Leo Hans
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Flavio,
I am not stressed. I wonder why everybody is about FCPX.Never said Avid is dead. I said that premiere is a copy of FCP (again, IMHO).
“No one knows about the future, but really… Why does it have to be in Apple´s hands?.”
It not has to be being Apple, It has to be with Apple being the only one trying to innovate instead of adding little things.
I dobut adding wings to a car is the best way to invent an airplane.
Leo Hans
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“I would switch to FCPX. Like I said, this is business. So far I see no evidence of that happening. FCPX’s chief design benefits seems to be ease of learning for new editors and ease of use with simple projects. I am both old and complicated, so it doesn’t seem to be aimed at me”
That’s the main reason to wait until doing unneeded desperate moves.
PS: Nobody disagree with you about Apple having to stop supporting FCPS3.
Leo Hans
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I make an analogy to Software Developers.
Every few years new programming languages appears and then programmers have to re learn how to do the programming.
The mind behind the programmer is the same, but the programming tools change and evolve. They loose the opportunity to add features to an application without rewriting it but in favor to a more powerful language.
The real difference with editor is that our industry tends to be more conservative.
Leo Hans
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Did you try the new Motion 5 Keyer? It’s impressive.
Leo Hans
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Rafael,
I wonder why It’s ok to spit to FCPX but not to defend it.Premiere doesn’t got this popular but for the FCPX controversy. It’s not Premiere laurels. It’s the most similar NLE to FPC7 and thus is the easy way to go.
IMHO, Premiere it’s not the future, but a reincarnation of the past.
Time will tell who is wrong about that.
Leo Hans
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Herb,
You can still have FCP7 if you need to open a legacy project in the same manner that having an old betacam, DV, or U-Matic recorder may help you capture old video footage.
Did you blame Sony when U-Matic got outdated in flavor to Betacam SP, and later with DigiBeta? Was Sony fault that you need to have the old recorder and the new one because Betacam SP decks didn’t load U-Matic tapes?
It’s not an Apple problem. It’s the constantly evolving technology.
In a copule of months, or maybe a year from now, used FCS3 licences will be cheap. While some people are going to need it for a long time still, lot of people will be moving to Avid, Premiere and FCPX.
Perhaps loosing the ability to open legacy projects is a necessary tradeoff.
I have no doubts that we are going to have the option to open somehow legacy projects in FCPX, but not in a looseness way. But I choose to look at the future. I like the new timeline, the metadata over the old bin/clips structure and the whole paradigm.
Not all of us needs to open old projects. I don’t, so I don’t need to keep an old Mac with FPC7 for the next 5 years just in case, but if you make money opening legacy project, to keep one of it is an investment, like every other investment you do.
What if because the workflow of FCPX in a near future is really faster to edit a project on FCPX than in Premiere or Avid. Will you tell your client that you need more time to deliver your work because you chosen the old way of doing things that let you open old projects?
I mean, maybe It’s too soon to evaluate which platform is going to be the best in a year or two. None of my clients asked me to stop using FPC7 nor to switch to Avid or Premiere.
Leo Hans
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A couple of moths ago I was in the position to buy or not a Sony DVW-2000 Digital Betacam VTR we were renting. It cost is $ 50 grands. Talking with my partners we arrived to the conclusion that we was working with less and less tape every month so tape was dying. It was profitable only if we were going to have a lot (really a lot) work depending on that in a year, because then, probably it will be useless.
Well, if you have this kind of tape recorders, the price of the editing software doesn’t matter.
That’s why some people complains the lack of tape I/O of FCPX. They need to maintain their old workflow in order to pay off their equipment.
They had to admit that today is more efficient to carry a hard drive than using tapes. Especially considering the tape based equipment costs. If you are going to buy a expensive tape recorder you better think it twice.
Leo Hans
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Flavio,
English is not my mother language, so excuse me if something sounds not so friendly.I think that tools should make things simpler. AE may be the best stabilization (maybe excluding smoke, flame and other high cost alternatives), but AE is not a NLE.
About learning FCPX first, I was not talking about you. If you look at most forums (here, fcp.co, etc) most of the people complaining about FCPX didn’t ever launched the App (in their own words).
I love some FPC7 features. I love some Avid MC features, and some Premiere features too.
I agree with the second story line lacking precision editor, but I have to admit I not using too much the precision editor because i find the inline trimming really good. And I have my own complaints about FCPX, but I love the core idea of it.
Leo Hans
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Just assign keywords with the name of your former bins.
Or do it backwards: Create keyword collections and drop clips there, like with the clips/bins in FPC7Leo Hans
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Not at all.
Apple already successfully used keywords in Aperture and Adobe with Lightroom. It’s just new for NLE, give it a try.Leo Hans
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