FCP 6 Easter Egg?

[Bob Flood]

wayne

if memory serves Bruce the Yak went away because FCP had to meet some governement software compliance which specified no easter eggs.

so logically one would assume that no one has programmed one in its place

however, since when are software developers logical….

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Bob Flood]

BTW

does anyone rememeber the original Quantel Harry? if you stopped working long enough messages would come up like “you call this art?”

they killed that in ver 2, but it was fun

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Jeff Carpenter]

>>if memory serves Bruce the Yak went away because FCP had to meet some governement software compliance which specified no easter eggs.

If this is true (it makes sense) then it’s a shame they didn’t comply with the rule by simply putting a page about Bruce in the manual. That would have made it ok!

[David Bogie]

Ugly Rumor Department:

It was Steve Jobs who ordered Bruce expunged. Said to have considered the whole thing “inelegant” and not in the spirit of Apple’s new image as “(fill in the blank).”

Believably deniable.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Dylan Reeve]

I’ve also heard the government doesn’t like easter eggs thing, but I doubt it’s true as they are so prevalent in software.

The thinking is that an easter egg is an example of undocumented code in the same way that malicious features could be, but that’s absurd as clients don’t get to review source code of closed-source apps anyway, and there will be huge amount of undocumented and unutilised code in any app the size and age of FCP.

[Peter Wiggins]

Bruce the Wonder Yak is still there 🙂

You can read all the messages by opening up Final Cut in finder by right clicking on the icon, ‘Show Package Contents’

Then navigate to Contents/Resources/Final Cut Pro.rsrc

Open this file in textedit, scroll past the junk and you will see Bruce’s words of wisdom.

It is just nobody knows how to call the Yak!

BTW if you feel a bit unhappy about opening an application like that or indeed if you’ve never done it before, then don’t. You do so at your own risk too.

Peter

[Elliott Balsley]

Isn’t there anybody who knows how to call Bruce in FCP6? Please??