[Steve Connor]

[tom Barton-Humphreys] “Surely once Apple implament broadcast monitor support, more plugins, OMF (not using that plug-in, forgot the name), tape support etc it’ll be a contender?
Cheers for your input!
T”

I think the BBC have purchased a massive amount of PPro seats recently, not sure if they get to the NHU though.

With the cuts announced today they may not be much work at the BBC!

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

[tom Barton-Humphreys] “It’s less about cost & more about what I invest my time in.

To be fair, FCP7 is what I am most accomplished with, I’m familiar with video layers, crossfades, file structure, trashing preferences blah blah blah…

I am concentrating on speed at the moment… well shortcuts + copying edit styles from the completed projects.

I guess now would be a good time to try Avid or Adobe”

Avid is certainly the biggest learning curve if you have never used it and would certainly require more time than the others to get up to a reasonable speed. PPro is not a huge leap from FCP7.

Call around some facilities in your area and ask what they use and what their plans are, that might give you better idea of where to go.

BTW don’t get too caught up with speed at the expense of the actual craft of editing

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

If you have to choose one, choose Avid.

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

[Herb Sevush] “Or you could get a T2i and do it right.”

5 years ago you would have been ridiculed for suggesting you use a stills camera to shoot pro video 🙂

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

I do believe Gerald was not being entirely serious.

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

NIce post, yes Apple have gone in a different direction, some of us actually like it, although we’re obviously not the “artists” some others are.

Fortunately for them Adobe and Avid can offer great alternatives, Premiere Pro is basically FCP8 from an alternate universe anyway

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

I.m getting the zoom problem as well, new in 10.01, let’s hope 10.02 soon!

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

I really can’t see how it would be difficult for Apple to implement this in software

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

[David Lawrence] “Fair question, Steve. Some of the constraints have to do with issues Aindreas raised in his example regarding the fixed screen layout and wanting more flexibility with how bins and multiple sequences can be arranged. Others have to do with the nature of the timeline itself. I’ll explain in more detail when I answer Jeremy.”

and well done for starting the most interesting and productive thread on this forum so far IMHO

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Steve Connor]

They are all connected, I was just using the position tool to place and move clips, this doesn’t disrupt the connections, It’s a cheat of course but if Apple wanted to it could be a shortcut to some level of fixed track model

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”