Bill Davis
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Writing in support of the ASPCA disclaimer….
I spent 10 years making hundreds of corporate video for PetSmart – and learned that animals are often actually quite superior to many people in subtle and not so subtle ways. It’s that talking thing that constantly lets them be woefully underrated, IMO.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Solid for me as well.
Total of 2 crashes in the first 100 days of use. FAR less than most new software re-writes of this magnitude.
I’ve even been able to get X to run on a machine it’s not SUPPOSED to run on (doesn’t have an open-CL compatible video card) and it’s stable there.
Are you running it under SnowLeopard or Lion? Lion appears to have more issues, but that’s just what I’ve read on the net, no real experience in crashes so I don’t know how to advise.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Yeah, you’re correct.
I stopped writing my magazine column years ago, and sometimes it’s almost like I’m compelled to type even when I don’t have a real reason to.
Personal flaw I’ll readily admit to.
But also, it’s a personal habit that when I see an endless steam of thinking in one direction, like lots of people, I try to see if there’s another view worth articulating.
Contrarianism?
Probably.
And not meant to be personal at all.
Peace.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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I could start a list…
Because you want to signal an existing base that something they love IS changing…
Because you don’t want to double- answer questions about what will happen to an old thing AND a new thing simultaneously…
Because you already own lots and lots of perfectly defensible IP under the old brand…
Because you don’t have to change the engineering teams’ business cards… (yes haters, this one’s a joke.)
Because while you will damage a lot of “good will” in a particular segment of the market – the counterbalancing good will the brand brings to the new product is perceived as solving more problems for the overall enterprise than it creates….
I can go on and on, but it’s all pure speculation.
Heck, maybe it’s because mighty Apple is just like the rest of us, searched a hundred alternate names and discovered that ALL of those names were already grabbed up by domain squatters…
(yes, that too was a joke.)The truth is that we’re OUTSIDE. So we will likely never get an INSIDE view unless someone on the team writes a book – and then we’ll only get their view.
Such is modern life.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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A bit too flawed in my estimation because of the use of two “old school” references trying to describe two things neither one of which is essentially “old school.”
Perhaps…
Anyone who likes the program also likes Sushi a lot.
Anyone who doesn’t like the program likes Steak a lot.
Both are rational choices. Both will keep them from hunger.
But they approach the issue of “feeding” people from very different perspectives.
Yes, it’s lame, but I think closer to accurate than the original.
YMMV.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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A piano has 88 keys.
A computer keyboard has upwards of a hundred.
And a mouse and click interface can create a nearly infinate decision tree.
But the essential understanding might be that even on the 88 key piano – humans can bring forth jazz, classical, rock, and everything in between.
No matter how simple or complicated any NLE interface gets – it can’t do anything but give you tools that you have to use to create something attractive.
Editing, isn’t cutting streams of data OR “telling stories” – both those are both just possibilities along a continuum of many others.
The art is in finding how to use all this and more to connect ideas, motivations and shared experiences in ways that can be shared, stored, and yes, monitized – so that users achieve the results we want.
Editing video is a lot of things. Sometimes even simple. But “simplistic” it is most definitely not.
My 2 cents anyway.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Welcome to the learning curve, dude.
Tough it out or dive out. We’ve all had to face the same decision.
This is not the old FCP in any way shape or form.
Some have come to see the potential. Some can’t see any potential at all.
Nobody will know who’s right until the dust clears in a few years.
Ain’t change wonderful!
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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I actually agree with this view.
But as Phil Hodgetts reminded me in our last conversation, part of the problem with FCP-X is that most developers could barely even BEGIN working on their plug-ins until the radical new code base was locked. And that only happened 3 months ago. He opined that after they get a chance to understand and work with it for a while, the universe of plug-ins and even full-blown third party applications will start to grow rapidly.
If that’s the case, FCP-X in a year (might) get much better in a mission critical area like color correction.
I put (might) in parens above because this is clearly SPECULATION and I’m a bit bored with of the same 3 guys coming after me every time I post a speculation and requiring me to defend it as if I conceived it as holy writ. : )
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Walter,
You’re surely not implying that the colorist should be given access to the EDIT decisions?
That doesn’t seem workable.
Under that idea, won’t sending the same project to 10 desks where each can potentially affect work on 5 areas within the project lead to 50 possible iterations?
Sounds like a bit of a logistical nightmare.
I must be misunderstanding this.
It does show a bit of the necessity of deciding early whether a video project should be seen as a thing done by an “author” – or a thing done by a team of people and how that’s NOT the same thing.
Interestingly, this same battle is being waged silently in BANKING of all places.
I sit on the board of directors for a charity. I was acting treasurer for a while, so I had my SSN linked to the charity accounts. Those accounts were at Wells Fargo, but I don’t personally bank there. My 96 year old mother, however does bank at Wells Fargo, and I hold power of attorney over her finances.
I’m at the drive-in teller a few months back and am informed that unless my mother’s account is electronically linked to a savings account, there will be new “fees” applied. I don’t want the fees so I agree to open a new savings account for her with auto-transfer between checking and savings to avoid the fees.
So imagine my astonishment when I went into on-line banking one day for the CHARITY – an my mothers freeking electronic banking screens pop up as part of the charities financial display!
I learned that in the modern era bank accounts attach to a PERSON, not to an entity. And there’s no way to avoid that. The password allow access not just to a SINGLE account, but to any and everything linked to that person’s ID, even if you never intended to make such access possible.
Had to re-think my entire view of what “accounts” and “passwords” functionally mean in the electronic era.
In video, individual creation of assets – and group access to assets – are likely to have the same issues.
(And guard your passwords strictly and ALWAYS. They might be linked to stuff you never imagined they would be via the pervasive tentacles of the interwebs!)
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Similar feeling from a song lyric…
Out on the road today I saw a DeadHead sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said “don’t look back, you can never look back…
Don Henley“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor