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0.5 stars
"The most awful collection of rubbish I've had to use"
Pros: It's Cheap compared with Professional systems
Cons: It simply doesn't work
Summary: I'm not often compelled to write a review, but I'm infuriated by the shockingly poor quality of the products under the umbrella of 'Final Cut Studio 2'.
I have been a professional online editor / colourist for over 10 years using Avid products - mostly Symphony and now Symphony Nitris.
Many of my clients are moving over to FCP as a result of low cost compared with Avid products which is why I'm being forced to learn FCP.
In my professional opinion, FCP and it's associated applications, DO NOT WORK. It's as simple as that. I've tried to reproduce my day to day work-flow with the products available. This will either take about four times longer than the Avid route or is impossible.
FCP, Motion and Livetype may be capable of high end, gimmicks which will never be used by a broadcast editor but is simply incapable of doing simple things quickly and elegantly.
If this is the future, I'm getting out.
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I have to agree with jamie here. Motion and Color are clunky and many functions either don't work or are missing. Fortunately, I'm a young dog, and can learn new tricks. Avid is a much better editing platform (though crazzy expensive) and Adobe CS3's integration is in a whole other league.
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i just had a discussion about how bad avid is compared to FCS2 with a fried also in the industry we both concured that Fcs2 and Avid don't even compare. you can't teach an old dognew tricks) (but you can give him a new bone)
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I don't know if you know who the Coen brothers are, they may have just won a best picture oscar for No country for Old Men. They happen to use FCS 2. I am please with the results, and apperently, so is the academy. Maybe it's you who doesn't know how to use the tools put in front of you. I am not doubting the excellence of Avid or even your skill, but really, to say FCS is garbage? Your a little off.
