[Steve Connor]

The cost of having all the Adobe tools is so utterly insignificant in business terms that I don’t even think about what I do and don’t use.

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Steve Connor]

[Shane Ross] “What purpose does this documentary serve?”

To tell the story of probably the most controversial NLE launches ever?

[Shane Ross] “What is this documentary trying to say?”

Watch it and find out?

[Shane Ross] “Who is the intended audience?
“

FCPX Users?

[Shane Ross] “But it still seems like it’s message is, “HEY, FCX IS A VIABLE TOOL FOR THE PROFESSIONAL WORLD…really! It’s revolutionary….you just haven’t seen that yet.”
“

So you’ve seen it then?

I’d be interested in watching it, I don’t think I’d pay $9.99 though

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “The point of the idiom is that people very often see the exact same thing in two completely different ways. “

Yep, some of us like to write our songs by “jamming” and others prefer to write a score before they pick an instrument up 🙂

I know plenty of Editors who prefer the former and I have to say of all the NLE’s I’ve used I’ve found FCPX to be the most fluid for my “tactile” style of editing.

You really don’t have to use any of the organisational features of FCPX to get benefit from it and I worry that that message gets a bit lost sometimes

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Steve Connor]

Thanks for posting that, really good, in-depth article and a story that Apple should be featuring!

In terms of technique he talks about.

“I chose to use part of the footage that some might have considered outtake. The camera operator had the camera pointed at his feet as he was re-positioning the camera. He almost trips on something, he tries to re-frame his shot and focus the camera. But by that clip in the film, it has the effect of bringing back the raw energy of being inside that room. “

It’s exactly why I don’t “reject” footage in FCPX

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Steve Connor]

Duplicate your project then make all the clips in that project into one compound clip then you can retime that single compound clip. Make sure you tick “preserve pitch” in the retime dropdown

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Steve Connor]

[Michael Gissing] “Given your simple needs and total satisfaction with FCPX, I guess you don’t need or get a choice or even know what bang for buck is out in the real world.”

To be fair he is an FCPX user talking about FCPX in an FCPX thread on an FCPX forum, not sure he stated his needs are “simple” though?

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Steve Connor]

[greg janza] “I can’t speak to the Hackintosh builds but I definitely saved a significant amount of money custom building a PC instead of waiting for the new imac pro and paying the Apple premium. “

He’s talking about running FCPX on a Hackintosh. We all know that a custom build PC can be cheaper

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Steve Connor]

[Bob Zelin] “and we had
3TB and 9TB AVID SCSI drives “

TBs? I remember hiring 36GB SCSI RAID’s for our Avids and they weren’t cheap!

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “In my case, VideoWorks running on my 1984 beige original Mac.
Yes, I was “editing” stupid black and white sorta animations – but I WAS editing – timing and attaching one construction to another.

And by that time, I’d already been rudimentarily moving graphic primitives around on my learner Timex Sinclair for a few years. That may be stretching the “editing” concept to the limits. But I think it’s totally fair on the beige 128k original Mac side.
“

Can I claim animating on “Deluxe Paint” on the Commodore Amiga then? That gets me back to 1985 at least

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka

[Steve Connor]

[Laura Scott] “FCPX appeals to the amateur who wants to do more than iMovie stuff. YouTubers etc. Some pros find value in it as well, since it does quite a lot of the basics quickly.”

Seriously??

\”Traditional NLEs have timelines. FCPX has storylines\” W.Soyka