![]() When I was in undergrad it was all FCP but now Adobe stepped into the vacuum and offered sweet deals for free access for students (and its cross platform). Sadly, they won't ever see how good it is because they won't even give it a chance now. Overall performance is now blazing, especially with any apple silicon mac, and the only other NLE comparable in speed is DaVinci Resolve.Įvery teacher I have worked with around this topic felt so burned by the 7 to x fiasco they have nothing but vitriol for FCP. The Motion integration is instead done through Motion templates, but it's not exactly the same (however, it's pretty powerful in its own right). The only significant things that were never added to FCPX is sending clips to Motion and maybe AAF/OMF export, both of which are handled by plugins. Version 7 started to become pretty unstable after it wasn't updated for several years, and it never was as rock-solid as FCPX which is probably the most stable NLE on the market. FCP7 was good for its time, but really had massive memory limitations and was already EOL at the beginning of the HD transition. Find the one that works best for you and use it, but I doubt a editing application that hasn't been updated in over 11 years like FCP7 is something that you should spend time on.įCPX (it's no longer FCPX, just FCP, but I'll use the X to make it clearer) has been miles ahead of FCP7 for more than 6 years, and this is coming from someone who used FCP7 for years professionally beforehand, from version 5 onward. I work as a Senior Video Producer and I use FCPX for all my professional and personal projects I work on because it's the one I've found to work best for the videos I create. Use the editing application that you find works best for you. Your ComTech teacher is working off old information from when FCPX first came out 11 years ago and hasn't bothered to try FCPX or read any updates. I can't remember the last time Final Cut crashed on me, but whenever I open Premiere I expect it to crash at some point. Add that the new M1 chips and FCPX have made editing 4k 60fps raw video smooth and reliable. I love things like the new motion tracking feature, color correction, and keyframe editing solutions that they've come up with. Now looking back at 7 there are a lot of things that seem archaic. I slowly fell in love with my new workflow with FCPX and found that I was editing videos much faster than before. Now FCPX has way more tools for modern editing than FCP7 that are built right in. A lot of those people jumped ship to Premiere because it was more like FCP7. ![]() So overall a real downgrade for professional editors at the time. ![]() FCPX was also filled with bugs and you couldn't edit your old FCP7 files on it. I didn't want this dumbed-down version of editing software. I had to learn a completely different application that had hints of an iMovie style of editing that I really hated. It was missing a lot of stuff that FXP7 had and forced a massive change in my editing workflow. I originally started editing with FCP7 in college and was also pretty upset at the change FCPX brought at the time. ![]()
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