-
Prem vs FCPX – Panels
-
Oh, dear God. You need to relax some, man. You are way too vigorous about this stuff.
I made no claim that that was exclusive to Pr. It’s just really simple to cut that way in Pr. Easier than it is in Avid. I don’t use X right now, so, I don’t know. Maybe you could tell me about how great it is to do in X instead of getting huffy. I don’t want to fight. I just want to share my experience. AND, I want to learn from others.
-
Guys, as a reader, this thread has been a gem. Some terrific insights, and a lot of great full contact debate about how best to reflect workflow priorities in UI. Love it.
As an admin, it’s been exasperating. Mixed in and among those has been some of the worst tit-for-tat personal sniping I’ve seen in this forum for years. A reminder: it is an express violation of our Terms of Service to comment directly on or at other posters, their competence, or their motivations. I don’t care if the other guy started it. I’m calling on you not to rise to it.
Which, obviously, almost all of you are doing just fine. But in addition to following up with some individuals offline who need special reminding of this, I did want to place my official Knitted Brows of Concern™ on this thread, with a reminder to please keep your hands and head inside the vehicle at all times.
It might help to remember that anything posted here is as close as the internet gets to eternal, and at a pretty high profile to boot. Around 4 million people will pass through this forum this month. It’s also easy to miss because they typically rarely post, in some cases never post, but they do talk to us offline on a regular basis about how regularly they lurk here, reading every word — studio execs, legendary artists whose work you own, product managers for every company you see represented here and many others, and in general, people who could be giving you jobs, maybe even careers.
Everybody knows that part of the reason we go online is to blow off steam, and goodness knows I’ve been able to spin being a wisenheimer into a decent living, but I’m still going to encourage you to recall the unparalleled global scope of Creative COW, and pause just for a beat before a heated reply.
Back to the fray!
Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW -
EDIT: Post removed
-
[Tim Wilson] “I did want to place my official Knitted Brows of Concern™”
I think this needs a picture?
-
[Steve Connor] “I think this needs a picture?”
LOL I’ll work on it. It’ll have to wait, though. It’s raining here, and I’m having a TERRIBLE hair day.
-
Hey, Tim. I want to apologize if I got steamy at all. My father passed away last night, so I’m doing this as sort of a diversion right now, and I have no real sense of up or down. Strange world.
-
[Chris Harlan] “Hey, Tim. I want to apologize if I got steamy at all. My father passed away last night, so I’m doing this as sort of a diversion right now, and I have no real sense of up or down. Strange world.”
Oh my gosh, Chris! I’m so sorry to hear it! One reason I’ve been offline so much recently is because of the unexpected passing of my mother. You have my every sympathy.
I swear I wasn’t thinking of you in particular, but along with the high-minded tone in my previous post, this is a great time to remember that we’re all human, we all have bad days, we can all be too quick on the Post Direct button, and we have to leave some room for each other to be people.
-
Thanks, man. And you too. Sorry about your mom. Its nasty stuff, but its the way of the world. Peace, brother.
-
[Chris Harlan] “Thanks, man. And you too. Sorry about your mom. Its nasty stuff, but its the way of the world. Peace, brother.”
You and I and some other folks here are getting to be that age. I also dropped offline for a bit recently to help my 79 year old father wrap up moving out of the house that he and my mother had lived in for over 35 years. I realized, wow, I’m pushing 60, he’s nearly 80 and never really asked for my help with anything before. I can’t say that I’ve gained too much perspective or insight from this — I’m still an idiot, and always will be — but I think I’ve gained a little.
I’ve certainly been reminded that it’s harder than it looks to balance “real life” with “clever forum posts”. I’m all the more impressed with people who can actually pull off doing both at once!
And I do look forward to crawling back to posting more often again. Some of the threads this year have been among my favorites of 20-odd (sometimes VERY odd) years of hanging out in COW in her various incarnations, and I’m sorry to have missed on both participating in them, and properly promoting them to the outside world. My exasperation with a few posts here notwithstanding, I’m proud of what’s happening in the COW as a whole, and I remain deeply indebted to many of you for what shreds of sanity I’m able to grasp now and again.
-
Well, I’m still 39 and have been for almost two decades. Yeah, its hard. Staggering. I’m going to be starting that same house journey with my mom. One step, than another.
And yes, the COW is wonderful. There’s no other word for it!
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up