Re: One year later... NOW: standardizing on one tool or using them all?

[Chris Harlan] "For the record, and from an editorial point of view, FCP 2-7 was one of the most flexible NLEs I had ever seen, and that IS why I eventually chose it over many other now forgotten rivals."

Of course you're right Chris, it's the most flexible NLE ever, with a zillion ways to do anything. This is why it's missed by so many in spite of its age and imperfections.

[Jeremy Garchow] "FCP was not flexible, it was Mac only, and you needed to be immensely tied to quicktime which made sense when everything was on tape, but outside of that and in this digital age? FCP7 is not very flexible."

Come on Jeremy. Your definition of flexible is so incredibly limited above. The ability to work with all I/O cards and devices on the market made FCP more flexible than AVID or Adobe or any other NLE. Are you forgetting that AVID's new open interoperability is just that, "new." And, are you forgetting that the drivers for all I/O devices on the Windows side, going way back to CS4, were always "iffy" and always months or years behind those delivered for FCP?

Then there's collaborative workflows that made it flexible, and the zillion ways to do things I mentioned above.

Gosh, how quickly we seem to forget... The question I want to know is, why are you still using FCP7?

David Roth Weiss
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