Final Cut Pro X

Tom Wolsky wrote:

This is categorically untrue. ...

Your characterizations of those unhappy with this so-called upgrade are just lies.

A little bit harsh but I take yor point. Maybe not lies but definitly a bit exagerated.

I'm sure you all know by now but in case you don't. Adobe Production Premium CS 5.5 is going for half price as part of their "switcher" campain.

It's what FCP 7 was before but with Native Red support and is 64 bit. I might use PP being tired of Avid and despondent with FCP X but just getting AE and PS for that price is already incredible.

Apple is only getting some of its own medicine back.

In 2003, shortly after Final Cut Express was introduced, Apple offered free copies of FCE to anyone with Premiere who was prepared to surrender their Premiere installation disc.

Apple is only getting some of its own medicine back.

how low can you go?

I'm a limbo dancer.

I'm a limbo dancer.

you wish! 😁

I'm extremely helpful. Everyone knows I will bend over backwards to please.

@black sun: Thanks - GenArts does have something in the pipeline for FCP X!

GenArts' latest visual effects plugin, Sapphire Edge, is built to support FCP X and will be available by August. This is a new GenArts plugin designed for busy pro video editors. A built-in preset browser lets you preview effects on your own work. Sapphire Edge for FCP 6 & 7 launched on 6/28 and is available now. You can find more info about Sapphire Edge for FCP at http://bit.ly/jiyGZa.

The next major release of our main flagship offering, GenArts Sapphire, will also support FCP X, coming soon!

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- Alison

But it isn't all peaches and cream with PP 5.5. After I realized Apple had left us for a younger editor with no backlog of material, I fired it up and tried to port a few projects into it from older FCP projects. It's really quite rudimentary.

It doesn't retain fonts.

It doesn't retain transitions.

It doesn't even retain text in some cases.

It doesn't retain many effects. Color correction is gone.

So opening every project is going to require an assistant editor to put it back together again.

Yes, we're in a financial bind. On the other hand, this just opened up a big temporary market for assistant editors...

To some extent, this loss of generated text fonts, effects etc. is true using XML to transfer projects even between versions of FCP.

Some of the effects and text are passed, others, where there is no co-responding equivalent in the receiving program, are ignored.

But if I have a choice between getting nothing, as in FCP-X, or getting something, even if it just my scenes blocked in on the timeline correctly, I'll take the something.

MtD

Yes, I totally agree, Meg. But it's just so sad and unproductive.

It didn't have to be this way.

Yes, but the fault lies 100% on Apple, and is not a failure on the part of Adobe to provide complete compatibility with a competing product.

I plan on running my FCS workstations into the ground, and then transition to Premiere. I believe (for the kind of work I do) AVID is actually a better NLE, but going back to the world of "AVID Certified" hardware was just too much.

I have been test driving Premiere for a week now and it will definitely work for me.

MtD

Excellent point on compatibility! And I agree. I've been cutting a bunch with PP for the last week and it appears it will most definitely do the job; just not with the frictionless elegance we've come to know and love over the years.

Why not just keep running FCP 7 on OSX 10.6.8? Just keep everything as it is. I think that's what I'll be doing for the foreseeable future.

Whilst keeping an eye on FCP X, it'll grow...

Apple's secrecy in this case has failed them. If they had admitted to the lack of Pro features on he release and explained where FCP X is going, a lot of people would have felt a lot better about it. But thats Apple.

Meg The Dog wrote:

Yes, but the fault lies 100% on Apple, and is not a failure on the part of Adobe to provide complete compatibility with a competing product.

I plan on running my FCS workstations into the ground, and then transition to Premiere. I believe (for the kind of work I do) AVID is actually a better NLE, but going back to the world of "AVID Certified" hardware was just too much.

I have been test driving Premiere for a week now and it will definitely work for me.

MtD

FWIW, I believe Automatic Duck Pro Export FCP ($500 bucks) will take FCP sequences and turn them into Avid Projects - I'm not so sure about bins, etc...