Re: After a year has perception of FCPX changed?

Hi Walter!

I remember the UVW 1800! One of my early clients gave me one so that I could narrate their local Real Estate show for local TV show using it. I remember it was very finicky as to Sync, and it took me a week to figure out a way to fake a black burst signal so the damn thing would record as a standalone unit!

I haven't really had time to say hi since we got to spend some time together at NAB, but the whole show experience was much more fun by virtue of getting to meet you and the other guys from here and getting to chat without a keyboard in the way.

As to this thread, overall, I think FCP-X is getting over it's freshman slump very nicely.

People who don't use it still don't "get it" very easily, but I've come to expect that.

It seemed so simple and "dumbed down" at first, and here we are a year later, and editors with decades of experience often still can't see it's particular forest for the trees, irrespective of whether that forest is anyplace they'll ever want to live or work.

And all I want to see is that those who argue against it, do so from a position of understanding rather than one of ignorance. Understanding has been a clear hallmark of your contributions, here which is probably why we get along so well, even tho we still often diverge on our opinions of X's attributes.

Hope all is well with you and yours.

And by all means please keep pushing me on the places where you see things differently.

Tested opinions are nearly always better than untested ones.

Between the two of us, perhaps we'll convince one or two people here that disagreeing and being disagreeable aren't the same thing - tho I'll probably need a stream of additional coaching from you if I'm going to get to your level in that arena!

"Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions."-Justice O'Connor