Allan White
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Ha!
And, “[The] Folks who left were in support, not engineering. Next release will be awesome.”
We’ll see, but you think he’d trumpet something to the users. His attention is clearly elsewhere.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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I’ve heard they’ll have to do this to FCP to get all the Carbon out, which they’ll not support much longer. Adobe had to rewrite the CS apps – they’ve got leg up on that part. They really understand how to build good 64-bit Cocoa apps now.
Planning decisions: there’s a sore spot with me now. Whatever its faults (and there are many), Adobe at least telegraphs its intentions and some features so people can plan (and look at the way they kick out some betas like Lightroom). Jobs’ need for secrecy and grandstanding plays well in the consumer space, but us people who, you know, use their apps for a living have to live on rumors and wishes. It’s just not compatible with their consumer-space attitude. It makes it really hard to plan.
At least I don’t have to feel like I have to upgrade right away (since I don’t know when that will be). I can let others shake the bugs out (which we all know CS5 will have). But, it’d be nice to know when stuff was coming – and whether we should stay on the FCP platform at all.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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While I agree FCP development in particular (and Pro apps in general) are lagging, I don’t think the “Entire Pro Apps Team” was laid off. The article I saw was some FCP engineers were laid off in Texas. Got a prooflink?
I, too, am disappointed in the lack of announcements at NAB. But then why release new MBPs, with Pro Apps prominently featured on the page?
I wondered, too, if Apple was just done with non-mobile devices after the success they’ve had in the last few years in that space. They’ve redefined how we’ll interact with computers in the future. But then I realized: you can’t build iPhone/pad apps without OS X on a Mac computer.
No, Mac development hasn’t stopped. It’s no longer the very core of their business, but it won’t go away soon. It’s just going to change… how many years before the iPad OS matures and we’re editing, Minority-Report-style, on a powerful 50-core multitouch display? Probably less than we think.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Thanks everyone for sharing their upgrade experiences – Cow is the first place I look to see if the community is experiencing problems with updates.
Headed into my upgrade now… here goes! OS Clone is ready…
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Rolf’s advice is pretty much what’s worked for me. QuickTime is a bloated beast that has many strange oddities – it’s been continuously built upon since 1994. Here’s hoping QT X cleans that up eventually…
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Do you get the same results with the preview directory set to somewhere on your internal drive, say the desktop? Try changing it to something like that and see if the results are the same.
I’ve run into this problem and never really understood the solution. Sometimes permissions are to blame.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Anders, I really like “NameChanger” for renaming Mac files in the finder, it’s simple & free. Probably not a bad idea to do so before importing.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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I’d second the recommendation to find an experienced integrator (bryson is one) to help figure out your workflow. CatDV is powerful and enormously flexible, and all those choices can make finding the right blend kind of overwhelming.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Having just made the jump to Snow Leopard, I’d recommend running pretty much everything in 32-bit mode for the time being. There’s no real advantage to 64 bit unless you’re running more than say, 10GB of RAM anyway.
I forget how to set it permanently (you can hold down 3 and 2 when booting) but you could google that.
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server
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Squarebox have acknowledged others’ ideas for improving the Bulk Edit feature elsewhere in this forum, which is appreciated.
Here’s another refining idea: The copy/move from field is really powerful, but could be more so for building filenames. In addition to my suggestion on a token-based string generator, being able to truncate or limit strings would be magical. I used to use Excel to do this with formulas, and was nice for clip names.
Something like this: notes field says, “Comcast is so lame in the US” might yield a filename like,
Interviews-AW 001, "comcast is..".movTo build all of that in one operation (bin name, ‘person’ custom field, number, note field in quotes) would be really amazing. Consider it! =)
– Allan White, Video Producer, Luis Palau Assoc.
Quad 3Ghz Mac Pro, 10GB RAM, X1900 GPU, XSAN, CatDV Server