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DaVinci Resolve 8.1 — now with FCPXML roundtrip support
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[Herb Sevush] “But all I ever wanted was a better burger, and when the guy at the drive in window gives me this crazy raw fish i start to complain that there’s no meat in it he tells me the fish is better for me and they don’t serve meat no more, it’s so yesterday.”
I’m sympathetic with that. Apple closed the burger joint and opened a sushi bar. You had McDonalds, BurgerKing, Wendy’s, each have similarities and now Apple closes their’s down and sells sushi. That they’ve decided to sell sushi is a given and they’re not going back to burgers. Now they have to make sushi a worthwhile meal. Some say fish is a healthier meal.
Ultimately we now have a very different food on the market. Some will never like it. Some believe it will be a food staple. Apple has a challenge before them. Apple has to help the ketchup makers make wasabi. That’s why I say the condiments are key. They have to make it tasty. It may be the difference between good sushi and a slab of raw fish.
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[David Roth Weiss] “I picked up a mess of sushi, took it home and cooked it. Funny, but it tastes just like fish to me.”
Off to Long John Silver’s for you. That’s not sushi. We’re a sushi bar now. You can get burgers and fish and chips at the other places. We’re going to make sushi a healthy staple . . . even if you personally don’t like it.
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I thought Apple did put effort in to Color. I don’t know if you ever payed with Final Touch, but holy crap was that thing stuck together with duct tape. Apple at least stabilized it.
And now I can use Resolve to get to Color from FCPX for free. Love it!
Look guys. I know I get excited and silly about this stuff. It’s OK, I don’t mind change, I know that development takes time as does stability.
There are so many choices right now, it’s a good thing. All my hardware can talk to my software. I wouldn’t have to buy anything else if I wanted to stop using FCP7 today.
That won’t last forever, eventually money will be spent, and that’s ok too. I need to charge money in order to keep a roof over my head and my dog fed as well (although, I’m not sure if there’s enough food in the world for him).
I do know that no system is perfect, and it will never be perfect. To me, FCPX represents a step forward, to some it represents the opposite. Lightworks represents a look ahead as well. When you build something, you start with a foundation and frame of some sort. That’s where fcpx is in my mind. I’m cool with that, in a short time, it’s already proven you can get in and out of a trackless world. Sweet, let’s see where it goes.
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I happen to like this analogy a lot.
The reason I get so cranky is that the Apple-Burger store was in my building, all I had to do was head down stairs and lunch is ready. Now I have to decide between walking a few blocks away to see if the Wendy’s or BK burger is up to snuff, or I have to learn to like fish.
It also explains my annoyance with the folks who say I’m not being adventurous by sticking with burgers when I think they’re too scared to walk across the street.
But I figure it’s all good just so I can get a cold one at the end of the day. What – now I have to drink Pellagrino ???
Herb Sevush
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[Herb Sevush] “But I figure it’s all good just so I can get a cold one at the end of the day. What – now I have to drink Pellagrino ???
“Just don’t go near the Kool Aid Herb.
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[Herb Sevush] “or I have to learn to like fish. “
And fish isn’t inherently better either. Fish can be pretty foul (fowl?) if not done right. So they have this fancy storefront, looks a bit different for this neighborhood. Enough so some walk in and maybe try it for lunch. You as for soy sauce, wasabi, a glass of saki and they tell you they don’t have those yet. They espouse the health virtues of fish but maybe the seaweed isn’t even quite holding the sushi together yet. Is it that fish is inherently bad or maybe the opened the restaurant a little too soon and their burger joint is gone.
I don’t think sushi is inherently bad but they need to get their seaweed wrapping technique down and the condiments have to happen.
We have some who say “I want a burger and I don’t like this sushi” so they start looking at the other burger joints.
We have others who say this sushi idea good be good but you have to get the wrapping right and you gotta get the condiment makers over here.
We’ll have to see if Apple can make it palatable so that’s it’s not simply unique but tasty to us foodies. That’s their challenge.
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[David Lawrence] “Hmmm, that statement reminds me of something… ;)”
Fair enough. I see where you’re going.
What you don’t see is me doing is going on a Windows debate forum and asking windows users why “ls” is called “dir” at the windows command prompt knowing full well they represent the same function.
Different languages. Same result.
I cant do what I need to do in windows without learning a different language to complete the same task.
So I can choose to learn the framework, or quit using windows, but Microsoft isn’t going to change command line to Unix.If a saw a compelling reason to fully switch to windows, I’d do it. I just don’t see a reason. With FCPX I see reasons to stick around, even if a sequence is a project and a bin is a keyword collection. I guess I’ll be fluent in a couple of NLE terms by the end of it. Good for me.
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“What you don’t see is me doing is going on a Windows debate forum and asking windows users why “ls” is called “dir” at the windows command prompt knowing full well they represent the same function.”
If you woke up one day and Apple decided to EOL Mac OSX in favor of Windows, my guess is you’d have a lot more to say about the subject of “ls” vs “dir”.
ON the other hand, using Windows as a platform for a NLE is a lot less daunting then you make it. You don’t need to open the command line prompt to open PPro on a windows box. You just have to hold your hat on to keep it from being blown away by the unfamiliar speed.
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[Herb Sevush] “If you woke up one day and Apple decided to EOL Mac OSX in favor of Windows, my guess is you’d have a lot more to say about the subject of “ls” vs “dir”.”
We are now delving in to the hypothetical, but things do change. I would have a choice to make and it looks like there are some really decent options out there, lucky for me. I have to feed my dog somehow. Lamenting on what could have been doesn’t seem to stop his belly from burning.
[Herb Sevush] “ON the other hand, using Windows as a platform for a NLE is a lot less daunting then you make it. You don’t need to open the command line prompt to open PPro on a windows box. You just have to hold your hat on to keep it from being blown away by the unfamiliar speed.”
Your choice. Right now, it’s not going to be my choice. I’m comfortable with that. I do have and use Windows on both the server and parallels across three machines, one of those is bootcamped, but it’s on my co-workers machine. It’s not where I want to go at this point, I’ve checked it out and made a decision. I’m not complaining to Microsoft, it just not where I want to be at this point, and they could probably care less. My choice.
Oh, and sometimes I do need to use the command prompt, but that’s my workflow. Maybe not yours. We also have a Linux machine with our LTO system. We are basically running every modern OS in our tiny little shop. I think we are open to possibilities and different methods of working.
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“ON the other hand, using Windows as a platform for a NLE is a lot less daunting then you make it. You don’t need to open the command line prompt to open PPro on a windows box.”
This reminds me of something a friend of mine used to say (he writes 3D software tools)… “If you’re spending more time in your OS than in your applications, there’s probably something wrong with your workflow”. 🙂
Shawn
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