Bill Davis
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[greg janza] “It’s unfortunate that so many people are afraid of building their own system. Nowadays it’s quite easy to do and much more economical.”
It might be more economical. Or not.
Depends largely on the opportunity cost of your time.
If you have the time to maintain your personal “system integrator” chops – then you can absolutely save money – but maintaining that expertise will be a significant time investment simply due to the pace of innovation on the hardware side.
The “turn-key” system editor offloads all of that – for plug and play efficiency.
Nothing wrong with that.
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Wow, you guys had it nice.
My first external storage unit was an 11 megabyte (11Mb!) unit made by Corvus. It was roughly the size of a shoebox and arrached to my original beige 128k Mac with a tiny 2 pin serial cable since SCSI and the other parallel protocols weren’t a thing yet.
How far we’ve come!
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[Jeremy Garchow] “GPU is even more specialized than CPU. Increased specs aren’t a direct correlation to more performance.”
THIS.
That GPU won’t be optimized if you’re lacking the I/O into and out of it, the heat management, and the properly matched power management, etc, etc, to allow it to work properly.
One user will appreciate the ability to fiddle/upgrade/tune each stage in the process.
Other users will prefer to “buy a box” that has all those engineering issues settled in advance and simply performs to their expectations.
When they see the capabilities of other systems improve – they’ll sell that box and buy another.
Build a car – or buy a car. There’s ample room for drivers who prefer to do both.
It’s also OK to note that over time – the “build your own car” approach pretty much lost favor while the alternative approach GAINED favor.
Hard to say if that is happening here, but I suspect so.
Time will tell.
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I had just the opposite experience.
I got that beige 128k original Mac in 1984 through the “own a Mac” program because we had a family friend who worked at Businessland (remember them?)
It shipped with MacWrite, MacPaint, and a weird little database-y thing called Habadex.
But it was ROCK SOLID stable from day one.
Never glitched or crashed EVER that I recall.
Plus encountering something like MacPaint for the very first time was beyond inspiring. Like a massive brave new world of automation enhanced creativity just exploded in front of you like nothing ever had before that day!
The biggest downside was it had 128k of memory and one 3.5” floppy drive – so when you went to save your work to disk, you could get in a situation where you had to swap the program disk -with the “save my file” disk – maybe 50 times in rapid succession.
Good times.
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[Andrew Kimery] “3. (and this one is obviously Mac-centric) Apple hasn’t released a widely compelling replacement for the cheese grater MP. If the 2013 MP was a cheese grater with modern CPUs, GPUs, I/O, etc., I doubt there’d be so many people running 5, 6, 7 year old Mac Pros (and figuring out how to put modern CPUs, GPUs, I/O, etc., in them).”
I think there’s truth to this.
Perhaps Apple is simply more interested in the younger market – where it’s reasonable to assume there’s less a fixed base of operation. The up and comers are likely statistically less likely to have an office and a desk in a leased space – and more likely to be moving around while they establish their careers.
Facilities are ALL about desks in fixed buildings.
So Apple simply focused on both portable MacBook Pro – and easily transportable (iMac) style units to fit the majority of their likely younger and less “facility bound” customers needs initially. And now that those markets are very well served – they’ll move more toward the “fixed base operator” style of machines.
One thing I hadn’t thought of before, is that if they DO decide to re-invigorate their desktop “fixed base” game – there is now a whole army of young (and not so young!) potential operators for those seats waiting in the wings.
FWIW.
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In my case, VideoWorks running on my 1984 beige original Mac.
Yes, I was “editing” stupid black and white sorta animations – but I WAS editing – timing and attaching one construction to another.And by that time, I’d already been rudimentarily moving graphic primitives around on my learner Timex Sinclair for a few years. That may be stretching the “editing” concept to the limits. But I think it’s totally fair on the beige 128k original Mac side.
FWIW.
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1. Paying orders of magnitude more for editing software over time.
2. Allowing a big company to gatekeeper my personal IP rights.Totally NOT worth those two huge “gotchas” IMO.
For easing my wifes Mouse config process – they asked NOTHING beyond the basic purchase.
Just as they’ve done since I purchased FCP X going on seven years ago.
????
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This is apropos of NOTHING.
But my wife just needed to add a mouse for her laptop to do stand up video presentations and control them at arms length.
So Amazon dropped off a brand new MagicMouse for her yesterday.
I was all set to help her with Bluetooth pairing – but before I entered the room – she had read in the instructions that basically said “connect ONCE to the target machine via Lightening cable” – and sure enough everything set itself up automatically with absolutely zero user intervention.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if video editing configuration worked like that? Your profile of current settings lived in your cloud account – and when you connect a machine to “setup” IT looked around, identified the iOt machines available – and got it OWN act ideally together.
Think of the hours it would save all of us!
Just musing.
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Speaks for itself.
Watching stuff like this it feels like the US is still drifting well behind the wider world in FCP X fluency.
It’s not the grey hairs (like me) that will drive change into editing over time – it’s the curious faces like those in the attached video’s audience – that look more to me like the future of editing.
And so it goes.
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[Laura Scott] “But I’ve been using NLEs for only 33 years, so what do I know? :)”
I beat your NLE longevity by 4 years, Laura.
Your pre-conditioned thinking is serving you VERY poorly and blinding you to a very significant wider reality.
I personally know many, many editors who are editing at the highest levels of multiple content creation disciplines – and NONE of them think like you apparently still do. Feature films, long form documentaries, global reach car commercials, global pop star music videos..
All cut in X by top tier professionals trusted with multi-million dollar (and eyeball) projects.
I fear you’re slipping WAY behind in your understanding of the editorial landscape, today.
Please get educated on this so you can speak from a more reasonable perspective on it.
Respectfully.
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