Re: After a year has perception of FCPX changed?

[Bill Davis] " saw the Bunim-Murray story here too. But I'm not sure it's fair to say "shops like" B/M. Do you know for a fact that other similar major producers have made the same switch?"

Bill, did you read my post? I didn't say other facilities have switched. I said other facilities where I've worked and have TALKED to, have indicated that FCPX is not even on their radar.

In fact, most places haven't switched because most places aren't in the position that B/M was in. And I'm sorry, but citing Bunim-Murray is completely fair (if you were confused about my word choice, "like Bunim-Murray" was to mean "such as Bunim-Murray," not "similar to B/M")

I talked personally to Mark R. weeks before he announced where B/M was headed and I could tell which way he was leaning even then. I've had similar conversations with other post houses that I've worked in that are FCP shops and it goes the same. Most shrug their shoulders and say that they'll probably go to Avid. Not one has suggested that they'll even look at X as a possible replacement.

[Bill Davis] "Also, from what I read, B/M was pretty much a specific type of post house dealing primarily with modern reality television production and were expanding incredibly fast with the wave of reality (not sure what noun to use here since I like some of the reality genre and loath other aspects of it!) programming.

I haven't seen a whole lot of stories where there's a massive shift in any particular direction in the wider Post industry.
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I find this section extremely funny. You make it sound like B/M is working in some niche market. Do you realize that there is more reality tv being produced than scripted tv? A lot more.

And the "wider post industry?" Well, technically that would be corporate and industrial and individual client based work, not ABC's Castle.

But the black eye that FCPX took when it was released was not given to it by a few disgruntled wedding videographers and a guy that makes internal corporate videos. The bad press was generated by TV show and film editors and facility's managers and business owners AND all those other people in the wider post industry.

I'm hoping to try and change the minds of the people I work with about FCPX, but it's slow going. Most of the people who have bitched to me about FCPX haven't even tried it. That's pretty much the definition of a stigma. We just disagree on how fast it'll go away.

Andy

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