Your Opinion: after FCP, what app?

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filman said:
...it seems that After Effects is the one that got the most votes.

Those are more than "votes"...those are experienced users offering up educated opinions.

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filman said:
If you're an indie filmmaker, you're better off sticking with FCP -- otherwise you'll go broke buying both systems. LOL

If you're looking for work or are in a company that uses both, then by all means you should learn both AVID and FCP.

If you use both...get both. You don't "go broke buying both systems". You can get a software-only Media Composer now for around $5,000 & throw it on the same Mac as FCP. A little homework / research goes a looooong way. You should learn Avid yourself, filmman before recommending it. Check out this excellent resource (lots of helpful folks over there too! You just may like it better!):

[www.avid.com]

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filman said:
Learning it is no problem, I can come here and ask someone. LOL

...and the LAFCPUG University will be creating a "Special Pricing Guide" for online courses especially for filmman's continuing education Hey...some of us are still paying off student loans from Film School!

BTW...that's 3 "LOL's" in one post, filmman. Did we miss happy hour or something?

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

grafixjoe Wrote:
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> If you use both...get both. You don't "go broke
> buying both systems". You can get a software-only
> Media Composer now for around $5,000 & throw it on
> the same Mac as FCP. A little homework / research
> goes a looooong way. You should learn Avid
> yourself, filmman before recommending it.

that never stopped the rest of us. LOL (sic)

but Avid used to have a free version that had something like only a couple of tracks - is that still available? might be good for self-training.


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> ...and the LAFCPUG University will be creating a
> "Special Pricing Guide" for online courses
> especially for filmman's continuing education

But it has to be less than 2 paragraphs in length and posted here. LOL (ibid.)

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> BTW...that's 3 "LOL's" in one post, filmman. Did
> we miss happy hour or something?

He's not passing the bong. LOL (et. al.)

HarryD

Graphix Joe.

Good to hear. You got a link for it?
I am with JWT Sydney, its all Kelloggs and Vodafone here...


Cheers.

Johan Polhem
Motion Graphics
www.johanpolhem.com

Hey Johan,

No, not posted (NDA's involved - you know corporate). They are still battling over the VO...they don't know if they want a man's voice or a woman's voice. There's nothing like a bunch of non-creatives sitting around a conference call trying to be creative. They're more interested in where lunch is coming from than getting me what I need to complete the spot

Peace!

- Joey

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

Grafoxjoe

Ha.
Thats funny.
Same thing here. Lots of suits trying to tell creatives what to do.

I guess the key is to make the suits think they get their way by suggesting the opposite to what you want.

Johan Polhem
Motion Graphics
www.johanpolhem.com

I tried that with the suits. when I told them i didn't want any money, they happily complied.

HarryD

Rule #1 in Advertising: NEVER tell a suit you don't want any money

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

Hiya,

It was a joke, actually when I do work for corporate clientele I usually raise my rate, because i know that at some point there will be "editing by committee," where everyone has to put their thumbprint on the project. I'm involved in that now. I'm paid decently for this project, however, so let them have their fun.

HarryD