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[Steve Connor] “Clearly Phil is happy with his choice of NLE, is there a reason we are trying to convince him about FCPX?”
Not at all. And we shouldn’t. If Avid fills your business need, more power to it.
Scott Witthaus
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[Joseph W. Bourke] ” what will they aim to get out of it? Proof that their particular NLE is the “best of breed”? Validation that they chose the correct NLE? A convincing argument to dump their current NLE? I don’t get it…”
Agreed. This seems pretty silly. Hell, just send everyone a link to this forum and let it go from there….
Scott Witthaus
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Is this serious or have I missed a season and it’s April Fools Day.
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Scott Witthaus
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Thanks Tero. Are you talking about the Window pull-down menu? If so, what tab are you talking about?
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[Herb Sevush] ” so long as I can control it, I’m monogamous with my NLEs”
As a freelancer, I need to know Premiere which is why I keep my hand in it. When the client comes directly to me, it all goes through X. But sometimes I need to cut where X is not available and it always seems to be Premiere. I should fire up Media Composer one day and see if I can remember anything from that software.
Scott Witthaus
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1708 Inc./Editorial
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[Herb Sevush] “Would love to hear from the non-manogomous editors out there how they manage to remember what keystrokes to use as they move from ap to ap.”
It is interesting. I was on jobs using Premiere and FCPX over the last few weeks. I use X as my primary editor and ouse Premiere when it is the only option. What I find is that I can remember most of the basic Premiere functions that keep me moving along at a decent pace. But just the differences in those basic commands can slow you down (hey, back on the original topic: speed). And that’s because I have to actually think that the backslash key works like the Shift-Z, A versus V, periods and commas versus E, Q, and W. I find myself using drop down menus in Pr a lot more because I simply have not memorized the shortcuts yet (and can you only get to the color corrector by going to Workspaces?). In X, I barely recognize that I have done those commands as it’s so baked in to me.
I remember a quote from Duane Allman where he said something along the lines of “the guitar has just become part of my body and I hardly have to think to play”. Speed is where you know the software so well, only a fraction of your concentration is on the software and the vast majority is on the visual story in front of you. Doesn’t matter what software you are using, because when you get to that point where you “hardly have to think to play” then you are enjoying “editing speed”.
My humble opine.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Phil Lowe] “I have no doubt in my ability to bend it to my will, and will get the most basic edits I will need to do with it done using it my way. Beyond that, I don’t care. It’s simply not anything I need to go any deeper into.”
Hey, if Avid’s for you, more power to you. Careful though. If you don’t look out X just might pleasantly surprise you, and then what!
😉
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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[Joe Marler] “In this interview, Matzdorff said once he stopped trying to make FCPX work like Avid he made good progress. His described it as “you…have to bend your mind a little bit, and when you do it’s fast and it’s cool and it works”.”
Bingo. I am not sure why anyone would try to bend FCPX to work like Avid or Premiere. If that’s your goal, stick with Avid and avoid the frustration. I went through some of the same frustration in the early Softimage|DS days, but once I stopped trying to make it work like Media Composer and work as it was designed, it became very fast and powerful. Granted DS, like Avid, FCP7 and Pr are all traditional track based editors, so there are many things that are similar. But to really find out what any software can do, work with it as it was designed. Then you can make an informed decision. But to complain “it doesn’t work like my Avid” invites the answer, “yeah, its not supposed to”….
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Herb Sevush] “The best money I ever spent on my editing system was for my chair.”
My neck, shoulders, elbows and wrist agrees with you 100%.
When I ran a post house here in town, I had an occupational therapist come in and evaluate each of my editor/artists desks, chairs and setups. Some of the best money we ever spent.
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Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Jeremy Garchow] “Unfortunately, I can’t help you with your Pr CS6 issue, apologies.”
No worries, it’s now a CC2015 problem which makes me think it’s a computer set-up problem.
[Jeremy Garchow] “But the fundamentals still remain in Pr”
Yeah. And today I am editing in both for different clients. There are certainly some things in PrCC that have gotten better and some things I would love to see in X. But nothing that makes me seriously pause and consider a switch. I simply prefer X as a better, faster and more creative way to meet my client’s goals. YMMV.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter