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The new Reality Distortion Field.
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[Shane Ross] “No, we are talking things being dropped after two years…or less. Or conections vanishing altogether thus requiring adapters, but wow, not enough connections to accommodate all the things I need to attach. “
I get it Shane.
Apple is working has hard as it can to make YOUR life as miserable as they can.
The thing is, at each iteration, while YOU may not get anything as a result of the change you want. Some of us DO. Four ports on a laptop that all carry 100 watts of power and bi-directional data simultaneously may not be what you EVER need – and more, you and a thousand others may be torqued that you can’t have your beloved MagSafe connector any more. But others of us may actually PREFER to have additional capabilities of those ports. Maybe for more self powered drives on a DIT cart without the need to manage 3 additional wall-warts.
That’s the point here. Needs vary, features ebb and flow.
On another thread, somebody is bemoaning the fact that full sized XLRs are not available on Apple devices cuz thats the “standard for audio” – and it is.
But I still don’t seeing people trashing RED cameras because you have to buy adaptors to get your XLR audio in and out of THOSE – even tho those adaptors (dongle cables?) are far MORE costly than Apple’s dongles.
Red decrees a mini-XLR audio connector change on their cameras requiring new cables and expenditures – and Professionals are simply required to shut up and adapt to it — if they want to play the RED game.
Apple does the EXACT same thing — and OMG – it’s the sign of the Apocalypse!
Couch that in “fanboyism” if you like. That’s fine. For me, it’s just that my life feels much EASIER overall since I adopted the Apple workflow. Less stress. More progress. More ease.
That was the Apple brand promise, and they’ve largely delivered on that for me as an individual user.
That’s all.
YMMV.
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[Bill Davis] “[Shawn Miller] “Right… as I said, audio only devices mostly use XLR interconnects, so I don’t see them becoming obsolete anytime soon. ”
The only counter point I would make is that there are plenty of Professional devices (Red cameras, et al) that have dumped XLR auto interfaces for smaller variations of Mini-XLR, TA5F or even 3.5mm.
Of course, nobody really howls about them when they eschew the old XLR standard in favor of something smaller, less common and typically way more costly.”
TA3 and TA5 aren’t new, they’re just a variations on the XLR standard. They’ve been in use on compact audio devices for years (it’s the standard for Audio Technica body packs and on camera recievers)… you can get the connectors from $1.50 to $10.00 a piece (depending on brand) and 150 feet of cable for about $50 US, so cables aren’t expensive to build. Mini XLR makes sense in the Red camera IMO, since their focus is on higher end film production. Cinema shooters don’t usually complain much about audio connectors because they’re a lot more likely to record double system. Silicon Imaging’s (RIP) first camera didn’t even record audio… Blackmagic’s first cinema camera had 1/4″ TRS connectors, and didn’t even have audio meters! Come to think of it… I’m not sure Kinefinity camera can even capture audio.
Shawn
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Red has minijack inputs on their basic I/o module but the “pro” I/o has xlr connectors.
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[Shawn Miller] “TA3 and TA5 aren’t new, they’re just a variations on the XLR standard. “
Well of course.
But USB-C is equally just a variation on the USB standard – yet Apple adopting it was the worse thing that has ever happened to multi-media computing – cuz “dongles” are now required.
(Shudder)
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[Tom Sefton] “Red has minijack inputs on their basic I/o module but the “pro” I/o has xlr connectors.”
Ahhh, I didn’t know that, thanks.
Shawn
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[Bill Davis] “[Shawn Miller] “TA3 and TA5 aren’t new, they’re just a variations on the XLR standard. ”
Well of course.
But USB-C is equally just a variation on the USB standard – yet Apple adopting it was the worse thing that has ever happened to multi-media computing – cuz “dongles” are now required.”
Not exactly, USB-C is an update to the USB spec, it’s more than just a connector type. TA3 OTOH is just a connector, that’s why you can wire full sized XLR on one end of a cable and TA3 to the other end, no conversion necessary. I suspect fewer people would be upset about USB-C on the Macbook if the solution was an inexpensive cable with a different connector on the computer side.
Shawn
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