Final Cut Pro: 7 vs. X

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Erojo12

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I am a productions student in my final semester of productions courses. This semester, we got Final Cut Pro. A professor of mine (with his own production company) had told me that FCP X may be a little difficult to master at first, but once I understand it, he tells me it is a great step up from FCP 7. I have tried to learn FCP X, but after a few weeks of editing with it, I still don't care for the new version. We have the option of using FCP 7 or FCP X, whichever we prefer. I don't want to miss out on a great program just because of short patience so I would like to know what you think is a better program: Final Cut Pro 7 or X?
 
Well one is discontinued and the other is actively developed. That means less plugins and less ongoing support for 7- which will only continue and increase over the years. For the long-term that would make X the preferred choice wouldn't it?
 
And, if you spend the time and money on proper training such as macProVideo.com or Ripple Training (by far the two best on the market), you'll work more efficiently and comfortably form the start. macProVideo.com also has a lot of free short tutorial articles in the HUB section, too.
 
BenB said:
And, if you spend the time and money on proper training such as macProVideo.com or Ripple Training (by far the two best on the market), you'll work more efficiently and comfortably form the start. macProVideo.com also has a lot of free short tutorial articles in the HUB section, too.
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Frankly, I wouldn't spend money on training. Everything you need can be found right on the Internet, and outside of that, experience is the best teacher, so edit as much varied material as often as you can.
 
Gary Huff said:
Frankly, I wouldn't spend money on training. Everything you need can be found right on the Internet, and outside of that, experience is the best teacher, so edit as much varied material as often as you can.
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Yeah well I luckily wasn't able to convince my folks the same thing about going to college. :shocked:

-Noah
 
Free junk on the Internet is mostly crap training with bad information. If you really could learn everything you need on the Internet for free, every educational institution would have gone out of business a long time ago. Quality education can not be replaced, and figuring things out by trial and error has taught more people bad, counterproductive habits than anything.
 
Gary Huff said:
Frankly, I wouldn't spend money on training. Everything you need can be found right on the Internet, and outside of that, experience is the best teacher, so edit as much varied material as often as you can.
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I disagree here. You can get a lot of free tutorials on certain subjects. For example when all you want is the Pleasantville effect you can google for Pleasantville and FCPX. Fine.

But when you want to get a fresh and quick start on a new software like FCPX the structure of a decent "course" can help a lot and I believe it was only $ 60 for the initial FCPX Ripple training. Well worth it.

To the OP: FCP7 is dead. It is not in the equation anymore and everyone who says is kidding themselves. Yes, there are still freelancers used with FCP7 and many productions are still using it, but in 12-16 months it will have vanished. FCPX is out for 15 months now and the only two real other options are Avid and Premiere.

FCPX is different and has its own paradigm and ways of organizing media. So for FCP7 users it seems very odd at first. But we are now using it for 100% of our work from Live-environments to commercials and documentaries. It is the way to go especially when you want to tackle different tasks in different projects from different cameras and media.
 
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