apple reinvents the pen and cave painting!

[Timothy Auld]

Ball point pens work in essentially the same manner that feather quill pens did. Or charcoal on
a cave wall, for that matter.

bigpine

[Kim Krause]

exactly my point….they all do basically the same thing, so make your choice based on what your comfortable with…if you wanna use a quill and ink, go for it, but dont expect to get that book out anytime soon….

[Timothy Auld]

And my point is, in all the various incarnations of writing instruments over the course of history, how one
operates those instruments has not changed. The tip was not moved to the side, nor has there been a limitation of the types of media on which you can write.

bigpine

[Kim Krause]

but over time all the old tools were replaced by more efficient, cheaper and simpler tools…look at the ball point pen…the ink is already inside so you dont have to dip into the well all the time. and now you dont even need a pen or paper because you can just write on a computer or iphone or ipad screen, then send it to everyone in seconds…no waiting for ink to dry or typesetters to layout your book or postal system to ship it…it’s called evolution and it changes the way we work……i for one cant wait to see fcp x on an ipad in all its glory…then we will really have something that will change lives! i can still remember the first time i sowed an avid edtotr with his huge system and interfaces and beta machines how a simple fire wire enabled laptop and a dv tape could change his life…he scoffed, telling me it would never catch on because it wasnt professional and only cost a fraction of a “real” edit system so it must not be anygood…i watched over the next few years as his clients all left him for the new guy with the super quick and cheap fcp suite. i remember he even told me that mini dv would never replace beta sp and 3/4 inch umatic tapes…that was the “professionals choice” of course a few years passed and he sold all his old expensive analog gear and old beat up tape machines and binned his aging mac for a shiny new system and fcp version 3. he was able to open 3 edit suites with the same amount of money he had spent on just room 2 years earlier…as a result he now could turn out 3 times as much work and could wean himself off the post houses and finish his projects on line himself. i did the same thing when i saw that it was now possible to grade in a somewhat professional manner from home…..i havent looked at a roll of film since and that was 5 years ago..

[Timothy Auld]

I have an ipad and it’s fun and handy for some things, but does not increase my productivity one bit.
And there is most certainly no way I could edit and deliver the kinds of projects on which I work with
an ipad. I am all for things being easier and faster, but in my world I cannot deliver what I need to
with FCP X. And so I will take your original advice and not use it. Who knows? In a few years it might
be all the rage. I am not against learning new things. In fact one of the things that appeals to me
about editing is you are constantly being forced to solve new problems in different ways. After years
of working on Avid, I bought and learned FCP because I saw a lot of work going there. I don’t see that
happening with FCP X anytime soon.

bigpine

[Aindreas Gallagher]

[kim krause] “photoshop never killed the photographic industry.”

you will also note that it never turned into a dayglo brain damaged version of itself overnight either, where layers became story picture holes, and when you moved a layer all the other layers moved around like morons, or when you put one layer on top of another layer photoshop X auto linked them, unless you turned the layer above into a looking glass side window pane, then it animated growing a new window out the side of the layers tab, but it wasn’t layers anymore remember, they are a story picture holes and there’s really only one story picture hole, so there’s no longer any numbering system for the layers, and sadly you cant send files to any print house now, or indeed to any of the people you used to send your material to in the printing ecosystem, but adobe are pretty sure that someone is going to figure out how photoshop X should do that, but it isn’t going to be adobe because they’re no longer bothered with any of that as of midnight the night before when they decided they couldn’t be bothered at all with any of that boring stuff – that would also explain why they killed indesign, illustrator and dreamweaver because they weren’t important going forward – maybe important for you – but not important for adobe, because what adobe really secretly loves to do is kill software the way people drown cats in rivers in bags with stones.

the comparison to photoshop is not apt.

http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[John Pale]

Just when I was starting to tire of all the ranting here, you wrote an absolute classic Aindreas.

I don’t always agree with you, but damn that was f$&”ing brilliant.

[Tim Kolb]

This is not the first comparison I’ve seen justifying the FCPX re-posture using Photoshop as an example…

Both were completely non-applicable.

What’s with that?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Sean Thomas]

Nice post Kim – another way of saying what I was thinking in the “Drama” posts.

[Kim Krause]

you missed my point…i was in no way comparing photoshop to fcp or any other program. i was simply stating that in the good old days before there was photoshop, people created images in a different manner and with different skills and techniques…(real photo techniques done in the darkroom like dodging and burning and cross processing and real airbrushing and all kinds of other imaging methods) photoshop brought these creative tools to the masses in much the same way fcpx is doing for video…..love it or hate it, it is the way forward and anyone who doesn’t want to change will soon be left out…..just check out the new version of avid composer..the thing looks exactly like fcpx…right down to the newly designed controls and dark grey backgrounds….i totally agree that fcpx is not the best choice right now for the pros and maybe thats a good thing…we can still keep using our old outdated software…but to listen to the pros carry on about having to do things different is like listening to some grumpy old man who is so set in his ways that he refuses to change…..i never thought that i would see the decline in film productions during my 35+ years as a telecine op/colorist, but i’m sure grateful that i made the switch when i did…..if i hadn’t i’d be sitting outside starbucks with my empty cup begging for quarters, but instead i embraced the new way of doing things and have managed to carve out a brand new and exciting career for myself…and thats the real power! you should always be open to change! now everyone stop bitching and get some work done or retire and leave it to the next wave of brilliant minds to take over!