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Just the facts Ma’am!Perry Trest
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Motion round tripping is so simple. Export XML out of X to older non-yosemite computer across the room. Use Xto7 to translate FCPXML to XML that FCP 7 can open. Open in FCP 7, do any cleaning up necessary. Curse the fact that you had to open FCP 7 and it’s freaking out because it doesn’t know any of the camera formats and this is possibly a dead end. But if not, select the whole timeline and send to motion project, which will be Motion 4. You don’t really need to open Motion 4. Save that motion 4 project back to the FCP X computer. Open in Motion 5. Whew! I mean… easy!
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Lets not forget Adobe ditched the Mac platform for Premiere for years. And Avid in late 90s dropped their higher end systems like Symphony from the Mac, and was rumored to be dropping composer. Until suddenly they got wind of Apple coming out with FCP 1.x and their story changed.
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[Bret Williams] “Lets not forget Adobe ditched the Mac platform for Premiere for years.”
And that one guy that used Premiere 6.5 for the Mac was really pissed. 😉
[Bret Williams] “And Avid in late 90s dropped their higher end systems like Symphony from the Mac, and was rumored to be dropping composer.”
Some where around here Tim (who used to worked at Avid) has a very length post talking about this urban legend (editorial legend? post legend?) but the Cliff’s Notes version is that the story isn’t true. Avid never had any plans to drop Mac support for Symphony or MC (which are the same thing sans some better CC tools and a couple of other things). Avid DS was Windows-only but it was originally a Windows product and was never ported over to Mac.
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Some great suggestions here. I’d chime in with a ‘+1’ for better match framing. It’s a function I use constantly on Avid, and it’s one of the most useful for my day-to-day edit tasks. Being able to find clips and their surrounding brethren is a lifesaver, and X’s clunky version of it leaves me frustrated every time I use it.
I’d be happy with the match frame selecting the clip in keyword collection it was taken from (maybe with a choice if it occurs twice, or a second keystroke to scroll through options) and placing it dead centre of the browser.
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[Bret Williams] ” Lets not forget Adobe ditched the Mac platform for Premiere for years.”
As explained here: a partial Premiere Pro history
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“Lets not forget Adobe ditched the Mac platform for Premiere for years. And Avid in late 90s dropped their higher end systems like Symphony from the Mac, and was rumored to be dropping composer”
No, no, no. Both Tim and Dennis have thoroughly debunked those myths recently in other threads. Both products – Premiere Pro and Symphony – were new products that were first developed for PC at a time when Apple dropped support for suitable workstations with sufficient slots.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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And your last sentence makes my point exactly. ALL the software companies make choices and change course based on market demand. People were screaming bloody murder when X came out. Myself included. But legacy still worked fine. And I’m sure that dude using Premiere was PO’d when PPro came out as PC only. If that Hitler meme was around back then I’d sure he would have been quite agitated.
I wasn’t using Premiere when they dropped the Mac, but AS a PS, AI, AE user at the time it was startling. Two years earlier Avid had started releasing PC only Products like symphony which were a big deal. Apple’s future was up in the air and to me, it looked like maybe I needed to start investing in PC. The hardware was faster, Adobe and Avid were FULLY commited to it (whatever rumored reasons aside doesn’t matter) and other companies like Macromedia seemed to be in the same boat. Being an Apple user was different then. It was generally accepted that PCs were cheaper and just fine for every day use and gaming, but that Apple was better for graphics work. So when Adobe starts to drop the ball on its new product at the time, and Avid was currently limiting it’s Apple offerings then where would that leave Apple? You can say Adobe was commited to getting back cross platform, but had Apple continued downhill and not been resurrected by iPods and iPhones I truly doubt Adobe or Avid would have made it much of a priority. They came back because the demand was there. Same reason they beefed up their efforts when Apple dropped the ball with X. The was opportunity and demand.
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Re: Symphony. It is worth noting that at the time that Symphony was produced, Apple no longer produced a machine that was capable of supporting it due to the slot requirements. It took several years – when G4s finally came out – that Avid was able to bring Symphony to the Mac and those were generally dogs compared to the PC versions.
Oliver
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It took 10 years for Sympony. The G4, and then G5 (fastest computer at the time for a moment and was being installed in hordes as a supercomputer, etc) weren’t enough? I think it was the switch to Intel that made it a little easier and the fact that Apple had made quite a market comeback. Had that not happened Adobe and Avid would have likely written another version of history.
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