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What people fail to realize…
is that FCP X has been designed for the upcoming paradigm shift in desktop computing. The next generation Apple computer will have a 27″ and larger touchscreen surface which moves between vertical and horizontal. The keyboard and the mouse will go the way of the floppy disk and CD slot. Editing will become a much more intuitive experience, a cross between the early visual experience of KEM and Steinbeck machines where the film strips traveled under your fingertips and how Tom Cruise moved things around in “Minority Report”. You will be able to quickly re-arrange sequences and try things out. The whole process will be more tactile and intuitive. When these new machines come out in about 18 months time most of the missing things we like about FCP 7 will have been added. Here’s the link to the patent:
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Touchscreens are not the end-all-be-all of user interaction.
If you edit for 9 hrs a day like I do, a touchscreen editing would be deadly. Your hands & fingers would a mess before to long.Even on KEM & Steinbeck & Lightworks controllers, you wouldn’t move your hands and fingers as much as you would with a Touch UI. Not to mention you would still need a keyboard to enter in all of that metadata. I am just as fact with my Wacom and keyboard on Smoke as I was on Lightworks.
“… don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed.” – Vader
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That looks cool. But gimmicky. In any given project I could have thousands of clips. Where will all these clips be? If I could get a monitor the size of a wall I think it could work.
Editor/Videographer
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I’m buying stock in Windex.
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[Brian Mulligan] “Touchscreens are not the end-all-be-all of user interaction.
If you edit for 9 hrs a day like I do, a touchscreen editing would be deadly. Your hands & fingers would a mess before to long.”not to mention your neck and back from hunching over the touchscreen all day.
-mattyc
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Ampex had a linear editor that was touchscreen on a 20″ monochrome monitor. It didn’t work since the editor had his hands in the air all day. The monitor was vertical. No keyboard.
Quantel uses a pen interface to move clips around and make edits by cutting (swiping the pen across the frame boundaries).
So it could be interesting by combining both technologies.
Best,
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I want electrodes into my brain that are installed by a Genius at the Apple Store in the mall. Then I’ll float weightless in an isolation tank with a curved display screen filling the top, and magically magnetically shuffle clips at astonishing speeds. Just change my water on a weekly basis…..
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Still not that comfortable to edit all day looking down. I think the answer is a massage table. Yup. We lay on our stomach looking through that little donut at the touch screen. Wouldn’t hurt to get a massage while we’re at it as well.
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ROTFL
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I could go for that! Especially if I’m working on comedy, since comedy is so dependent on happy endings.
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[Doug Nichol] “You will be able to quickly re-arrange sequences and try things out. The whole process will be more tactile and intuitive. When these new machines come out in about… “
Humour?
You can already do this with iMovie on the iPad2. its a nightmare. Clumsy, (and what do you mean sequences? There are no sequenceS). The touch pad is hardly responsive and its worse than those FIDO ads where the voice-recognition robot assumes that you are a satisfied customer, when what is being expressed is psychotic incoherent death threats. I often wonder if Douglas Adams was thinking of Apple when he characterized the Sirius Cybernetics company — the bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.
I also get a kick out of people who use the work “paradigm” as if they knew what it meant, and no it doesn’t mean ‘new user interface’. While you’re at it look up the Wiki article on the word “hubris”. I can think of a new example which illustrates it more accurately than the latest calculation of “pi”. And those “tau” people are just being silly, IMHO. But Pluto isn’t a planet, anymore either, is it?
Bazinga.jP (Sheldon Cooper, PhD) o
You mean “Old Ben”? Ben Kenobi?
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