[Aindreas Gallagher]

realistically it’s going to be a 1V 2A import isn’t it?
that way it can slot to the primary storyline. Or actually having more audio stuff below could be fine couldn’t it? its just the connected clips and all that balls you’ll have to avoid?

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

BLOOD BOILING.

“…the only concrete detail being that Apple will not be incorporating a GarageBand-style user interface for the revamped application, likely sticking to a more complex interface more appropriate for the professional-level nature of the software. “

WHAAAAAT????
why is it only us getting creamed here? why can’t we have our more complex interface more appropriate for the professional-level nature of the software?

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6us2CHARNJo

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

yeah, if only the experience of operating that timeline wasn’t so shite, and the viewer wasn’t gone, and the keyframing wasn’t so screwed, and the effects weren’t such motion template tripe, and if only you could make a bin/bucket/container, and a video only overwrite didn’t still kill the audio on the clip you’re overwriting, and the audio waveforms weren’t unusable, and the broken out audio wasn’t a permanent operation that never shows off sync, and the arbitrary rules of connected clips and secondary storylines weren’t so stupid, (why can’t I make a dissolve?), if only they had retained soundtrack pro, if only the scrubber wasn’t so bloody annoying, if only the clip in and out points were persistent, if only in precision editor you could set the edit point on the playback space bar halt, if only that colour corrector had never been born, if only clips didn’t do ten frame dissolves when you deleted them, if you could only de-magnetise the timeline, if only you didn’t have to select the correct audioclip of the dozen on that days shoot in order to use audio sync feature, thereby making it half pointless really, and also if only it wasn’t so unreliable even when you had selected the correct audio clip, and if only it wasn’t so scarily buggy, Oh.. if only, if only, if only it all just wasn’t so shite.
I’m still generally annoyed, but at least you can get to AE for colour correction if you have to use it.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

yeah but, that was shagging apple that said it, and here’s a bloke who’s knocked together a full bore automatic duck with apparently little coding experience using applescript or something?

for 70 bucks? They’ll be slashing prices over at automatic duck at this rate.

I have to say – just the sight of that timeline opening up in AE was rather cheering. The editing paradigm in FCPX I think is still irretrievably screwed, but at least that’s magic bullet shot to shot grading sorted for 70 bucks.

It’s the first good news in a while this.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

yeah, it’s mad, I always appear to have *one* more frothing rant in me. ohh welll..

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

but it’s tricky isn’t it?

Everyone is using weirdly carefully language – god knows craig seeman is – there is a masking of basic discourse here.

How many times have we heard the various warbles of what the professional is or isn’t? or databases, or strategic apple something.

Sure people have received editing awards in the last three years knowing nothing of the wisdom of apple with regards to editing paradigms.

that must have been hell.

they could barely see the wisdom of Apple these editors, could barely see the fundamental truths of editing – truths from a company that could not give two flying shites if editing lived or died.
those blind editors could barely understand the wonders of connected clips, secondary storylines, or any of the other endless, worthless, stupid, lazy god-awful, prat imovie slapped in an editors face, sunday lunch bollocks apple came up with when making FCPX.

FCPX is, I contend, TOTAL AND UTTER gaudy apple, ill informed, POMPOUS HORSE SH*T SOFTWARE.

and that would be the rant.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

yeah – but isn’t this just a mad thing?

(mini rant)

we all know that apple operate on their ability to enter markets at moments of critical opportunity – that goes for everything for a decade – ipod, iphone, ipad, all the consumer stuff. And Macbook Air, in the end, maybe more than most. That laptop really appears to be terra-forming the entire laptop supply chain industry.

