Why is creativcow biased against FCPX

[Tim Wilson]

This deserves a proper reply, and I’ll give it one later today.

Super speedy:

— It’s all about timing. Apple was the lead story LAST WEEK, not THIS week. FCPX was the lead story in our newsletter last week, Adobe/Microsoft was this week, and it will somebody else next week.

You can see it for yourself at newsletters.creativecow.net, and it was also all over our social media, and yes, as was pointed out upthread, on the front page at creativecow.net, with MULTIPLE stories.

Here’s a screencap of PART of what went out in the newsletter LAST WEEK, when it was NEW(s).

— So why was some of this not stickied? Uhm, because we tend not to sticky active threads? They’re already at the top of the page.

— THAT SAID, I DID sticky Charlie’s awesome blog entry, Final Cut Pro 10.3 – A First Look. Many thanks to him for agreeing to let us syndicate his blog with us back in the day.

btw, his Final Cut Pro Babbling blog at fcpxpert should totally be part of your regular rounds.

Apologies yoo for not noticing that WordPress’s RSS feed was broken, and missing some more recent entries, Charlie! I’ll go back and add the missing entries by hand.

AND FOR THE REST OF YOU — what are you doing that I can syndicate? Do you have a blog? A podcast? Lemme know! I’ll post it!

— BUT WAIT? WHY IS IT NOT AT THE TOP OF THE FORUM? Operator error. I hit the “Sticky” button for the thread that I made to announce that we’d posted Charlie’s blog entry, assumed it stuck, and didn’t notice that it didn’t. My bad. I did it wrong.

(Technically speaking, it’s not a proper thread, but an announcement of a blog entry, so I needed to have been making the changes at the SOURCE of the post. Oops.)

So, with thanks for pointing it out, and thanks to our IT director Abraham Chaffin, I fixed it. It’s now stickied.

— WHAT ABOUT THAT OTHER STUFF UP THERE? We sticky EVERY new article of general interest, and they typically go away at the end of the week that they’re posted. The two that are up there now are set to go away tomorrow.

If there’s a really strong objection to them there now, I can take ’em down sooner.

As others have pointed out, those articles do both reflect conversations going on in this forum. MOST of the articles we post come out of ideas from this forum.

— Since most of you don’t visit EVERY forum at the COW, you may not have noticed that this is the ONLY forum I post in. Not only do I enjoy this forum, I like X.

— And I have to tell you, it really steams me PERSONALLY to be accused of anti-Apple or FCPX prejudice when I have taken so much personal shit for being an Apple whore. The only outrage expressed at me in well over 20 years online has been for my CONTINUED enthusiasm for Apple’s initial rollout of X, as well as the decision to immediately axe Legacy development and official distribution.

(As well as my continued pointing out that YOU CAN STILL BUY IT TODAY, so dinging Apple for THAT is on YOU, not Apple.)

If you can find an earlier, more enthusiastic proponent of X in the COW’s archives, I’d love to hear about it. I was there. I sure don’t remember any, and I sure remember the grief I took for it.

— btw, here’s the article I wrote about WTF just a few months ago. Not the multi-part epic spectacular treatment they gave it at fcp.co, which I remain in awe of…but considering that this was just me, and my hands are generally pretty full, I think I SLAYED it. Apple FCPX and the Making Of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

And I promo’d the shit out of it. LOL All over the site, all over the web. I’m pathetic and I need validation (obviously), but I also really hustled on it, and felt it was a nice bit of writing, on top of everything else.

— So why no major coverage of the laptops? I TRIED. I actually started a thread INVITING people to say nice things about it. It failed. I don’t take this personally, although, in my never-ending search for validation, it’s hard, I admit it. LOL

Okay, the accusation that we’re under the thrall of our advertisers is one I take seriously, and will address at length a bit later today. I’m happy to stand accountable…and again, I encourage you to try to find another site/publication that is more willing to stand accountable and transparent. You won’t. They don’t exist.

For now, I’ll just say, if you can find an Adobe ad here, please let me know. LOL That will allow me to stop pestering them for advertising. LOL

Kidding aside, Adobe has obviously been a huge supporter over the years, and they’ll be back, but saying that there are Adobe ads all over the COW when there haven’t been any for months is — I say gently — an indication of how far off the beam I find the heart of that post to be.

