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Randy Ubillos retires from Apple
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[Marcus Samuel-Gaskin] “It and iMovie are his creation. It’s his vision. Hence he’s been the gatekeeper of its functionality. But also maybe the source of a blinkered “Father knows best” approach too..”
I suppose that’s possible, though I tend to think not. My uninformed guess it that lots of “missing” functions just haven’t been technically sussed out yet. I don’t think implementing things that we’ve had “forever” in track based NLE’s are quite as simple to do in X. Now, I’m sure saying that will get lot’s of “X is technically flawed!” BS responses. IMO, it’s “technically new”, at lest in terms of how it sees/handles clips and media in the app. I think we’ll see lots of stuff return, regardless of who “the architect” is…
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[Marcus Samuel-Gaskin] “BMD have practically lifted its GUI directly from FCPX. I thought that kind of thing would be patented, but as Apple lost to MS over “look and feel”..*shrug*”
In my feverish imagination, I sometimes think there’s more synergy here than meets the eye. Resolve is kind of becoming a Rosetta Stone for FCP X. Will be very interested to see how R12 plays with fcpxml 1.5, which has a lot of added functionality…
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[Charlie Austin] “Now, I’m sure saying that will get lot’s of “X is technically flawed!” BS responses. IMO, it’s “technically new”, at lest in terms of how it sees/handles clips and media in the app. I think we’ll see lots of stuff return, regardless of who “the architect” is…”
Yah, it’s still growing..and following the M.O. of “tear it down and build it back up again” that we’ve seen in the last 5 years, “Photos” being the most recent example. Not that that is a *bad* thing. I don’t believe it is. Just now , with the decks cleared, there can be some “new thinking” infused into X and the engineers can get their fingers in those really interesting and useful problems and solutions we’ve all been holding out for.
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Seeing as Apple have been happy letting the general public beta test iOS and OSX as of late, do you think some of that new happy openness could spread to Pro Apps?
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[Tim Wilson] “No, at that point, the COW would swallow the the internet. The COW would BECOME the internet.
“No, that would occur if her were to resurface at Adobe. 😀
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~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
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[Marcus Samuel-Gaskin] “Oh, I do hope that that stuff will appear. He created the App. That’s the point. It and iMovie are his creation. It’s his vision. Hence he’s been the gatekeeper of its functionality. But also maybe the source of a blinkered “Father knows best” approach too..
“He also created Premiere and FCP (well, technically KeyGrip which became FCP). Randy was making a logging app to go along with FCP (kinda like Prelude goes with Premiere) and when he showed it to Jobs Jobs said that’s what he wanted the next FCP to be like and X was born. The vision, like most everything at Apple, was Jobs’.
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[Andrew Kimery] “He also created Premiere and FCP (well, technically KeyGrip which became FCP). Randy was making a logging app to go along with FCP (kinda like Prelude goes with Premiere) and when he showed it to Jobs Jobs said that’s what he wanted the next FCP to be like and X was born. The vision, like most everything at Apple, was Jobs’.”
I don’t think Jobs gave a monkeys about FCP beyond the “One of our engineers was on vacation, found it difficult to do some things, so he created this” speech. Lets not kid ourselves here. Jobs wasn’t building features into FCP. He stage-managed it. Pro Apps was Randy’s show.
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AND an update to iMovie came out today. The end is near….
😉
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
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[Marcus Samuel-Gaskin] “I don’t think Jobs gave a monkeys about FCP beyond the “One of our engineers was on vacation, found it difficult to do some things, so he created this” speech. Lets not kid ourselves here. Jobs wasn’t building features into FCP. He stage-managed it. Pro Apps was Randy’s show.”
So the guy that fathered Premiere and FCP Legend just decided to go wildly off the reservation out of the blue?
Is Jobs down there going on and on about multicam and OMF? No, but if Jobs saw the logging app and said, “I want FCP to look like and behave like THAT” then Randy certainly has to rethink how an NLE can work because things like tracks are out, two viewers are out, etc.,. When Apple bought Nothing Real (makers of Shake) Jobs personally held a meeting with the Nothing Real team and some of NR’s biggest clients to tell everyone what the new lay of the land was. While at Pixar Jobs even tried (more than once) to sell a consumer version of Pixar’s Renderman software. Was the coding? No, but was telling people what the end result needed to be. The biography of Jobs has numerous examples of him being involved in the tiny details of all their products. Jobs was incredibly hands on and involved.
Was Randy in charge of the day to day? Sure, but that just means he was in charge building an NLE w/in the confines of Jobs’ vision (which was an NLE that had the look, feel and simplicity of a logging app).
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While Randy U was certainly tight with the redevelopment of FCP into FCP X, there are plenty of competent engineers and designers on staff. It’s probably hard to say whether he’s even had that much direct impact on its development after the initial launch. I doubt you’ll see any huge changes in direction.
And regarding Apple and BMD, you might want to look up Paul Saccone. He’s been at BMD for over a year and was also a vital member of the ProApps team before that.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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