18 or so years (since OSX, really) has not pointed in that direction. Apple’s biggest investments and biggest cash cows are in hardware: mobile devices (iPhones moreso than iPads) and Macs. They make a good amount of money taking their 30% cut from the App Store. But when it comes to their own software apps, they really don’t dominate in any area, certainly on on the pro level.
FCPX appeals to the amateur who wants to do more than iMovie stuff. YouTubers etc. Some pros find value in it as well, since it does quite a lot of the basics quickly. But clearly when they EOL’d the pro-targeted FCPS, they were deciding that this was not an area where they could compete well. If you’re familiar with Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, FCPX is the low-cost rebar/minimill competing against the established giants AVID, PP, etc. And for basic stuff, if you’re starting from scratch in terms of craft, it’s there and really not bad. (By the bye, I think it’s great that pro shops have found ways to leverage FXPX/Motion into paying operations, btw. I’m not knocking their choices. In earlier days, I used D-vision and Discreet Edit and did fine in my freelancing. But those skills did not translate well into getting hired at bigger shops. I lost out on a good picture cutter job at a major trailer shop simply because I was not facile enough on AVID. Personally, I think they were hiring for the wrong reasons, but the fact is that more hiring managers prioritize software skills over creative talent. And they get away with it because the field is rich with people having both.)
FCPX is just not going to come anywhere close to supplanting the Mac itself as a sales priority. They were charging a LOT more for FCPS when they just up and killed it. Obviously the software side is not their primary focus. Their best play is to establish their PLATFORM as the go-to, and that means making all this great hardware with tight OS integration available to be leveraged by other pro software platforms in not just video but design. Apple undermines their own success if they try to force vertical integration with only their own prosumer-level software. They would be providing incentive to buy Windows instead. (Much of the Mac’s success as a preferred platform for tech geeks is not just its Unix-based OSX architecture but also because of their App Store and providing xtools tools to developers to better leverage Mac UI and hardware architecture.)
Look at their software. None of these (except maybe Compressor) comes close to dominating their market field.
Personally I lean toward PP right now because the cutting interface makes more sense to me, and I already spend much of my professional day in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, so the UI logic is familiar, and my hotkey habits seem to apply. Whereas FCP has always been a quirky bizarre app designed by people who apparently had no familiarity with existing editing systems.
Anyway, this is all speculation, isn’t it? The new Mac Pro will reveal much. They say it will be extensible. They have declared a mea culpa with their coffee pot Mac Pro’s design. And these Pro machines I feel reveal their realization just how much of the future in computing will require powerful processing and graphics capabilities.
I expect the reason Adobe (and others) does not currently leverage the full iMac Pro architecture has more to do with Adobe’s internal priorities. And the short time since these pro machines started coming out. Adobe in the last year or so seems to have gotten better at progressive improvements. I’m getting app updates week or so. My hope and expectation is that Adobe will better leverage the Apple architectures, hopefully in the near future and not next year.
Meanwhile I will focus on what I can focus on: User speed, and right now that’s in PP. I’m not writing off FCPX altogether. But my days are better spent not swearing at the UI.
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Thanks for the reminder. Fortunately that’s something that can always be corrected in the text file prior to import. Oy, it’s been ages.
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In searching this question re FCP7 (yeah, I know), I did see a post noting that several people had problems with FCPX. The solution seemed to be to uninstall the app, delete the preferences and cache from the library, and then reinstall the app.
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I presume your media exists on files and not tape
Yes. We actually redigitized from the original tapes to ProRes 422, matching timecode.
I never would have thought of Resolve 11 Lite for this purpose. Brilliant! Thanks!
(I thought I had posted this in the regular FCPX forum. Seems a bit misplaced here. Apologies.)
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What I’ve read so far is that FCS2 will run on Lion, but you won’t be able to install FCS2 on Lion (if you needed to reinstall later, for example) because FCS2’s installer uses Rosetta, which is not supported by Lion. So you could upgrade to Lion and have FCS2 work, but that’s it. See https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3134652?start=0&tstart=0
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FWIW this thread has several people saying that FCP7/FCS3 will not only run but install just fine on Lion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3134652?start=0&tstart=0
Official Apple statement re compatibility: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT4769
I may try running the Lion update tonight.
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“Release early, release often” is the current best practice followed in software. I hope that Apple will implement the features necessary for professional work sometime soon. (Hello, EDL, nice to see you, please do come in and make yourself at home!) Meanwhile I am going to sit tight and not make a panic jump to Adobe or Avid, as I’ve never used the former and the latter is just a tad pricey for my needs.
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