[Steve Connor]

Premiere NEEDS to run on a fast PC, it’s actually a bit of a dog on a Mac, it’s playback performance is considerably worse than FCPX on a Mac, If I was forced to use PPro as my main NLE I’d probably switch to a PC too.

Fortunately I’m an FCPX user so my NLE of choice has great playback performance on my Mac.

Seriously shouldn’t these discussions be on the Premiere Pro forum? Couldn’t Tim give us a “move to Premiere Pro Forum” button

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

[Steve Connor]

[Ronny Courtens] “”Porsche Carrera vs. Ford Taurus” thread here. And yes, I will post videos (-:
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Would love to see those 🙂

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

[Steve Connor]

[John Rofrano] “I restfully disagree. ???? Trying to use an application designed for a mouse and keyboard on a touch device is suboptimal at best an unworkable at worst. Apple understand this… Microsoft does not. I love my iPad Pro for what it is and I love my Mac desktop for what it is and I don’t want them to ever behave the same because I use them for completely different purposes and I embrace that they are finally tuned for those purposes and not a generic compromise.
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I agree, I know a lot of creatives and not one of them uses MS Windows as a touch interface, the unified OS is great in theory but so far a non-starter in practice, that’s not to say it won’t happen of course.

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

[Steve Connor]

It’s never a good idea to jump mid-project but I have and I’ve had no serious issues so far

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

[Steve Connor]

[Doug Metz] “I’ve got a similar UI choppiness – playhead redraws about once per second during playback, but not always (maybe 40% of the time). Like you, video plays fine. Unlike you, I’m not using any secondary video out, only my primary monitor.
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I have the same, just started seeing this

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

[Steve Connor]

[Ronny Courtens] “As to upgrading old computers: I have never found this good business. In the days that I ran two post houses we always completely renewed our Mac machine park every 2 or 3 years. We bought the best Macs we could get, they paid for themselves after 6 months, we made decent profits out of them for another 2 years, then we sold them at a good price to professionals, companies and schools with less demanding workflows than ours and we bought the newest ones. Given the high value of second-hand Macs, it was a win-win for all parties involved. I think this is still valid today.
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It certainly is, I know facilities that do just this.

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

[Steve Connor]

[Ronny Courtens] “What on earth does a Surface have to do with “FCP X Debates”? This forum is growing into a complete mess. Isn’t there a hardware forum somewhere on the Cow where the “X vs. Y” children can play?”

I know this forum has a broader outlook than just FCPX, and I enjoy the debates about other NLE’s but constant referencing of PC’s and Microsoft products on here are really getting tedious. The fact that a major release of FCPX has happened and there isn’t a vast amount of discussion on here about it I think confirms Bill’s theory that this isn’t a place that FCPX users like to hangout any more.

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

[Steve Connor]

[Andrew Kimery] “But would you spend the same amount on a ‘sealed-box’ point and shoot that had a non-removable lens, non-removable battery, and non-removable storage?”

Absolutely, if within that package, it did what I needed it to do and I could charge it out to my clients.

But that’s not a particularly good analogy

[Andrew Kimery] “They don’t need 8K today though they might need it a few years from now, but since the iMac Pro is an expensive sealed box they have to gamble money today on what they think you’ll need down the road.”

Or they will figure that even at the higher price the iMac Pro will pay for itself within 18 months and then they can look again at what’s available at the time.

Going back to your camera analogy, why would anyone invest in a 4K Camera today that you can’t upgrade to 8K down the line? Because you get your ROI on it and then you move on.

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

[Steve Connor]

[Bob Zelin] “That’s actually a pretty good price if you consider you are getting the 10G card and the monitor. (And yes, I know that when things become obsolete 3 years from now, you can’t open it up and change parts out).
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That’s less than $200 per month to own something you can charge out at considerably more than that AND it’ll still be worth something after three years when you buy the 2021 iMac Pro with 16K screen!

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

[Steve Connor]

Love the new CC options, just having Keyframes is nice as well!

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