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Thankful
07 Apr 2022 00:12 #119829
by fsorvin
Now that my work has finally calmed down after the last two years of chaos and overload, I just wanted to open up a topic and say how thankful I am for this site and the forum.
And, for Final Cut Pro X, it really punches way above it's weight and I still am a bit surprised that I'm still having to advocate for it's usefulness to the uninitiated.
I was a big FCP classic fan, and back during the switch, I was considering going with Premiere or Avid, but it was this site and in particular this article that convinced me to give it a go:
Evan Schectmann talks sense about FCPX's history, features and future
I am so glad I made the commitment to FCPX. It, and Compressor, saved me and my group's bacon during the big going-remote crunch in the last couple of years. I was in a Media department at a larger Canadian university, and we were tasked with recording and delivering an insane amount of lectures online, and because of supply-chain issues, we had to do it with only the equipment we had on hand.
We had just enough AVCHD cameras plus a few more that we managed to finangle to cover all the classes in the schedule, a lot of SD cards (but only a week's worth if we didn't offload media quick enough), and access to an empty lab full of iMacs.
With all that, plus installing FCPX and Compressor on all those iMacs to work in parallel, I was able to cobble together a working edit room, where we jumped from Mac to Mac offloading AVCHD, doing a quick edit and sound adjustment, then fired the files off to a custom Compressor setting. If I remember accurately, we were turning around about 130 to 150 hours of video in a week, delivered to our video platform and off to the remote learners all over the globe.
FCPX never failed, never crashed, and only had a few issues with faulty cards that were corrected. The videos weren't the prettiest work I've ever done, but they accomplished the task of delivering lectures and we made it through the crunch.
Love to hear anyone else's stories, if you feel like sharing.
And, for Final Cut Pro X, it really punches way above it's weight and I still am a bit surprised that I'm still having to advocate for it's usefulness to the uninitiated.
I was a big FCP classic fan, and back during the switch, I was considering going with Premiere or Avid, but it was this site and in particular this article that convinced me to give it a go:
Evan Schectmann talks sense about FCPX's history, features and future
I am so glad I made the commitment to FCPX. It, and Compressor, saved me and my group's bacon during the big going-remote crunch in the last couple of years. I was in a Media department at a larger Canadian university, and we were tasked with recording and delivering an insane amount of lectures online, and because of supply-chain issues, we had to do it with only the equipment we had on hand.
We had just enough AVCHD cameras plus a few more that we managed to finangle to cover all the classes in the schedule, a lot of SD cards (but only a week's worth if we didn't offload media quick enough), and access to an empty lab full of iMacs.
With all that, plus installing FCPX and Compressor on all those iMacs to work in parallel, I was able to cobble together a working edit room, where we jumped from Mac to Mac offloading AVCHD, doing a quick edit and sound adjustment, then fired the files off to a custom Compressor setting. If I remember accurately, we were turning around about 130 to 150 hours of video in a week, delivered to our video platform and off to the remote learners all over the globe.
FCPX never failed, never crashed, and only had a few issues with faulty cards that were corrected. The videos weren't the prettiest work I've ever done, but they accomplished the task of delivering lectures and we made it through the crunch.
Love to hear anyone else's stories, if you feel like sharing.
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