Michael Hancock
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[Craig Seeman] “It’s a 1.0 app. Of course they will add features. “
This isn’t a missing feature Craig. It’s a big problem. Can’t open your media in another app for fear of changing metadata that results in offline media? That’s poor design and/or programming.
I don’t care what constraints the programmers are under, this should have been taken into consideration before any code was written, and code should have been written to account for the fact that editors do not operate in a vacuum. Maybe that was a manager’s fault for not requiring that media be accessible in other programs without breaking a link in FCPX, maybe it’s the coder’s fault for shoddy code and they didn’t bother to fix it during beta testing – either way, it’s completely unacceptable, even for a 1.0 app. It smacks of engineers designing the program with zero input from working editors.
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[Sean Thomas] “Or stay with what has been working for you for the past few years and wait for v.2”
A great option. But what if v2 of FCPX is still missing key features you depend on? Now you’re still using FCP7 and it’s been 5, 6 years since a major update? Software evolves pretty quickly these days. You should learn another program regardless.
[Sean Thomas] “I tend to think that Apple had a lot of pressure to get out a new FCP so they put out v.1 now – where it was. “
When they sat down to develop FCPX, they had a list of features that had to be in v01. XML, OMF, Multicam, etc… obviously weren’t on that list. It’s not like they started writing this software on a whim a couple months ago and someone said, “Hey guys, this is going to be released next week. Wrap up what you got!”. It was years in development, and they chose not to include certain things. Chose to. It’s not that they weren’t ready – they chose not to include them.
About 3rd parties – they’re relying on them to fill in the holes. There is a possibility that won’t happen, or the 3rd party options aren’t as robust and rock solid as they need to be. Something to consider.
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Michael Hancock
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You probably own Premiere already if your students are using the rest of the suite, so the only cost would be new course development around the new NLE. However, if you’re training students to get jobs in broadcast/film, Premiere really doesn’t have a presence there (yet). Avid does, so it would be in your student’s best interest to learn Avid.
If you have money to spend, get Avid. It’s $295/license for educational use, and your students can buy it for that and get 4 years of free upgrades. That’s the best educational deal out there right now. If you don’t have money to spend, go with Premiere until you get money. Then evaluate everything and either purchase Avid or stay with Premiere. I don’t know your program so I can’t say for sure, but when I taught we had FCP and Avid. If I was still teaching, I’d start them on Premiere and advanced editing would be on Avid.
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Michael Hancock
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Or Avid realized it’s not the future of editing, or financially it didn’t make sense to pursue this path, or it was a proof on concept piece that was never intended to be released and this guy didn’t understand that, or he’s an ex-Avid employee and has an axe to grind, or they tested it with full-time editors who said no way, or it’s 100% true.
Pick one. Nobody knows which one is right. What’s the point of this? If FCPX works for you and you can make money with it, do it. If you can’t, move to an NLE that does.
Regarding the “Avid can produce a much better program and they are not going to. That is sad!” bit – I didn’t read it that way at all, and that assumes that the FCPX way is better. That’s yet to be determined, and is you’re interpretation.
That said, Apple could have written a way to bring FCP7 projects forward into FCPX but didn’t. They could have included OMF export, XML import/export, multicam, etc…in the 1.0 release of FCPX and they didn’t. That’s make a lot of people sad too.
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Michael Hancock
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Why would you do that? Just install the Mac version.
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Michael Hancock
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Yes and no. It’s a couple clicks, but you have to remember to do it.
Personally, I love the dongle and never understood why people hated it so much, but the people spoke and Avid listened. Software activation is great for schools though.
I have heard that you can contact Avid Inside Sale and buy a dongle for $300, if it ends up being that important to you. If you travel a lot or use a lot of systems it would definitely be worth the investment.
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Michael Hancock
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Install it on both systems. When you’re done at your desktop, to to the Special menu and deactivate the software. Open it on your laptop and activate it. Do the reverse when you go back to your laptop.
Note – you’ll need an internet connection.
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Michael Hancock
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If it’s there, I guarantee you can completely turn it off. 🙂
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Michael Hancock
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[Chris Kenny] “It doesn’t do essentially the same thing. I just explained that.”
No you didn’t. You said “It’s a flat collection of data organized using metadata and saved queries.” How is that different than a bin, other than the saved queries? You name clips, they have timecode, you add comments and custom metadata, you sort them by that data, you search them by that data. I was doing that in Avid for years and they’re constantly expanding on it. You can do most of that in FCP7.
If you explained it before I didn’t get it. How is an event different from a bin? They both hold things with metadata attached. You search and sort them both. In Avid you cannot put a bin into a bin – it’s not a folder. It sounds like an event. What does an Event do, besides save search queries, that a bin doesn’t?
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Michael Hancock
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Considering Apple counts FCPExpress licenses when it talks about having 2 million users, yeah – numbers are pretty much worthless. It’s marketing.
That said, Avid is picking up steam and isn’t really showing any signs of slowing down. Amazing to watch this ordeal unfold.
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Michael Hancock
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