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Photoshop CS6 Beta released, with magnetic timeline!
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I honestly thought this was a joke headline.
Then I watched the video and realized it was completely true.
The Adobe team has actually coded “magnetism” into Photoshop’s new video editing capabilities.
Wow.
I’m stunned.
I thought magnetism was the singular spawn of the devil – the tool purpose built to wreck video editing for human beings for all time.
And now it’s crept into a tool in the enemy camp.
Worst an expensive tool designed for very smart, capable and talented people who work at the very highest levels of their craft!
Sell your stocks and raze the farm, arm yourself and head for the hills!!!
Keep your eyes to the skies searching out the flocks instinctively heading for safer climes.
Video editing armageddon must be nigh!
“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] “Video editing armageddon must be nigh!”
I’ll tell you what BIll, if the new PP has switched to a magnetic timeline without tracks then Adobe will have a hard enough time dealing with Aindreas let alone the professional editing world at large.
Here’s the more likely way to read it, IMO.
Adobe added a little “Easy Bake Oven” for photographers to edit simple DSLR footage because everyone can shoot it now. A simplified, amateur product for the uninitiated.I’m guessing they’ll provide the professional community with the tools that they and they’re clients are accustomed to. And if they added a way to switch on magnetism, who cares.
If Apple did the reverse, all would be well…except for the memory nonsense…and the constant Beach Blanket Bingo.
Trust me, I’m counting on Apple to do the right/smart thing with the evolution of this new adventure.
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[Bill Davis] “I honestly thought this was a joke headline.
Then I watched the video and realized it was completely true.
The Adobe team has actually coded “magnetism” into Photoshop’s new video editing capabilities.
Wow.
I’m stunned.
“Bill, what on earth are you talking about? All I saw was a timeline in Ripple mode. I’m stunned that you’re stunned. In your mind, does the “magnetism” kingdom now incorporate anything that ripples? Does Avid have it now, too?
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[Bill Davis] “I thought magnetism was the singular spawn of the devil – the tool purpose built to wreck video editing for human beings for all time.
And now it’s crept into a tool in the enemy camp. “
a) Other NLEs had magnetic timeline capabilities long, long before X. Edius for example. Difference is: you can switch it off (and it’s off by default). Also single viewer mode btw., which is also there as an option, not a must.
So, again, nobody has a problem with the magnetic timeline when it makes sense. People have a problem when it doesn’t make sense and you cannot switch it off. Plus, as Edius shows, you can have tracks and magnetic.
There isn’t all that much “revolution” going on with X once you look around the “enemy camps”.b) That “magnetic” feature in Photoshop only applies to clips that are in one the same layer or video group and only when you ripple. If they’re not (ie. on different tracks) or you just move clips around no magnetism going on at all.
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[Frank Gothmann] “There isn’t all that much “revolution” going on with X once you look around the “enemy camps”.
“OK,
I *think* I get it.
Everything Apple did regarding X was evil and wrong as witnessed by the countless deep arguments and hundreds of thousands of on-going posts where legions who feel violated by the revision must stand up and endlessly condemn the company and what they’ve done.
but on the other hand, “there isn’t all the much “revolution” going on with X.”
Pardon me for a moment, I need to go make sure I remember how to spell “cognitive dissonance”…
“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] “I *think* I get it.
Everything Apple did regarding X was evil and wrong as witnessed by the countless deep arguments and hundreds of thousands of on-going posts where legions who feel violated by the revision must stand up and endlessly condemn the company and what they’ve done.
but on the other hand, “there isn’t all the much “revolution” going on with X.”
Pardon me for a moment, I need to go make sure I remember how to spell “cognitive dissonance”…”
Adding 10 features to an app is certainly not the source of grief. Adding 10 while removing 20 others is.
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The magnetic timeline is essentially the same as editing in tracks locked, ripple mode in other editors. It’s not that revolutionary. The revolution is in taking away the ability to turn it off.
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[Jim Giberti] “Adobe added a little “Easy Bake Oven” for photographers to edit simple DSLR footage because everyone can shoot it now. A simplified, amateur product for the uninitiated.”
LOL, that’s really what it is, isn’t it?
But look! You can put dissolves between clips and they dissolve! Wow! How cool is that?
Seriously though, it’s a nice little add-on for DSLR photographers but that’s about it.
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[David Lawrence] “Seriously though, it’s a nice little add-on for DSLR photographers but that’s about it.”
Watch out David…
You’ve just described “magnetism” using the word “nice.”
That could eventually come back to haunt you.
; )
“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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[Frank Gothmann] “Adding 10 features to an app is certainly not the source of grief. Adding 10 while removing 20 others is.”
Not if the 10 are useful to the vast majority of everyday editors – and the 20 are critical to only those who have niche “big facility” needs.
That’s what the professional business folks working at the top level label “efficient assortment.”
Providing the most good for the largest consumer base possible.
“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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