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Moon Potato posted:Even if you're happy with FCP7 for the time being, now's a great time to broaden your software toolbox if you're not strapped for cash. If you're a freelancer or if you frequently collaborate with other editors, it's probably a worthwhile investment. Seconding this. Most of the editors in the area I know of are sticking with FCP7 for the foreseeable future. None are considering FCP X, it would just not fit in with their workflows, but those that can are picking up Premiere CS5.5 and testing it out on some smaller projects. Who knows what Apple will do, so it can't hurt, especially since most of you probably use After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator in some capacity already.
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Slim Pickens posted:My editing teacher shared a pretty interesting story. He decided to attend a FCP Users Group meeting in the Seattle area. He'd never attended one before, but this month they had their meeting at Adobe to go over Premiere's workflow. I think Apple's kinda hosed in the editing software department. A lot of the FCPUG community has long since been going over software/hardware other than FCP. Apple stopped supporting the FCPUG community years ago. I was one of the founding members of the Connecticut FCPUG, probably 7-8 years ago. At the beginning it was great, we had our little portal on the Apple site, got people from Apple to come out and speak, even free junk from them to raffle at meetings. That slowly started to go away and eventually disappeared to the point where Apple came outright and said they no longer had a need for the UG community. This was long before FCP X keep in mind, so it has been a sore spot with a lot of UG leaders for a long time. It has been polarized though, and of course you've got your Apple fanboys who stand behind Apple no matter what, in the UG community. At this past NAB, Apple used the FCPUG "Supermeet" to announce FCP X. That too was a sore spot for UG leaders and also alienated a lot of third party vendors who had been supporting the community for a long time. Everyone was basically thrown under the bus when Apple decided at the last minute to take over the entire Supermeet event, and the event's coordinators essentially sold out to them. Long story short, Apple hasn't had the best track record within the FCPUG community, so seeing an Adobe demo at a meeting isn't a new concept. Adobe has actually been a great source of support for UGs in the past few years, and it appears to have paid off for them...
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