FCPX Documentary on Kickstarter!

[Shane Ross]

Sorry, seems just more of “if you don’t like it…you just don’t get it. Those who do get it are rare, creative individuals who are simply better than you are.” At least that’s what I got from the Kickstarter video.

We get it. FCX is new, it’s innovative. It works well for A LOT of people. It caused a huge rift, it upset a lot of people. I think most of us are over that now. Do I really want to see people STILL telling me “this is really great, this is the future. And if you don’t use this you are an aging dinosaur fuddy-duddy. All those who still use Avid and Adobe just can’t see the light…”

Has the feel of a marketing video. Not sure why Apple hasn’t thrown funding at it….

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[Craig Shields]

Looks pretty interesting to me. I’m interested to hear Ubillos’ thoughts. I’ve never seen an interview with him talking about his thinking on FCPX.

[Oliver Peters]

[Craig Shields] “I’m interested to hear Ubillos’ thoughts.”

I wonder how much of Ubilos is in the cut. Is that just the carrot being dangled? ☺

I would imagine he’s under a pretty tight NDA that prevents him from really revealing how the sausage was made. For example, the rumors of FCP Extreme. Or the Apple employees that were supposedly part of the FCP team who were let go. It would be nice to hear the truth or lack of substance behind those. But I doubt we will.

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[Bill Davis]

IIRC, on the Kickstarter stretch goal (Brad hit his original goal in about 24 hours after launch) there’s an extended Ubillos interview as a subscription level bonus.

So if you want to see a bunch more of Randy’s thinking – you can just back the project!

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[Neil Goodman]

Its crazy to me that people still feel the need to defend and justify the use of it. Its been 6 years. Just use it or dont and stfu already!

[Herb Sevush]

[Bill Davis] “So if you want to see a bunch more of Randy’s thinking – you can just back the project!”

And you get an autograph from Randy himself, I mean OMG. I’ve heard that if you put in enough funds you get a lock of what Randy’s hair would have been if he had grown it. How future terrific is that.

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[Andrew Kimery]

My sentiments are similar to Oliver’s in that what I’d be most interested in hearing about is what took place behind closed doors deep inside the bowels of Apple, but I doubt that story is coming to light any time soon. Given my level of closeness to the subject matter (pretty much everyone interviewed for the doc I’ve already read their books, seen their demos, attended their panels, listened to their pod casts, followed them on Twitter, etc.,.) I’m not really that interested in watching a 90min recap of 6yrs worth of events that I already followed on a daily basis.

I’m sure it will find an audience though.

[Bill Davis]

[Neil Goodman] “Its crazy to me that people still feel the need to defend and justify the use of it. Its been 6 years. Just use it or dont and stfu already!”

What makes you think the documentary is about “defending” anyone’s use of anything? Maybe it’s actually about what the director has always publicly said it’s about…an examination of how people confront and manage technological change.

What might be REALLY crazy is if people would just be patient – look at the work when it comes out – and THEN judge it based on what it actually IS – rather than what everyone is pre-assuming what it will be when it finally arrives.

Wait … that kinda make me think about something that happened six years ago…

Let me think about it for a while.

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[Rich Rubasch]

Need to get Michael Moore on this one!

But….someday I will use Final Cut X. And probably love it.

I’m a database guy at heart. But an editor first.

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[Joe Marler]

[Andrew Kimery] “….I’d be most interested in hearing about is what took place behind closed doors deep inside the bowels of Apple….pretty much everyone interviewed for the doc I’ve already read their books, seen their demos, attended their panels, listened to their pod casts, followed them on Twitter, etc….I’m not really that interested in watching a 90min recap of 6yrs worth of events that I already followed on a daily basis…”

These are good points. Brad said he wanted to answer “Why did Apple decide to make this change?”

Was it a focus group? Was it Randy Ubillos’ alleged difficulty organizing his own vacation videos? Were there influential academic white papers? Was there a “Xerox PARC visit” event? For the origins of the Mac, these have been well covered historically. The jump to FCPX was nearly as great a disruption.

Some of the commentary in the trailer is interesting, but it’s not very deep. Thus far the emphasis has been more about why are people resistant than what were Apple’s conceptual and philosophical drivers for the redesign.

I am concerned about statements like “case study of how creative individuals react to disruptive technological changes”, and “found myself in the minority as many other creative professionals felt abandoned, betrayed, and even belittled by Apple’s update”, and “led to a lot of misinformation that persists today”. This implies a motivation for advocacy which is understandable. However it may risk shaping the documentary toward a rehash of what we already know, vs an informational piece of more lasting historical value.

Tracy Kidder won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1981 novel Soul of a New Machine, about the inside story of designing a radical new computer. It is required reading in some educational curriculums today. If Off the Tracks is shaped more like this book and less like an observational study of “the debate”, it will probably have more lasting value and ultimately will be more informative.