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macbook air and fcpx- the new portable edit suite
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Avid has now qualified the 13″ Macbook Air.
https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=362919
Jeremy
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[Gary Huff] “There’s where you should be if you don’t like the discussions taking place.”
Oh, I like this. I don’t like the personal insults.
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[Jeremy Garchow]Oh, I like this. I don’t like the personal insults.
Is this sarcasm?
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A piano has 88 keys.
A computer keyboard has upwards of a hundred.
And a mouse and click interface can create a nearly infinate decision tree.
But the essential understanding might be that even on the 88 key piano – humans can bring forth jazz, classical, rock, and everything in between.
No matter how simple or complicated any NLE interface gets – it can’t do anything but give you tools that you have to use to create something attractive.
Editing, isn’t cutting streams of data OR “telling stories” – both those are both just possibilities along a continuum of many others.
The art is in finding how to use all this and more to connect ideas, motivations and shared experiences in ways that can be shared, stored, and yes, monitized – so that users achieve the results we want.
Editing video is a lot of things. Sometimes even simple. But “simplistic” it is most definitely not.
My 2 cents anyway.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Avid has now qualified the 13” Macbook Air.
https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=362919
Jeremy
“What a trip. Of course, if I don’t want to buy multiple copies it will have to always have a dongle sticking out of it.
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[Chris Harlan] “Of course, if I don’t want to buy multiple copies it will have to always have a dongle sticking out of it.”
The dongle dangle. Haven’t had to do that for a while.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Guys, can we not ruin another perfectly good discourse? Please?
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Seconded.
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[Chris Harlan] “Of course, if I don’t want to buy multiple copies it will have to always have a dongle sticking out of it.”
Avid doesn’t use a dongle anymore unless you call Inside Sales and buy one for $300. It’s all software activation now – install on unlimited systems, activate and deactivate at will.
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Oh yeah, I know, But if you have an older dongle–which I do–I’ve been told I can have it re-programed, and, if not, $300 is still much cheeper than 3 separate installations. I do hope, however, in v6 that they will have a scheme more like Adobe’s that will recognize the laptop/work station relationship a bit better. Watching the recent changes in Avid, I’d imagine such innovation is now possible.
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[Chris Harlan] ” But if you have an older dongle–which I do–I’ve been told I can have it re-programed”
Yeah, you just upgrade it and blast your dongle like you did before. Honestly, I never understood why people hated dongles so much – if you move from system to system, they’re amazing.
The activation/deactivation I don’t care for on Avid though. If you forget to deactivate before you go home it’s a hassle, but you can still install it on an unlimited number of systems. You can only run one at at time though (through the server activation “dongle”).
I’m sort of ok with Adobe’s method – activate on 2 systems, you can’t run them concurrently. But if you lose a hard drive and reinstall, god be with you. It’s easier to own a license and run pirated software than deal with Adobe’s deactivation/activation nonsense.
I imagine Avid will do something to make their activation easier/better at some point, or reintroduce the dongle (or hopefully make it an option without the $300 cost).
But this is OT. This thread was about FCPX running on a Macbook Air. I fail to see how that’s so special – you can run Adobe, Media Composer, probably Media 100 and any other NLE on it too. It’s not a revolution by any means.
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Michael Hancock
Editor
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