FCPX has broken a new frontier in post-production.
This software is 10 years ahead of its time, neither Avid nor Premiere can touch this. Avid has not changed since the 80ties, when it was revolutionary. They took on the tape to tape, A and B track editing system and digitized, and stuck to it since. Premiere is dancing between Avid and the old Final Cut, and their strategy is comfort food for editors. FCPX, today, is as revolutionary as Avid was in 89.
I did not like FCPX at first, I dabbled with it for a moment or two, listened to the crowd, and joined the masses. I’m a pro-editor and work in reality TV, news and documentaries, and I edit them all for the most part in Avid and Premiere, because that’s what the industry has gravitated too and because, yes, FCPX was not ready at launch and was too weird. The fact is, when you are good and fast at something it’s plain and simply a pain in a#$ to lear something new. But, I have also been editing in FCPX for now more than two years and I know how much easier, more fluid and faster cutting in FCPX would be in those reality TV, doc or news scenarios.
All the rumors that FCPX does not do this or that are just rumors (yes at first it was missing a couple of things). So what I want to tell the pro’s is, give it a try, be patient, take a tutorial, and be curious. FCPX is powerful and beautiful. It was build so that even amateurs can edit, but don’t let that feed your prejudice… that is just a result of incredibly well thought through interface design. FCPX is 100% pro, and easily deployable in any post environment. It’s more stable and powerful and faster than its brothers, but beyond the speed is a platform that is a joy to edit on. In a lot of ways it’s very different, and ultimately it does what Avid and Premiere do so much better that when I go back to those two platforms I feel like I’m back in a sort of proto-Bronze Age of post. The guys behind this software deserve an Oscar for innovation. FCPX has broken a new frontier.
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