[Lillian Young]

Me? Short-form packages, sizzle reels, narratives here and there.

[Lillian Young]

Thanks to everyone for your responses, corrections, solutions, opinions and suggestions. *whew* That’s a lot 🙂

I want to point out that I work at a company, so just ‘getting with the program’ and upgrading my OS isn’t something that suits us company-wide. It has to be a selective decision that takes time. I remain disappointed that Apple released a major update that can only be used on a new OS.

For the record, I have a laptop that I have installed 10.1 on as it’s my backup computer. I haven’t used that version yet.

Also, I have watched hours of tutorials from Lynda.com, Ripple Training, Class On Demand, Infinite Skills and Larry Jordan.

I am not one of those who jumps into something haphazardly and then complains that it doesn’t work. I have given FCPX dedicated time over the last 2 months and even told my boss that FCPX is the best for the team. I think I did so prematurely and/or I am not yet skilled enough to have made that suggestion since I do not confidently have solutions to the issues I’ve listed here nor extended experience with X.

I want to love FCPX. I have already picked up the shortcuts and am gaining speed. I love live previews of the effects and the magnitude of options. No other editing package excites me as much. BUT, I do not know of anyone else in my workflow/company using it.

Time will tell, but I do greatly appreciate all of your responses. Thanks!

[Lillian Young]

I’ve gone through several tutorials including Ripple, Lynda, etc.

[Lillian Young]

I’ve also been editing on FCP 7 for 8 years, and switched to X a couple of months ago to my regret (I started a thread about the deal-breaking issues).

Your thread helps because I was looking at Avid or Premiere. I know that Avid is the industry standard, but I am not a freelancer. I am staff, and I also prefer motion graphics and 3D, so I just want to get back to editing with ease so that I can cut and concentrate on animations and 3D again instead of studying new NLEs.

The comment about Premiere being good for AE users is interesting to me.

[Lillian Young]

I prefer the precision. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve moved something only for that magnetic timeline to slip my clips and screw up my audio timing. I read that it’s best to use a Gap clip and place videos abve that to prevent slippage. That’s foolish and creates way too many workarounds for what should be very simple.

[Lillian Young]

You don’t have to convince me. Coming from FCP 7, I jumped fully into FCPX. After several (2+ hour) tutorials, I got it. Ready to edit.

For two months in a row, daily, I worked on 3-4 projects (3 small, one big) in FCPX. I cannot tell you the level of frustration and disappointment (can’t lock storylines, workarounds for simple stuff like in/out points to export a section, having to create comps for simple manipulation, buggy audio peaks, etc.)

I want to start a thread but I don’t feel like putting myself out there to be stoned by FCPX enthusiasts. Hey, I wanted to love it also. Now I feel like a fool who wasted two months.

So today I tried Premiere and in the first few seconds, it just felt more pro. Being an After Effects animator, the interface was comfortable.

I may go with that or Avid, but FCPX? Only for small, personal projects that I want to apply FCPX-only plugins to.

[Lillian Young]

I am having the same issue, but there’s not a CONTENTS folder on my external drive.

[Lillian Young]

I have watched the tutorials (hours worth), have tried FCP X for the last 2 months on one project, went to open it this morning and FCPX doesn’t recognize the drive suddenly.

All projects are in the same place they’ve always been in.

[Lillian Young]

My Mac Pro is from early 2008, and I am doing my first FCP X 10.0.9 project from an external drive. That said, I feel that it’s extremely slow.

I have worked off of the same system from the same external drives on FCP 7 and haven’t experienced such lags. And I know I’m supposed to work locally, but my drives are full, so…

I wanted to convince my boss to switch to FCP X, and after watching several courses (not YouTube vids, but full 2+ hour tutorials)I was very prepared to until I discovered that you can’t do basic things like select an in and out point without a workaround. I’m putting up with it, but I cannot expect a team of editors to do that.

Also, for the latest version, you must upgrade you OS? Who does that in a pro environment with tons of third party apps/plugins, etc. that aren’t guaranteed to work with a new OS yet? So I feel that a carrot (or Apple, hehe) is being waved in my face — being a better FCP X that I cannot have.

The one thing that’s keeping me interested in FCP X personally are the plugins. There are a ton, and you can preview before applying them.

But I unfortunately will have to start learning Premiere or Avid.If plugins don’t matter to you, then I would look toward other editing software.

[Lillian Young]

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