Walter Biscardi
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Nope, nothing extreme at all. I’ve been planning to move away from FCP 7 for about 6 months now. Was hoping that FCP X would allow us to move to that platform, but after the show in April, it was obvious that we would have to move elsewhere to get the functionality and efficiency we want.
I did wait for the public release to see what exactly was there. The fact that we will never be able to open an old FCP project inside FCPX is the complete deal breaker for me, and for a lot of broadcast houses that contacted me yesterday. We still open projects from 4 – 6 years ago due to the nature of news and documentary programming we do. Oddly enough FCP projects open up very easily in Premiere with no third party tools so that’s a huge advantage for us. Plus there’s literally nothing for us to change in our shop except the software we launch. It works with all our hardware, storage and the software apps we use here including Apple Color.
It’s what I’ve said on this very forum numerous times. If the tool doesn’t work for you, find something that does. FCP X does not work for us now and won’t for the foreseeable future. FCP 7 is too inefficient working with digital formats, has been for over a year.
So we need more efficiency today to make us more productive today. We are testing Adobe Premiere right now because we own it and have already learned more about CS6 than I have ever heard about FCP X or its future iterations. We will also test Avid if they give us the AJA Kona support.
So no, nothing more extreme than me moving from 3/4″ to BetaSP to D2 to CMX 3600 to Abekas A34 to Accom Axial 2010 and 2020 to Avid to Media 100 to Final Cut Pro to ___________
I’ve been at this editing game for 20 years. There’s only one constant to this game and game of life. Change. Besides, this forum is not about any one person, it’s about the community. Every person who contributes here gives knowledge that someone else can use.
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Simply brilliant work. Much better than the “New Coke” “Old Coke” idea a few others did. but then the Conan show is a brilliant deal.
Can’t believe Conan actually ran this on the show. Shows the level to which Apple “didn’t listen.” That’s the constant refrain I heard from multiple broadcast operations that called, wrote and visited our shop yesterday. “Apple didn’t listen to us.”
For the larger facilities there is zero “waiting to see what Apple does next.” There is move on to another platform and I believe Adobe will get the lion’s share of the major FCP post houses and Avid will get a sizeable chunk as well. Even in the education market, you’ll see a shift away from FCP.
No sense in complaining any longer, just move on to another tool like we’re doing.
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[Chris Messineo] “We never expected anyone to switch editing software in the middle of a project, so project migration was not a priority.”
And what if someone wants to open a project to revise it?
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[Chuck Pullen] “Are you telling me the they pulled the Professional version of Final Cut, because they released a new Prosumer (lite) version of the software?”
What they did was add features to their consumer title, iMovie, and slapped the professional name on it. Some neat features to be sure, but there’s no hiding where this product came from nor the fact that it was designed to be used as a one person, one workstation product.
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[Mark Raudonis] “Success or failure? What say you?”
Spectacular failure. More soon from a podcast with myself and Richard Harrington right here on the Cow.
They could not have handled this roll out or development of the product any worse if they tried. The only people happy are those that have a vested interest in selling products that tie in with FCP X.
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[Oliver Peters] “Another unknown is audio. There have been no leaks about STP. One of the big advantages of STP is the wealth of filters included.”
We dip into STP when we run into audio issues that FCP just can’t seem to address. In fact we needed it this past week to address an audio phase issue.
Of course we now have ProTools 9 in our shop so I guess it’s time for one of us to learn the basics of it so we can address basic issues when we don’t have an engineer in the house.
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Same thing happened with the CS5 version of After Effects and I’m assuming the rest of the CS5 suite. All plug-ins ceased working and I had to buy all new ones.
That’s one reason I’ve avoided purchasing any new plug-ins over the last year because I was figuring FCP would go 64bit and cause an issue with the plugs.
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I put dissolves where they belong as I cut, even in the rough cut.
Sure you can trim all day long with and without transitions on the clips.
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Razor Blade
Slide Tool
Roll Tool
Arrow Tool
Replace Edit
I apply the Keep It Simple Stupid rule. I hate the FCP Trim tool quite honestly.
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[Ian Liuzzi-Fedun] “I am recording real time from a switcher into FCP. the switcher is a for-a and the For-a is set to 1080i 59.94. I have heard there is no real difference between 59.94 an 29.97. How should FCP be set to capture into DVCPro HD – 59.94 or 29.97?”
For 1080i it’s 29.97.
I would like to personally strangle the person who decided to designate 1080i HD as “59.94”
See in 1080i, you have 60 FIELDS of information that make 30 frames of video in one second.
In 720p you have 60 FRAMES of video in one second.
So I guess someone who had 59.94 envy decided we should call Standard Definition by it’s true 29.97 FRAMES PER SECOND frame rate but call High Definition by it’s 59.94 FIELDS PER SECOND frame rate.
If anyone knows who this brilliant person is, I would love to meet them. Really, just to shake their hands or something…..
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