Bill Davis
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[Oliver Peters] “My only surprise is the rise among FCPX editors, although I might be feeling like there’s more of that than there really is.”
Or it might be a tiny bit harder to notice here on the Cow…
The simple metrics of the site are pretty stark as to coverage branding if you just scan the surface…
If you put the board in “alphabetical” sort and look at the brand coverage…
19 Adobe Topics
7 Apple (3 just Legacy – 1 Motion)
3 Black Magic
1 AVIDEven bigger contrast if you sort by categories…
39 forums with Adobe in the title
16 with Apple (half of them for deprecated products)
8 with BlackMagic.
2 for AVIDTotally fair observation could be made that the difference simply reflects the reality of the wide scope of the Adobe offerings.
But if you’re looking for someplace to get your car fixed, if the preponderance of the signs are all about Chevy Branded services – and you don’t drive a Chevy – it kinda does send a pretty clear signal about the shop focus. That they have Ford or Fiat badges mixed in, might be enough to make you feel at home. But you kinda know that’s not where this particular shop is focused. Consider that here on the Cow, visitors get a custom place to discuss Prelude and SpeedGrade, but nowhere to discuss Compressor?
Maybe it’s just because Compressor isn’t complex enough to to generate the traffic to deserve a separate forum. Nothing wrong with that.This isn’t a big thing.
It’s completely fair to give people what they’re looking for – and the Adobe CC ecosystem absolutely deserves the coverage (maybe totally NEEDS it considering the complexity of navigating all the various standalone offerings – many of which have very large and “hungry for expertise” constituencies.”
Just noting that there IS a very visible difference.
FWIW.
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Do a web search on: FCP X Pan Law.
Any 6db anomaly – that’s the trigger that it’s pan law related.
T. Peyton has written extensively on why this happens and what you can do to fix it.
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[Oliver Peters] “What I find interesting is this. If FCPX users were completely happy with what Apple is doing with X, none of them would have any interested in Resolve as an NLE. Clearly that doesn’t appear to be the case. I would think it’s more than just a step back to a traditional source-record-track model. Something definitely is missing in X, even for those who like it a lot.”
Well, lets not overlook at least two of the other HUGE factors.
A – Resolve is not just FREE, it’s bundled with lots of industry sensible BM hardware purchases. (For many of us, reminiscent of how Windows initially took over the personal computing world,)
B – Combined with the fact that currently, Resolve remains an excellent color grading app first, and an NLE second.
It’s pretty hard not to notice that market interest in grading is very much on the rise.
No way to know how “Resolve NLE” would do if it was in direct “pay to play” head to head competition with all the other NLEs.
Also editorial thinking outside of the X camp continues to “think” in the traditional tracks that have been the default mode for the entire history of electronic editing.
Add all that up and IMO, any surprise at the rise of interest in Resolve, would be weird.
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I’m of a mind to give the Cow team time to refine now that they’ve introduced something new. (Imagine that!!!)
The only functional thing that’s really worth noting IMO, is that when I follow a thread link – it’s virtually impossible to know which of the responses down below that screen layout I’ve read or not unless I use the BACK button.
I’m positive that’s just something on the “to do” list – so I’ll gladly be patient while we see where this is all going.
My 2 cents.
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THIS seems entirely fair and on point to me.
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Probably just me since I have upgraded eyewear due tomorrow, but I’m straining a bit reading the new black on white approach.
On the forum top pages, the distinction between what’s read and what’s not is clear. But once I go the the thread itself, not much discernible difference.
Again, likely just my aging eyes.
Carry on.
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[David Mathis] “I can choose what I need and go from there.
“Poppycock! – (laughing)
If the customer has been buying six packs of root beer for YEARS and is HAPPY – don’t ever make them switch to a new-fangled soda dispensing robot machine.
They’ll go NUTS and hate you.
Some months later…
“Honey, you want regular or diet, caffeine or caffeine free – lime, raspberry, cherry, or vanilla flavor in your soda?”
Creator of XinTwo – http://www.xintwo.com
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Wow, Just pushed the wrong button and my post in progress totally disappeared. Shoot.
Anyway, restarting…
[Oliver Peters] “To add further context to this, FCPX launched after a string of Apple withdrawals from the professional video space. This included the demise of Xserve, Xserve RAID, and Final Cut Server. Add Color to that, although that was part of the FCPX launch. Another data point, but a bit behind the scenes, was that Apple’s custom sales and support personnel, who serviced professional customers, were reassigned. Those services were turned over to resellers who did a far worse job. Plus the withdrawal from major industry shows, like NAB and IBC. So what sort of message do those things suggest?
“To me the message was that the “professional video space” was changing fast. And Apple wanted to get ahead of that.
Look at the landscape.
FAR fewer Broadcast stations making big hardware investments. Bye bye healthy indy TV and smaller operators buying broadcast gear – now a handful of Megalith media giants doing ALL the production and feeding it via satellite into local markets. In fact, your local TV station might not be doing ANY production anymore,.
Production companies with mega investments noticing that talented kids with camcorders can suddenly make pictures that are just as pretty as any others.
Laptops that do everything (and more) that yesterday’s tower could do regarding video production.
Huge “in house raids”once necessary for pro editing getting pressure from much smaller, cheaper, desktop solutions.
That’s not the whole picture, certainly, and LOTS of professional solutions are still needed. But everyone knows that instead of a pair of BVU series Cameras on the purchase order like the old days, a production concern can spend the same for A C-500, Maybe a PAIR of C-100s and half a dozen Panasonic DSLRs for the reporters.
Look back at what Apple shed. Stuff that’s pretty much ALL supplanted by new approaches.
Color? Selling color software for more than dinner and a movie money for two couples -(which sadly today might be a couple of HUNDRED bucks! ) is kinda tough.
Trade shows? When you get at best hundreds of thousands of eyeballs for a million dollar investment in a trade show – and Apple can get Millions for a webcast of WWDC or a product launch, the value proposition is kinda stark.
Again, the change wasn’t so much OF the industry – it was kinda imposed ON the industry. Parts of it, at least.
Who knows where it will wind up.
Creator of XinTwo – http://www.xintwo.com
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[Andrew Kimery] ” Or am I misunderstanding you?”
Yes. You are.
Creator of XinTwo – http://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery. -
[Steve Connor] “When I said in my first post that there was nothing controversial in Bill’s blog, I may have been mistaken :)”
Dude, you’re posting in the “or Not” forum on the Cow. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G here is controversial.
It’s kinda the default rule.
; )
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The shortest path to FCP X mastery.