It still merits a fuller response, which, again, I assure you I will get to in just a bit, later today.

More soon,

Tim Wilson
General Manager, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Andrew Kimery]

[Bill Davis] “So it’s so very useful to be able to cruise around the interwebs and learn – so far in advance – just how much Apple has screwed them up.
“

Not everyone needs a hands on test drive to know something won’t fit. Ex. A few years ago I was car shopping and needed something that could ideally fit 4 adults plus a carseat with enough room for some groceries, luggage, or stroller etc., in the trunk. Needless to say I didn’t feel the need to test drive Boxsters and Miatas before ruling them out. ?

[Bill Davis] “On second thought – I suppose it does make me a bit all misty and nostalgic to mentally re-live the X launch.”

You mean it will be pretty lightweight at launch and get a lot better a few years down the line? ? That fits in with Oliver’s link to a rumor in another thread here that speculates that Apple will release a MBP as early as next year that will have 32gig of RAM and a much improved CPU.

[Tim Wilson] “– And I have to tell you, it really steams me PERSONALLY to be accused of anti-Apple or FCPX prejudice when I have taken so much personal shit for being an Apple whore.”

I wouldn’t call you a whore… but you can be surprisingly bullish on Apple at times. 😉

[Scott Witthaus]

Those with Ad Blockers would never know….

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Tim Wilson]

[Andrew Kimery] “I wouldn’t call you a whore… but you can be surprisingly bullish on Apple at times. ;)”

And of course bear-ish. LOL I’ve had plenty of negative stuff to say, and will be adding some to a few of the threads underway here soon. ?

Also re: Adobe advertising, after playfully lamenting that we haven’t had any Adobe advertising for months, I just got a note that they’d like to start a campaign today. LOL This has nothing to do with my article, I assure you — if anybody there has seen it, I’d be shocked — and everything to do with a very energetic few months of announcements and releases climaxing at MAX, which many folks here have both noted from afar and from their attendance in person as we speak.

More about the rest anon….

[Charlie Austin]

The only bias I detect here — and it’s very obvious — is that in favor of Cows. What, no other livestock are capable of creativity?!? This is an egregious affront to other animals, and any thinking, caring person should not stand idly by for it!

I’d go so far as to call it bulls**t, but that implies that bulls**t is somehow worse than other type of s**t. And that would be wrong.

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[Richard Herd]

laughed so hard I nearly spit out my coffee 🙂

[Scott Witthaus]

[Tim Wilson] “It still merits a fuller response, which, again, I assure you I will get to in just a bit, later today.”

Whoa. This was the short response? 😉

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Richard Herd]

[Winston A. Cely] “I ignore the ads…
“

I do the opposite. I even turn on the cookies so that people selling products that I want can find me.

[Tim Wilson]

[Bill Davis] “It’s a few days after the launch of arguably the MOST significant re-design of FCP X since it was released – and the sticky threads tacked to the top of the FCP X debate forum are about … Adobe and Microsoft.

nuff said?”

All of which I discussed in my first reply. I’m trying not to go through the thread and reply to each point individually, but I do hope you’ll check it out. 🙂

[Bill Davis]

I find the “it was just timing” thing to be perfectly credible.

So that’s that.

Just realize that people have been dinging Apple for not updating X – relentlessly – for months. Now they did. In a HUGE way. In our community that’s a VERY BIG deal.

To see it get barely a week of notice – then the top of the X forms had Adobe and MS threads tacked to the top of this place, just felt a bit weak.

In IRL terms, it’s generally not that you forgot to say something nice to your wife – you hope you do that regularly.
It’s that you let it appear to be that you didn’t say something nice ON the actual date of your big anniversary.

That tends to get noticed more. ; )

And finally, just notice that the Adobe post SEEMED to be a pretty direct PR copypasta – with attendant hyperbolic adjectives like BREAKTHROUGH – while the X post gets the nice neutral “it’s just a little FIRST LOOK here – nothing to get all that excited about” moniker. (my interp – YMMV)

Probably just my advertising brain at work here.

Back to my business now.

I’ll try to keep checking in occasionally whilst I use my spoon to dig out from the avalanche of work before me.

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The shortest path to FCP X mastery.