And I’m 45. No Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram…so it is bull$hyt to me and I’m not willing to give in to my new over-socialized hipster brethren.

I may be older than you, and I don’t do “social media”, but it has been long clear to me that those platforms are here to stay, and they are rapidly gaining in importance as distribution channels for professionally-produced high-quality video content. Companies that ignore them are doing it at their own peril.

FCP is the tool of the new decade and the new generation. Like it or hate it, the world of social media is here and our world is apparently long gone.

I may be too old for social media, so I’ll just count down my days until retirement. But I would be an idiot to label it bull$hit.

And… sorry I got the wrong level on the thread, my comment was actually aimed at Agent Provocateur.

im surprised fcpx doesn’t have a “social media”(blech$#!) component so you can “share and update all your friends or your latest cool project”.

freakin social consumerism…ill be glad when this bull$hit trend has passed!!!

People often confuse restrictions on iTunes Store with those on Mac App Store. The iTunes Store limits your music, movies and shows to five Macs and up to 10 mobile devices (the burden of licensing with the music labels…). Mac App Store has no such limitations for Mac software.

What is not legitimate is the arrogant dismissal of armies of video professionals who earn their living editing motion pictures on this tool. They certainly are NOT consumers in the template-driven world.

There is a sliver of a segment of professional editors who are involved in projects of extreme complexity. Then there is the vast swath of those who produce large volumes of video, whether for broadcast TV, corporate, training, advertising, event, features and all other possible sorts of purposes, who work on tight deadlines and need a powerful and efficient tool. For those of us who fall into this category, FCP X provided UI improvements that save us time and make it easier.

FCP X will continue to grow and add features (who would have guessed? Software gaining features as it evolves??). The sliver of users on the top, who may still be missing some of the functionality that the old FCP7 had, and the new FCP X does not (yet) will be shrinking, as does the number of those missing features. Meanwhile, there is a significantly higher number of features and solutions in FCP X that FCP 7 did not have, and they save considerable amount of time for all of us who have no need for the ever-so-shrinking list of functionality not yet present in FCP X.

Right now there is an industry wide (top to bottom) crunch in post production (both dedicated and contractors)
Presently, there are two groups of people, the agile and the dead (or soon to be dead)
FCP X does do things differently. A new paradigm, so to speak. However it IS better at what it does, and with it you can be faster better and even cheaper (because you had to spend less time)
By locking on to a dinosaur like premiere, you give your competitors a real advantages in agility, baseline cost and presentation. Clinging to old standards and refusing to learn new, in the present environment, can easily be fatal. (as so many have discovered)

So, btaylor is likely just a silly little windows fanboy who can’t choose FCP X. However, those who can would be well advised to download the free trial and put a day or two into trying it. They will find a tool that (IMHO) is significantly easier, better and faster at crafting a compelling storyline than anything out there, at any price. (add to that that it costs less to buy than the other leading editors charge for updates)
Yes, being agile requires learning new things and new ways of doing them but it beats the alternative by a country mile.

Why do you bother posting your spew?
No one (except, perhaps, the other trolls here) takes you seriously.

All the people who still complain about FCP X should wake up and try it seriously. This is the best video edition software on the planet for a ridiculous low price.

Source: Professional editor and director; features, tv shows, international filmmaker

Thanks

But there are still many more things they need to address before it can be used outside of the template driven world of the consumer. But I hope it will serve me better in the future.

Now if they would just update the MacPro to 100% current technology (including video cards!) so that it really had the horsepower to do these tasks reasonably quickly.

So many of the daily chores we have to deal with when editing video are so much faster, more intuitive, simpler and easier.

Unless there is something really quite specific that for some reason does not exist yet in FCP X and was actually available in the original FCP, the only reason I can see for not switching is because you’re comfortable with DOS and simply don’t want to entertain this absurdly childish concept of a mouse (paraphasing John Dvorak here)…

Call me when you finish dubbing your next movie to Betamax

No thanks.

Call me when they fix it.