Re: FCPX or Not...

Did you play with it, or did you really cut and deliver something?

I'm almost done with a project (did not DL 10.0.3 thankfully); it's a non-deadline project by the way. The actual cutting of a story is superior. I've also simultaneously been using Legacy and PP for other stuff, both of which "feel" like steps backward in terms of actually cutting a story, and we all know we do a lot more than just cut. I downloaded Media Composer trial, but sheesh I still dislike it, haven't used it since 2003.

By "preview monitor," do you mean a color grade monitor thing? Or do you mean the skimmer tool? The color correction window is pretty decent--better than PP, IMO-- but I miss my curves from Color. As far as color grading goes I hear, but haven't used, the XML to da vinci work very well.

[Andy Field] "Folks who must deliver deadline broadcast and film aren't sitting around playing with something only to make their work more difficult"

In fact they are just "playing" with X, because they are too busy hopefully to actually learn X. And make no mistake about it: there is a learning curve. I've said it before, I'll say it again. I had to read the manual so often to simply begin a project and wrap my imagination around the nomenclature that this first project has taken easily three times longer than it should have. Knowing this, I offered a discount to the producer. But now that I know the stuff I know the actual cutting is much quicker, more accurate, more flexible.

But I know there's no way to learn something without doing it. In any case, one must blow away the notion that one can sit down in any app and then know it after playing with it once or twice. Why do that if you have a customer sitting next to you? Could you imagine: "Sorry I need to close the app and restart it." And "sorry I need to duplicate the project every now and again and store it on a hidden .dmg in case the project gets corrupt."

I can't imagine anyone is still reading, but if so: I do 99% of my title in AE, anyway, but I find myself using the titler in X -- better than legacy. My next real learning is audio. Whew. Wish me luck. The best part is the FX are all from Logic and they really work awesome-ly.