One year after FCPX - packing for another Peakbreak
Alban EggerExactly a year ago I started using Apple´s FCPX and immediately jumped into it on a big production. It became a FCPX-MegaTest and I blogged about my experiences here: http://fcpxmegatest.blogspot.co.at/2011/07/using-peakbreak-as-our-first-fcp-x.html
It is time for another Peakbreak production this week. We are packing the gear and preparing for 9 days of shooting with 5 camcorders (one Canon C300, two Sony EX-1, one Canon 7D, one Panasonic HVX200) and several GoPros.
This time it will be much smoother experience. FCPX has grown with 5 updates, my Macbook Pro has an i7 CPU a much better GPU and 16GB of RAM and we, Alban Egger and Stefan Krösbacher, have used FCPX on dozens of high-quality productions now and know how to use it.
Since I just relaunched my site with a blog-feature, this year I can do it here. So we invite you to follow us and see how on-the-road-productions are done in FCPX 10.0.5 (at least how we do them ;-) )
Peakbreak is a bicycle-race for hobbyists in Austria and Switzerland, where the riders have to bike mountain-stages for 8 days. They have to compete on some very legendary climbs like Groglockner, Monte Zoncolan and the Kitzbüheler Horn. Here is the race-site.
We bring these camcorders + audiogear a Cinevate Atlas slider, 2 Macbook Pros, 1 WD MyBook (2TB), 1 Samsung USB-backup drive (2TB), an iPad and some rain-covers for all that.
Reader Comments (2)
Good luck! It was your shared experience the last year that made me confident to try FCPX on a personal project myself - it worked just fine. Since then i've successfully used FCPX on different journalistic projects, updated my FCP7 projects to FCPX (thanks to 7toX), sold the old Final Cut Suite and not regret it a single time!
Cheers
Hey Michi, great to hear we could help. Maybe I should ask Apple for a provision then ;-)