She threw a chair at me and stormed out (after saying some awful things to/about me). It was really messing up my workflow for the shop, so after she did this on five projects, I uninstalled 7 on all but one machine and changed the password on it. Ultimately, I think she was afraid of how different it was. My junior editor kept starting new projects in 7 and making excuses for why she wasn't switching to X. We still had some projects ongoing in FCP7 and all new projects were supposed to be started in X. When I first switched the shop over, we were straddling the fence. It was a check in your column if you knew FCPX, but I just wanted good editors. I based hiring on editing ability and not software knowledge. My experience with editors who I forced to switch when I ran the FCPX based shop was a mixed bag. ![]() They were not establishing longstanding edit environments that would force professional editors to change horses. They were artists or passionate amateurs who had raised some money for pet projects. In my years of freelancing, I came across maybe three advertisements for FCPX gigs, and they all seemed to be posted by non industry people. What is "pro"? What about this or that example? The world isn't just NYC and LA! I can't argue with any of that. But after the last five years of kicking around the NYC post production scene, I can say with great confidence that FCPX will never make a significant dent in the pro market. It was an uphill battle, but I created a professional environment over the years, one that forced FCPX down the throats of more than two dozen junior editors, freelancers, and interns. Anyway, this is the long way to say that I am a diehard FCPX user from day one. But we were limited to (I think) a version of CS 3.5 that had come installed on one of the computers that he had bought used. I had been begging him to buy a newer version of Production Suite, so I could up our titles and graphics. Switching to Adobe was out of the question. The owner of the website was ready to continue with our existing setup forever, but I sold him on the faster turnovers and render times. A big part of the choice was that I knew I could get money for it, since we were allowed at least five installs on a single license for $299. I think we switched when 10.0.3 was released (or whenever Multicam support was added). Who remembers those days? Shortly after FCPX launched, I switched the edit suite over. They couldn't all be online at the same time while running FCP Studio. We had one academic copy of the software installed on three computers. When I started there in 2010, it was a FCP 6/7 shop. Before that I ran a production department at a website. I have been working as a freelancer in NYC for the past five years. So if you are interested in the content of the article, you may find my comment interesting as well. ![]() It addresses a lot of the same themes, but in a different way, and from a slightly different perspective. Before you decide to TL DR this comment: I originally started writing it as a spec article for this site in 2019.
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