Final Cut ProSumer?

that a good shudder or a bad one? I'll reserve mine til I actually run it on my machine. :)

Noah
 
It will be "awesome" like when they said they would update shake and promised the 3ghz G5, and told us that the PPC were as good as the intels and would never change ..... Plus Steve doesn't understand the meaning of hyperbole
 
Awesome is used to describe everything from cell phone plans to God.

I wish more descriptive words were used instead.

Don't get me started with "amazing."
 
handsome pete said:
Honestly, FCP is not a very difficult program to use. I'd probably look into Avid or back to Premiere if they start dumbing it down. It's really the only thing keeping me on the mac platform as it is.
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I find odd the notion that 'difficult to use' might in some way imply 'professional'. FCP is easier to use than some, harder to use than other editors. What it enables one to do is manipulate files in a meaningful way. Data in, data out. Simple. The easier it is to do that, the more time we have to do more creative things with movies. I'm all for things being more universal and easier.

Pro Tools and Avid could be far more user-friendly if they didn't have their training and certification industries to defend. I'd gladly throw my PT cert out the window if they'd just streamline that dinosaur so I could get my work done more quickly and efficiently. As it stands, I'm constantly getting calls from colleagues asking "how do I do this/that?" Wouldn't it be great if right-clicking got you everything you needed, and told you the keystroke so you could do it even quicker next time?

FCP as it stands, is better, but still far from intuitive or easy-to-use. (See: Vegas) The fact that you have to open up an entirely seperate app (Cinema Tools) to 'conform' a clip (essentially set a flag on a quicktime movie) is a joke. Or the fact that saving anything, keyboard layouts, project files, renders... all default to the same destination folder? Who works like that!? This is the digital age. Applications, *especially* 'Pro' ones, should be smart. No longer should this stuff be mimicking obsolete analog tools.

I'm all for Software getting smoother, more reliable, and easier. But please, for the love of Pete, just make it more stable!
 
Carlos Corral said:
Someone from Apple already did:

“Final Cut Pro is the first choice for professional video editors, and we’ve never been more excited about its future,” Apple spokesman Bill Evans told CNET. “The next version of Final Cut is going to be awesome, and our pro customers are going to love it.”
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Is that really a denial? All he said is that the next version will be "awesome" and that "pro customers are going to love it." Sounds more like spin to me.
 
tbob said:
I find odd the notion that 'difficult to use' might in some way imply 'professional'. FCP is easier to use than some, harder to use than other editors. What it enables one to do is manipulate files in a meaningful way. Data in, data out. Simple. The easier it is to do that, the more time we have to do more creative things with movies. I'm all for things being more universal and easier.

Pro Tools and Avid could be far more user-friendly if they didn't have their training and certification industries to defend. I'd gladly throw my PT cert out the window if they'd just streamline that dinosaur so I could get my work done more quickly and efficiently. As it stands, I'm constantly getting calls from colleagues asking "how do I do this/that?" Wouldn't it be great if right-clicking got you everything you needed, and told you the keystroke so you could do it even quicker next time?

FCP as it stands, is better, but still far from intuitive or easy-to-use. (See: Vegas) The fact that you have to open up an entirely seperate app (Cinema Tools) to 'conform' a clip (essentially set a flag on a quicktime movie) is a joke. Or the fact that saving anything, keyboard layouts, project files, renders... all default to the same destination folder? Who works like that!? This is the digital age. Applications, *especially* 'Pro' ones, should be smart. No longer should this stuff be mimicking obsolete analog tools.

I'm all for Software getting smoother, more reliable, and easier. But please, for the love of Pete, just make it more stable!
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I agree with you, I am still worried only because of the iMovie overhaul a few years ago. It went from a simple solid and very usable editor to a toy at best.

I will say, have often dreamt of just opening "final Cut studio" and having one common timeline across the entire System. If I need to do some quick but "hardcore" sound adjustments I just select the "soundtrack" tab from a pull down menu. The timeline stays the same and no new app opens but the "view" changes to a simple video based DAW. Then once that was done I change to the "color" view, again timeline stays the same nothing opens But bam I have a Color correction view. No exporting or importing its just seemless and 100% integrated. I might be dreaming but it would be really nice.
 
NoahK said:
that a good shudder or a bad one? I'll reserve mine til I actually run it on my machine. :)
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I mean awesome like in "Star Wars episode one awesome".

The kids gonna love it, the old school folks gonna hate it.

I´m definitely old school, but what do I care, I edit 90% on PremierePro now and use FCP only when a customer insists.

Frank
 
Bill Gates, regarding that "640k" quote:
I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time … I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again
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Competition among OSes, hardware, editng apps, etc. creates better products for all of us regardless of which OS you are using.

Apple's largest revenue source continues to be the Macintosh, and it is where the largest margins reside.

New MacPros are in the queue, but Intel is having trouble fulfilling chip orders.

I have no idea who the "guest blogger" at Videomaker is, nor what his credentials are, or the reason he chose to reiterate information that has been since refuted by multiple sources including Jobs himself, and to cNet by Apple in a rare disclosure about the future of the proapps.

However, I am aware that well known and respected Mac user Phil Hodgetts has a materially different opinion:

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/category/apple/apple-pro-apps/

So do a number of other respected, non "guest bloggers" who have been around Final Cut Pro for years.

I have no beef with that magazine, but I don't particularly respect its content, the lack of depth in its reviews, tutorials, and decidedly anti Apple predilection.

There are so many misstatements by Mr. Porter.

Just my "guest blog."


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