Friday Night Fodder

[Steve Connor]

“Who knows where they could have been had they went on with Final Cut 8.” ?

No wonder they didn’t put their name to it 🙂

[Oliver Peters]

[Steve Connor] “No wonder they didn’t put their name to it :)”

Do you mean the author of the article? It’s in the first bolded paragraph.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Jimmy Holcomb]

Some additional weekend fodder,

Interesting rumors about new Mac Pro
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/waiting-for-mac-pro-7-1.1975126/page-251#post-25097373

[Claude Lyneis]

Move along, there is nothing to see here.

[Shane Ross]

Man, some people cannot give up the damn ghost… Not sure what the point of this article really is. “Oh, if only they did this…”?

Shane
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[Noah Kadner]

Missing VHS and 3/4″ too. Not.

Noah

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[John Rofrano]

Who knows where they could have been had they went on with Final Cut 8.

Final Cut Pro X of course! ????

I can kind of see the point to the article. It is a eulogy for an application that wouldn’t lie down years after it was pronounced dead! If people stopped using FCP 7 when it was discontinued then this article would either not exist, or would have been written 8 years ago but the fact is, that this application fundamentally came at a time when new technology like firewire and DV changed the way we edit video and dropping support for FCP 7 didn’t change that. People did not stop using it. They continued to hang on to it until the inevitable day when it simply would no longer work. So it’s a reflection on the dawn if a new way of working that change the video industry forever and the role that FCP 7 played in it. Of course it fails to acknowledge that there is now a better way to work called FCP X… but I digress.

Perhaps I have a different view on the article because this is what got me into video. Back in 1983, I took a course in college on TV production and I loved writing and producing shows but at that time you needed a big expensive studio with big expensive equipment to do it so I never continued it beyond college because my studies took me elsewhere. Then years later in 1998, I realized that, just like desktop publishing before it, I could shoot, edit, and produce videos with a DV camera and a desktop computer! That was a game changer for me. That’s what got me back into video. I could now do it at home and the only thing holding me back was my imagination not my wallet. That was liberating.

So I think the author was acknowledging that the end of an era for some had finally arrived. Now for those of use who moved on to FCP X, that era ended 8 years ago. But I enjoyed reading the article for it’s nostalgic value. It was a perfect storm of technology back then. Considering that I still have my original 48K Apple ][+ and Macintosh 128K in my basement… yea… I have a hard time letting go of the technology that fundamentally changed my life. ???? (…ask my wife)

~jr

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