FCPX and After Effects

[William Davis]

Thanks for posting- there are some useful tips in there. I was wondering if Chris would give a shout out to Automatic Duck, but alas…

[Jeremy Garchow]

[William Davis] ” I was wondering if Chris would give a shout out to Automatic Duck, but alas…”

I was wondering the same thing. Automatic Duck is awesome if you need to get shots/timings over to Ae. I use it a lot.

[Bill Davis]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I was wondering the same thing. Automatic Duck is awesome if you need to get shots/timings over to Ae. I use it a lot.
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Kinda makes you wonder what Wes Plate is doing now that he’s at Apple, doesn’t it?

I’ve chatted with him half a dozen times af Apple public functions over the last couple of years – and consistent with the expected Apple culture – he obviously never talks shop in a way that discloses anything. In fact, Wes has a great version of what I think of as “The Apple Engineer Generic Reveal Nothing Smile” that you get if you conversationally wander into dicy territory.

I’ve gotten used to it.

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[Simon Ubsdell]

[Bill Davis] “Kinda makes you wonder what Wes Plate is doing now that he’s at Apple, doesn’t it?”

He’s probably busy taking suits to the dry cleaners – or something of the kind.

That’s what usually happens to brilliant people who get recruited by Apple. Their talents are immediately wasted on trivia.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Bill Davis]

[Simon Ubsdell] “That’s what usually happens to brilliant people who get recruited by Apple. Their talents are immediately wasted on trivia.”

So you’re saying they are engaged in Trivial Pursuits?

Hey, WAIT – that crazy idea made a bunch of folks seriously RICH.

Maybe we’re ALL on the wrong side of this?

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The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

[Don Walker]

Simon,
I am a huge fan of yours! I love watching your Motion and Fusion tutorials, right up to part where I realize I’m never going to be able to recreate what your doing on the screen. But I swear that you have, in the last 6 months, become increasingly bitter towards Apple, and become very vocal about it. Have you been hanging out at the pub, with Aindreas Gallagher? Should we start a “Go Fund Me” to buy you a iMac Pro, so you can rekindle a deep love for all things Cupertino? Let us help you in your pain……

don walker
texarkana, texas

John 3:16

[Simon Ubsdell]

[Don Walker] “I am a huge fan of yours!”

Thanks for your kind words.

[Don Walker] “I swear that you have, in the last 6 months, become increasingly bitter towards Apple”

Not bitter, just disappointed.

Apple can and should be doing better in so many different ways – I don’t think it does anyone any favours to try and pretend otherwise.

Why should we accept “good enough” from the largest corporation in the history of the planet?

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Greg Janza]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Not bitter, just disappointed.”

I would add too that I share the disappointment but also my 20 years of loyalty to the company, while serving me well for a majority of that time, more recently became a barrier to progress. This would only be different if I made my living solely within the Apple ecosphere but that’s simply not possible for many professionals.

To say that they’ve served the professional community well in recent years is to ignore the reality that they’ve morphed into a completely different company and the new iteration of Apple is holding professionals hostage to their vision and that is simply wrong.

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[Simon Ubsdell]

It is truly one of the miracles of modern commerce that a corporation as clueless, as visionless and with as few actual products to offer and with even fewer ever likely to see the light of day, is still the most profitable ever.

Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
hawaiki

[Steve Connor]

[Simon Ubsdell] “It is truly one of the miracles of modern commerce that a corporation as clueless, as visionless and with as few actual products to offer and with even fewer ever likely to see the light of day, is still the most profitable ever.”

Utter tosh (I’ve never used the word “tosh” online before)