Re: After a year has perception of FCPX changed?

[Michael Gissing] "I know you love the freedom to roam and edit paradigm Bill but for many this is still a question of how to get the feisty colt into the barn and harnessed to a team.
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No question.

But I think you mistake my thinking.

You see, while I initially saw X as a tools to "replace Legacy" - that didn't last very long for me.

The more I used it, the more it became clear that it's a new kind of tool. And the dumbest thing I could continue to do was try to use the new tool the same way I used the old one.

So I had to stop and re-think a lot of what I used to think about when I edited. Not all. A cut is still a cut. But now my thinking process has expanded. (yes, that may be because my thinking process was immature or not as sophisticated as others here) but that aside, it was my process developed over 10 years plus of cutting stuff month after month.

While part of what changed my editing process was the introduction of X, looking back, I'm not sure it was the software that changed things so much as changes in technology as a whole changing the modern world - and the software team at Apple being smart enough to see the writing on the wall ahead of most other companies.

I don't scout locations the same way I did 10 years ago, I don't shoot the same way I did 10 years ago. I don't capture my audio the same way I did 10 years ago. I don't plan or think or write the same way I did 10 years ago.

So why should I still EDIT the same way I did 10 years ago?

If you're answer is "because it works for me." Great. You've never read a single line from me here saying that the way anyone else edits isn't perfectly legitimate.

But I still content that most of the people who "hate" X, seem to me to be largely driven by frustrations based around how it's "forcing" them consider changing away from a work style and habits they've been comfortable with for a decade. I get that. But I guess as old as I am, I"m just not particularly resistant to change. It seems to me to be progressive change that's brining new thinking and new capabilities. Not change that's still trying to cling to the ways I used to work, in a world where everything else IS changing.

I don't actually see X as something to "replace" Legacy, but I'm convinced that many here can't see it, nor judge it, as anything else.

To me it's as silly as an argument about which are more fun, skis or snowboards.

Just go out and have fun. There's plenty of room on the slopes for everyone.

Simple as that.

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