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Why are you still here? (part 3 in a continuing series)
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[Joseph Owens] “Should look pretty convincing on the big screen.”
Pff. You make it sound so, almost, professional.
In all seriousness, I am sorry for your loss, and I empathized when reading your previous post. I am glad that are still like minded people out there that can gather face-to-face in a real live room without throwing sticks and stones, even if some disagree on what tool is right for them.
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Sorry to hear that. I had a similar experience a few months back. But I did have the same experience at the memorial service; feeling a sense of community with people I hadn’t seen in ages. And even with people I thought I didn’t like or thought didn’t like me. For me that is the function of these rituals. To bring people together.
Tim
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I’ve let that question sit for a few days.
I’m here for two reasons.
It’s a good place to keep abreast of NLE development, skewed but decently so.
But it’s a GREAT place to directly experience ideological thinking in an arena that impacts my daily professional life.
Ideological thinking is a pet subject of mine. It was the disease of the 20th century, especially in the political arena – from Communism and Nazism at the extreme to middle of the road conservatism and radical liberalism, though true liberalism in theory seeks avoid ideology, but fails in practice with the frailty of the human mind. Now, it’s invading our relationship with technology, from extreme brand-ego identification to a related phenomenon, an NLE called, quite absurdly, FCPX, though in reality it’s more appropriately iMovie Pro 0.9.
What is ideological thinking? To paraphrase slightly from a good essay on the subject:
“Ideological thinking does not begin with the real in order to understand the natures of things, but begins in the mind, that is, with a theoretical system through which the real is interpreted. It begins with an already constituted “scheme”, a ready-made epistemological super-structurer to make sense out of the real, a structure through which certain data will be interpreted as significant, while other data will be ignored or seen as wrong.”
There is a strain of this here, running through most of the repetitive support for FCPX as a potential high end NLE. This is not to knock the software or even the ideas behind it. But those ideas are clearly a mixed message: lower end present functionality with higher end underpinnings whose future developmental directions are ambiguous. Ambiguous enough that it hardly seems reasonable to believe one knows what they are or how quickly they’ll come to fruition when all the evidence so far shouts “Who the bleep knows!”
Some last (related) thoughts on the extent of the ideological thinking going on here:
If any other company than Apple had released this software last June 21, would anyone still be talking about it? Would the software have lasted in the marketplace more than a few weeks or months? If any other company had cut its entire high end user base off at the knees would it still be left standing, let alone raking in cash? Let alone seeing its users debating its good future intentions?
The evidence is telling, my friends. The disease of the last century has just shifted to a new body.
David
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[David Cherniack] “The evidence is telling, my friends. The disease of the last century has just shifted to a new body.
“David, it really is just a piece of software you know
Steve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
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[Richard Herd] “But the clip must be its own project.”
[Jeremy Garchow] “Maybe we aren’t speaking the same language, but cut/trim a clip, right click on it, choose open in timeline, the clip is all by itself on a timeline, Share.
Step back in to your Project.”
I got excited when I read this, but when I tried it, it exports the entire project. I tried with 2 different projects. Same result. Could you be leaving out any pertinent details?
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***(Pardon the aspect ratio issue – the clip makes its point anyway) 🙂
David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
DRW@ProMax.com
http://www.ProMax.com
Sales | Integration | SupportDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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🙂
Steve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
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[Steve Connor] “David, it really is just a piece of software you know”
You make my point by thinking precisely that. 🙂
David
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How so
Steve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
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[Steve Connor] “How so”
[Steve Connor] “David, it really is just a piece of software you know”
Because, as evidenced by the discussion hereabouts, it’s not “just a piece of software.”
David
AllinOneFilms.com
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