Robert Brown
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[David Lawrence] “I absolutely agree! I also share your concern about FCP de-professionalizing the industry, but I’d argue it’s not FCP Studio we need to worry about, it’s FCPX.
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Well that’s a scary thought I was already worried enough about FCP. But actually not as much as I was a couple of years ago. The entire industry has changed already over the last few years, hopefully FCPX doesn’t make that much of an additional impact. I think the clients get it at some point. Stuff does have to get delivered right.But there is a thread above that states Apple is doing some serious back peddling. Enterprise availability of FCP 7? OMF and EDL export coming soon? Tape out on the way? I’m really hoping this product doesn’t make it in the broadcast world and the buzz word products that clients get to know have things like good DVEs, good chroma keyers, correct EDL export, and good KF editors unlike FCP but very much like Avid and Premiere. But then again I haven’t tested the new one yet.
I guess all of the never fixed things in FCP and the way they handled the FCPX debacle really turned me off from Apple and I wish they’d get out of broadcast like they promised.
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Well I don’t do the hiring. But I see your point and have often made the analogy that good cameras have been available to the masses for a long time but how many people actually take good photographs? Not that many, it’s all in the skill and how much time you dedicate to learning it. But I also believe the concept of apprenticeship has it’s merits.
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Ok I’ll remember that next time I have to explain to one of our new hires why you should turn the scope on.
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Actually I hope they don’t listen. FCP IMO has done more to de-professionalize the industry than anything I can think of. Lot’s of fresh “editors” showing up with no video or technical backgrounds. Let Apple have the prosumers and give the rest to Adobe and Avid. I’m just hoping even if they do “listen” enough people will have had their confidence shaken to jump ship.
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I was reading the Avid forum last night and the AJA adds kept coming up. Coincidence?
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Maybe they’ll prove us all wrong, but for now I’m going with the guys who are obviously headed in the right direction instead of maybe. I’m not really upset anyway. I already buy Adobe CS every time a new one comes out but EDL out, and OMF out are important to me so I’m glad Adobe has that all working. And I much prefer AE over Motion anyway so for me this is a good thing.
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[Andrew Richards] “Now look at FCPX. Apple leaving formerly built-in features to third parties when it comes to niche markets looks very familiar, no? FCPX has 32bit float color rendering just like Resolve. It has database-managed media collections just like Avid. It has very rich extensible keyboard customization like any serious NLE should. Its guts are primed for top-end pro work, it just needs the skin.”
That is interesting. Part of me wants to download it just to test it for performance. They should do the 30 day thing like everybody else. Performance and feel is very important to me coming from years working with Sony Digi Beta which was the best overall VTR ever made IMO. It’s just a shame they had to try to force this new timeline down everybody’s throat, and instead of fixing old essential features, they just canned them.
But I’m actually happy about transitioning to something else since coming from that linear environment, I always thought FCP came up short. Why is the DVE so bad? How come output to tape is +/- a frame when my GVG 251 nails it every time with it’s 186 chip? Why is the KF editor so bad? The slo mos with interlaced material look like crap. The chroma keyer is an absolute embarrassment.
It always seemed to me that they felt they could bypass the entire evolution of video and by doing so never realized a lot of important things had been figured out quite well in the past. This new release seems like more of the same from a company that never got it in the first place.
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I’m buying stock in Windex.
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Maybe he should have said “you’re holding it wrong”.
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I’m all for hearing other people’s workflows. The quickview I’m talking about is in osx. Just click on a file in finder and then hit the space bar. It loads extremely fast and then just hit the up or down arrow to see the next file. I was working with a client the other day and it’s very fast at seeing what each file is. Then you can drag it into fcp or premier or avid and it’s in. I haven’t used avc intra yet and don’t know much about it. And yes premiere and avid are much better about other codecs. fcp is terrible for that.