[Andy Neil]

If you select your library and open the inspector, you can set the location of your proxy files. Then when you transcode the proxies, they’ll go to that location.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

I’m not entirely sure I understand your problem, but my guess is that you have a lot of projects and you want a smart collection that only shows you the latest of them?

To do this, I recommend having a specified naming convention for your most recent project. Something like BESTVIDEO_CURRENT, or BESTVIDEO_LATEST. Then modify a smart collection to collect all files that are projects (type), AND contain the text “LATEST”. Then it should filter out all your other versions. This requires that when you version or make a snapshot, that you rename the snapshot so the word “latest” doesn’t appear.

Hope this helps.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

The implication that my examples don’t serve my argument is that Apple doesn’t have as good a reason for EOL’ing Aperture as Adobe had for Soundbooth or Avid had for Liquid. If the new Photos offers professionals and casuals what they each need from a single app, then isn’t that a good reason?

I remember Pinnacle Liquid because I worked with the Pinnacle folks at the facility I ran, putting Liquid through it’s paces in 2004 or so. I was entertaining solutions to replace our Avid Newscutters (ironically) and Liquid was one of my top choices.

It had some clunky features like overly cumbersome buttons and a UI that I wasn’t as sleek as Avid or FCP for that matter, but it also innovated in ways that blew Avid and Apple away. Color correction by adjusting inside the scopes, surround sound implementation, background rendering, far better real time than Newscutter at the time.

When Avid bought Pinnacle, I was sort of happy because I thought they would use Liquid to fuel innovations in Media Composer. Instead, they trotted Liquid out as it’s own product for 5 years and then killed it with as little concern for their user base as Apple is accused of having. My point was that every company has reasons to EOL software, Adobe and Avid included. Oftentimes it’s usually a means to focus their product line so they don’t have competing products. Does it make sense that Adobe killed Soundbooth for Audition? Sure. Just as it makes sense that Avid killed Liquid to stay focused on Media Composer (but why leave all that Pinnacle innovation on the cutting room floor?). It just seems to me that people are far more willing to eviscerate Apple for doing the same thing as every other software company.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

My guess is that the all the feature updates from 10.0 to 10.09 were things that were in the plan from the beginning (minus a few they probably didn’t think of like suspending connection points). Then through working with facilities and super users they discovered that the Events/Project setup they’d designed was not adequate to shared environment or media management so they redesigned the Libraries. Which led to this update which seems to be obviously taking advantage of the new paradigm to expand the media management capabilities.

I do think that they are working on additional solutions for audio (although personally, I think it’s almost there), and I think there’s stuff they want to do with project sharing or more facility based workflows. I think figuring out how to implement some of these type changes which aren’t immediately intuitive are making features updates slower.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

Bill,

That link doesn’t lead anywhere for me.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Any new keyboard shortcuts, like move a clip’s stacking order?”

Here’s what I’ve seen so far:

CTRL+L = adds or subtracts a specified DB level to selected clips without messing up keyframed audio adjustments. So if you want to raise levels of a section or whole project by 6db, you can do that. Works like the CTRL+D shortcut. value is visible in the TC window.

CTRL+OPT+L = sets an absolute value to selected clips audio. Say you want all clips to be at -10db.

There’s also a command for copying/pasting keyframes only, but I’m not sure if that was already there.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Mitch Ives] “I read the info… you obviously didn’t”

Oh I read it. The Apple statement which says that Aperture users will be able to migrate their photos to the new program. And the pure speculation on the part of a mac rumors website that it won’t offer professional features. And even they hedged their bets a little by saying it was “unlikely” to offer robust features.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see the point of getting up in arms over the speculation of something I haven’t even seen yet. This is the iMovie Pro crap all over again. You don’t know what this new program will offer or not offer, or what the development strategy will be, so all you’re really doing is resolving to hate it no matter what.

I can see being cautious or nervous about it especially if you use Aperture significantly, but proclaiming it an iToy without any specific knowledge is silly.

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Mitch Ives] “Seriously? It’s not a replacement for Aperture… it’ll be an “iToy” version. “

Oh, I didn’t realize you’ve seen it already. I thought Apple made all their beta testers sign NDAs?

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

[Greg Jones] “This is precisely why I would be nervous about using FCPX.”

It’s a pretty ridiculous claim if you consider for a moment. Apple is releasing a new photo app. A replacement for Aperture, it seems. It’s not like they’re getting out of the photo editing business. Just like when they EOL’d FCP7, it was because they’d released FCPX. Why would they have parallel development on competing apps?

And Apple isn’t the only company to do the same exact thing. Remember Liquid? Or Soundbooth?

Andy

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[Andy Neil]

Looks like some intuitive use fixes. Drag and drop import of clips and fixing the unintended animation between keyframes with the same position values are pretty significant along those lines.

Not really new features, but I like the ability to keep optimized and proxy clips wherever I want. This is definitely needed for shared storage use. Making X more intuitive is a good focus. To that end, I really want programmable window configurations and some more intuitive UI adjustments.

Andy

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