Apple's Professional Video Apps Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor Updated

[JustinePaula]

Have you done any research into the converting of projects from FCP 7 to FCP X? If you do your homework, do the research, in other words learn about the new workflows, you might find that it is not being the impossible to convert from FCP 7 to FCP X.

Have you thought about 7toX? Using XML? If the projects are finished and paid for, archived, maybe you just need to re-ingest the final project, edit what needs to be done, or re-ingest the source and re-edit?

There are ways to solve almost anything, the beauty around FCP X, is that it has by far the most vibrant active userbase, look sure there are fewer users the number of users is growing, I cannot for the love of pears find the same active vibrant community in Avid/Adobe as I can in FCP X.

The fact is, the writing is on the wall, Avid is as close to death as a company can be without declaring Chapter 11.. The costs per user per month over 1 year outweighs the costs of Apple FCP X ownership.

FCP X is for now a 1 off cost, updates are free, you pay for the initial product off the app-store, that is it, updates are frequent and sometimes a game changer..

Not everything Apple does is 100% perfect, if it was, I would worry.. They are trying, Apple made a brave decision to farm out the technology to developers instead of holding onto it and doing all inhouse, this is the ideology of the ugly twin sisters..And it is killing the ugly sisters, time to thin the herd so to speak.. The sisters had a place, they were old, ugly and stupid, they could not keep up the pace of updating, they rely too much on uneducated trolls to keep the spirit alive, in today's economy, it is how much work can I do in every minute? FCP X allows me to do so so much more pre-editing, that editing itself is less of a chore, the trackless environment takes away headaches I have in FCP 7, the multicam, the audition ability, the sharing ability, the sub-clipping, the metadata handling...All so much more efficient in X..

The ugly sisters in order to seem relevant use all sorts of tricks to impress, hell the launch of Adobe CC was a disaster, the only feature the PR people at Adobe could find for Priemere was a simple video tracker for blurring out number plates....If this floats your boat, fine, play in the bathtub, let the rest of us professionals that do actual work, we know what is what, and where the future is heading, the trolls are there to be made fun off.. Every post I read about the ability of the ugly twin sisters, I laugh..Pure comedy..

 

[JustinePaula]

It still isn’t professional at all.

Professional is making money, if you can make money editing using imovie, then imovie is a professional system, the same can be said for a magnifying glass, a razor blade, a roll of clear adhesive tape, if you cut film, get paid doing it, then you have a professional system...

If the end consumer has no idea if the film/media was cut using the razor blade method, or imovie, FCP X or any of the ugly twin sisters, does it matter??

As long as the client gets what they pay for, you have a professional system..

That really should be the end of that, to the trolls I say good night, and enjoy the darkness..

 

[LethalWolfe]

In case you missed it, I know not the biggest broadcaster on the planet, only the 2nd or 3rd largest, the BBC, aka the British Broadcasting Corporation has announced that it is going to use FCP X, the new "trackless" 64bit Final Cut Pro for news post production.

The BBC is a mixed bag of NLEs. Some sections switched to Premiere Pro and the news section is the one that just announced it was going with FCP X. As an aside, a few months ago CNN announced it was shifting from FCP 7 to Premiere Pro.

The future is heading away from track based systems, along with the insane idea of renting software..

Yet more and more companies are offering subscription options. While renting software isn't new, it used to mainly confined to very specialized software but is now expanding out into more general use post software. Avid, Autodesk and Red Giant are just three off the top of my head that have recently added a subscription option or gone subscription only.

To be brutal, I think that the idea of having my security and ability to work tied to an outside source is a bad idea, that means my systems have to be attached to the internet, which causes all sorts of security issues, maybe more than the cost of the subscription, with FCP X, you do not need at any point the need to access the internet just to confirm your system will allow you to work.

10-15 years ago it wasn't uncommon for people to keep their NLE's off the Internet for security reasons but these days the convenience of having everything connected is typically too compelling to avoid (I can't remember the last time I work somewhere where the edit stations were cut off from the Internet). Even 'top secret' footage from big Hollywood films is tossed around in the Cloud (granted it's encrypted and on secure servers).

Companies are assuming that our machines will always be connected to the Internet and are building in functionality based on that assumption (FCP X's Share to Vimeo, Avid's built in stock media store, etc.,.) and I don't think that philosophy is going to reverse course any time soon.

Avid/Adobe being subscription only, cloud based technology limits it use to fixed "home-base" systems, if you go on the road, how easy will it be to edit if there is a break down or zero access to the cloud??

Avid is not subscription only. With regards to Adobe, if you have an annual subscription the software only has to 'check in' once every 99 days. If you are going to be out of contact for longer than 99 days Adobe has said you can call ahead and they can make special arrangements on a case by case basis.

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Professional is making money, if you can make money editing using imovie, then imovie is a professional system, the same can be said for a magnifying glass, a razor blade, a roll of clear adhesive tape, if you cut film, get paid doing it, then you have a professional system...

I think there is a difference between a professional (you earn your living doing it) and professional level tools. For example, in the past I've used iDVD to make DVD's for clients but I would never call iDVD professional level DVD authoring software. And no, don't read what I'm saying specifically into the "is FCP X pro or not" debate.