Final cut X is a iMovie Pro.  For most professionals working in post facilities, it’s a total disaster.  Apple has thrown out so much. Color used to be a multi-thousand $ program that Apple has just tossed.

There has been inkling of this happening for a while, but people are now fully realizing that Apple doesn’t care about professionals. 

Apple apologists keep saying that in a year, FCPX will be AWESOME! Sorry, they had two years since the last minor update and 4 years since the last major update.  Professionals can’t wait. 

I think it’s going to be a very good year to be an Avid sales rep. I’m just glad I jumped ship to Premiere last year when I bought a 5d.  Cutting natively in Premiere is fantastic.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  06/25  at  12:09 AM

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Have to agree with you. Apple has chosen the much wider range of “pros” over those of us in high end post. The funny part is (well not really funny) that they could have kept folks happy by continuing support for FCP 7 and saying keep that solution until until FCP X is ready for you. The way they yanked FCP 7 away as an option says that we have to go their way or not use Apple.

Posted by Terence Curren  on  06/25  at  05:30 AM

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Terence,
This is the nail on the head. If Apple had just said that they will continue to sell and support FCP7 while the kinks in X are worked out, NO ONE would be complaining. Everyone would be going gaga over the potential in FCPX instead of the backlash they got.

It’s clear that either the management team supervising Final Cut has absolutely no knowledge of professional editing workflows… or do understand and made a decision to throw the pro’s under the bus on the way to some place where the “grass is greener” on the prosumer side. With major emphasis on “sumer”, not pro.

For us, multicam is vital. Probably 90% of our shows involve multicam. And in the last 8 months or so we have switched from tape acquisition to mostly KiPro’s and the Convergent Design Nanoflash. The KiPro is all ProRes.

Now, we have tried multicam with ProRes in Media Composer 5 and it will play. But it has problems playing multiple streams smoothly. So we cut multicam ProRes shows in Final Cut where the multi stream ProRes groups play fine.

We will try MC5.5 now and Premier Pro. But we
may have to dump the KiPro’s in order to record to another codec.

I would be very pissed off right now if we had invested money into purchasing KiPro’s unless AJA has an update coming that allows the recording of other formats.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  06/25  at  02:02 PM

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