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Oscar irony
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[Walter Soyka] “I doubt you intend to hold FCPX up as a vehicle built mainly for fun against Premiere Pro and Media Composer as vehicles built to get work done…”
Walter,
I’m quite surprised at your constrained thinking here!
Who do you think generates the greater economic results in modern society – the folks driving work trucks … or the folks driving the sports cars?
(grin)
“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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[Bill Davis] “Who do you think generates the greater economic results in modern society – the folks driving work trucks … or the folks driving the sports cars?”
Trick question!
Which do you think would damage the economy more: if all the world’s trucks turned into sports cars, or if all the world’s sports cars turned into trucks?
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka] “Which do you think would damage the economy more: if all the world’s trucks turned into sports cars, or if all the world’s sports cars turned into trucks?”
This economy? The former.
But is that where we’re going? How many truck drivers does the future need compared to “information workers?”
Apple has already showed us the economic implications of disassembling the supply chain and going direct from manufacturer to consumer in IP commerce.
And it’s pretty clear that the dominant fortunes in the new era are tied more to IP than brick and mortar operations.
Both will survive, but the bit distributors seem to be steadily outperforming the box distributors these days.
And as someone who’s edited as much in Marriott rooms as in my fixed studio these past few months, I’m thinking that this is a reflection of new realities that I’ve got to get a handle on.
Thankfully, my hay-barn to studio conversion workspace means I don’t have to support the commercial real-estate industry while I make my current living. But if I did, I’d have to look long and hard at what paying all the infrastructure costs of the space is contributing to, (or dragging down) my bottom line.
Yes, clients still want to come sit in my studio and work. But for how long? I can literally do ALL of the same work on a laptop in any space I like. So today, (literally since I have a client coming over at 2pm) I get to ask him if he’d prefer to hole up in the studio this gorgeous afternoon, or should we move out to the patio by the pool and do the project there.
New choices for a new era.
“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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[Bill Davis] “How many truck drivers does the future need compared to “information workers?””
Until you can transmit a potato or a couch over the internet truckers will be in high demand, cause even a couch potato can’t eat a picture of a pizza. The US mail may be in trouble but the teamsters are doing fine. And while your software is internet downloadable your iphone, ipad and ibook are not.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush] “cause even a couch potato can’t eat a picture of a pizza”
And besides, it takes trucks to move couches. Boy, these analogies have a way of driving over a cliff 😉
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Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Bill Davis] “And as someone who’s edited as much in Marriott rooms as in my fixed studio these past few months, I’m thinking that this is a reflection of new realities that I’ve got to get a handle on”
Bill, you keep going back to this like it is somehow new. I’ve been doing the same thing for five or six years. This weekend I had to work, but I also need a breather, so I got a room up in San Simeon, brought my laptop with a Glyph drive, a tablet, and a good pair of Beyerdynamics, and worked on both Avid and 7 with my feet up, while gazing occasionally out at the Pacific. I’ve been doing stuff like that for years. And, I’m sure happy about it. I just don’t see it as particularly new.
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[Bill Davis] “And as someone who’s edited as much in Marriott rooms as in my fixed studio these past few months, I’m thinking that this is a reflection of new realities that I’ve got to get a handle on””
[Chris Harlan] “Bill, you keep going back to this like it is somehow new. I’ve been doing the same thing for five or six years. This weekend I had to work, but I also need a breather, so I got a room up in San Simeon, brought my laptop with a Glyph drive, a tablet, and a good pair of Beyerdynamics, and worked on both Avid and 7 with my feet up, while gazing occasionally out at the Pacific. I’ve been doing stuff like that for years. And, I’m sure happy about it. I just don’t see it as particularly new.”
Media for custom display systems is the bulk of my business, and that often means travel, too. I’m currently sitting in the back of a conventional hall in California, rendering animations for a mix of double-wide HD video playback systems and single-channel, multi-layer media servers.
I have my laptop with me, but it’s just not the best tool for this job — so I rented a fire-breathing workstation with a 30″ monitor from a local vendor.
For those keeping score, the rental was delivered to the convention center by truck, not sports car.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Walter Soyka] “For those keeping score, the rental was delivered to the convention center by truck, not sports car”
And the Oscar for best comedy goes to….
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I don’t dispute that Shane, it’s not really relevant to the point of the thread. It’s ironic that Apple killed the NLE that was chosen by the fellows who won he Academy Award. Better?
David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
DRW@ProMax.com
http://www.ProMax.comDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[Herb Sevush] “Until you can transmit a potato or a couch over the internet truckers will be in high demand, cause even a couch potato can’t eat a picture of a pizza. The US mail may be in trouble but the teamsters are doing fine. And while your software is internet downloadable your iphone, ipad and ibook are not.
“Herb, I agree with this.
But one UPS driver can probably service 100 homes a day – thousands in a year.So the folks living in all this other homes have to find something else to do once that single “driver” slot is filled.
And all the hands that used to fill up my FCP-Legacy boxes supply chain have less to do now that the App Store is working.
I’m not saying this is best, or ideal, or not an issue that society has to confront. I’m saying it’s simply a reality that wasn’t present before. Local store to national chain to big box specialist to warehouse club – the need for physical distribution of stuff will persist until someone perfects the “replicator” model from Star Trek or puts some uber-CNC-product assembly micro-plant in your local mall.
But not to see the change that the App Store has thrust upon us is to ignore reality, IMO.
That an alternate process is not “perfect” is not the same as saying it’s “irrelevant.”
Hey, good point about FCP-X to bring us back on topic!
“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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