Comments on: Final Cut Pro 7 – I Want To Believe http://hollywood-2point0.com/blog/by-brian-giberson/final-cut-pro-7-i-want-to-believe Musings from a field of falling giants Wed, 05 May 2010 19:54:11 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Mike Jones http://hollywood-2point0.com/blog/by-brian-giberson/final-cut-pro-7-i-want-to-believe/comment-page-1#comment-87 Mike Jones Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:58:48 +0000 http://hollywood-2point0.com/blog/?p=442#comment-87 I hear ya... FCP7 is not just a profound disappointment, it's almost insulting. People can argue black and blue preference or 'feel' and what they 'like' but the facts are facts - comparing feature for feature FCP is currently the least proficient, least flexible and most technological inferior NLE on the market. Everyone else - Adobe, Sony in particular, even Grass Valley - have left them behind over the past 3 -5 years. And it's a tragedy.... FCP went from Innovating to a game of perpetual behind-the-8ball catch-up in just a few years. On fronts such as Inter-app Integration, Format Flexibility, RAW workflow, Audio Tools, Compositing and Authoring/Delivery FCS is just not up to scratch. Adobe has infinitely better integration, Sony have infinitely better audio and NLE compositing. Even the boon of 'Apple Color' simply gives Apple colour grading tools that they were totally missing previously. Color is good but it doesnt do anything Synthetic Aperture doesn't do which is part of the Adobe suite. And both Vegas and Premiere both do RED RAW 4k workflows far better than FCP. Both Vegas and Prmeiere can do scaled 4k in real-time on a laptop and have full access to the native RAW metadata from directly inside the NLE. Something FCP fails completely. I have loved FCP in the past but it's an old girlfriend that failed to grow up with me and Im looking at the sexy young things next door. Will Apple dump ProApps? Its looks that way but Apple are too unpredictable to be certain. But are they thoroughly neglecting Professional users? Absolutely. As such Pro users need to punish Apple for this neglect by taking their business elsewhere. Next time you find an Editor raving about how Good and Modern FCP is, simply ask them a question? "What other systems have they used?" The answer, invariably will be "none". In 2009 only those who havent seriously engaged with Premiere, Vegas or Edius are still enamored by FCP. Its tied, old, dated, inflexible.... And it's a real shame. Because it didint have to go this way. I wrote a more sober analysis of FCS3 on my blog which readers may find interesting. http://blogs.digitalmediaonlineinc.com/digitalbasin/entry/20090723 Cheers Mike I hear ya… FCP7 is not just a profound disappointment, it’s almost insulting.

People can argue black and blue preference or ‘feel’ and what they ‘like’ but the facts are facts – comparing feature for feature FCP is currently the least proficient, least flexible and most technological inferior NLE on the market. Everyone else – Adobe, Sony in particular, even Grass Valley – have left them behind over the past 3 -5 years.

And it’s a tragedy….

FCP went from Innovating to a game of perpetual behind-the-8ball catch-up in just a few years.

On fronts such as Inter-app Integration, Format Flexibility, RAW workflow, Audio Tools, Compositing and Authoring/Delivery FCS is just not up to scratch. Adobe has infinitely better integration, Sony have infinitely better audio and NLE compositing. Even the boon of ‘Apple Color’ simply gives Apple colour grading tools that they were totally missing previously. Color is good but it doesnt do anything Synthetic Aperture doesn’t do which is part of the Adobe suite. And both Vegas and Premiere both do RED RAW 4k workflows far better than FCP. Both Vegas and Prmeiere can do scaled 4k in real-time on a laptop and have full access to the native RAW metadata from directly inside the NLE. Something FCP fails completely.

I have loved FCP in the past but it’s an old girlfriend that failed to grow up with me and Im looking at the sexy young things next door.

Will Apple dump ProApps? Its looks that way but Apple are too unpredictable to be certain. But are they thoroughly neglecting Professional users? Absolutely.

As such Pro users need to punish Apple for this neglect by taking their business elsewhere.

Next time you find an Editor raving about how Good and Modern FCP is, simply ask them a question? “What other systems have they used?” The answer, invariably will be “none”. In 2009 only those who havent seriously engaged with Premiere, Vegas or Edius are still enamored by FCP. Its tied, old, dated, inflexible…. And it’s a real shame. Because it didint have to go this way.

I wrote a more sober analysis of FCS3 on my blog which readers may find interesting.

http://blogs.digitalmediaonlineinc.com/digitalbasin/entry/20090723

Cheers

Mike

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