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Just out of curiosity, my question is why you are going through these hoops? What’s the end result you are hoping to achieve?
Scott Witthaus
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[Darren Roark] “the interface is too cute and toy like,”
Or clean and elegant. Certainly better than Premiere which feels plastic and overly forced technical looking. Give me simple, clean and elegant any day.
Scott Witthaus
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1708 Inc./Editorial
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Same deal here. I have Media Composer on my machine and have not used it for a paying gig in over 2 years. But, I count as a seat sold.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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Also being ignored here is there is still a sizable group using FCP7. Perhaps you should look into the sum of editors using Apple NLE’s versus the others. Considering the introduction of X, I would be OK with these numbers.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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It’s like linear guys hating Avid back in the day. “How can you do an edit on a computer when you don’t have a huge Sony 7000 switcher and three D2 machines running? It can’t be that easy as a mouse click or key stroke! Our job is tough and that’s why we can charge $400/hr….”
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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Flawed sampling of a niche market. This is more an Avid marketing piece than a piece of research. I could write the same article at my school: “FCPX has 99% of all graduate advertising students…..” Nothing to see here….
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Mitch Ives] “I’m kind of surprised that it took that long. The school I taught at for 5-1/2 years switched quite aw”
Well, as we know, X was a warm pile of “poo” when it was released so I waited, watched and learned the program. And you also know the old saying that “change in academia comes one funeral at a time….” 😉
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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[Simon Ubsdell] “But I’m very surprised that we’re still here working in Legacy after all this time – says a lot about how good it was.
“Agreed. The very day we delete Legacy, I get another gig at a large agency shop using FCP7. It still is a great program, but reality comes into play looking forward.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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Just another NLE with good and bad things. Use it when you need it, don’t when you don’t.
Rinse and repeat.🙂
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
In reality however (not to be confused with reality TV), how much color do you need to do outside of X. Properly shot footage usually needs a light touch that X and assorted plug-ins can handle. I see very few times and projects that need to round-trip. I know people will respond with “well its got feature A and Mask B and Secondaries C….Doesn’t matter. I can do pretty much everything in X. Played with that in R10 and it basically works, but most of my color correction can be done in X. If it needs a lot more color work, the budget usually has color correction/colorist in it. I am not going to force simple color R11.
Now, if I am an Avid cutter and have watched the MC/Symph color tools rot on the vine, I am very interested in R11…perhaps thinking that this was what MC could have been.
Premiere? Eh, I find the Premiere product very distasteful and only use when that’s all a shop that hires me has. Not sure how R11 stacks up against whatever color corrector Adobe has.
All that said, I will learn more of R11 as I can see shops dumping the remaining FCP7 suites and some making the choice of Resolve over Adobe. Just my humble opinion
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter