johnny h
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Quote Exalted Wombat:
Sure.
But progress towards WHAT? Apple have discovered and developed a huge market for a fully
inegrated iWorld with all the gadgets sharing entertainment media (with suitable DRM, of
course) and a full selection of easy-use applications at the GarageBand and iMovie level.
By restricting choice they can, to an extent, make it all "just work". Why waste
resources elsewhere? Would you?
That's a nothing statement.
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Aftertouch
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Re: Mountain Lion
[Re: Will_m]
#971294 - 21/02/12 12:16 AM
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And whilst everyone was up in arms about fcpx, some pro editors were busy doing business
with it. 7 pro editors share their fcpx editing experiencesAn
insight from people who actually used it.
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Will_m
Joined: 02/04/09
Posts: 518
Loc: Manchester
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Re: Mountain Lion
[Re: Aftertouch]
#971297 - 21/02/12 12:56 AM
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Quote Aftertouch:
And whilst
everyone was up in arms about fcpx, some pro editors were busy doing business with it.
7 pro
editors share their fcpx editing experiences
An insight from people who
actually used it.
Even in
the opening paragraphs there is much said about it being a somewhat closed experience:
"Since you are reading this on Philip Bloom’s blog, you are likely one of these
media ‘master of all trades.’ Shooter, editor, mixer, colorist. You also likely
know that last summer there was an earthquake in the non-linear editing world. What many
had expected to be a long overdue update to Final Cut Pro, ended up being a full-scale
application rewrite with a completely new interface – and many missing features. The
feedback from editors was overwhelmingly negative. We editors aren’t exactly known for
our sunny dispositions to start with but with FCP X, Apple unleashed a hornet’s nest of
professional users who understandably felt confused and betrayed."
I'm not sure
how finding 7 users who do like some of the features means that all the negatives and
concerns are unfounded. The article also says that apple beta tested FCPX and despite
feedback on lack of pro features went ahead anyway, again this just seems like telling the
customer what they want.
"Despite feedback on their beta program for FCPX,
Apple released their software without some of the pro features – OMF, Broadcast
Monitoring and Edit to Tape functions."
At the end of the day it just depends
on how you work, some editors have switched to premiere or avid, some stayed with their
current version and others have upgraded. The topic was merely meant to start a discussion
on the direction of music making, some have engaged and some seem rather defensive. I can
see the benefits of an all-in-one solution but some things are just better shared, or at
least given the option to.
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Aftertouch
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Re: Mountain Lion
[Re: Will_m]
#971346 - 21/02/12 10:13 AM
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I see your point William. I just found it interesting that these seven and many other
editors, who really gave fcpx a chance, found that although lacking in many areas (most of
which already addressed in three timely updates), the world hadn't caved in and fcpx
actually offers editors far more than what the naysayer had made out.
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desmond
Joined: 10/01/06
Posts: 7946
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Re: Mountain Lion
[Re: Will_m]
#971350 - 21/02/12 10:19 AM
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Quote Will_m:
I'm not sure how
finding 7 users who do like some of the features means that all the negatives and concerns
are unfounded.
We get your
point, and it has merits as we have discussed. Some of us here have suggested the
situation, from those of us invested in FCP with personal experience, isn't perhaps all
quite as negative as the picture you painted, and explained why and gave you some links to
positive feedback to back that up. Many of the things not implemented have now been
implemented and the situation will improve I'm sure as the software matures. It's not
perfect yet.
Logic 1 also didn't implement a lot of features that the previous
Notator SL had - you just cannot do everything at once. However, look at where Logic has
got to... 
But we're now going around in circles, retreading the same ground,
so let's not both repeat our points again, eh..?
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