FCP X: Is it your favorite?

[dandeco]

Oh yes, it's definitely my go-to video editing software for my YouTube Poops and anything else elaborate. Sure, it started out more limited than FCP 7, which I admittedly didn't use much of, but now it can do nearly everything FCP 7 can do, and in many cases even better! (I find the chromakey to be a lot better in FCP X than 7, for example.) I've also often compared it to being like Apple's version of Magix Vegas Pro, offering most (if not all) of the same features for Mac users.
For much simpler projects, if they are in widescreen I use iMovie 10, or for some projects I may use Adobe Premiere Pro CC or Cyberlink PowerDirector 365 (as that now comes in a Mac version, too!)

 

[Luba]

Tried it out with my first 4K video. Nothing arty just the surroundings where I live. Worked great. My Mac Mini M1 didn't complain at all. Didn't hear the fan. Completely calm for a two hour edit with FCP and made a improvised tune, totally off context, but anyway... (due to doing a rookie mistake and forgetting the SD Card to my Zoom H6 in my Thunderbolt dock)

Oh, the link to my majestic directors cut (just trying out the new camera and LOG filming) for those interested checking out the Canon EOS R6 with an RF lens

Does your M1 Mac mini have 8 or 16 GB of RAM? I'm trying to decide what RAM to get on the new M1 iMac.

 

[Luba]

I don't recall the stats, but at the time that Apple introduced FCPX, I'm pretty sure they had at LEAST 20% of the professional video production business. But X was a major jump, as well as (from what I've read; as noted I don't use it) not being considered "market ready" when initially released, so there was a big swing away from it. From the 1 source I looked at above - apparently Apple's recaptured a lot of the market.

I think because Apple do have a lot of "creative" type people captured with their products, in something like video editing - and especially once AVID lost its hold on people entrenched in film editing (as opposed to video -- now it's basically all video) - getting companies to install a few Apple machines to run FCP wasn't probably a huge problem...

Not sure what you mean AVID's film editing users vs video editing users . . . AVID users are ones who learned editing on physical film and AVID is designed for those type of users? If yes, I didn't know AVID has been around that long, and it would mean Premiere and FCP came out much later, perhaps 10 or more years after AVID.

So is AVID dying out now?

Would you say in the Hollywood film/tv industry it's 50% Premiere, 25% FCP, 25% AVID? And in the indie video world, it's 50% Premiere and 50% FCP?

 

[Dockland]

Does your M1 Mac mini have 8 or 16 GB of RAM? I'm trying to decide what RAM to get on the new M1 iMac.

I have the 16 GB version