Funny…I went to a FCPWORKS workshop in the Wynn and Phillip Hodgetts showed off a pretty cool on-set logging tool called Lumberjack. Once you get back to the edit room you can import the logs to FCPX and it can essentially create sequences (events?) from the metadata automatically. I’m simplifying it because it looked very powerful. There were a couple other vendors there with FCPX tools.
But interesting that it was up in a room in the Wynn. I wanted to give FCPX a chance and this was one of my only chances!
As impressed as I was, that afternoon I bumped into Bob Z. and he confirmed that the chatter was all about Adobe CC and even Davinci, and NOT FCPX.
Changing editing software for companies like mine with four editors is a major leap. Yes, we can download demos etc, and I have had FCPX sitting on my machine since it came out. And every time I jump in I jump right back out because it is so painfully different. I’m the same selfish way about AfterEffects. I tried Boris and Motion and Shake and even Resolve for color correcting, and the AE interface wins me back every time. It’s home and I’ve been living here a long time.
To have sat on one editor for as long as we have, and having had the pleasure of cutting with Final Cut Pro it’s a major leap to jump to an entirely new way of cutting.
It just is.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com