ADMIN: Notice of impending policy change regarding posting in this forum

[Jeremy Garchow]

I feel better already.

[Andy Mees]

groovy … its like being in our own little reality TV experiment … can we vote off basic answers too 😉

[Roli Rivelino]

Good idea, as a noob myself, I can never tell whether the questions I’m asking are really basic or not.

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[Ben Scott]

Ron your a star

best news in a while

was starting to wonder when the forum would be free from questions like what interlaced and progressive

[Jason Porthouse]

Great idea Ron, and I think that given time it will help ‘direct’ people to Basics too. I think around 7 ‘strikes’ would be good initially, if not reached then you can always reduce…

Jason

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[Walter Biscardi]

I do have a few more suggestions.

Check box to move a post to the AJA Kona forum.

Check box to move a post to the Blackmagic forum.

Or the addition of a Final Cut Pro Hardware forum with a Check box to move a post into that forum.

AJA vs. BlackMagic. Blackmagic vs. Matrox. Matrox. vs AJA. What Computer Should I buy? What hard drive should I buy? What Monitor should I buy? etc…..

You know that exact same question we answer maybe 20 times or more per month? We could move all of those into a hardware based forum. Just a thought.

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[Gary Adcock]

Cool Ron.

thank you for this.

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[Raymond Tuquero]

I haven’t read what others have said … but I think this is great idea. It will help with the clutter of the forum.

IS there a way you guys can make a link to BASIC FCP or BASIC Questions in the normal FCP as oppose to going back to the Forums Index and clicking FCP Basic?
So many new people are in such a panic of issues that when they come on the first thing they see is just the words Final Cut Pro … without even thinking to read and find the right forum to jump into.
Also make the link RED so that it stands out to everyone who comes in?

My status puts me down as a newb because my last email client lost my email info … long story … Made a new log-in … so I have actually been on the Cow for some years now … anyways.

I think this is a great idea again and hopefully it will help all of us from Newbs to Hobbyists to Avg Users to those of us who use it in professional environments.

-Raymond Tuquero-
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[Bret Williams]

How about taking it to a different level. Allow people (and the poster) to categorize via a pull down menu. And instead of having a bunch of different FCP forums about basics, hardware, etc we just have the same big ol FCP forum with filterable views.

For example, I would like to see advanced topics and matrox related hardware topics. But not basic topics, Aja topics, or blackmagic topics.

For that matter, it might be neat to create a custom user forum that combines the forums a user frequents. For example I wouldn’t mind seeing the web, dreamweaver, after effects, and matrox forums in a combined view.

Not sure how that gels with advertising, etc but it’d be a neat feature I’ve never seen before.

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Bret Williams] “How about taking it to a different level. Allow people (and the poster) to categorize via a pull down menu. And instead of having a bunch of different FCP forums about basics, hardware, etc we just have the same big ol FCP forum with filterable views.”

Now you are reading our minds, Bret. This is exactly what we have been working on and we plan to introduce the prototype of what the new interface can do, in Q1 2010. (It is one of the reasons why we have been so dead-set against breaking out the forums into the kind of “a forum for this, and a forum for that” idea, such as you see at Adobe.com, etc.) One of the reasons why the COW has been so successful is because it’s simple. But we plan to enhance/augment the simplicity with AI features and things that help expand the functionality and usefulness while being very simple to use — not to mention, helping newer users easily and quickly find answers to their “it’s already been asked 12 times today” questions.

I have been working with the team on this — which also incorporates many other über-cool things, as well — off and on for the last few months. With the recent threads, I have moved the project higher up the priority pile.

This recent announcement is just a stop-gap move to stop the bitching in the meantime. Our goals are much bigger and the interface design we are working on is far more than a mere bandage fix.

Best,

Ron Lindeboom