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So what happens to our hardware…?
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[walter biscardi] “What caught my attention was very hard core Mac folks I know telling me that “Windows 7 is pretty darn good, really.””
I’ve always been pretty agnostic. I came from the PC world, primarily because I wanted the OPTION of using FCP, if somebody walked thru the door with a project. However, I’m primarily Avid, and it works just as well, perhaps better, on the PC, so I’m probably moving back. Just so much more machine for the buck, especially if you build your own, like I used to do.
And Win 7 really is the best MS OS ever. It’s fast, stable, and so well supported by 3rd party manufacturers.
Chris
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[Walter Soyka] “I am amazed at the number of people who have said here that they’d consider trying to piece together and maintain a Hackintosh for professional work, when they could simply buy a well-built and well-supported Windows PC instead.”
Man, what would this system cost if it were built by Apple?
https://myvideopc.com/professional-pcs.htmlChris
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[Bill Davis] ” I think there will be more “PRO” video being created for OTHER than broadcast and movie distribution in the future.
This is nothing new, this has been the case since I started working in this field almost 40 years ago. There are more features and cable TV shows than ever before, there are more corporate presentations than ever before, there are more cat videos than ever before. Entertainment media was always the smallest, although often the most lucrative, piece of the media pie.
[Bill Davis] “And it will be as “pro” as people like us chose to make it – and completely disconnected from the choice of tool we use for creation.”
I don’t think the quality of the media is now, or has ever been, disconnected with the tools we use for it’s creation. I spent my first 20 years in this business making industrials, first film and then video, and everyone I worked with strove to do the best work possible with the best tools available. I don’t know how work can be disconnected from the tools you use.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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Jamie-
Who are you talking to here?
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Your articles don’t frighten me. For Adobe and HP lack of profit growth during a recession is hardly news – it’s not like they’re not profitable. As for Avid, even if they fail as a company, the editing software will get picked up by someone else – it’s too large a base to be thrown aside. The same way FCP Legacy would have been picked up if Apple chose to spin it off – a prospect I sorely regret the absence of.
I thought I was safe investing in Apple — what did that get me?
Safety has always been an illusion. That’s why I’ve been freelancing for over thirty years – this way I don’t get blindsided by the illusion of job stability. Either that or no one wanted to offer me a job.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush] ” The same way FCP Legacy would have been picked up if Apple chose to spin it off – a prospect I sorely regret the absence of.”
Apple can’t spin it off. There is a lot of Apple intellectual property from the original studio used in FCP X. If they sold it off, they would have to license the technology back from the buyer. The Color Board for example lifts a lot of technology from Apple Color. So a sale won’t happen.
I was hopeful that maybe someone like The Foundry would purchase FC Studio, but then someone explained all the property / licensing issues.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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[Herb Sevush] “Your articles don’t frighten me.”
The ones I sent?
It’s not meant to frighten, it’s meant to show the reality that nothing is certain.
I guess I’m one of the ones who said that the removal of MacPros from the Apple Stores is not a sign of the apocalypse.
I asked who bought a MacPro in a store. There was one person who was in a pinch when his main machine died. I also asked about HPs and Dells. What would happen if your z800 died? Apple removing the MacPro is probably a practicality. To buy BTO MacPros you had to order from the online Apple Store or reseller anyway. Joe Soccer Dad is going to the Apple Store for a MacPro, but rather to get iDevices and some accessories. That’s all I go for. I don’t buy any computers from brick and mortar Apple Stores as I usually buy the BTO options online.
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That’s interesting Walter, although I would have thought they could have made a deal contingent upon them retaining whatever licensing deals they wanted to hold onto. But that’s all water way under the bridge now. I can’t see them allowing FCP Legacy live to embarrass them – better to kill it off, after all what’s mere money to Apple.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush] “That’s interesting Walter, although I would have thought they could have made a deal contingent upon them retaining whatever licensing deals they wanted to hold onto.”
That’s what I said too, and I thought it made sense. But of course, when lawyers get involved, it all falls to heck. So the easiest thing to do is simply hold on to the legacy product so you continue to own everything that’s inside it.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “it’s meant to show the reality that nothing is certain.”
Death, taxes and the inability of the Jets to protect the quarterback.
[Jeremy Garchow] “I guess I’m one of the ones who said that the removal of MacPros from the Apple Stores is not a sign of the apocalypse. “
There’s way too much apocalypse going on around here, it must be something in the air.
[Jeremy Garchow] “Apple removing the MacPro is probably a practicality.”
I agree, the Apple Store argument is silly. The demise of the Mac Pro as we know it, however, is a reasonable conjecture. Not certain, but not silly.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf
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