Andrew Kimery
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Cool, thanks for the info, Chris. How well does writing on the iPad Pro work?
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Congrats Todd, that’s a great accomplishment!
I’ve always looked forward to you threads and your comments!
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[Chris Harlan] “OneNote is actually a pretty amazing piece of software.”
Can you go into a bit more detail? I’m thinking about switching to OneNote from Evernote. I like Evernote’s features, they have made some policy changes that I don’t like so I’m thinking of migrating to OneNote.
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[Oliver Peters] “Regardless of the new machine to come, the upgrades on the current models make this year the best to buy that design.”
I think the best year to buy a nMP was in 2013. ????
[Chris Harlan] “Agreed. But they’re not actually upgrades, right? They’re price cuts. Or did I miss something?”
Yes, price cuts. No new tech in them.
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[Gregor Queck] “While funny: they had a clear vision in mind with this 2-gfx-card concept. They even built a framework for apps to use multiple cards. That the software wasn’t moving in this direction they couldn’t know. Also you should appreciate the wish for silent operation in a pro machine…. (you can read about it in the Gruber link)”
It goes beyond that though. Schiller says that they mistakenly made a machine than was un-upgradable due to thermal constraints. That’s not a market miscalculation, that’s a show stopping design flaw that should’ve been fixed before the product ever saw the light of day. Both Schiller and Federighi said upgradeability was a design goal of the next Mac Pro which hopefully means it’ll have room for off the shelf GPUs like the cMP. Or, it’ll have more than enough ThB 4(?) bandwidth to fully accommodate power eGPUs.
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[Dominic Deacon] “That’s more refering to their preference of a desktop over a console. “
My reference was more gaming-centric, but in my overall experience with people (both in real life and on various Mac and PC forums) I can’t say I’ve noticed once demo being inherently more clueless and/or platform loyal than the other.
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Apple admitting it made a mistake? That’s rare. I assume the speed bump is an attempt to clear inventory since they Osborne’d the current MP (Osborne Effect).
Curious to see what the new-new MP is going to be.
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[Oliver Peters] “Not in my frame of reference. It’s simply a”stand-in” for the original. I make a differentiation between proxy and ProResProxy. One is a substitute, the other a specific format. In fact, in Adobe’s “proxy” parlance, you can specify the size and codec of the “proxy” file. In other cases, a proxy file might be the same resolution as the original, but with a LUT and TC burn added.
Just like the terms offline and online editing. The de facto assumption is that offline would use lower-res media and online would use higher. But there’s nothing that says it can’t be the other way around.
“Haven’t thought of it like that before. Though even Apple and Sony use ‘proxy’ to refer to low res media that’s a place holder for the high res masters. Maybe my definitions just haven’t changed with the times?
[andy patterson] ” I don’t see loyalty to HP or Dell although there may be a few. Keep in mind there is a difference between real facts and pure personal bias.”
While now dated, have you ever heard the phrase, “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM?” Do you remember the Zune Tattoo Guy? There are certainly a lot of Windows/PC loyalists that wouldn’t be caught dead with anything made by Apple. Maybe you hang around too many Mac-centric places so you don’t notice, but get around a more general cross section of the computing user base (which is still by and large PC users) or go to PC-centric places and you’ll certainly run into those that vehemently prefer PCs (or as they are known in gaming circles, The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race ;)).
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[Oliver Peters] “This was still a proxy created for editorial, although “full quality”, but technically still a proxy. “
Proxy implies a much smaller, lighter weight file compared to the camera master. Maybe transcode would be a better term? Since we are talking about hardware required for the workflow, if someone told me the proxy workflow would require the same fast, expensive hardware as the online workflow I’d reply that their proxy workflow needed improvement. ????
With that being said, the Focus team did use actual proxies when editing on location so it’s not like they were trucking around big RAIDs with them all over the place.
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[Oliver Peters] “I think that’s really the crux of the comparison – rent versus own. “
Agreed. I’m just flummoxed as to why some hammer Adobe for its rental model even though renting is done by various entities and it’s as old as the industry itself. Hell, even as a freelancer/IC I make my living ‘renting’ my services out to others. I have repeat business and I get paid every time. If someone said, “I thought after I paid you the first time I’d never have to pay you again.” I’m not quite sure how I’d respond to that…