Andy Neil
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I see. You’re talking about the 2-up window you get from using something like the roll tool and I was referring to the trim window. I really never paid much attention to the roll tool’s 2-up display because I only use the roll tool for rough trims. When I need to be exact, I use the trim window.
It’s nowhere near as good as the Avid trim window (and Premiere looks like maybe the best implementation), but it works fine.
Andy
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You can trim with keyboard shortcuts in the 2-up window in FCP7. I’m doing it right now.
Andy
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Nope. Unfortunately the only way to see the 2-up display is by using the mouse. Hopefully this will be addressed; I’ve offered them this feedback often enough. My best suggestion is to use the precision editor and zoom in on the edit point so that using the mouse will adjust by single frames.
Andy
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[Craig Seeman] “Apple’s way is not ASUS’s. I suspect they have a more elegant solution which may take more time to implement. “
Not sure what ASUS means, but I agree that they are not simply going to cobble together new tech like thunderbolt into an existing tower design. If that were the case, they’d have released it last year.
The reason I think there’s an issue somewhere, is that typically Apple has a pretty predictable update schedule. New Mac Pros are already late, and to have it now confirmed that the update might even be over a year away from now makes me wonder what the hold up is.
With the virtual beating that Apple’s been taking from the pro community for a year now due to the FCPX roll out, I feel that if Cook could have announced a new tower, that he would have, if only to show the pro community that he still wants their business. I think that’s what is behind the recent semi-forthcoming PR moves. He had to know going into WWDC that a lot of people’s first question after the keynote was going to be, “Where’s the Mac Pro?”
Andy
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Speculating on the reason for Apple’s timetable is meaningless, but if I were to hazard a guess, I’d say that there is some technology element holding up the process, or a complete redesign is underway and is radically different, preventing them from releasing something quick. Perhaps they can’t make retina displays for large monitors yet in significant numbers. Perhaps they’re working on a new motherboard design that doesn’t use standard components and they are building the components themselves. But I do think that if you assume they are planning on updating the line (or launching a replacement line), they would do it this year if they could.
Cool motherboard though.
Andy
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[Walter Soyka] “Apple would not have approved this verbatim, as there is no such computer as “the Mac” (the error I noted above). We can therefore assume that this is not an official statement.”
Exactly. As I stated, the Forbes article was likely written off an email/phone response from Apples PR dept. requesting confirmation of the Pogue story. This was not a press release. If it HAD been an official statement, it would have been in quotes.
But the only thing we can “assume” from the erroneous mention of the “Mac” computer is that the copy editor for the website missed a spelling mistake.
Andy
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Apple has a press department, not a singular press secretary or PR guy. The very likely scenario that occurred is that the Forbes writer, Connie decided to ask Apple about the David Pogue story that ran in the Times. She likely sent an email to Apple’s press department asking whether they could comment on the story. She then probably received another email back where the story or parts of it (specifically relating to new iMacs and Mac Pros in the pipeline) were confirmed to be true.
That is a circumstance that would explain how the article was written. Writing “Apple says…” is analogous to saying, “The Obama administration says…” It means that information was passed to the press attributable to the company, but not necessarily to a specific person. This happens all the time in journalism.
Since Connie was likely only confirming an existing story, there was no one to interview on her part. No name to put to the confirmation. In David Pogue’s situation however, things are a bit murkier. But since Apple is a tight-lipped company, is it all that surprising that David would only be able to get a quote from someone on the inside provided he didn’t divulge their identity? This also happens a lot in journalism.
To me, the Occam’s Razor explanation is this: David got someone to speak off the record, who said that they were working on new computers. This was done either against Apple rules, or with the blessings of Tim Cook. In either case, Apple maintains it’s outward persona of secrecy by keeping the “executive” unnamed. Then, after the outcry following the non-announcement yesterday, Tim Cook decided that confirmation of the “insider” story was a simple way to get the word out to those who are spelling doom and gloom on the various message boards.
Andy
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[Mathieu Ghekiere] “I’m talking about breaking apart the audio and video, and not detaching it.”
Well, since the command in FCPX for “detaching” the audio from the embedded video is called, BREAK APART CLIP ITEMS or alternatively DETACH AUDIO, you can see why I misunderstood you. The feature you’re describing is called, “expand audio/video”
I guess I don’t really see the problem. Not every clip needs a J or L cut and since you can lasso a bunch of clips and expand them all at once, I don’t see the current configuration as particularly troublesome.
Andy
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[Mathieu Ghekiere] “I told them that they should have a button that you could break apart the video and audio of the project, and it would do that for every clip you add. Then it’s still in sync, but it reduces a LOT of the clicking. “
That would be a disaster unless they also added sync indicators.
Andy
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It sounds as though you have some kind of filtering going on in the event browser. Look at the top of the event browser window. There is a drop down. Choose All Clips from the menu in order to see all clips regardless of favorited/rejected status, keywords, etc.
Andy
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