-- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "avidzombie" <avidzombie@...> wrote:
> There is no FCP anymore. Not in the picture for serious editors. It's left reserved for the cool ski-hat-wearing crowd that doesn't know drop-frame from non drop-frame.
I know this is the Avid list, and not the FCP one, but I think it's worth pointing out that FCP 7 is aging differently than Media Composer systems did. Maybe I'm taking the bait here but I have a slow day in the office.
Many companies simply decide to stop upgrading Media Composers at various points, and then those machines get harder and harder to integrate with anything because you can't run OS updates. Once you froze the Avid version, the OS was frozen too. It's still not uncommon to run into shops that are 1,2,3 whole version releases behind Avid.
But the FCP 7 software works gangbusters on any new Mac you buy today. I'm cutting a PBS doc now on it, and I sure have cut a lot of stuff that ended up on TV in the last year or so on FCP 7. My next gig, the shop is still all FCP 7. You transcode whatever to ProRes and you're off to the races.
I also cut a few shows last year on Avid, with varying degrees of growing pains as shops acclimatized to a mixture of AMA and non-AMA material.
I'm not trying to argue that FCP 7 is an acceptable choice if you're shooting RED or Alexa, but to say it just doesn't exist is to ignore a whole lot of actual work being done every day.
-Robert
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