A step backwards

[Ty Vann]

I signed up for Obamacare and saved a couple of hundred a year. That’s money earned, which I will put toward a shiny new Apple Tube :). But that’s beside the point.

The point is the new Library may be subjective, but I’m loving it subjectively. It’s exactly what I have been waiting for. I can sort of see where Apple is going with this as a foundation to build on, and I’m liking it a lot. Also the other little improvements to increase speed and stability I highly welcome.

[Jim Giberti]

I couldn’t be happier with Libraries.
Even as a small facility, it was my single biggest issue with X – I really didn’t need the headaches associated with a poorly thought out media implementation.

Going into the next round of projects, using a few different systems, I can’t tell you how relieved I was to see that addressed in a grownup way.

It gives me hope that things like color and audio implementation are recognized as similarly immature and that they need to put on big boy pants too.

[Brett Sherman]

[Mitch Ives] “If the price of making this a better collaborative tool for them is me wasting a day updating projects and manually relinking files… I can live with that.”

Lucky you. I’ve got a week at least. They could have made the transition easier. Rather than converting managed files to managed files they could have simply turned the managed media into external media leaving it in place and created new libraries and events linked to the original location.

Now it seems that Apple is now listening to the large facilities…at the expense of us small fries.

Although I echo your sentiments, if this creates a larger market share I’m all behind it. I just think the transition was simply not well thought out.

[Mitch Ives]

[Brett Sherman] “Lucky you. I’ve got a week at least. They could have made the transition easier. Rather than converting managed files to managed files they could have simply turned the managed media into external media leaving it in place and created new libraries and events linked to the original location. “

Actually, I was trying to be positive. It’s taking a lot longer than that…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill