Mark Toia
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After a year or 2 of bitching about it, Ive moved to the dark side with FCPX
Being an Old Avid man, moving to FCP7 10 years ago was a great move, faster, smoother, easier... then decide to hit premier CS6 pretty hard due to its R3D work flow and flirted with FCPX.
Gave Avid another try... sadly it hasn't advanced at all in the last decade, Such a slow arse thing, Im surprised its still on the market. But Im glad I learnt in AVID, as it was great 15 years ago.... but just hasn't advanced, Sadly its dead for me now.
FCP7 still is a great program but sadly no future. No RAW support, its dying..
Premier CS6 had me, had me good, Had me because I could edit 5k R3D's.. WOW !, * months ago I thought Cs6 Prem was the editor i would stay with for the rest of my career.... But after the last 6 months of using it, I realised it was an old clunky interface on a destructive time line, If you moved a clip up and across, you lost your audio tracks which did not drop down a layer to suite... Its a poor cousin to FCP7, Constantly double handing of files and the more you hammered CS6 the hotter the processors worked, the slower the machine got.. The clunkly old style editing soon wore thin with me.
What was I going to do..
So off I go again for more FCPX trials, HATE HATE HATED IT !!!!!.. 4 attempts over the last 12 months, but for the life of me I could not get my head around it, clips shuffling around everywhere... So i went back to Premier, got the shits again with the slow clumsy old style features, and shit grading tools, but looooved the way I could send shots seamlessly across to after effects.
So then back I go to good old FCP7.. oooh I love FCP7.. but Ive lost my 5k R3D workflow ??? FUCK !
Ok.. 5th time, back to FCPX... Hating it...! Ok, lets give this a proper go. Lets edit a real 5k job on it... Lets not dick around, lets do the tutorials from start to finish, give this thing a chance as I did with AVID, FCP7 and Prem CS6.
4 days later... WOW!!!!!!!! Hang on, It's all starting to make sense, It's all starting to click together.
Figured it out !!! Thank gooooooood ! and now its starting to blow me away. I wanted to hate this thing so bad, I bashed it in blogs, I slayed APPLE !! in the forums... but now I have to openly apologise.
Its the real fricken deal.
All I had to do is spend a good week on it to really nut out every single feature, every little + & - , really peel back its layers of bullshit, completely understand it back to front. (As you should)
Ive just edited my first project on it in half the time I would have spent on FCP7 and Avid, Even final graded in it from the RAW files, It's got the best colour corrector out there (for and edit suite) its amazing ! 4k masters look amazing ! ... Works with black magic thunderbolt extreme perfectly. All I need now is a RR-x thunderbolt2 for my lappy and I'll be really flying.
I have to say, to all the FCPX haters out there. (and I was one of the worst) Spend some real time with it, and it will impress you. Especially people who think Premier Rocks, FCPX eats it for speed and power by a long shot.
Anyways...
Just sharing my week.
Being an Old Avid man, moving to FCP7 10 years ago was a great move, faster, smoother, easier... then decide to hit premier CS6 pretty hard due to its R3D work flow and flirted with FCPX.
Gave Avid another try... sadly it hasn't advanced at all in the last decade, Such a slow arse thing, Im surprised its still on the market. But Im glad I learnt in AVID, as it was great 15 years ago.... but just hasn't advanced, Sadly its dead for me now.
FCP7 still is a great program but sadly no future. No RAW support, its dying..
Premier CS6 had me, had me good, Had me because I could edit 5k R3D's.. WOW !, * months ago I thought Cs6 Prem was the editor i would stay with for the rest of my career.... But after the last 6 months of using it, I realised it was an old clunky interface on a destructive time line, If you moved a clip up and across, you lost your audio tracks which did not drop down a layer to suite... Its a poor cousin to FCP7, Constantly double handing of files and the more you hammered CS6 the hotter the processors worked, the slower the machine got.. The clunkly old style editing soon wore thin with me.
What was I going to do..
So off I go again for more FCPX trials, HATE HATE HATED IT !!!!!.. 4 attempts over the last 12 months, but for the life of me I could not get my head around it, clips shuffling around everywhere... So i went back to Premier, got the shits again with the slow clumsy old style features, and shit grading tools, but looooved the way I could send shots seamlessly across to after effects.
So then back I go to good old FCP7.. oooh I love FCP7.. but Ive lost my 5k R3D workflow ??? FUCK !
Ok.. 5th time, back to FCPX... Hating it...! Ok, lets give this a proper go. Lets edit a real 5k job on it... Lets not dick around, lets do the tutorials from start to finish, give this thing a chance as I did with AVID, FCP7 and Prem CS6.
4 days later... WOW!!!!!!!! Hang on, It's all starting to make sense, It's all starting to click together.
Figured it out !!! Thank gooooooood ! and now its starting to blow me away. I wanted to hate this thing so bad, I bashed it in blogs, I slayed APPLE !! in the forums... but now I have to openly apologise.
Its the real fricken deal.
All I had to do is spend a good week on it to really nut out every single feature, every little + & - , really peel back its layers of bullshit, completely understand it back to front. (As you should)
Ive just edited my first project on it in half the time I would have spent on FCP7 and Avid, Even final graded in it from the RAW files, It's got the best colour corrector out there (for and edit suite) its amazing ! 4k masters look amazing ! ... Works with black magic thunderbolt extreme perfectly. All I need now is a RR-x thunderbolt2 for my lappy and I'll be really flying.
I have to say, to all the FCPX haters out there. (and I was one of the worst) Spend some real time with it, and it will impress you. Especially people who think Premier Rocks, FCPX eats it for speed and power by a long shot.
Anyways...
Just sharing my week.
