[Frameworks] query for those who teach filmmaking

[Aaron F. Ross]

My advice is to abandon FCP entirely. This is the rational response 
due to the fact that Apple has essentially abandoned the educational 
and professional markets. Nowadays for a decent OS X system you have 
to drop nearly $4000, not including software. Take a look at their 
alleged educational discounts, it's a joke. And the whole FCP X 
debacle caused many users to switch to Premiere.

Premiere used to suck, but that was ten years ago. Now it's totally 
viable, and I would recommend going that route. It's not perfect, but 
it's far better than FCP X. Plus, it's cross-platform, if you're into 
that sort of thing. Please don't flame me because I alluded to Windows. ;)

Aaron



At 4/17/2014, you wrote:
>Dear Frameworks,
>
>This isn't strictly an experimental film query, but I know many 
>people who teach read this listerve. My department has delayed for 
>years the decision about what to do about the transition away from 
>teaching Final Cut Pro 7, and result has been increasingly chaotic 
>and unsustainable (we've developed a messy do-whatever-you-want 
>solution where individual faculty members choose which editing 
>platform to teach, so some of our students only know FCPX, some are 
>still using FCP7, a handful are learning Premiere on their own, and 
>it's all a bit of a mess). I'd love to hear from as many instructors 
>as possible about what your program has done about teaching editing 
>post-FCP7, how you reached your decision, what your reasons were for 
>teaching or not teaching FCPX, and how things have been working out.
>
>Please reply off-list if it seems more appropriate: this may or not 
>be a public discussion topic of interest to others and is maybe a 
>bit off-Frameworks-topic but it would be very helpful for me to 
>compile some information about what others are doing.
>
>Thanks so much in advance for your help.
>
>Best,
>
>............................
>
>Irene Lusztig
>Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media
>University of California, Santa Cruz
>
>
>
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