Apple is very direct in their intention to make FCPX more favorable
to the consumer and IMovie user. They recognize that the professional
market is too small for their bottom line. Therefore, yes, they are
dumbing it down. Why, otherwise, is every professional editor I know
either switching or have otherwise switched already or are still
working with FCP7?
On Apr 17, 2014, at 10:51 PM, chris bravo wrote:
I really don't get this idea that FCP X is "dumb"? What do people
mean by that? FCP X is obviously not dumb, are you referring to
features? Clip tagging with keywords, for example, is totally
innovative and forward thinking (it seems to me) and allows an
editor to navigate through more footage more quickly and organize
it more intuitively and idiosyncratically. (Intuitively I think
means in a way that makes obvious sense to the editor).
Comparatively Premiere and AVID are way behind on that front.
Magnetic timeline the same, once you become comfortable with the
behaviors, its a much more stable timeline than the normal sequence
strucutre and allows you to edit sections of a long cut with much
greater confidence that you aren't fucking up the sequence by
rippling tracks in ways that aren't obvious. Timeline inspector the
same. In one window you can quickly get an overview of everything
that appears in the timeline and quickly naviagte to specific clips
and monitor their states. (Oh, wait, you don't know about that
feature? Please continue expressing ill-informed opinions,
though.). XML exporting the same, FCP X exports far and away the
most detailed xml of any editing software and allows incredible
flexibility moving projects into audio and online software. And
anyways do people really think that somehow Apple is maliciously
contributing to the stupidification of media production rather
than, say, ADOBE? that is an insane position to take. Use whatever
program you like, but this witch-hunting is tiresome.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Beebe, Roger W. <beebe...@osu.edu>
wrote:
On the original topic of editing software, I’d throw my weight
behind switching to Premiere. At the University of Florida, I
experimented for a semester with FCPX, and I found it buggy &
dumbed down in ways that made it hard to do things that I’ve come
to expect from my editing systems. The magnetic timeline is one of
the worst innovations I’ve ever encountered, and the commingling of
audio and video tracks just makes everything look chaotic. I’m
sure I could’ve applied myself & gotten more familiar with the
quirks of this system, but I preferred instead to switch over to
Premiere, which had much more of the feel of FCP 7 and also had the
advantage of integrating seamlessly with Premiere and After Effects.
I’m also on the UFVA list and this discussion has come up
frequently. FCPX does have a few defenders, but it has produced
much more dissatisfaction.
I’ve just relocated to Ohio State, and we’ve started anew in
Premiere. The person who had been teaching the video classes here
was teaching FCPX, but he seemed excited to switch over after the
troubles he’s had with FCP.
As for hardware, here at Ohio State, our labs all have iMacs. The
older ones really do slow down when you attempt to do anything
slightly complex; even the newer ones are noticeably slower than
the Mac Pros I left behind in Florida. It is a great cost savings
though, and if you only have to pay with your time, it just depends
on how much you’ll hate having to go make a pot of tea while you
render a sequence. It’s certainly not impossible to do
interesting, layered work on an iMac though.
2 cents,
R.
On Apr 17, 2014, at 9:42 PM, Aaron F. Ross
<aa...@digitalartsguild.com> wrote:
> I would steer clear of iMacs for video editing, they are
underpowered. If you want to render HD video, it's going to be slow
and painful on even the high end iMacs. The Mac Pro is very fast,
but very expensive. It is only available with small solid state
drives, so you have to buy additional external hard drives.
>
> Aaron
>
>
>> I disagree with $4000. A 21" iMac - what a school would likely
be running Final Cut on - starts at $1299. I assume there are
bulk discounts for schools, but they likely already have the
computers.
>
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