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Jony Ives and the next FCPX GUI
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[Bill Davis] “Kinda makes you wonder if those music guys Jacob is talking about are so comfortable since they presumably spend their days working with sheet music and scores. Which is kinda the ultimate VERTICAL arrangement of synchronized elements.”
There’s also a very horizontal staff that tells a musician exactly what notes to play and when, or when to not play notes.
An E can’t be an F, but a B Flat can be A sharp as they sit in the exact same place on the staff.
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[Bill Davis] “As I mentioned in my seminar, color coding is a wonderful thing for visual reference when you’re working in the finder. But I’ve never seen a database where you can search or sort on an actual COLOR. WORDS for a colors sure. But not a color as a concept.”
Funny.
When I am doing long and convoluted spot market distribution, I actually write color based warnings and identifiers in to my spreadsheet (database) rules.
If an isci code is over 15 characters, the cell turns red. If a cell has a check mark (meaning its done) a whole row turns green, etc.
At a glance I have a easy to discern information from a sometimes confusing spreadsheet.
Pr gets color coding right. It’s awesome. Fcpx would be more helpful if you could color code clips/roles/whatever.
If you don’t like it, don’t use it.
I don’t know if you watched the WWDC keynote, but the new Mac OS has ‘Tags’. Those Tags have colors.
Better warm up to it.
Colors aren’t a text based search mechanism, but color certainly carries information, and we can assign information to it, be it text, pictures, feelings, warnings, whatever.
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[Bill Davis] “It’s the one that “lights up” when I select Show Role= FX from my Timeline Index. Which means I can have both clip collision avoidance AND the ability to seek and find by roles all the time.Sweet!”
So in this new speedy paradigm of editing every time I want to move a clip from dialogue to fx I have to stop and re-assign it’s role. And then to understand what I have when looking at my timeline I have to select something on an index list and it will show up but of course only one thing shows up at a time so there is no way of indicating the various aspects of the mix at one glance – so I get to assign roles, select from an index, and still I don’t have the complete organization visually available – ah ha, this is obviously progress.
Bill, you can’t have it both ways. There are no tracks in FCPX, there are only timeline elements that look like tracks, but since they do not have the utility of tracks they are no more like them than a picture of a car is like a car.
A trade-off was made with the magnetic timeline – clip avoidance for track organization. I certainly understand why some editors would see the trade-off as a plus, but to pretend there was no trade-off is to deny reality.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Craig Seeman] “Some people need to see the map and travel along the road.
Others just need the coordinates and land where they have to be.”And some fly to where the puck will be 3 hours from now, only the game is over, your team has lost, the rink is closed and no one’s left to sell you a sno cone.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush] “And some fly to where the puck will be 3 hours from now, only the game is over, your team has lost, the rink is closed and no one’s left to sell you a sno cone.”
Looks like Apple’s won the game then. Skipping the iOS toys, compare Apple’s computer growth to other company’s. In a down market they seem to be climbing.
I suspect FCPX is doing relatively well for Apple too given the niche.
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[Craig Seeman] “Looks like Apple’s won the game then”
Unlike your obsession with the vendors we deal with I am only concerned with whether I win or loose – what is good or bad for Apple, Avid, Adobe or any other multinational corporation is of less importance to me then what brand of toilet paper I’m about to use.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush] “Unlike your obsession with the vendors we deal with I am only concerned with whether I win or loose”
Of course that’s up to you. Different teams have different strategies on the ice based on their strengths and weakness compared to other teams. You certainly may not like their style of play and, as a player, you may not fit into their strategy. Your agent will just have to look for a team that better suits your skills and style.
That doesn’t mean their team is losing, when it’s winning though.
They’re winning the game even if you don’t like the style of play.
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[Bill Davis] “Reminded me that we’re all human beings and while yes, its possible to get better performance by demanding it, it’s also equally possible to get great service by being the kind of customer people want to satisfy.”
That was a lovely story demonstrating the old “honey or vinegar” thesis, and it’s nice to hear that your courtesy and civility paid off.
Of course it has nothing to do with Aindreas’s point. He was talking about effecting change in a companies behavior, you were talking about getting the best deal for yourself. Nothing you did that day was going to get Avis to have more cars standing by, to allocate resources differently, to change they way they handle customers on bad weather days.
Now it’s unlikely that the customer screaming at the manager will have much effect either, but at least he’s asking for change in the right direction. If Avis get’s many calls like his, there’s a chance they might change their policies. If everyone acted as you did the world would be a nicer place, but come a snowy day, you’d all be civilly stuck in the snow together.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Jeremy Garchow] “If I can’t have a track that I can put the boom channel in, let me at least use the awesome fcpx devices to select all boom channels, or assign a boom Role to components from the Browser so I can use the index to select the Role.
Know what I’m sayin’?”
Gotcha. You sent feedback right? 😉
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[Charlie Austin] “Gotcha. You sent feedback right? ;-)”
But of course.
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