My Final cut blues

Sowlobro

Sowlobro

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I have recently been hired by a marketing company to head their video production wing. Youpi! I said. . . I know I look a gifthorse in the mouth but, imagine my surprise when I walked into my brand new office with skyline view to find a Mac 8 core with Final Cut Studio installed. Now do not get me wrong here, I really accept every software platform and software out there. I believe that the most important thing is to get the result, no matter where and how you work. What counts is the beauty that comes out the other end. . . . That being said, I never thought a workflow could be so different than that of my VEGAS 9 setup. These two software are so different. Not only do I find myself having to re learn how to edit, but I need to re learn my whole creative process. . . WOW! Nothing is like it used to be.

Here is my dilema. Please feel free to analyse my psyche here. I had to bring in my PC to work on urgent projects while. Now I have a PC and a Mac sitting side by side. Should I rip the band-aid off and force myself to work with FINAL CUT or should I tell my boss to take the Mac to another office where it will be used. All these years of training. I guess the feeling I have is that the Mac might yield something superior in the end.


Give me your thoughts but please do not bash Software. I've had enough of gear talk.

Please note that this will be posted on the Final Cut and the Vegas Forum. Try your best to be impartial.
 
If the people who hired you set you up to work on Final Cut, then yeah, you should learn it, especially if you're going to be collaborating with anyone there.
 
You can run Windows/Vegas on that mac, but as David said, if you're going to be collaborating with anyone else that's using FCS, you should learn it.
 
I'd agree... learn Final Cut. I don't think you'll necessarily get a better product in the end, but it will help if you're collaborating with others. Once you get used to the workflow, it probably won't seem so radically different...
 
The first step in learning it is to forget about Vegas while you're learning it. The sooner you quit asking why "they do it this way instead of the way Vegas does it" the quicker you'll "get it."
 
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