Sandy Shapiro
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of course i have seen the cost. and compared to fcp studio, it’s “little” in terms of cost too. the point is moral rather than financial. they sell a product by advertising that you can upgrade, then they pull the plug on the upgrade.
ive spent 5 figures on their products. avid and premiere offer discounts to editors to bring them to their team. why wouldnt apple do the same to their current (or now past) client base?
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Let me ask you all this: Why? Why introduce FCPX and discontinue a perfectly working wheel – FCP7? The latter was starting to dominate the field!
I understand opening up your market share. But why lose most of your professional base?
My gut says it’s strictly numbers for Apple. Which is another reason why I don’t trust them. I trust Avid as they make editing and audio systems and have been for years.
Believe me, I’ve chosen FCP Studio over Avid in years past, only working with Avid for some projects (and that number was dwindling). But now, I’ve been totally thrown around by Apple. They’re going after the prosumer and consumer market trying to duplicate the splash they made in the same market with the iphone and ipad. As far as $ signs, I get it. And that’s fine. But they just don’t care for past users, and that’s the problem.
I am completely interested in learning new and faster ways of editing. But FCPX just isn’t it. And my lack of trust over this new move has driven me away from Apple. Why should i worry about this happening again? Avid and Premiere are tried and true.
And the fact that Apple does not offer a discount or incentive to FCP Studio owners is a slap in the face. Avid and Premier offered half off their products to FCP users who could provide a serial #. Thus proving a company’s ability to offer discounts. Apple just doesn’t care for their loyal users.
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Avid still trumps imovie2. Maybe it’ll catch up in a couple years and I am interest in it’s future. Just wanted to get a discussion going and its been informative hearing everyones opinions.
Honestly, I wouldn’t even cut sound bites in FCPX; not where it is now. Good to hear it works for the Seaman though as I do own Apple stock and like to hear its selling.
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what is the name of the button? sounds like its what i need. thanks! i’ll map it to my keyboard.
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thanks, all!
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hi,
i just used the shift click command. thanks. any other thoughts on how to easily move or edit in clips while staying in sync? can anyone give me an example of their process?
i do understand it is a language issue here. hope my message is crossing over.
thanks,
sandy
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got it. i might delete track 8 and recreate it in stereo.
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ah. that might be the answer because the new track i added (track 9) was probably stereo so it cut in perfectly? then the other tracks were mono. maybe ill just delete those tracks and make them stereo as thats where my music will live.
how do i convert the clip? too bad just doesnt do this when i cut it in…im sure theres a reason behind it thought
thanks
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hi,
im patched to the correct track. im in record mode. i believe its a mono track. it will only let me cut into track 9. if i cut into track nine it wont let me manually move the track up either….
any thoughts truly appreciated.
thanks!
sandy
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can anyone please tell me why i cant cut in audio to track 1-8?