Before you get too comfy in your switch . . . .

[David Cherniack]

[Craig Seeman] “Not if Apple has leverage. Apple’s a business. They probably don’t care who is aghast if they have leverage over decisions that might be made to their benefit.”

Craig, as this list clearly demonstrates, leverage is a rapiply fleeting quantity when you piss off people enough.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Hector Berrebi]

[David Cherniack] “Could be the next round of hardware upgrades for a lot of companies shows a lot of HP workstations being sold. Truth is they’re nicely designed, work well, you get on-site service, and no my-way-or-no-way attitude.
“

i must agree with you David.
HP workstations are a pleasure to work with, not as good looking as Macpros, and tend to be more expensive, but a better workstation, and good service.

now if it wasn’t that damn windows OSing them…

Hector Berrebi
prePost Consulting

[Craig Seeman]

[David Cherniack] “Could be the next round of hardware upgrades for a lot of companies shows a lot of HP workstations being sold. “

I should add this also relates to Thunderbolt. HP has said they won’t be using it.

At some point people putting together workstations may have to consider whether Thunderbolt offers them an advantage over USB3.

I think the ensuing “battles” will be multifaceted.

[Hector Berrebi]

[Craig Seeman] ”
I should add this also relates to Thunderbolt. HP has said they won’t be using it.”

so what if they said it…? 🙂

they can say something else tomorrow…

apparently they can even wrap it in USB and call it light peak …
https://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20110629/192972/

Hector Berrebi
prePost Consulting

[Craig Seeman]

For the geek who likes to find a lot to read.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/AVFoundation/Reference/AVFoundationFramework/_index.html

This explains the fundamentals.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/AVFoundationPG/Articles/00_Introduction.html

I believe there’s stuff here if you’re willing to register as a developer.
https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/#working-with-media-in-av-foundation

Philip Hodgetts addressing it nearly a year ago in something closer to English
https://www.philiphodgetts.com/2010/08/introduction-to-av-foundation/

and a slide show
https://www.slideshare.net/invalidname/introductino-to-av-foundation

Introduction to AV Foundation from Chris Adamson

[David Cherniack]

[Hector berrebi] “”

Hector, I must admit I’m rather perplexed at your negative take on Windows (I’m assuming we’re talking 7). Across a number of systems I find it rock solid, very tune-able, and working smoothly. To each his own, I guess.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Hector Berrebi]

[David Cherniack] “Hector, I must admit I’m rather perplexed at your negative take on Windows (I’m assuming we’re talking 7). Across a number of systems I find it rock solid, very tune-able, and working smoothly. To each his own, I guess.
“

yup…

i agree with you again, windows 7 is rock solid and a HUGE improvement. i don’t miss XP at all…

and yet. it is just not an elegant system.

these past weeks i walk around hoping for something new to emerge… a modern, open, simple and wonderful platform, it seems like apple is going mobile on us and Microsoft… they’re so…. microsoft…

can you trust a company with Steve Balmer as its CEO?

maybe Google… lol

Hector Berrebi
prePost Consulting

[Craig Seeman]

[Greg Burke] “Craig, I appreciate your outlook at X-FCP, your hopeful and that’s fine, but apple has made it perfectly clear that there phasing out of the industry,”

I fundamentally disagree with that. They’re gone for the moment in some respects but Thunderbolt is a Video Post tool and Apple’s history is complete control without reliance on third party software in as many places as possible FCPX will be a Pro tool in a year or two and I expect there will be server related software to go with it.

I don’t think Apple is concerned with what people migrate to right now. I think they’re looking down the road.

Apple’s going to make a mess of a lot of things, deliberately IMHO opinion and people will be revisiting this issue in a year or two.

[Geert Van den berg]

I completely agree.

AV Foundation is just a framework at the moment, part of what in combination with other frameworks makes FCPX. It’s not a container format like Quicktime or MXF, or is it?

It could be that Apple will create another container format in the future, but then there’s still MXF. Almost every broadcasting company that we supply content to asks for mxf files, and some ask for mpeg transport streams but that’s the minority.

I am not sure what engine Avid is using, but Adobe has the Mercury Engine. Premiere plays what is at moment the most common mxf format, D10. (mind you I don’t know nothing about it other than that I run a demo and having read about it on the internet, the demo runs swifty though!). So I don’t see why it would need Quicktime or AV Foundation to work as it does now.

Does Adobe need Quicktime to be installed on a PC to run?

And as been said Avid has its own file container format too. It’s called MXF but’s it’s proprietary, so in my opinion it’s confusing that it’s called MXF. But then again, not every other MXF is the same thing either.

[Greg Burke]

[Craig Seeman] “They’re gone for the moment in some respects but Thunderbolt is a Video Post tool “

PCs survived without FireWire, They’ll survive without Thunderbolt.

I wear many hats.
http://www.gregburkepost.com