At least scotish people understand me.
Ps: windows now aren't the garbage they used to be. True that
They aren't as cool and well designed but the power is there and
Windows 8 is much much better than 7, way faster. I love it.
If you don't cut in FCP, go for Windows.
Fred,
I love your English. It beats the hell out of my French and your post are the most thought provoking on this entire site.
Yea, Apple is gone from the creative content production business. The hipsters will still keep an Imac on their desk, but for serious work it's a pc box.
The last generation of silver desktops is selling for more than the mid spec black flower vase so that tells you something.
The deal with us is I cut in fcp 7, probably always will and have all our machines at their highest spec.
I think a lot of u tubers/vimeoers cut in fcp X, but I've never seen a serious production house use X (at least in El Lay) and this constant apple os upgrade per month is maddening.
I don't know the numbers, but I do know that every editorial house I know still runs Avid and FCP 7. I can find a FCP 7 editor in ten minutes and if they moved fcp 7 to something else, they can easily jump back.
I've tried every NLE, Avid, FCP EX, Lightworks, and have a full CC account (which I rarely use) and nothing works in my style as well as 7.
I don't understand the angst of everyone saying "fcp7 is dead oh my what do I do?"
Nobody has to jump every time some company comes out with something new. Only creative guys get freaked by this.
Hell I still use Contax that have been dead forever and works incredibly well, A leica S2 that is long gone in the cmos world of a billion iso, that makes us money, use the RED ones almost weekly and who ever throws away grip when somebody comes out with a new arm or knuckle?
I could care less if apple screws around with OS systems and calls the next one Turtleneck. We all know the goal in the electronic world is to move you to something new and we all know that any of these companies can make older software compatible, or change their whole business strategy in a heartbeat. Who the hell likes Adobes CC rental system?
S__t you can buy a new I phone and run it on snow leopard with ease because Apple NEEDS the I phone money, final cut pro, $8,000 mac towers Apple and me don't care and the silver macs can be brought up to run as fast as the flower vase, for a lot less than 8 grand.
Anyway, would I move to PeeCee? Yea maybe, but I have 7 workstations in three cities, one huge portable two computer workstation, 4 apple business computers, 7 laptops, 6 apple phones, 4 ipads, a crap load of software, plug ins, etc.
The Powerbooks I use are the latest version 17" made which run thunderbolt, two 1 tb SSD drives and just rock along. One drive is SL, the second is Yosemite and I keep producing work and have a great mac guy that can keep them running forever.
The new I macs are fast, but crappy screens, though you can run a i/o box to them with a broadcast monitor for grading and my three silver workstations are maxed out and run and run, no issues and are damn fast.
Actually since I transcode to proRes proxy, then later ProRes HQ for finish in 2k and uhd/4k, during the editorial process I have no rendering times, until I burn out a file for preview and that takes very little time in 2k, 4k longer.
I really don't understand why everyone loses their mind over not being able to cut in native files. ProRes is the basic standard, doesn't bog down the nle so whether you transcode in the bg or the front end, your still transcoding.
Going to finish with the graded clips is a little longer, but no client sets in the editing station waiting for final locked and conformed in their usual 10 deliverables.
I personally love FCP 7, except for a more modern browser and more utilization of ram and multi core, I wouldn't change a thing.
Anyway, this is the first section of a presentation for an At-Edge/CA Magazine production.
Shot on RED 1's, cut and conformed in fcp7, colored in Resolve 11. This is just the base edit, the final will have visuals/vo with a story in the front and back.
SAY YOU DON'T LOVE ME LITTLE MOVIEReliable and no extra learning curve is a great timesaver.
IMO
BC