paul g.fromweston

Q: Pros and Cons to leaving FCP 7 for X...

Looking for advice from those that have made the transition and stayed or gone back.  Current workflow:  DVD creation with FCP 7, Affinity Photo for Menus, DVD Studio Pro 4,  and Compressor 4.2.1.

Final Cut Pro X, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Jan 6, 2016 7:20 AM

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  • by Russ H,Helpful

    Russ H Russ H Jan 6, 2016 12:16 PM in response to paul g.fromweston
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    Jan 6, 2016 12:16 PM in response to paul g.fromweston

    Briefly…

     

    Pros: A wider range of modern codecs and formats; multi cam; key word (data-based) organization flexibility; speed (workflow and processing – optimized for newish Macs); Titling (Motion projects).

     

    Cons: Limited audio editing (compared to STP); limited interoperability with Motion (no Send-to-Motion); very basic tape capture; very basic DVD and BD capability.

     

    Since you use DVDSP for disk authoring, I suggest that if you make the change, maintain a separate bootable volume for DVDSP (and the rest of the suite) on your current OS. Each time a new version of OS X is released, it seems that something in FCS falls by the wayside…

     

    Good luck.

     

    Russ

  • by paul g.fromweston,

    paul g.fromweston paul g.fromweston Jan 6, 2016 12:16 PM in response to Russ H
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    Jan 6, 2016 12:16 PM in response to Russ H

    Thanks Russ

  • by Alchroma,Helpful

    Alchroma Alchroma Jan 6, 2016 5:56 PM in response to paul g.fromweston
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    Jan 6, 2016 5:56 PM in response to paul g.fromweston

    Russ seems to have done a fine summation.

     

    I'd like to add that one of the bigger obstacles to learning FCP X is trying to apply the legacy FCPro methods.

    Start learning with a fresh new approach.

     

    Al