The New Mac

[Steve Connor]

[Herb Sevush] “One, that is actually designed for my workflow, as opposed to the r2 which is designed to sit on the imaginary desk of an imaginary editor who’s connected to nothing other than his own assh*le.”

So why haven’t you made the switch to a PC based workflow?

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Jeremy Garchow]

The current MacPro case was designed to be looked at as well, or at least, grate fresh cheese on your lunch pasta. This did not stop people from putting in closets.

Thunderbolt allows a much easier extension because, by it’s very definition, you can have any port any where as you are extending both data and display x6. You don’t have to run all connections* directly back to the mothership, just several fat pipe tentacles.

*Edit for too many words

[Jeremy Garchow]

FCP7 is still too good.

Herb says it takes a least a few years to switch NLE’s, I think it takes a few years for NLE’s to catch up with some of FCP7s capabilities.

It’s either half full, or half empty. I don’t really know.

[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] ” You don’t have to run all connections* directly back to the mothership, just several fat pipe tentacles.”

So when you rotate the pod to get access to the i/o ports I guess those large thick pipe tentacles are just going to effortlessly glide along with it. Beautiful. It seems as well thought out as apple’s cinema display connector boxes.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Jeremy Garchow]

It is much harder to reach behind a current MacPro and find your way around the small PCI card abyss.

For the most part, unless I need to swap a Thunderbolt cable, I will not need to spin the JetPacPro around.

You know what the most convenient ports are on my current MacPro? The Sonnet Qio.

Why?

Because the PCI is extended and I can put it in a more comfortable position rather than trying to attach everything to the back of the Mac where I can’t see it, or have to haul all 40ish pounds of MacPro off of the floor every time I need to load a media card or attach a sata drive.

[Herb Sevush]

[Steve Connor] “So why haven’t you made the switch to a PC based workflow?”

Waiting on price info and still trying to decide which NLE will be next. If the price is good and I’m stuck with X, then the r2 gets the cash. I’m trying to figure out the least bad option, and it takes time.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Steve Connor]

[Herb Sevush] “Waiting on price info and still trying to decide which NLE will be next. If the price is good and I’m stuck with X, then the r2 gets the cash. I’m trying to figure out the least bad option, and it takes time.
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I’m lucky it was easy switch for me but we should know in the next few months where FCPX is heading, hopefully that will help you make a decision.

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Steve Connor] “we should know in the next few months where FCPX is heading, “

I do hope the supposed MacPro FCPX update that has been sort of announced by Apple is a good update, not just some behind the scenes MacPro sweetening to X.

[Herb Sevush]

[Steve Connor] “we should know in the next few months where FCPX is heading, hopefully that will help you make a decision.”

I doubt it. I figure X is X and I’m not expecting any major changes.

My two major needs for an NLE are robust multicam handling and native ProRes workflow. PPro has ProRes but not good multicam, Avid has good multicam but not good native ProRes. I find it hard to accept, but at the moment FCPX is the only system out there that meets those two specific requirements.

Lightworks is my last hope, and I need to wait till they release the OSX version to test it because I currently don’t have a PC editing station.

So in the end I might wind up choosing X even though I dislike EVERYHING about it’s design philosophy.

The universe has a wicked sense of humor.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Charlie Austin]

[Ty Vann] “Surely, pros have better things to worry about.”

You must be new here. 😉

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