Bill Davis
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[Joseph W. Bourke] “”Do the best work you can with the tools you are comfortable with.””
Well, sure.
And I’m positive there will always be iconoclastic writers out there banging away on a Smith Corona or contentedly uncapping their Mont Blancs in order to get their thoughts down.
Heck, I think I might have spied an old IBM Selectric on the desk of Tom Wolf in one of his obit photos this past week, and God Bless his talent with that.
But nobody here thinks that isn’t the exception to the rule.
Sometimes, advancements (e.g. word processing) ACTUALLY improves the creative flow for the overwhelming number of practitioners who need to get their work done.
And so the industry moves on.
That’s all I’m saying. (And I’m pretty sure you know, down deep, that’s the case.)
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OTOH, the over-arching rule has always been: Adapt or Die.
If you choose to keep doing the same thing, in the same way – while the environment around you is radically changing – your days are numbered.
Period.
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Still being admittedly ignorant, but I think Oliver is on. LAN or SAN.
My presumption is that unlike accessing a direct media pool, data caching is a big part of making performance smooth.
If the system is calling for and caching “frames ahead“ – but not “frames around” – that might necessitate a minor “catch u” needed when your skimming direction changes.
And it would be that way no matter the nature of the compression of encoding.
It would just be a tiny spate of network access overhead involved?
Again, just guessing.
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[Shawn Miller] “TA3 and TA5 aren’t new, they’re just a variations on the XLR standard. “
Well of course.
But USB-C is equally just a variation on the USB standard – yet Apple adopting it was the worse thing that has ever happened to multi-media computing – cuz “dongles” are now required.
(Shudder)
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Maybe because frame caches are generally written to “read ahead” rather than “look behind” as their default?
But that’s pure speculation on my part.
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[Shane Ross] “No, we are talking things being dropped after two years…or less. Or conections vanishing altogether thus requiring adapters, but wow, not enough connections to accommodate all the things I need to attach. “
I get it Shane.
Apple is working has hard as it can to make YOUR life as miserable as they can.
The thing is, at each iteration, while YOU may not get anything as a result of the change you want. Some of us DO. Four ports on a laptop that all carry 100 watts of power and bi-directional data simultaneously may not be what you EVER need – and more, you and a thousand others may be torqued that you can’t have your beloved MagSafe connector any more. But others of us may actually PREFER to have additional capabilities of those ports. Maybe for more self powered drives on a DIT cart without the need to manage 3 additional wall-warts.
That’s the point here. Needs vary, features ebb and flow.
On another thread, somebody is bemoaning the fact that full sized XLRs are not available on Apple devices cuz thats the “standard for audio” – and it is.
But I still don’t seeing people trashing RED cameras because you have to buy adaptors to get your XLR audio in and out of THOSE – even tho those adaptors (dongle cables?) are far MORE costly than Apple’s dongles.
Red decrees a mini-XLR audio connector change on their cameras requiring new cables and expenditures – and Professionals are simply required to shut up and adapt to it — if they want to play the RED game.
Apple does the EXACT same thing — and OMG – it’s the sign of the Apocalypse!
Couch that in “fanboyism” if you like. That’s fine. For me, it’s just that my life feels much EASIER overall since I adopted the Apple workflow. Less stress. More progress. More ease.
That was the Apple brand promise, and they’ve largely delivered on that for me as an individual user.
That’s all.
YMMV.
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[Shawn Miller] “Right… as I said, audio only devices mostly use XLR interconnects, so I don’t see them becoming obsolete anytime soon. “
The only counter point I would make is that there are plenty of Professional devices (Red cameras, et al) that have dumped XLR auto interfaces for smaller variations of Mini-XLR, TA5F or even 3.5mm.
Of course, nobody really howls about them when they eschew the old XLR standard in favor of something smaller, less common and typically way more costly.
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[Shawn Miller] “I wouldn’t be surprised if XLR was still the dominant interconnect for audio 100 years from now.”
Then we’re betting differently.
AS I write this, I have at least a dozen 25, 50, and 100 foot XLR cables up for sale. Along with matching BNC terminated video cables.
At the last gig I participated in, driven by BlackMagic technology, Cat 5 cables displaced quite a few of them.
(tho in fairness, not all – many of the audio runs from mics to the board were still XLR. But from the Mixer to the actual recording devices – ALL were either Embedded signals on Cat 5 – or imported via memory card.
XLR was basically FOH for the audience mix only. Everything else was embedded digital.
And so it goes.
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[Michael Gissing] “The image of a container strapped to a Smart Car lingers.”
Yep,
That would be dumb. Just like those trying to park a Semi on the streets of a typical big-city downtown to move somebody into their new digs.
Typically those big rigs, have specialized routes into and out of the city – and the expectation is that when the goods get to the distribution center – fleets of smaller and more agile delivery vehicles are WAY better options for city delivery.
Maybe AVID on your laptop for generating the next generations video communications — will rise up and rule the future.
I wish them well on that path.
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[Shane Ross] “Apple USED to have several tiers of products. The laptops for consumers, then the ones for professionals. Now they have them ALL for consumers, but put PRO on some so they can charge more and consumers can go “look, I have a professonal laptop!” While they don’t really, as they don’t have ANY of the connectors they need for all the pro work. Well, besides Thunderbolt. “
Wow, just remembering how recently EVERYONE who used a laptop for video production was a wannabe.
Totally Unprofessional. A joke.
Look, I’m seriously sorry sorry that when I articulate how I see these things — it annoys you so much, but looking back – that’s been kind of a consistent thing.
IMO, It’s just about looking at disruption and change and deciding how you want to approach it.
And we’re clearly each wired differently in that area. I see things that have greatly ADVANCED my work in the changes Apple has made. For me the glass is WAY more than half full.
You apparently find constant reason to be upset about those same changes. Basically, the Apple glass is EVER below what you’re going to be comfortable with.
Well, so be it.
We see the same things through a different lens. You apparently enjoy the view through yours – I enjoy the view through mine.
Such is life.
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