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Marvin. I don't understand why you keep arguing all these minor technical points. Why do keep trying to convince us that FCPX is going to be this big professional application? How would you know what professional feature film and TV editors need? As…
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Here's the part of this debate that I find really weird: why do people who know nothing about professional feature film and TV editing keep trying to tell us that Apple made FCPX for us when they clearly didn't? I love Apple products. I own an iM…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Yeah, that's a fair point, you don't want to have to export into an app and then write to tape as that would waste significant amounts of time. Do you think that this process will never change? It seems like it'…
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Oh. I see Fearless already beat me to the punch with the Microsoft Word/printer analogy.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin That wouldn't be Apple's fault though but the 3rd party software developers. AJA have products to let you do this sort of thing and not plugins but standalone apps: http://www.facebook.com/ajavideo/pos...5067…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fearless Apple just let down a chunk of business customers. Indeed that generates emotion. Most TV and feature film editors that I know are happy that we don't won't have to deal with FCP anymore. Feature film an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Tape is absolutely still required but I don't think it's essential for video editing software developers to be the ones to support it directly. Tape/SSD capture -- ingest via 3rd party -- [ digital -> Fina…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cloudgazer Soon you'll be back to assembling movies by hand with celluloid and glue I know most people think I'm crazy, but I kind of miss cutting on actual film.
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Quote: Originally Posted by cloudgazer For a moment reading this I allowed myself to imagine that FCP-X would mean fewer reality TV shows would get created, then my ego caught up with my id and hopes were dashed. If only...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar Does putting an FCP X project on a network drive suddenly bring all these features to FCP X? To give you an idea of our needs, I've been on reality TV shows where two dozens editors and assistants were editin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar Wasn't this what Final Cut Server was supposed to address? Things like centralized file management, access control, version control, multiuser? Does putting an FCP X project on a network drive suddenly bring a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by WelshDog I think you are right. FCP 7 had to have a large amount of garbage in it considering its heritage. And I support any company doing what needs to be done to make money and be successful. I guess they looked …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison The goal with any device or application is scalability if you want to reach the widest audience. For instance RED designed their cameras to be modular (to an extent) so that they didn't have to create to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison It appears the strategy that may be employed with FCPX is to develop an infrastructure in FCPX and abdicate control of things like XML, EDL OMF/AAF, Deck Control, laying to tape, Broadcast out via API as cov…
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Quote: Originally Posted by UrbanVoyeur I wonder where all this leaves film and media students? Should the schools and students migrate to Media Composer? Premiere (which is pretty good these days)? Stay on FCP7 until FCPX matures? Short answe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by franktinsley Now those do sound like legitimate complaints. But what makes you assume Apple will never update to address them? Here's my perspective on FCPX and high end professional film and TV production. The t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna You show me Walter Murch (an absolute god in the realm of pro editing) decry this update for example. Or Coppola. Or the Coen Brothers etc. Show me them vowing to switch because this move was a total douche…