Nick Harauz is a certified Adobe, Apple, and Avid trainer. Nick has an uncanny ability to engage his students and create a level of relatedness that keeps them coming back for more. Since 2002, Nick has also worked with domestic and international brands, offering a wide variety of video production and motion graphic services. He has worked with clients such as Proctor & Gamble, Diageo, Virgin Mobile, Nando's, and Blackberry. In 2013, Nick wrote his first book on Apple Motion 5, which is available on Amazon.
He spoke for Adobe at the launch of CC 2014 in Toronto and at After Effects World Conference in Seattle, WA. Currently, Nick is working on his first feature film, Lost and Found.
Apple Pro Video Series: Final Cut Pro X starts from the beginning and assumes no prior knowledge of Final Cut Pro or Mac-based video editing. The video tutorials walk you through the complete post production workflow, from initial media import to final output.
When he is not teaching, travelling, or creating video content, Nick can be found playing tennis.
I see FCPX a lot more than I did a couple years ago. I don't live in an area with large production companies though, so I'm mostly talking independent filmmakers and small production companies. I'd guess an almost equal split between Premiere CC and FCPX right now which was not the case 5 years ago. I've also seen a notable increase in Resolve use as an editor. It's actually been interesting at our last couple filmmaker meet ups to talk to everyone about which NLE they use and why. Lots of variety in reasons out there and no real 'dominant' NLE anymore.
Gabe Strong G-Force Productions. I think it has been a snowball effect. The larger corporations I have been involved with and who adopted FCP X in a quite early stage, are still using it and even have expanded their operations. This has caused smaller external production companies who work with these corporations, to also start using FCP X. I know of some really important feature films that are currently being cut with X, quite a large amount of long-form documentaries, and some very popular Netflix Original series. I especially see a fast-growing adoption in broadcast operations, mostly in Eastern Europe. Also, I recently had an interview with a popular fiction editor in Tel Aviv who told me that there is a really fast-growing FCP X community in Israel, which I did not know.
And when talking with media enterprises about high-level shared storage (as you know, I work with LumaForge), I am often totally surprised when they say that they use FCP X as their main NLE. Many of the editors there are not active on social media or online forums, so we don't really know what they use until we get directly in touch with them. As a side note: I also see growing adoption of Resolve as an NLE (although still quite slowly), mostly at the detriment of other track-based editing solutions. As you may recall, some years ago I said that Avid and FCP X could make a perfect combo. I think I will need to revise this opinion.
I can see FCP X and Resolve evolving into a great combination for the future, while I clearly see that Avid is slowly but surely losing its grip on the high-end media market. Maybe not in Hollywood yet, but that is hardly a reference anymore.
Over the years FCP has altered in leaps and bounds. This software seems to focus on more complex set up for the professional market. Like a car, one could work under the bonnet but now. Abit like FCP you get the swing of editing and then boom we are hit with new items. I'm in the older brigade of people and love FCP but it frightens me of the constant alteration. I ask myself for WHO???????Pros or amateurs or just fun people. Then again we always got iMovie.
One hate I have of APPLE they done away with IDVD which worked a treat with FCP as a end package. Please bring this software back. Dempsey 'virtually everyone of them using Premiere and AE, the whole CC in fact' I'm finding that around me, too. Where I've seen X used, it's been by a couple of groups. One is agency creatives who dabble a bit in editing just to rough something in for the editor to start with.
The other is editors who use it for quick turnaround on-site edits. I've also run into staff editors working at a govt agency (Soc Sec Admin?) and they were using it in-house. Otherwise, I, too, work with a group of probably a dozen other freelancers and they all generally fit your description above.
Oliver Oliver Peters - oliverpeters.com. I have a 26-year old son in the biz. Not an pro editor per se, but he grew up cutting his own films in FCP7, and when he got a few jobs out of college, was forced into PPro CC (which he set up with the old FCP7 shortcut commands ☺ He works with some young commercial shooters, a lot of indie filmmakers, and it's all PP.
I can't recall a name, but there was some post-house guru in NYC who trashed X a few years back, and the indie crowd listened. And then, when the Coen Brothers who previously did their own editing on FCP7 (as the pseudonymous 'Roderick Jaynes'), switched to PPro when FCP7 was EOL'd. From that moment on, PPro was cool, X was uncool. Of interest, though. Virtually EVERY one of these young filmmakers and editors is working on a MacBook Pro. The only Windows machines I see are in the hands of people working in gaming (Unity or Unreal), effects (After Effects and others) or coding work.
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I see the current version as paving the way to a huge and potentially useful update when it comes out later this year. There is some speculation it could be during the NAB show. The extensions are a nice addition and possibly more extensions are on the way depending on the path Apple takes. It might be possible we could export individual clips from the timeline without the need for third party apps though that opens up opportunities and options for the end user. I predict Frame.io will have a larger presence in the ecosystem with a richer feature set. Apple does need to improve keyframing and add mask tracking to the toolbox.
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Outside of that it will be interesting to see what awaits us with the next update.