Chris Harlan
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[Paul Jay] “Sure. Thats why we can do Uncompressed HD and broadcast HD SDI through Thunderbolt on a freakin iMac or MacBook Pro nowadays.
Because of the post pc era:p”And your point?
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[Dennis Radeke] “Apple is in a position where they can be in any market they want to be in. They could decide they want to make original content for iTunes and outspend NBCU’s entire 2010 production spending with 5% of their cash hoard. If Apple wants OS X on a workstation, they’ll make one. If they don’t, they won’t.”
I can’t argue this Andrew, which brings you back to the fact that Apple in some cases is going to force some of their customers to move to another platform quite possibly.
“I agree with this as well. Add to this all the iCloud action that clearly aims to dethrone the PC as the center of the digital hub and replace it with thin client services, and I think you’ve got a good look at where Apple is going.
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[Andrew Richards] “[Chris Harlan] “What’s with the crazy numbering/naming system for iPads? It just shouts chaos.”
Counterpoint.
Apple is notorious for naming products the same thing time after time. The iPhone 4 and the iPad 2 are the exceptions to this rule. Everything else has a “3rd gen” or “mid-2011” subtitle to tell it apart.
“True. But can you ever remember them having two naming conventions on the shelf at the same time? Maybe they are just burning out stock/manufacturing agreements on the iPad 2.
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[Ronald Lindeboom] “I have little doubt that HP and Apple could be great corporate partners and could find a way to please the highest-end Mac users”
Especially since they made such a big deal today about being a “post computer” company.
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There’s no simple fix for wishing yourself luck in showbiz. Thou art doomed.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “[Chris Harlan] “His observations strike me as shallow”
I wasn’t actually suggesting that his was the most in-depth knowledge that could be had. I just think his comments are a relevant pointer to the to me obvious fact that FCPX began to take shape around the time of iMovie 08 – and hence the plausible conclusion that iMovie 08 was the “proof of concept” for FCPX.
So many people still gloss over this, mostly through complete ignorance of iMovie and it history, but also because it doesn’t fit the notion that FCPX is something uniquely special (one way or another, either for good or ill).
At some point, someone at Apple (let’s for the sake of argument call him “Steve”) said: let’s not waste our time rebuilding the old Final Cut, let’s instead build a new “pro app” out of this really cool consumer app that we’ve built to replace the old iMovie.
Yes, there are complications to that story, not least the inevitable demise of QuickTime and the rise of AV Foundation, but I find it hard to believe that any other story is remotely as plausible.
One of the other key indicators is that iMovie 08 (onwards) was way, way too sophisticated in fundamental conception for its target market at the time.
“I agree with everything you are saying. I meant my comments as more of an aside than anything else. The only thing I would add is that we all tend to see Corporate behavior as highly premeditated, when in fact a number of warring impulses can all be firing at the same time and in different directions. The current example floating around here is the head of Dell’s IT department announcing to an IT customer that Dell is now an IT company. Could it represent what’s going on at Dell? Maybe. Could it also be a very skewed message that many in Dell do not agree with? Maybe. In fact, probably.
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[Richard Herd] “Thanks for wishing me luck, in advance.”
SHUDDER. I wish you double broken legs to deal with the way you just cursed yourself.
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[Shane Ross] “I certainly bashed Avid 8 years ago when I made the switch to FCP. BOY did I bash it. MANY people basehd it. That’s how FCP got a foothold in broadcast TV, because Avid sucked on nearly every level. It was BAD!”
Yup.
[Shane Ross] “But, I still bash them…their 16 channel realtime audio playback limit is a joke, and 24 channels of audio (and video, BTW), is downright stupid!”
Agreed.
[Shane Ross] “No, I bash the other guys…and FCP Legacy too, when it deserves it. But FCX took such a radical turn, completely unexpectedly, and is mostly unusable in areas where it was used heavily (feature film, broadcast TV). That’s why we bash it so heavily.”
Hear, hear! Or, “Yup, yup!” Whichever is more appropriate.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Sachin Agarwal claims here that he:
“worked on Final Cut Pro from 2002 to 2008. It was an amazing experience. The Final Cut Pro X project was just getting started when I left Apple.”
In other words it’s been in gestation since around 2007 …”
I read the blurb you linked to, and this fellow has a poor grasp of NLE history. I’m guessing that that’s because he was sitting inside Apple looking out, and that he was far more interested in code than in editing, and like many Apple folk was truly clueless to what was happening in the PC world. He places the competition to FCP much, much later than it actually was, and claims that FCP was the first software-only NLE. His observations strike me as shallow–though to be fair, it wasn’t really meant to be more that a congratulatory blurb, so perhaps shallow was what was called for. I’m not sure I’d buy he had deep, detailed knowledge of the inner machinations behind the fate of the Pro suites, though I tend to agree with his assessment.
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[Renato Sanjuán] ” Coming from the Avid Mac interface it was kind of a shock at first, it looked pretty ancient with the flat colors and all. “
Hey, what’s old is new again. Have you seen the Start window–or whatever it is now called–for Windows 8?