[Charlie Austin]

[Bill Davis] “The missing idea is working in X like it’s X. And getting over the need to work in X as if it’s still Legacy”

All due respect Bill, I work in X like its X, and it needs better timeline visual organization. If you’ve got 10 audio clips stacked in a timeline, not a biggie maybe. It’s an issue when you’ve got dozens.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “Perhaps we could have “role-tracks” where anything that is a particular role gets placed in an area that isn’t really a track, but an organizational area that can still have secondaries and audio on top of audio within that area. THAT would kinda be best of both worlds. So all your FX might be the lower 3rd of the audio area, the music might be the middle and the VO or dialog might be top third. Expanding audio of blue video clips could pop the elements into their “role track” as an option, and keep them linked.”

That’s more or less what I was thinking. I honestly don’t mind expanded elements sticking with the video, as long as their roles highlight properly. But if Roles and their subroles in connected clips would stick together as a group, and possibly be color codeable and bus-able, that would solve my problem. If I cut a music clip and it moves up a little, no biggie… if it sticks in it’s “group” If I want to do some silly single frame audio or video flutter cut I can just stick it in a secondary.

The “not easy” part comes when you have multitrack audio clips with different Roles (dia, mx, fx etc) and more than one is enabled. I imagine that’s a hair puller. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “Even some of the hardcore guys decry it quite regularly. that’s why there is so much fantasising about roles being magical fix everything ponies – the general notion is that they will dynamically re-assert tracks on the fly for role tagged audio elements? like no one hasn’t heard this a million times mind you….”

True, it’s workaround city at this point. I will say – and I have zero insider info here but… – it’s my belief that Apple is aware of this, and is working on a solution for better visual timeline organization and better audio handling in general. I have had very long email exchanges with some folks there, complete with piles of screenshots and novel length critiques and suggestions. They know the problems, and haven’t told me to bugger off. 🙂 In fact they invite me to send more, as detailed as possible. I’m looking forward to what they come up with. It’s not a simple fix…

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Charlie Austin]

[Jamie Franklin] “What is it about Apple products that bring out this pathological passive aggression. “

I think it stems from when you make a legitimate observation:

“I have to say, for those itching to buy this thing for just FCX, seems like (more than likely expensive) overkill…”

but then feel compelled to add …for that mag-democratized “app”

First, what was the point of adding that? Second… what does it even mean? 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Mark Dobson] ” But if you have some connected already this will not work and you’ll have to lean over to see the pretty lights from behind.”

Or you could, you know, leave a little slack in your bundle of cables… 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Bret Williams] “Does it come with a Keyboard/Mouse? :)”

No. There is a wireless link that must be surgically implanted in your brain in order to control the tube. I assume 3’rd party vendors will step in to create devices for those who don’t want the operation… 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

[Steve Connor] “It’s fun, just like the weeks after the FCPX announcement.”

🙂 It’s really amazing to me how some people who dislike an app, or bit of hardware, have to not only express their disdain for said objects, but also for the people who disagree. And this comes from both sides of the coin.

I like FCP X, and I think the new MP is gonna be great. But I don’t think people who disagree with me are cantankerous luddite poseurs. That would be silly.

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[Charlie Austin]

[Oliver Peters] “FWIW – if you guys think a round design is new or odd, do a Google search for images of Cray Supercomputers.
“

But Oliver, Crays are really big. The Mac Pro is really small. Logically that means that it’s crap. 😉

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[Charlie Austin]

[Ridley Walker] “Or it could be the new G4 Cube. Sexy but doomed.”

Well, sure. One would hope Apple has learned from that experience, but who knows…

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[Charlie Austin]

[larry towers] “A heatsink is dependent upon open exposed surface area. In making any calculations total area is always the most important factor. The reason a fan was even needed is that the heatsink design is not efficient. Particularly the inner corners of the triangle. Those are just heat traps.”

Fair enough. However, is it not possible that the inner surface of the triangle *does* have fins? Nobody has actually seen it, save for those few folks who have access to the machines. Granted, the pictures on Apple’s preview page just show a smooth inner surface, but there may be more going on in there than they want to reveal right now.

Or not… 😉

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~