Nelson Torres
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His engineer might not have been able to cut it in a couple of hours but thousands of seasoned editors could! Apple is slapping the face of every editor on the planet stating we can be replaced by a moron and a computer!
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I have a lump in my throat from watching your trailer. Well done.
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…Plenty of the new features are clearly intended for pros only — the 64-bit memory support, Auditioning, metadata organizing, resolution independence, color matching and so on…
Yes 64bit memory is great! Auditioning…frankly I don’t know what that is. “Metadata Organizing”??? Are they crazy. Shots are organized by Scene/Shot/Take numbers not People, one person/two people, Factories,etc. I’d never get an assembly done if I had things labeled like that. I only work in one codec then transcode if needed(rarely-but I know other people who appreciate this function). Color matching – I’m not a colorist. That’s a talent all in itself, like a composer. I dabble with color but when the rubber hits the pavement I leave that to the pros.
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You’re kind of asking a professional racer to continue winning races with this new car that sports square wooden wheels. Not all innovation is good innovation. I tried iMovie(and I know it’s not FCPX). I didn’t care for the way the timeline worked. In my opinion it’s very clumsy and not very accurate. But that and what I hear and read is all I know about FCPX. What Apple should do is release free time limited demos of the software so that anyone can see for themselves whether they like it or not. Some people like the old FCP, some the new, some Avid, some M100, etc. Are you saying the only worthwhile professionals are the one’s who embrace anything that drops out of the sky that a small indiscriminate group determines is the ‘Holy Grail’? And equipment? Hell, anyone in this business knows nothing lasts forever – or even five years. It’s just changing the way something works for the sake of change that gets a lot of us. If it was that great then you wouldn’t have that many dissenters. You can’t disparage them for not liking the change, especially when the change hinders, or cripples their work environment.
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I loved the Media100!
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Oh man Cleaner! I’m still weeping over that. Why’d Discreet buy it in the first place?
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Randy Ubillos invented FCP. He’s quite an incredible guy actually. I don’t think he was trying to be malevolent when changing so much of the software. He was trying to make it better. Albeit he has deployed significant & drastic changes in the software for no apparent reason and omitted other functionalities. This new timeline as far as I’m concerned is pretty cumbersome, but others may like it better.
Give the guy a break. His hearts in the right place. We had an incredible run for 10 wonderful years. Be thankful for the time we had.
Now back to work on my new Avid which has become more Final Cutty.
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Now I get it.
Apple Final Cut Prosumer.
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Well if Apple just wants to hold onto the corporate & local cable spot output great! As they rightly should. It’s a lucrative and respectably sized market. My issue is that they now have closed the door to scripted movie & television work and commercials. Without the ability to do the things I listed before plus this crazy timeline nonsense they have forsaken the entire entertainment business. Many editors just used Avid and fought to keep out FCP. It took years for us to get the recognition FCP deserved and guys like Walter Murch putting their reputation on the line. Brian Cassin and myself did the same for Showtime Networks. This release is a slap in our collective faces and we are totally justified in our anger. We can’t go in and say “Yeah go ahead & upgrade to the new FCPX” That would be career suicide. So the Tech departments have to upgrade to spend their budget for the year (or permanently lose it) and they wind up reinstalling Avids. Now you can forget FCP ever coming back. They did it once but will not do it again.
I got rid of Avid in my own shop because it couldn’t black tape on the fly. I used FCP to black all my tapes. One day I decided to lose Avid because FCP could do it all without all the compounding Avid issues. Now…well I purchased MC5.5. Not because I wanted to but because I had to.
You may be irritated that there are so many people kvetching about the new FCPX but in a couple of days it will subside and you will have a nice tranquil forum – albeit with a lot less contributors. -
Apple’s not in the process of abandoning professionals. On 6-21-11 we were abandoned. How are you going to send your project out to get sound designed? Mixed? Color graded? How are assistants going to assemble scenes for editors to cut? On a lot of features you have two editors working at the same time, how do you do that? Plus this new klunky ass backward way of editing? My friend Apple has decided to pursue the lucrative video-blog/YouTube market.