[Frameworks] query for those who teach filmmaking

[John Warren]

Thanks for the query, Irene. I am also interested to see what is happening at other institutions. I teach at two schools in Nashville that were both using FCP7 a couple of years ago, and they have adopted two different solutions. At the Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, they have largely migrated to Avid, but all of the school's computers also have FCPX, so that gets used by students and sometimes taught as well. 

I also teach at Vanderbilt University in the Art department (where i teach experimental video) and in the Cinema & Media Arts program (where i teach an intro-level 16mm course), and both departments have switched from FCP7 to Adobe Premiere. It's ideal for my art class, where we also do some compositing work in After Effects. The interface of Premiere should be familiar to anyone who has worked with FCP7. And i love that you do not need to transcode footage.

I only wish i could implement Pip's super 8 filmmaking model at either school.

peace, jw

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John Warren
213.458.1650
www.johnwarrenfilms.com

On Apr 18, 2014, at 7:01 AM, frameworks-request at jonasmekasfilms.com 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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