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My Chat with Al Gore
I’m at Promax in NYC and got to meet and greet with keynote speaker Al Gore just a few minutes ago. Working up all my courage, I decided to sandbag him with complaints about Final Cut Pro X. Here’s how it went down.
ME: “Mr. Vice President, I’m a stockholder and fan of Apple. Quite a few of us are having problems with Final Cut Pro X. It doesn’t do quite a bit of what we need to do our work. ”
AL: “What doesn’t it do?” he asked.
ME: “It can’t open previous projects and doesn’t lay to tape just to name a few. While I understand the need for secrecy the next time you get a chance, could you pass the word on to Apple that those of us in TV that use the Final Cut really need a roadmap or at least some official response on if and when we can expect these things to come back?”
AL: “I’ll make sure to let them know”.
ME: “Thank you!”Maybe we’ll hear something. He is an Apple board member, after all.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I didn’t copy that edit that well. I was also incredibly nervous – please ignore the typos and poor sentence structure of that post :).
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Hey John, Did you really call him “Mr. Vice President”?
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Understandable. And bravo for keeping your cool.
Jim Carey
Director of Video, Radical Entertainment
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I admire your cojones for that one!
I gotta say, of all the questions you could have asked him you chose the one most important to the herd/hive…thank you for that.
Writer/Radio host/Community Media Advocate
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I would have called him Mr *President 😀
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Politics and religion… I guess I better not say what I would have called him…
Chris
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Lol. Yeah. He was very polite. We’re both southern boys.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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In my mind he was a a member of the board of a company that’s very important to me. It took SO long for us to get FCP to the point where using it wasn’t treated with skepticism. I very much want to get FCPX mainstream, so I said what was important in that regards. I believe that this is going to work itself out, but not everyone can plan around that belief.
Perhaps a board member with a little clout can light a match to motivate Apple to clarify what’s going to happen with FCPX.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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