Fabián Aguirre wrote:I, and many others, happen to think FCP is the future of editing
Sorry, just getting 'back into things' after about a decade off... but the "future is Apple" statement is kinda ironic for someone, like myself, that has used Apple since '93.
Not saying its not hot - it and Adobe are, funnily enough, on every youtubers tongues.
Consider this perspective though:
Remember when turnkey systems were the thing?
Top line Avid was easily $100k - not mention what a Smoke/Flame/Inferno station would be.
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Nor the amount of $$$ you could get being an editor/compositor with those real-time solutions)
And then - a miracle happened... in stepped Steve J. with Final Cut Pro!
* Final Cut Pro
* DVD Studio Pro (
Quickly eliminated its $$$ competition)
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Made motion menus before it was supported in this software - working with DLT was a pain though)
*** Most importantly - SHAKE (industry standard compositor for LotRs baby! Oh, yeah - for an affordable price when Apple bought it...)
... but they killed it. (
Sold, for a short period, a license for the code - my guess is this is how Nuke got started, as they popped up not long after - and for a more hefty sum than Shake)
Essentially, this was the end of something grand that Apple was doing.
(Motion was to kill After Effects eventually, Color, etc. Heck, many were speculating their own Photoshop)
But no - Apple ditched the Pro momentum... to the extent that at some point they made Final Cut more like iMovie (
and it was horrid) the last I heard people hated it, switched to Premiere (
which, by the way, only has life because of Apples brave move in the industry... before Adobe remade it, it was a joke - you literally cold not edit a project on it... just small, non-broadcast, clips)
Either a young generation has arisen, who is unaware of the true power Apple used to wield in this area, or they have straightened their stuff out. (If the latter, where is our Shake replacement, etc?)
Also - I can point to the times when you could actually modify your systems.
Take Pismo, the first Apple laptop able to edit DV footage via firewire!
You could pop out the DVD bay and pop in an extra storage drive.
This machine used a full size GPU!
Now, you cant even replace a battery? What happened to the trashcan pro (that weird little beast aimed a pros that you couldnt do anything with?) lol! Seems they changed their minds - but to what extent.
Either way... Apple the future - man, they had it nailed.
Dumped pro for consumer (trimming away fat, I guess) and then just became the king of mediocrity?
And Premiere with their monthly fees...
Autodesk with monthly fees for Smoke (was going to pick that up before they switched, as it had a decent price)
As of now, my reentrance into the world of video/cinema - Blackmagic looks pretty darn good.
I have enjoyed Resolve, and am not missing Final Cut nor Premiere nor Avid.
(Though some interesting glitches I intend to ask about here on the forums)
The cameras seem intriguing, want to get one when supply allows. (backordered everywhere for the 4k)
So... as of now, BM has a chance with Resolve, as 16 is getting some fair reviews on youtube.
As far as in the industry... it is what it is. (Do they still rely on Flame/Inferno? Is it fusion? I have no idea) But companies tend to stay with what they always had. (Ive only seen one big shift, and that was when Apple shook up the industry)
Little trip down memory lane! Have fun with whatever you edit on!