Tangier Clarke
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Echo that. Relatively easy to achieve in Motion.
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I’ve been using it since it was released and though I miss a few things FCP 7, especially being able to use my Blackmagic MultiBridge Pro 2, I am loving FCPX and it’s direction. I am already editing with it using AG-Af100 and GH1 content. I go back to FCP 7, and already feel like it’s holding me back because in just a week I’m working so much more efficiently in X (even on 1 monitor – I know one monitor [laptops don’t count for this statement]).
I really want to be able to have OMF and/or XML operations for our sound to be properly done. Though I am very curious about how Python will play into export capabilities down the road.
For now, I am going to try and use FCP X (and Motion 5) as much as I can, but not give up on my trusty FCP 7.
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I echo your sentiments Simon. I’ve been using it since it was released and though I miss a few things FCP 7, especially being able to use my Blackmagic MultiBridge Pro 2, I am loving FCPX and it’s direction. I am already editing with it using AG-Af100 and GH1 content. I go back to FCP 7, and already feel like it’s holding me back because in just a week I’m working so much more efficiently in X (even on 1 monitor – I know one monitor [laptops don’t count for this statement]).
I really want to be able to have OMF and/or XML operations for our sound to be properly done. Though I am very curious about how Python will play into export capabilities down the road.
For now, I am going to try and use FCP X (and Motion 5) as much as I can, but not give up on my trusty FCP 7.
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Great perspective without being a hater or promoter. Thanks. I’ve been a bit embarrassed by many of the comments from my fellow editors who’ve been acting like AVID folks when FCP came on the scene and progressed.
Also, I have yet to crash. I installed my FCPX on a MacBook Pro 2009 (one of the last that still had a PC Express slot) on a non-clean drive, right along side FCP 7, editing content pulled from a Panasonic AG-AF100 and a GH1. It’s working quite well. Everyone’s setup is different I guess.
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I agree on many points, but on most I disagree; particularly that making something easier makes people lazy. Obviously that’s an opinion and one that’s subjective. I am no novice. Changes in technology of all sorts in history does not necessarily create laziness, but rather becomes a catalyst for people to change the way they think about the work they do and presents a new set of challenges while making things, in fact, easier.
Win NLE systems arrived on the seen many film editors preached the same message. Yet soon after it was realized that NLEs didn’t necessarily make things easier because there were then an abundance of choices and decisions to be made and could be undone that made things in it’s own unique way, more difficult. With video form tape to SD cards we’ve been expected to manage significantly more amounts of content because it’s cheaper to shoot. Then of course there’s the “we’ll fix it in post” mentality that NLEs and video catapulted into the lexicon of post-production possibilities.
I love FCP X. I am excited about the direction and what it’s doing for me already despite my disappointment with what’s missing and the realization of how it could impact my profession. I have FCP 7 as well (for now at least :))
Even the shovel was an amazing technology at one point; the steam engine, the calculator, the gun, etc. were in some regard revolutionary technologies that didn’t make people necessarily lazy, but gave endeavors and industries new methods to interact with and progress our world (albeit for better or worse and yet even that is subjective).
There’s always opportunity in chaos. Innovation that makes life easier does not make people lazy. It makes us experience a new reality in the way we perceive the way we do and did things. Our inability or rather unwillingness to adapt and strive I suppose could be perceived as laziness. I will agree that perhaps we don’t like being pushed into something we don’t want, didn’t expect, or doesn’t conform to what we’re used to.
I hope FCP X flourishes over time. I look forward to being right there with it, exploring something new. If it dies a horrible death. I’ll keep telling stories another way and yet be all the better and wiser for what experience I did get from the innovations and faults of Final Cut Pro.
Just for clarity, by the way – I am not angry so please don’t take this as such. Amidst all of the comments about FCPX I suspect many posts are taken out of context because the emotion in our writing isn’t always conveyed and perceived int he way it was intended.
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I’ve been using it since release and am really loving it. My workflow has significantly increased due to the power of this application. I too miss many of the features form FCP 7 and would like to see most if not all placed back. Yep – there’s a learning curve, but the new means of organization actually is so much better for me. I can easily see myself months from now wondering how I ever got along on FCP 7 and before.
Don’t get me wrong though. Apple needs to put some things back. I know they’re a market leader and forward thinking company, but some fundamental features should have been left alone and brought over.
From what I can tell, the future is very bright for FCP and not just on the desktop. I try not to think of FCP as an island, but it’s role in the bigger picture of QT X (AV Foundation), iOS, upcoming displays, Python scripting, and portable devices. As technology changes the idea of “pro” will adjust (albeit from Apple or whoever) as well.
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“I don’t say this to take away from the substantial innovations in FCPX. I truly respect what Apple has done there. They are badly mishandling the transition, and burning a lot of trust and goodwill in the post industry in the process.”
Well said. Probably the simplest and best way I’ve read to describe this FCP X release.
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I don’t think it’s necessarily a philosophical one and I didn’t think about it that way that deeply. Rather in reading all of the negative responses (many of which I agree) I started wondering where the united “pro” line is. Where’s the white paper? I considered people who can achieve similar results with no budget, less software/hardware, but the will to make their stories happen somehow. It happens.
My intent was not to define anything. Perhaps a musing not meant for this thread. I thought about the many iterations of storytelling methods and applications I’ve used from film to tape-to-tape to Avid videoshop to Media Composer, FCP, etc. and started wondering amidst all of the comments what makes these “pro”. Who’s making that definition.
No intent to offend.
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I second that. Yes I am disappointed about some missing features, but I am loving what I am seeing and already have noticed how much faster I work and complete editing. FCPX is far less in my way the FCP 7. I am not too worried. I am excited about this foundation moving forward.
People view FCP X as an island, but it works with other technologies that need to mature a bit. Remember the ill of Quicktime X? I do think people will learn to love FCP X and Apple will surely make up more than the folks they lose to other NLEs.
The biggest issue I have really is people complaining as if we all have the same understanding of what it means to be “Pro” which is very subjective both technically and creatively. Non-“pro” folks have created amazing storytelling on non-“pro” hardware and software. It’s easy to say what is and isn’t “pro looking back, but no so easy looking forward; especially when companies like Red, Apple, etc. try to change, redefine, or broaden the “pro” space.
Apple definitely could have handled this better, but I like what I see so far. I’ll keep my FCP 7 and keep playing with FCP X – keeping my complaints (for the most part) to myself.
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Thanks folks. I was pretty happy about it. It looked significantly better on both my HP L2475w (via ATI HD4870) and my MacBook Pro (2009).
There’s some things I miss and obviously aren’t ready yet, but as far as I can tell. I like this FCP and I’ve already noticed how I am working more efficiently.
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