Re: After a year has perception of FCPX changed?

[Walter Soyka] "I think one thing that hasn't changed since last June is that a lot of people are still making up their minds about FCPX without really using it"

Incredibly true statement. I occasionally teach editing at a college and last year we taught FCP7. This year we're teaching Avid because you have to train students on what's being used. However, I talked the head of the dept. into doing a few FCPX seminars for people who want to learn.

Anyway, I was talking to one of my students about it, and he just went off on FCPX. He was saying basically, no one's using it, right? I heard it sucked. If no ones using it, it probably isn't worth learning.

And this was from a kid who's probably been editing on FCP7 since high school. He's never downloaded X, never played with it, but since he's always online, he's heard about it and de facto made up his mind on it.

I had to talk with him for 15 minutes explaining that he should look into it, that it's much better than he's heard.

I figure X needs about 4 years to start making a dent in post facilities again. Judging by the update path, it could be a quality high-end NLE at the end of year 2, but the stigma will last longer than that.

Andy

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