[Marcus Pun]

I think Apple needs to go considerably further.

Problem Apple is facing is loss of trust. They’ve ticked off my clients who have spent thousands on MacPros. Those clients just crossed “FCP upgrades” from their budgets. They’ve ticked off a lot of editors for misleading us as to the capabilities of FCP X. I feel like I’ve been Faux Newsed.

Marketing will tell you, it is much easier to get a new customer than it is to regain an unhappy one. Right now I am an unhappy one.

so….

Abject apology from Steve Jobs himself for the misleading marketing campaign and what I consider lies buy omission during their presentations previous to the release of FCP X. Acknowledge the fact that essentially FCP X is NOT facility ready. Single users are probably okay to some extent as long as they don’t mind popping 10 layers on their timeline to do an old fashioned NLE multi-cam edit.

Take SS3 of of EOL, sell it again, support it fully, even if it means adding a few more capabilities in a 7.5 version. For free.

Fire anyone who thought that leaving out multi cam for the initial release was a good idea and that EDL’s were too old fashioned.
Better yet, get them a Windows ME computer and force them to use it for the next 2 years. Okay the last sentence tongue in cheek but Apple will have to quickly bend over backwards to regain some of the lost trust. I know some people complain about Avid but if you look back at the past 10 years, most films and episodic TV shows are still cut in Avid. On the other side, Adobe CS 5.5 has a great price point because you can put it on a much cheaper high performance PC. Plus it is starting to get beautifully integrated between Premiere and AE and Photoshop , etc.

[Marcus Pun]

Good lord why does Apple think that it can reinvent the wheel as a triangle and expect to go freeway speeds?

Wipes need to be easy to apply and quickly adjustable. Which is why I use After Effects. Select clip, go to Effect>Transition> Linear wipe, or any other one, that’s it. Adjust to taste

Motion. Open Photoshop, or whatever. Create matte, add blur
save. import into Motion. Pray to god that you have the right width.
and of course you can try to adjust the key to adjust the width. maybe it will work maybe not. and you want to dynamically change the width of the wipe during the transition?

Or you can buy the boris FX package for 1600 dollars. OR for 999 dollars you can buy Adobe CS4 Production Premium for Mac on ebay. today. For 1600 bucks you can upgrade your AE7 or other upgradable Adobe equivalent to the full CS 5 production suite.

Motion has too many frustration points for this old linear editor. I like things done fast and with dedicated functions that I can quickly access.

I ended up several years ago finding a nice cheap 5.0 version -a hundred bucks for PC version of Production bundle, then upgraded to 6.5 on the cheap (I love Ebay) then upgraded for a couple of hundred to AE CS4.
I’m all set and can upgrade to a full CS5 when I get or build my new PC or if I break down and buy a new Mac.