Bill Davis
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[greg janza] “the endless adapters and add-on units required just to use industry standard features that Apple has deemed no longer necessary. Yep, that’s quite a positive.
“Meh,
They are bridges from the old to the new.. Only people going somewhere need bridges.
You buy into the travel, or you don’t.
Everyone’s free to choose.
Good luck with yours.
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[Tom Sefton] “I, and everyone I know that shoots pro video typically needs usb 3, thunderbolt 2, headphone out/in, 10Ge and sd/flash card readers on a weekly basis. “
Tom, the issue with this view is that 15 years ago, that list for me was COMPLETELY different.
I needed SCSI, Parallel ports, XLR, Maybe the emerging Firewire 400. Nearly all of those are obsolete now.NONE of those lasted, (except perhaps XLR, tho it’s under great stress as audio is increasingly embedded into SDI signals and transported that way.
I know Apple tends to move to standards faster than a LOT of the market prefers – but it hasn’t slowed down adoption of their vision at all.
My next laptop transition, I too will lose my headphone jack. But oddly, I lost it on my phone two generations ago – and it hasn’t stopped me from monitoring and working with audio feeds from my phone at all. I can use the supplied lightening to 3.5mm adaptor OR use Bluetooth – and when I need to work with audio from my phone via something other than the internal speaker – it’s not an issue at all. That’s simply how I see ALL these i/0 challenges. We fight it because it’s “abnormal” to us – then our idea of “normal” adapts.
Just how progress happens.
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Bob,
I’m sure there are multiple reasons for the choices you mention Apple having made to modify or eliminate traditional “ports” drilled or machined into the iPhone body as it has evolved.
Yes, one way to view these choices is to viewed them as capabilities that have been “removed”.
But there are other ways to view them.
One might perhaps be that with a device that accompanies people on their busy daily lives – and that we increasingly rely on for personal safety and security – not compromising the devices integrity by needlessly drilling headphone jacks and data ports into it, serves to increase its reliability.
It’s lightness and thinness might make it more likely to be something a person takes everywhere.
Avoiding drilling or milling holes in it might make it more reliable when they do.
As to “professional ports” it seems you are mistaking a mass market multipurpose product for a “video industry specific device.”
No company can sell millions of units EXCLUSIVELY to top tier video professionals.
They CAN provide options to allow those folks with niche needs to adapt the base units to their needs – and that’s pretty much exactly what you describe.
And I’m not sure how we’re “suffering” when MacBook Pros skemready tend to dominate our industry at the top tier.
Could they be better for our needs? Sure. But the marketplace already judges them as “very good.”
So, in this case, isn’t this just another case of Apple not designing things the way you think they should — to best accommodate your particular needs?
Which I totally understand- because I want exactly that too!
But I try not to get too grumpy because Apple aparently has more in mind than what “I” need.
Just my thoughts.
Have a great day.
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[Oliver Peters] “Or do you?”
I’d ask them, but Metronome is in the middle of a facilities move and huge expansion right now.
The guys keep posting photos of stacks and stacks of new iMac and iMac Pro boxes as they build things out.
And I know they are simultaneously getting ready to launch a 24 camera reality show – so I don’t want to ping them at the moment. They look pretty busy!
But when things settle down, I’d be happy to ask.
And I suspect as complex as this new show they are mounting appears – it will likely end up on FCP.Co as a case study maybe next year.
I’ve got to believe tho, with the huge cast and crew involved, they’d be pretty intolerant if their systems beachballing as much as you are experiencing.
On a project of that scope – the budget burn rate is likely darn high. And time is still money.
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Hey, I just observed something.
A large spike in the “pundit class” singing out “it’s not selling, and Apple depends on THIS over all to be successful … so be WARNED!”
I didn’t opine on the veracity of that, so how exactly was my reality being “distorted?”
Then it turns out that when the SEC required earnings call happens — And iPhone X is ACTUALLY a big financial hit for the Company.
