12    Sharing and Managing Media

Recently, I mentioned to a colleague that I was working on a book about Final Cut Pro workflows.

“What's the big deal?” he said. “All I hear about is workflow this and workflow that, but you shoot, then edit, then output. So what's the big deal?”

For a moment, I bristled, but then I realized that he had a point. For many people, postproduction workflows do not need to be all that complicated, and we don't mean to make them complicated. When I recovered my composure, I gave him what I thought was a reasonable and not-too-defensive answer.

I told him that he was right, for a lot of people, especially students of the craft and those working exclusively in the DV environment. I went on to say that if it all ended ...

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