Posted by Steve King on 01/11/22 11:48

"nappy" <gospam@yourself.com> wrote in message
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> "doc" <doc@anywhere.com> wrote in message
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>> interesting synopsis as this was exactly what we found. the little guy
>> were using FCP because that is what they learned on . . and they were
>> all working for peanuts, however the 11 bigger houses we visited used
>> avid, let alone the NAB nyc meeting i spoke of in an earlier thread that
>> was avid.
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>> i also watch the credits a lot and see avid continually although i have
>> yet to see a FC anthing or even apple in the editing credits. but i do
>> keep looking.
>>
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> Typically the system used to edit doesn't matter much to credits unless it
> was part of the post deal with free gear or something. Tons of movies are
> cut with FCp. Lots of people have problems with it. I would argue that
> most FCP users are first time editors who have never cut with any other
> system. Or they used to cut linear and now FCP is their first NLE. Hence
> their tendency to think it is the cats meow.
>
> There used to be a guy here who, I won't name for fear he'll get on his
> soapbox again, who proclaimed that the shit NBC series "Scrubs" was cut on
> FCP and that was a big deal. I think he assumed that everyone has respect
> for episodic TV from the big three. Episodic TV shows are cut on
> everything and at the same time are some of the very worst shit there is.
> I don't care what it is cut on if it is pure shit.

Three editors that I work with regularly now edit on FCP after moving from
linear to Avid (various iterations) to FCP. They made the move after their
clients moved from BetaSP to DVCAM digital formats. They seem quite happy.
Maybe wouldn't fit the rarified stratosphere you seem to occupy, but for the
rest of us unwashed....

Steve King

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