There are plenty of "professionals" using FCPX; Premier fans are just louder. The majority of people are using Avid.
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Final Cut Pro X 10.4 Coming Later This Year With Improved Color Tools, HEVC and VR Support
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Yes you are. I have the “trash can” and have upgraded it several times. I don’t understand all the hate for that machine. I now have 64 gb of RAM and a 1 tb SSD installed. I upgraded incrementally over the years as I needed to and it’s still working great. FCPX is a joy to use on it.
I see Premiere as a comfort zone for many people. Like so many Adobe products, it works the same old familiar way as it always has. FCPX is approaching editing from a different direction. It took me a while to get familiar with its workflow but now I can’t imagine going back to the old way.
I think Apple doesn’t have “the industry” in mind when creating FCPX. Look at how high it ranks in the Mac App Store suggesting they (Apple) sells plenty. I think it is more for the YouTube, Vimeo and home movie crowds and not to create Hollywood millon dollar movies.
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Wait, hold on hold on hold on...
Are you saying that pros actually research specs and aren't sold on the "experience" and pitched "value" alone?
Someone needs to tell Tim Cook, poor guy thinks we all just want a wholesome experience with mediocre specs that they "software buff" to some extent.
No wonder pros are leaving Apple left and right, nobody told him, pretty unfair if you ask me...
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Well. Marketing and target market is two different things.
[doublepost=1509192062][/doublepost]Btw - glad that they added hopefully easier color correction. I never got the wheels. Next stop is I hope sound editing. With Logic team in house they should be able to either create perfect round trip or add the tools to FCPX.
Fcpx has always been great for content made quickly without the need for fx or fancy video tricks. The desire to do fancy tricks forces people to adobe but it’s not always for the best.
However I have to agree that the basic tools in fcpx are not only too coarse and lacking but out and out poor. Trying to do a colour grade is impossible and clumsy. I like fcpx, I only wish I had a solid reason to edit video regularly and that the tools weren’t useless.
However I have to agree that the basic tools in fcpx are not only too coarse and lacking but out and out poor. Trying to do a colour grade is impossible and clumsy. I like fcpx, I only wish I had a solid reason to edit video regularly and that the tools weren’t useless.
As a High Sierra user using FCP on multiple monitors I’ve not crashed so i’d Look into your system. As someone at the event, I can attest to it being demoed on multiple displays including VR goggles while live edits made. Impressive!
And I’m loving the color corrections.
Lol, do you even know what you're talking about?
The iMac can be upgraded nowadays, and so can the iMac pro.
Also, remember when powerbooks caught on fire for the stupid reason of having removable batterys?
Seems to be their MO these days: "boldly" strip a piece of software down to the bare bones and then re-add things as people complain about them. I used to rely on Keynote at a previous job, and had to hold onto the iWork '09 version for quite a while after the next version came out because they had broken some key features and functionality. It was (mostly) recovered over subsequent versions, but it was a rough transition.
I sometimes hear about people still carefully preserving their old Final Cut setups just because FCP X was so badly botched at release. (I personally am not a video editor so I actually found it vastly easier to deal with than the old version -- but I digress).
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"Lol" the 5K iMac has user-accessible RAM slots. The smaller one has it soldered in, not at all upgradable. And good luck upgrading the hard drive on either one.
No, but I remember when a bad battery (which still happens, btw) didn't mean you had to have your whole laptop disassembled or replaced because it was easily replacable.
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I'd say for about the last ten to fifteen years, most people upgraded the RAM in MBPs to the maximum right after purchase. I know, I did so. I also never replaced the battery in any of my laptops, and even if I were to, I can let Apple replace the battery in your MBP for a reasonable price. I actually had two batteries for my first laptop, I essentially never used the second battery.
Mostly the only thing people upgraded over time in laptops was internal storage, and even then largely only because larger or faster storage became available over time. I have always put the largest possible storage in my laptops at purchase for the last fifteen years or so.
The color wheel is a great upgrade. Hdr support is huge. Wish they upgraded h265 in fcp at the same time they did imovie.
I got the Apple-certified Samsung on Amazon, and got a pretty good deal on it. Then I sold the original 512 gb SSD, so I ended up paying relatively little for the 1 tb.
Except for a memory card on tablets, what other MP3 players and tablets are post-upgradable? Or while we are at it: What smartwatches and Bluetooth head/earphones allow post purchase upgrading?
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So, outside the video editing market, are iMacs also a no-no for all other corporate buyers?
Yep, we install iLife 09 for imovie that worked very well.
Apple already announced that the Mac Pro is returning in 2018, so what...you want Apple to hold off updating FCPX until that comes out?
I don't even think FCPs death spiral is due to PremPro solely. It's that there's no GOOD hardware to run the tools on. Everyone who is working in high-end edit suites run HP workstations. Because of the need for speed (and price) So PremPro it is.
This new iMac Pro might help a little, sure. Far too little and late.
This new iMac Pro might help a little, sure. Far too little and late.
Wait what? Another upgrade included in the perpetual (one-time) price? Madness!
Nah I disagree...you got Hollywood films being edited on there. At least 3 currently that I'm aware of, plus Will Smith's Focus was cut on it, and so was Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot. And both filmmakers said they'll only use FCPX now.
I've convinced my last three feature clients to move the projects from Avid over to FCPX after demonstrating some key differences in the core that I knew they would appreciate...
I think what it comes down to is FCPX is just for an entirely new generation of filmmakers. Guys who are so stuck in Avid and Premiere "even though all three were made by the same guy", and can't remove their thought process on the old rules of editing will never like FCPX. I admit, they botched the launch, but 5 years in, it's literally the best editing software available. Premiere and Avid are still tools I use when a client wants it, but FCPX is by far my bias.
Considering how many years we've been waiting for something as essential as HEVC, it's clearly very difficult.
How much, in total, have you now put into that trash can? Must be thousands!
A point that so many critics have missed.
I have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription which costs £300 per year. I bought FCPX for £199 in 2011.
£1,800 v £199.
Found your points interesting. I think about the future of X86 and wouldn’t surprise me if at some point we will see a unification of using the ‘A’ series chips across the board. As we know Apple historically do like RISC based processors.