Chris Harlan
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[Walter Soyka] “If HP, the workstation market leader, pulled an FCP7 and dropped the workstation market tomorrow, it would create a $3 billion gap [link] in the market. Someone would step up to fill it. More likely, several someones would compete to fill it. As long as someone needs performance computing, there will be a vendor to offer it.
Apple behaves capriciously, and as long as you stay on the Mac platform, you are tied to the decision-making of a single vendor. Voting with your wallet doesn’t work, because within the Mac platform, you have no alternatives to Apple. Moving to another platform with multiple competing and specializing vendors gives you a far better shot at getting the product you need.”
Bingo.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Apple is a hardware company.”
I just find this argument so much less compelling these days. This whole hardware/software dichotomy just does not seem appropriate to what Apple is becoming. It certainly was true for much of the last decade–especially when they bought/developed the Pro Apps to sell hardware, but in this decade of this century its services are becoming nearly as important as its devices, and the line between its services and devices is very blurry.
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[Don Walker] “I wasn’t trying to Motion on the same level as AE. Nobody who has used both would. But for an Apple originated program, it is incredibly useful, especially in FCS 3. I have not used 5 enough to make a judgement. Other programs that I think work well are the iwork suite, and Garage Band.
“Don, I agree with you completely. Its a very handy program. I always been impressed with its behaviors concept, and I use it frequently. Its been a very nice Swiss Army Knife for the FCS suite.
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[Andrew Richards] “[Walter Soyka] “Perhaps the concern isn’t about the technical separation, but the ideological one: OS X must retain its philosophy of layered complexity, and must never inherit any of iOS’s locked-down design philosophy.”
iCloud is their bridge. Local for conventional filing, iCloud documents for the iOS filing model on the Mac.
“The thing with iCloud is that it rather spectacularly realizes Larry Ellison’s dream of thin client computing to a degree that makes me wonder what future role a PC might actually play in that environment. All this post-PC world could just be jargony stuff meant to fluff iPads. It could also be their actual game plan. I’ve always disliked the notion of thin client computing for being a bit totalitarian, and was happy to see it vanquished at the beginning of last decade. Or so I thought. Then came smart phones. And push. And now thin client looks to be winning. Or, maybe its won.
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I’ve got some pretty major clients who have distribution chains and libraries based on ProRes. No one’s quite ready to disrupt that yet, though conversations ARE occurring, and sister divisions of my clients are DNx/MXF, so its not unthinkable. But there is a lot of infrastructure that requires addressing, so no one really wants to jump until jumping is inevitable. Or provides tangible alternative value. So, my world makes my choices for me, and I try to be an informed part of my world so that I can influence it.
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[Oliver Peters] “For $50, Motion is a great buy, but it quickly falls short when you need to do something beyond building templates or flying text around on the screen. But, it does some nice things. For example I just used it yesterday to change speed on footage that was then composited in AE. Of course, it crashed when I tried to use Optical Flow, so I stayed with Motion Blur-Blending. I would have used Twixtor in AE, but it wasn’t available on the workstation I was using.”
Agreed. I love Motion for its ability to wap together a title sequence, and you can do some very creative things with it very quickly. But to even suggest that it is where AE is silly. I still like using it with FCS3, though.
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[Phil Hoppes] “I picked up this version of MBP back in October. This is, without a doubt, the best MBP I’ve ever owned (I’ve had 4 counting this one). You can upgrade to 16Gb of Memory over at MacSales (Down to $239 as I type now) and also get blazing fast SSD’s from them. I got their conversion kit and pulled out the optical drive, which I never use, and installed a Seagate 750Gb Hybrid drive. I run bootcamp (do install this BEFORE you pull the optical if you plan on doing this) so on my data drive I partitioned it for 250Gb HFS and 500GB NTFS. Go to Paragon Software and you can get HFS drivers for Windows and NTFS drivers for OSX so you can read/write to either drive no matter which OS you are booted. Runs really sweet and 8 threads for rendering is very nice.
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Yeah, this will be my fourth, if you include a 17″ Powerbook. I’m hoping LaCie will soon release their eSata adaptor so that I can access the many TBs of portable RAID at more than Firewire speeds (without using the pc card adapter, which I find springs out way too easily and causes Kernel panics shortly after it does.) and so that I can have some bus-powered fast access like that new elgato drive. Since, on several speed tests, this MBpro challenges my 2008 8 Core, I might be willing to let this be my choice for now. I do look with envy, however, at some of the mobile Quadro entries from HP and Dell, and their USB3 and eSata ports, and wonder if I shouldn’t be going there for just a little more. The magic word, though, seems to be ProRes which keeps me retreating back.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Chris Harlan] “That’s an uncharacteristically silly thing for you to say. Yes, the 13″ Air is approved for use, but it is hardly good enough for the full range of Avid usage.”
Just reading what is says on the papers.
Someone must think it’s worth it at Avid to put it through the certification process.
“Hey, Id like one. But not as the only thing I’m editing with.
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[Steve Connor] “I’ve been watching these rumours circulating, my MacBook Pro just suffered the Nvidia graphics chip breakdown just one week after the four year replacement warranty expired, so I’ve been looking to buy a new one.
“I’m thinking of going ahead and getting the current Macbook Pro now–I’ve got the pre-thunderbolt i7–and not worrying whether its my last Mac or not. Thunderbolt is finally looking like it might be worth it for me, though the glacial pace of product release is still a bit off-putting.
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[Walter Soyka] “Yeah — I read an anonymous tip from an iPhone case designer over at TopSecretAppleSpeculativeRumors.com that said there was an 90% chance you’d say that.
“And the rumor was right, wasn’t it?