The “distorted” voices apparently belonged to all the pundits who wrote about “flaws” that didn’t actually really exist. They didn’t really understand the reality of the situation very well, did they?
And it seems to me that’s worth noting.
That’s all. .
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Sure Tom works on short form, but Mads and Ryan at Metronome don’t.
Nor Chuck Braverman in LA. Nor a boatload of the LumaFirge clients all around the wotlrld.There are clearly shops, TV stations and documentarians doing nothing BUT long form – and none of them that I chat with grouse about being unable to work efficiently.
So the question Maybe becomes what is your shop doing that is preventing you from achieving the same thing?
It might be useful to note that there are many, many posts about how solutions like Premiere and X are different in how they process files and the type of network topology they prefer. So it might be that if your system is “optimixmzed” for one – it will have lagging issues with the other – if you try to switch back and forth.
I know little to nothing about multi-seat shops – but I know and regularly talk with lots of folks who do – and all they tend to chat about is how to achieve increasingly complex workflows – because they are extremely happy with what they are already doing.
FWIW.
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I thought the “top posters” thing had long since been retired? Where is it now?
Anyway, the reason I’ve talked so much about speed goes back to my very first major editorial experience in X.
I’ve posted about it here before.
The live on-site corporate conference edit i’d done for many years.
Each year (for the last half dozen years) it had taken me 10 days to complete and the last 2 were the typical editing “death march” with little sleep to have a 10-20 minute “best of conference” edit to show at the closing meeting.
After my commitment to X, I was seriously in “heart attack” mode on day 5! I didn’t have a single asset on ANY timeline – and was convinced I was going to spectacularly FAIL and lose one of my linchpin clients.
But on Day 7 by noon, I had 90% of the cut in showable form – and a Browser full of pre-trimmed options – and was calmly waiting for fresh content options to arrive.
I got two FULL nights of sleep before the showing for the first time EVER – and that was when I started describing X as SUPER FAST way to edit.
Over the minths past that, I kept seeing the same thing over and over and over.
My “time to completion” on work types I had years of experience with were dropping.
I had more time for pondering and time to let things “sit” more so I could come back to them with fresh eyes.
And even more palpable – when clients asked for changes to existing X work – it was HUGELY easier to erevise them – provided I had made the correct “managed verses referenced” choices and had stored and backed up my original construction assets sensibly.
A video done and billed in 5-7 days that would have tsken 10 before?
That’s pretty much my definition of “faster” in this context.
FWIW.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “If FCP X is self-evidently the best product at the best price with the best support (and so on), then market forces tell us that it should be the de facto choice everywhere, including Hollywood.”
Well, in the absence of that annoying “market segmentation” thing
There is no “best vehicle.” Certainly not Across boats, planes, cars and motorcycles.
Clearly, the best cars will outsell the best motorcycles by orders of magnitude.
And a general purpose digital video manipulation tool can easily outsell a “commercial vehicle” NLE like AVID without that saying anything about the quality of the AVID software at all.
My concern has always been that the largest group of grumblers here are those truck drivers – annoyed that the smaller vehicle drivers are showing up on the loading docks and claiming they can move the packages just as well as the big rigs – and those truck drivers are pretty annoyed
And, of course, It remains to be seen if some robotic “goods movers” are on the horizon that will steal all those loads from all of us.
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[greg janza] “The “cheap” moniker that’s been attached to the product also seems to be a limiting factor in it’s overall adoption.”
No need to address anything here, except to note that anyone who feels X is “too cheap” to be any good, must therefore find Resolve Basic “worthless?”
Oh dear.
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Steves typical excellent work.
For editors not accustomed to in the FCP X editorial scheme, this will be a nice window into why editors new to X get so frustrated when it doesn’t work like they expect an NLE to operate.
The timeline assembly logic is there – but it’s often simply not the timeline assembly logic they are accustomed to.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.