Matt Callac
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I must have narrowly interpreted this statement.
[TImothy Auld] “I don’t think any particular way of editing will
make anyone a better editor.”Misread your meaning.
Your meaning was that no tool can make you better at your craft. I misunderstood your meaning as learning a new tool won’t make anyone better at a craft. My mistake.
-mattyc
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[TImothy Auld] ” Forgive me waxing philosophic for a moment but I don’t think any particular way of editing will
make anyone a better editor.”I totally disagree with that statment. Simon said it very well:
[Simon Ubsdell] “Every time you learn a new way of doing stuff you get better and more imaginative – and that’s regardless of whether the new way is better or worse than your old way. In all probability you are creating whole new neurological circuits each time you do this kind of thing and creating new avenues of possibility.
It’s limiting yourself to one little world of editing that limits what you can achieve – this will be as true of those who only ever learn FCPX as it is of those who never wanted to get beyond Media Composer.”
-mattyc
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[Bill Davis] “It seems like OVERNIGHT, nobody wanted them anymore.”
I think it had a lot to do with OVERNIGHT, or the cost of Overnighting DVD’s via Fedex/UPS. Who wants to pay that when your post facility will only charge you a nominal fee (if anything) for a web upload.
-mattyc
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[Bill Davis] “I suspect that for anyone embarking on FCP-X exploration – as many here are – will become MUCH better editors in the long run. Simply because they allowed themselves to be pulled and tugged into new ways of thinking.”
I agree with this, and it’s one of the reasons I’m trying to learn it. But the question is will starting on FCPX make someone a better editor.
-mattyc
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[Walter Soyka] ”
Without making a judgment on how FCPX will do in the market, is the editorial mindset learned on FCPX alone transferrable? Does learning on FCPX alone encourage significant gaps in understanding?”Really depends on the what criteria we choose to evaluate most heavily.
What’s more important…file formats, workflow’s etc, or the ability to craft a story. An FCPX only editor would be at the disadvantage on the formats/workflows side of things. Both are important, but i guess the question is, are both totally necessary.
-mattyc
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[Herb Sevush] ” I didn’t get that from Matt’s posting, and for that I apologize.”
Thanks walter, Most likely my fault, Sometimes I focus too much on certain specifics rather than focusing on the root of what I’m getting at.
While you do come up with really good stuff Fiddling around with the edit. Which FCPX is great for. Planning and conceptualizing is a really big part of the process, that I’d imagine someone learning to edit on X would skip.
-mattyc
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[David Roth Weiss] ”
The fact is, good organizational skills are learned skills, and anyone lazy enough to get around good organization or who doesn’t know enough to appreciate good organization, will always find a way to edit without organization, no matter what app they’re using. FCP X is no exception to this rule, and it could easily be argued that it actually encourages bad habits by automating parts of the process.”Good point David. While i do think FCPX has tried to make it harder for editors to be unorganized, you are correct, people will find ways of being disorganized.
I fully agree that taking the organization of footage etc etc out of the equation for you is encouraging laziness. I hate when clients (or bosses) want me to capture a whole tape, B/c it’s lazy and dissoranized (in most cases). It’s a cheap easy way out of having to log your footage, which is how you learn your footage if you did not shoot it.
-mattyc
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Walter, This is a great topic.
I think editors who learn on FCPX may lack a very important skill in editing: Problem solving.
Let’s face it. FCP 7 had a lot of problems and you’d often run into those problems. Any Editor who uses FCP day in and day out has had to become a very good troubleshooter.
Moreover I feel like most of the people who started editing in linear environments are much more versatile editors. They can come up with a thousand different ways to accomplish the same thing and figure out how to do that thing ( a lot of times) faster than someone who didn’t learn editing in a linear environment. It took way more planning to do edit’s in linear form and that’s why people who came from that Background are often much more oganized editors than those who started on NLE’s.
It’s like learning to drive a stick shift. If you learn to drive on the crappiest car in the world you can pretty much drive any stick shift car. But if you learn to drive a stick shift in a brand new corvette, when someone has you drive their 85 honda civic, you’re gonna have some problems.
FCPX is sort of the same if you learn to edit on it, you pretty much only know how to edit on it. If someone puts you in front of an avid, you have no idea what’s going on.
While I feel like the new way of FCPX’s editing is incredibly fast, I feel like it may be at the cost of certain flexibilities.
-mattyc
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[Alan Okey] “iBitch.”
iBitch
For the Win.-mattyc
