Re: After a year has perception of FCPX changed?

[TImothy Auld] "The bottom line is I wear the clothes the sponsor pays me to wear and I work with whatever hammer the client chooses."

I respect this orientation at one level. But I'm uncomfortable with it at another.

Likely because I've seen clients gleefully pick hammers based on "industry standards" that are hopelessly wrong for the task at hand.

I'm content to be the person to pick my own tool. If I can master it, I expect the only barrier to be whether the work I output meets the quality standards and communications needs of my clients.

To let them force me to use tools I feel don't fit me properly is a road to frustration on both sides.

Back when "big iron" costs made it impossible for the person at the controls to own the system, forcing workers to use a factory owners expensive machinery made sense.

But those days are nearly gone.

I just can't see the downside of allowing an artist skilled at a particular type of work who wants to use Smoke, AVID, X or whatever - based on their familiarity with the tools and their individual working style - to not only make the call, but arrive at the place where the work gets done with their toolset in hand.

Once upon a time, a video editing system was a threshing machine - expensive and affordable only to whoever owned the farm.

Today it's becoming more and more like a guitar. The player brings the ax they prefer - and jack into the shop band to play their part.

My 2 cents anyway.

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