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Tonight’s the night
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I heard they’ll be announcing this new thing called a magnetic timeline. It will revolutionize video editing!
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[Davee Schulte] “I heard they’ll be announcing this new thing called a magnetic timeline. It will revolutionize video editing!”
Wow. Snark on the internet. Just imagine that?
Actually, I’m monitoring John Davidson’s Twitter feed from the LAFCPUG meeting.
He just tweeted that Apple confirmed at the meeting that later this year we’ll be getting “multichannel audio editing tools.”
So the evolution continues…
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Man, some harsh comments on Twitter around the #lafcpug #fcpx demo. Some of the attendees threatening bodily harm. You stay classy, LA.
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Seems they forgot the ‘New’ in ‘New Features’. :-/
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The new features announcement seem to mirror what’s been on the Apple website for weeks. Apple has to stop being secretive, vague, and non-committal. That’s old skool.
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[Andrew Richards] “Man, some harsh comments on Twitter around the #lafcpug #fcpx demo. Some of the attendees threatening bodily harm. You stay classy, LA.”
Yep, a SURE way to get Apple to be more forthcoming is to make absolutely sure to TRASH them at every single baby step they take toward openness.
Welcome to the era of the new Roman Twitter Coliseum.
Mark my words, the BlackMagic camera will ship – and no matter how cool it might be – there will be legions of twitter-twits and semi-pro haters prepared to tell us how crappy it actually is because it won’t be totally perfect.
What an era.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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[Bill Davis] “Yep, a SURE way to get Apple to be more forthcoming is to make absolutely sure to TRASH them at every single baby step they take toward openness.”
Fawning adoration didn’t work so why not try open critique? The fact that Apple are making an effort to talk opening is because people have been openly critical. So by all mean keep the public bashing if it will actually make them more open.
Personally I doubt Apple will do anything differently but it sure is cathartic.
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It seems Apple can’t help itself. Billing the demo as ‘new features’ sets wrong expectation. Much like calling the MacPro ‘new’ — They planned a “mythbuster” preso and did that…should have billed it as such.
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[Michael Gissing] “Fawning adoration didn’t work so why not try open critique? The fact that Apple are making an effort to talk opening is because people have been openly critical. So by all mean keep the public bashing if it will actually make them more open.
Personally I doubt Apple will do anything differently but it sure is cathartic.”
Please.
Show me one second after the 15 minute mark of the X launch at NAB 2011 where the program has experienced such widespread “fawning adoration” – I dare you.
So I think you’re starting out with an false premise.
The only thing X debuted with was massive mis-understanding. Nobody understood the magnetic timeline. nobody understood the Event Browser, nobody understood the relational database, nobody understood connected clips, compound clips or even how to export a piece of work for the initial weeks that FCP-X was relentless bashed as “iMove lite” largely by a class of pundits that had never touched it.
After what, about 3 months – the discussion finally started to change. Less mindless bashing and more examination of the new concepts.
Now, hardly anyone but the clueless yells about the “magnetic timeline” unless everyone discovered you can turn it off with a trivial “P” keystroke.
The debate continues, but now largely about what X is good for – and what types of editing needs tools that X doesn’t feature.
Lots and lots of working editors are using it.
And we’re doing just fine with it.
I’ll end with my traditional question, Michael.
What doesn’t X do “right now” that’s the stopper that you think will cause an editor problems using it?
(BTW, I acknowledge that there are certainly things in this classification, just fewer than many non-users of the software imagine, IMO.)
I’m truly interested to know.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Bill I am bored with repeating myself about why X doesn’t work for me. Look it up if you want my traditional response.
Fawning adulation for Apple preceded X by over a decade. Apple have had a history of stony silence and gushing prediction by their user base. When edit pros scream murder they are not making it up. Expectations dashed makes for noisy angry punters. So what are Apple doing? More of the same.
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