FCPX feels horrible for sure. Just a lazy scattershot guess at editing with some trendy metadata tagging thrown in.
For my part I will continue to re-iterate the basic flaws in timeline operation. I do not frankly see how anyone can get past the gluey, inaccurate feel of clip behaviour as you reposition in time on even the newest machines. that basic stuff I really think speaks volumes to the death of the professional software brain trust in apple. they didn’t spot that basic a fubar for god’s sake.

but – asking for towers to be everything they have been, for them to be competitively driven by major manufacturers with economies of scale, has to be whistling in the wind. A three foot tall tower is the equivalent of a really good DJ deck – it is, with every day, vanishing from its originating consumer market relevance. the vinyl is gone. Given the power available in a well specced consumer all in one, the very notion of a mute computing behometh with extra sets of ribs is gone. Or rather it is about to become very niche and accordingly expensive.

Apple are probably not going to produce another tower as we understand it, one would suspect.

It’s weird times – HP is going pseudo IBM, Windows is trying to shift to ARM, Windows 8, in the D9 demos, as it flipped between metro and the new windows explorer ribbon madness looked simply.. ludicrous(..and the woman demonstrating seemed incredibly uncomfortable?)
and… OSX now lacks persistent window bars, or a default representation of the hard drive at the desktop.

A victory for Steve Jobs there on the invisible hard drive.

Still – the ground underfoot is amazingly crazy no?

So one might possibly ask if there could, in all this bubbling looniness, be a bespoke, stable software environment purely for the humble craft of editing?
…with an agreed core set of persistent editing principles reliably presented? in software? to the host hardware?
Can I have a Union?

Anyway.
So, there was, say, a time when the practise of editing had a physical machine expression.

So we all get that this took place. We all draw directly from its practitioners. It is at least interesting to think about our basic consensual notions of editing; the stuff we all agree upon in the doing of it, as we all draw from the work of those who have done it before us.
God knows there’s a lot more of us via software now – sure if it was all steinbecks – I never would have got a look in.

but the degree to which we are all now insanely swamped in considerations of operating systems, graphics cards, the software itself, the intentions of the software providers, the state of computing itself – its gone a long way weird this hasn’t it?

Do we not have any culturally insistent and persistent craft delineations?

Writers don’t have this problem. Their keyboards are left alone. What exactly are we supposed to do here?

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

I think it very unlikely that mr. Jobs has not made his own personal, future considerations with regard to his accrued wealth. he lived in an almost completely unfurnished house for many years. He drew no salary at apple for many years.
However I think he is unlikely, in his lifetime, to be an image based giver in the style of buffet or gates. His own determinations could well become apparent later.

I pretty much love the story of him spotted walking out onto his lawn greeting Larry Ellison, when Ellison turned up with an insanely expensive car. Himself and ellison are, by all accounts, great mates. Jobs has had his SLK for a while.

I also love the story his neighbour tells of Jobs greeting them at the side door of the yard in his house at Halloween. Steve Jobs had decked himself as frankenstein for the evening and greeted his neighbour by name. her young son thought his mother the coolest thing for Jobs to have nodded grinning asking her into the gaff that evening.

I think it is a wee bit unseemly, (although the NYT article says they are at pains not to be, given his health considerations,) to call into question his intentions with regard to the disbursement of his wealth, given that he may well feel it something that can be properly triggered and executed at the time of his passing. I would dearly wish this to be a bit far off in the distance myself.

In the main I wish him very good health.

he is ill and deserves due consideration and respect.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Craig Seeman] “a single design which could have much wider use than the current MacPro. “

yes. I like the sound of it really.

It would feel quite neuromancer to walk in freelance to a workplace with a mmmm.. mac mini sized 64 cores of intel with a 4GB GPU and.. mmm.. 2 terabytes of flash. bang it on the table, thunderbolt to the display, display thunderbolt to the workplace NAS and we’re off away into our flash gordon future.

nice.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Craig Seeman] “that’s why I think it’ll be a workstation with limited PCIe and Internal storage.”

that sound OK. sort of modular like a red or something. so one would really just be buying umpteen processor cores and GPUs to hook up to storage and a display.
if they make it 1U we might as well call it macproxserve. (you’d have to say the ‘prox’ bit like ‘proxy’)

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