TCF, meet FCP.

Alright. So, now that I've gone through how FCP is used in the newsroom, I wanted to see how the editing software effect independent filmmakers as well as big time production teams. I found this article on flimmakermagazine.com about Jame Stuart, a random up and coming movie maker who walked his readers through how he used Final Cut for his latest short film. It's a pretty long piece with techy words that no one understands outside of his editing world, but he pretty much praises FCP for being so consumer friendly and cost efficient. He does bring up a really interesting information about the upgrades made to the program over the 6 year period.(Apple has upgraded FCP yet again, like they've done with everything else.) The program has become more convenient for advanced filmmakers, becoming less accessible to the average consumer who just want to put videos up on YouTube. But, Apple has offered Final Cut Express to people wanting to get their feet wet with editing without having to understand all the advanced stuff that comes with Final Cut Studio.


FCP has become the "it" software for big time filmmakers and small time filmmakers. I didn't know this until I looked it up on the Apple website, but the directors and producers of Everybody Hates Chris uses FCP to shoot all their episodes. Pretty neat. Check out the video here.