Chris Harlan
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[Walter Soyka] “Rebuilt into what?”
I’ve been using the new Apple TV (I’ve had the old ones for some time) and it REALLY works. Over the weekend, I made iPhone videos of Easter egg hunts and related adventures, and played them back instantly on the living room big screen to the shock, joy and amazement of all relatives present. All of the TV shows I’ve ever bought are now instantly available for streamed playback on any of the many devices we have laying around. I mean, I could just go on and on about how well this stuff all works. The whole thin client thing that Apple is bringing together sparkles. [I mean, I have my qualms and fears about a world of lives integrated around centralized servers, and I’m not sure it is a good thing as much as it is an inevitable thing. But lets set that aside, and focus on the warm and fuzzy.] This is what Apple is now. I just don’t believe the old four-box model applies to them anymore. I think they are just beyond it. They don’t NEED to be in content creation anymore. So, my guess is, that increasingly they will not be.
And, really, that probably is a good thing for the various smaller, struggling companies that do need/want to be in content creation. Apple burned a lot of them, last decade, so that they could sell G5s and Mac Pros. Final Cut Pro may have been a huge, infection-inducing thorn in Avid’s otherwise thick skin, but it was just a plain killer to companies like InSync whose NLEs offered Avid true peer-to-peer competition.
Lastly, I think I’ll drop the few bucks on iMovie for my iPhone and iPad. The egg hunts could use a few quick trims before I semi-instantly play them back.
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[Steve Connor] “It’s up now, mainly stability update no new features in the ReadMe
“Well, howdy. Stability is what it needs. Probably a good thing for them to get a stability release out before NAB.
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[Herb Sevush] “It was a combination of the two, inability to market a low cost editor along with fear of the low cost editor eating into sales of it’s more profitable siblings. Along with gross stupidity off course”
I remember thinking how weirdly unaware they were (or at least pretended to be ) that the SGI speed/power kingdom was being overtaken by mass-produced dual Pentiums and the rapid development of cheap, advanced gfx cards to feed a hoard of hungry gamers. I felt that they actually NEEDED something like that on the NT platform to take advantage of that surge. Hey, maybe the announcement will be Smoke for Windows NT!
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[Herb Sevush] “If those pr*cks at Autodesk wanted an affordable editor/finishing platform they had the basis for one 8 years ago – edit* + combustion.”
Yeah, I used to use it when it was D/Vision before Discreet Logic ate it. Back when Crystal Flying Fonts was considered an ace gfx package.
[Herb Sevush] “They threw it away then because they didn’t know how to market to the masses, I doubt they’re any smarter about that market now.”
You would obviously know better, but my impression at the time was they purposely hobbled and then killed it because it offered to much competition to their precious IRIX line, specifically to Smoke.
[Herb Sevush] “I also like the irony of them unveiling a new “Smoke” for Mac just as Apple discontinues the MacPro line”
[Herb Sevush] “[Chris Harlan] “That’s funny.”
Not so funny from my point of view.”Then how about an iRonic Sequel–That’s Funny2: Smoke gets in your i.
Cue The Platters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTbPe0hcvY
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[Don Walker] “Maybe they should go with a different naming convention, something elegant and simple like……. EDIT…. yeah that’s sounds good!
“Okay. That’s funny.
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[Tony Brittan] “oo bad I got the email today that they are out of stock already and won’t be shipped for possibly weeks. Sucks because I ordered it within only 10 minutes after getting the email that it was available for order. I told them to keep the order active and keep me towards to top of the list so I can report back here! 😉
Kinda disappointing considering how quickly I placed the order and got confirmation but I’ll be patient.
“I got the same dang email, and I also turned on a dime. Oh, well.
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[Walter Soyka] ” don’t know how much interest there is in Smoke here, but the fact that they’re evoking FCPX’s marketing so heavily is fascinating. “
If you mean by “here” our forum, then, yeah, I’m quite interested. Gab away.
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[David Powell] “The thing is the original footage is 23.98 and i’m pasting it back into a 23.98 timebase, so it should work perfect. I don’t get it.”
Once its in the other time line, it has taken on the other attributes, and there is some sort hierarchical metadata tangle. Its been a long time since I’ve gotten snarled up in something like this, but try disconnecting all the media in the old time line, then paste the framework into the new timeline, save, and then re-attach to the source material. I can’t remember if that worked, or if I hand to hand replace, but it might be worth a try for you. You might also try exporting a simple .edl of the corrected timeline, import the .edl,, and that will save you some work in rebuilding. Break a leg.
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[Shane Ross] “Avid MC5, 5.5 and MC6 mixes frame rates VERY well. FCP 7…not well at all.
“I’ve cut a number of Sizzles where I was able to quite successfully mix PAL and NTSC on an NTSC timeline. Of course, they are all very short shots, and generally not only do they not need to match, but actually need to stand apart from each other. On the other hand, going from NTSC to PAL in FCP 7 is almost always a train wreck. Hardware is still the best for that, and even that looks crappy.
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[Bill Davis] “Look,
I’ve been posting here practically since this part of the Cow was introduced. Everyone knows my positions and the kind of arguments I make. They know I tend to be kinda long winded when I’m putting down my thoughts. But so what?
I was dead serious about this. If someone feels I’m so off base – or my arguments makes them feel uncomfortable, or they just feel that my observations and arguments aren’t worth their time – its not like each and every one of my posts don’t come per-billboarded with my name. So what’s the big deal?
Just don’t open them. Problem solved. Nobody is forcing you to read them.
But if the best you can come up with in terms of criticism is that they’re “too long” -wow.
Maybe you can see it this way. Every time you don’t read a post of mine, your saving yourself more time than you would by not reading someone else’s posts! It’s a bigger win for you that way!
That help?
“Its not about “long-winded,” Bill. Its about passive-aggresive threats–more aggressive than passive– regarding David’s employer. And, if you can’t see that, you need to re-read the post in question. You don’t get to make those kind of assertions and then pretend you don’t know what other people are talking about.