[Ric Lanciotti]

Thanks everyone,

No hard feelings at all. I actually had very similar arguments about professional employment for our students when I fist saw the outline for the program. It was kind of surreal seeing the same arguments I had made to the chair coming back at me. But, I take full responsibility for misrepresenting some things as industry standard and I’ll definitely do a little more due diligence in the future, thanks for the lesson guys.

Chris, I completely agree with almost everything you’ve said, After Effects is the right choice for that type of work and it is the program we teach or show students when they need that level of sophistication in their projects. I’m actually happy that FCPX’s effects are so template based as it makes it really easy for me to use most of my student’s “I’m an artist and therefore different than everyone else” mentality to push them towards the proper tool – After Effects (Although the FCPX > AE workflow leaves a lot to be desired). I will say I just recently began introducing my students to FCPX and it was great to see so many of them beginning to understand sequencing and timing rather than being frustrated with timecode errors etc.

Thanks again for everyone’s responses.

[Ric Lanciotti]

Hi all,

I’m the guy who made the video. Thank you all for your criticism, there where definitely things I didn’t know and therefore misrepresented. I’m sure this video was very frustrating to some of you and I really didn’t mean to do that. It was truly made for a few faculty members who couldn’t attend a meeting and as a courtesy for the other schools which answered our survey, it was to help us figure out what was right for our school and our program I never intended it to be the final word of even my final word on what is the best editor.
For our students, who mostly want to create art video and animation to be shown in a gallery setting and don’t want to work in the professional video or film industry I still believe that FCPX is the right choice. Yes I know that’s being very specific and yes I realize that the chances of video art paying the bills are slim. If I was asked to create this for a different set of students and faculty the results could very well be for one of the other two options. I’m sure that this had been said many times on this and other forums the software is just another tool for you to create with. For our students I believe FCPX serves their needs the best, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the best tool for you or anyone else here nor does it mean that it’s a perfect tool.

Thanks for reading and super thanks to those who watched all 45 (or 20 or 30) minutes and thanks to this site which has gotten me out of a number of binds in the past,

Ric