A Basic/Unorthodox FCP (R.I.P) Workflow


  



It’s no secret,  I am disappointed in the “end of life” of Final Cut Pro as a professional editing program. Despite the cool new features of Final Cut Pro X, it cannot (yet?) be a welcome upgrade to FCP 7 in the professional filmmaking/television community. 

So what’s next? 

There’s always AVID which is an amazing databased oriented program that is more rock solid especially in media management - Yet, I aways found that historically its rock solid strength was based on “limitations” with kinds of media usage, and over time that became frustrating for me. (Big improvements with AVID as of recent in this category though)

Recently, I played around with Adobe Premiere a bit. It is a lot like Final Cut Pro so much so that when you do something in it “like” you would in Final Cut Pro… it at first feels broken. 

One thing I found instantly disappointing for me is the lack of search/find in the timeline. I can’t explain how useful this is when you get to the end of a project for finding all the stock footage used in the timeline for example.  (Sequence Clip Reporter from Intelligent Assistance is amazing with this. It is such a great workflow program)

I get asked what workflows I did in FCP that I now challenge/struggle with in other NLE’s with so I made this basic little video highlighting a simple trick I’d do often… and many timesaving workflows are based on this simple process.

Admittedly,  it is unorthodox to actual editing in process and terminology…  but…



(Yes, I see the potential of FCPX - but I also see it’s being piloted by Apple - which I now find myself unsure of in betting on its professional usage future)

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