Alan Kelley
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Yeah, IBM may have started it, but it has spread throughout the computer community like a contagion. My all time favorite fudism was those Apple ads with the thinly veiled fascist hipster Mac and the bumbling dufas PC, making limiting a user’s options seem like something worth spending more money on. So insidious– I never wanted a video camera on my laptop, but gotta pay extra for it if you want a Mac– no options there. It’s more than just limiting options, it’s the creation of a culture that enthusiastically embraces stricter constraints. I guess there will always be those who get excited about being told what’s what, vs those who want freedom of choice. What’s fascinating to me is that the so called, ‘creatives’ have been so easily taken in by that sort of propaganda. Very curious.
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Yes future proof. And because project sharing is so easy, there are now Avid Unity based cloud options by 3rd party vendors that allow users all over the world work on the same project using proxys for off lining derived from a single repository. Just get your proxies delivered via dsl if you want. I guess FCP can use Unity too, it’s just a little clunky to use since its basic architecture wasn’t designed for sharing. I wonder if this hasn’t something to do with why Apple is conceding the high end to Avid with its introduction of FCP10.
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She was going to me coz she was tired of having to supervise her old editor and I don’t need supervision as I’m used to taking raw footage and creating stories. Yes I would have been available to do the tweaks. No I wasn’t paid. What’s happening with Lion; why all bets off? I think comfort zone was a big part of it.
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I used FCP full-time for 3 years, but was never able to work as fast as I could on Avid, and was quite happy to leave it behind. Mostly just the basic interface functions for tasks you need to do every day, like sub-sequencing–all simple and fast drag and drop stuff in Avid, cutting the subs without trashing the originals; not having to export a section and re-import for fear of losing rendered effects; no ScriptSync type function which is faster even on small projects; not having to do multiple keystrokes for basic one-key functions, etc. I’ve heard they made sequence editing work better, so maybe that’s been fixed. But unfortunately, I should have both FCP & Avid just to cover myself. I guess it’s just one more necessary evil to deal with. Switching between Mac & PC though or between Avid and Premiere is easy. What is self-serving, here is my resistance to have to buy and use a system that is sub-standard, kinda annoying. But gotta do it. Thanks, you just gave me that little push I needed to jump back in with the shark that used to bite me everyday, lol.
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Not so sure about FCP10 taking a nose dive. I just read an enthusiastic blog by a highly regarded industry player in L.A. about how great it was to have your video and audio locked coz now you can ripple edit and have the tracks in sync! I asked, but you can ripple as many tracks as you want? No, just the one. What?! Avid has never cared how many tracks you want to ripple at once; L-cuts, music track, snd fx track– they can all be rippled at the same time if needed keeping them all in sync as you go. People buy this stuff because they don’t know about the easy to use alternatives. There’s an FCP/Mac propaganda machine out there it seems, ha! Not sure it’s going to fade so quickly.