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Apple quote
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Oh come on boys ….obviously you guys aren’t the “Change the World” types….. Apple is showing us the way, just follow and be happy we have them to determine what the future of editing will look like. All you guys who want an editing program you can use to make a living …… a program filled with your “practical ideas” are just getting in the way of real progress. If they had listened to you, they would have come out with a program filled with all your “I need this today” ideas…. a program you could adapt into your current workflow effortlessly …. a program that integrated the best new technology with the workflow we use today…. a program you could make money with…. what fun would would that have been? With FCP-X you get to see the future today! How cool is that!
Bill Paris
Producer/Director of Photography
Crew Hawaii Television
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What are you talking about?
bigpine
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Ah, Brother Bill; you have shown me the light!
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I was kidding ….. just trying to have a little fun with this.
Bill Paris
Producer/Director of Photography
Crew Hawaii Television
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No, I totally got it. I thought it was quite funny.
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Thanks Chris…. for a minute I thought it was completely misunderstood!
Bill Paris
Producer/Director of Photography
Crew Hawaii Television
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“if FCP X represents what “will be” in the future – well, that’s great, but I can’t make money with it right now.”
That covers about 70% of the content of this forum, with 20% saying just keep working with FCP7 till X is ready, and 10% Aindreas Gallagher speaking in tongues.
Herb Sevush
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In the original copy of this promotion Apple included the line, “We make tools for these people.”
It seems they have lost the difference.One of the great mistakes made throughout history is throwing out what was organic, ergonomic, historic about the old workflow to make room for new innovation. BOTH/AND not EITHER/OR. True genius is not disrespectful of its history. Einstein revolutionized physics but Newtonian physics is still around and Einstein obviously studied it before disproving parts of it and going beyond.
Sooner or later the old way comes back in fashion in some form. I don’t mean an evolutionary advancement of the same idea. Cheaper faster storage drives faster computers all good. Software not being able to read the previous generation’s projects. Irresponsible, arrogant, ruling class, anti-innovation. There are times that a hand drill works better than an electric one. A Teflon pan for omelets is a good innovation. For almost everything else, it’s a step backward. But they are good for business. Sooner than later the coating wears off and customers buy a whole new set. In the process, their cooking skills diminish.I see nothing revolutionary about FC X. There are some nice new features and obviously the code is written for modern computer systems. That’s evolution. But throwing out a developed language set and workflow for another is counterproductive. If the language evolved with the times that’s evolution. Throwing out a language set arbitrarily is arrogance. Cloud distribution is revolutionary for the arts and all forms of communication. But as a storage archiving production system it has serious flaws at the moment. Security being one. Archiving being another. A developed business model being a third. There has never been a great way to archive artistic works. They fade. They get stolen. They get mistranslated. They get lost. They get destroyed. I think computers hold at least the promise to create a preservation system. But to do so requires each generation of software/hardware to import the old projects. Otherwise you have huge missing links.
I think its good to help new editors by creating software that is easier to learn. In FCP 1-7 a common early frustration for new editors and videographers editing their own work was the need for handles. You don’t want to throw out the concept of handles. Camera operators should use pre rolls and post rolls. Talent should allow for these extra few moments before and after. But it would have been not so difficult for the pop up when a new editor tried to apply a transition to explain the problem rather than just saying: “not enough media.” It could easily give the option to adjust the edit points x number of frames to accomplish this. If the results suck. Undo. You’ve now learned why we use handles and why in and out points in a nondestructive workflow is cooler than cutting up the footage into smaller clips. I think the non-collision of the magnetic timeline can be pretty cool. It could be added to FCP 7 as a toggled button like linking or snapping is now. Personally I see snapping as magnetic behavior and the magnetic timeline as a sort of auto tracking. Like a train switching to a parallel track to avoid collisions.
OSX 10.5.8; MacBookPro4,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz MacPro4,1 2.66GHz 8 core 12gigs of ram. GPU: Nvidia Geoforce GT120 with Vram 512. OS X 10.6.x; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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