Audio editing in FCPX

[Timothy Auld]

I appreciate the apology but it does not even begin to address the points i’ve been trying to make.

Tim

[Charlie Austin]

[TImothy Auld] “I appreciate the apology but it does not even begin to address the points i’ve been trying to make.
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It was sincere. I’m sure it’s probably been hashed over before, but what exactly doesn’t work for you in FCP X?

On a side note… I am about to force quit FCP 7 due to a never ending beach ball of doom. I wonder when I last saved? Say what you will about X, but I’ve only once lost more than the last edit I made, and usually not even that, on the (rare) occasions it’s crashed…

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[Herb Sevush]

[Charlie Austin] “Start at 10.0.4 or 5, that should be about 2 years.”

When I look at the history of FCPX upgrades I notice two things –

That Apple met the deadlines they gave themselves in the “white paper” they put out that first summer, listing all the features they promised they were putting back after the cries of anguish which greeted the original roll-out.

And that there hasn’t been many big changes that weren’t on that white paper. PIOPs and the change to the Library structure are the only ones I am aware of. I understand that changing the data base structure to accomplish the later is a major task, still, to an outsider it seems the pace of upgrades have slowed considerably.

Take the idea of expanding the potential of roles – this has been asked for and discussed for well over 2 years, but as far as I can tell Apple hasn’t changed a thing there. Or bringing back “send to motion,” another often requested feature by X users that still hasn’t made an appearance yet.

Does this concern you at all?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Timothy Auld]

I know you were sincere and I appreciate it. The whys and what nots that don’t work for me have been addressed ad infinitum in these forums and I don’t feel I have to explain what problems I (and many others) have with in FCPX. It’s been done over and over again. What I want to know is why Apple chose to blow off so many loyal users? And believe me I know they are making money hand over fist with this. But where does the “do no harm” rubric come in? They have certainly done undoable harm to those who invested in them from the beginning of the last century. What, exactly, does “do no harm” mean?

Tim

[Charlie Austin]

[Herb Sevush] “Take the idea of expanding the potential of roles – this has been asked for and discussed for well over 2 years, but as far as I can tell Apple hasn’t changed a thing there. Or bringing back “send to motion,” another often requested feature by X users that still hasn’t made an appearance yet.

Does this concern you at all?”

On some level, sure. And I do think Apple could do a better job communicating with customers. But I have had occasional email exchanges with some of the people on the Pro Apps team (following up on feedback form info and annoying emails etc), and I’m pretty sure it’s not because they’re sitting on their hands. I could be wrong I guess…

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Franz Bieberkopf]

[Herb Sevush] “… the pace of upgrades have slowed considerably.”

Herb,

Previously:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/68712

Franz.

[Charlie Austin]

[TImothy Auld] “The whys and what nots that don’t work for me have been addressed ad infinitum in these forums and I don’t feel I have to explain what problems I (and many others) have problems with in FCPX. It’s been done over and over again.”

Fair enough. 🙂

[TImothy Auld] “What I want to know is why Apple chose to blow off so many loyal users? And believe me I know they are making money hand over fist with this. But where does the “do no harm” rubric come in? They have certainly done undoable harm to those who invested in them from the beginning of the last century. What, exactly, does “do no harm” mean?”

I don’t think they “chose” to blow anybody off. The launch of X was… not done well, but I really think they believe in X. Despite all the indirect insults that get hurled their way on the internets, they keep improving it right? 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “how do you stop missing sync indicators?”

Once you stop looking for them.

[Timothy Auld]

From my perspective they clearly chose. Like all reasonable folks who don’t understand other reasonable folks I do not understand from whence you come. And I guess that’s it.

Tim

[Charlie Austin]

[TImothy Auld] “From my perspective they clearly chose. Like all reasonable folks who don’t understand other reasonable folks I do not understand from whence you come. And I guess that’s it.”

Well, OK… In the same way they chose to kill floppy disks, or the old Mac OS, sure. They thought “this is better” and went with it. I come from uh, whence I um… came? I honestly think they were right (and I really didn’t initially), but I can totally understand how you don’t. I guess I just don’t think it was a malicious thing, it’s just what Apple does from time to time. 🙂 They break stuff and start over.

Having said all that, in relation to this particular thread, Audio editing in X is definitely not broken. It’s just different. And I didn’t need to drink any Kool-aide to say that 😉

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~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~