Chris Harlan
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Chris Harlan] “The point is that FCP had a built in utility that allowed you to edit directly from i/o makings on a timeline. X doesn’t, right?”
X does not.
But it does have a “tape capture” interface. It’s rather limited, but then again so is capture card support at this time.
You can sigh. It’s OK, but we see this differently.”
I’ve been sighing all day today. I guess I just see it as semantics. I personally have not had to insert edit to tape in over a year and a half, and that broke a three year hiatus. Of course, the one time I HAD to do it, saved several thousand dollars AND let me get enough sleep on that particular night that I could actually call it sleep, and not a nap.
But that specific function is what this fracas is about, right? And, I get that you are saying that hopefully Apple will allow hooks into that tape capture interface that card makers can grab on to. But that right now, it is not there. So, I guess, is this debate to decide if, say, the hidden Decklink module behind FCP capture module should be called a supplied driver or a 3rd party App?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “So you don’t consider AJA, Matrix, BMD third party?
Then I guess we see the world differently.
You could not capture from tape without buying third party.
Sorry guys, it’s true. “Sigh. Jeremy, of course you need to buy the hardware, and of course the hardware has drivers. The point is that FCP had a built in utility that allowed you to edit directly from i/o makings on a timeline. X doesn’t, right? Am I missing something here, or isn’t that the point?
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[Craig Seeman] “I think some see 10.0.3 as the first version where promise begins to show as 7toX became possible and the hooks were fixed to the point MagicBullet Looks could finally be released. Hooks, although a very rough beta, show that Broadcast Monitoring solutions will work (at some point).”
Yes. 10.0.03 has renewed my interest primarily because of few less-publicized developments like file relinking. It is little things like that that give me some hope that I may again find a home here. Or at least a summer house. Seeing what happens with this XML is quite interesting for me. Xto7 will finally allow me to play with X a little more seriously, so I’m looking forward to that, sometime after up fronts and May screenings. I don’t know if I will eventually like the user metaphor–bin-less, trackless, roles, etc.–but I’m happy X is moving into an arena for me where it becomes a matter of taste and not lack of features that is the deciding factor.
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[Craig Seeman] “In my broadcast days, going back to do an insert wasn’t something one assumed as a workflow so much as fix that one avoided. Granted you want to be able to do it when you have to.
“Oddly, I think that’s one of the issues that defines the Industrial-strength dividing line we so debate here–the granularity and precision required to routinely deal with the fixes that one wants to avoid. 97% of the time I don’t need an .edl; 3% of the time its indispensable. Most of the time I don’t need anywhere near all of the torque that FCS provided; but when I do, I really do.
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[Steve Connor] “I think the Macbook Air is almost a hybrid iPad/Laptop anyway, perhaps they might offer a dual boot OSX/ iOS version with touch screen one day
“Yeah! I look at that as it is now and think about how cool it would be to use one as a casual editing device, though I can’t make the argument that it should replace a 17 Macbook Pro. Still, the recent 17s are so light, that I’d be a fool to actually complain.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “This the way it’s always been. Remember when that QT/iTunes update caused all that pain a few years ago?”
Oh man, memories of that still make me a bit sweaty. That, and the Night of the Murder of the eSata Cards.
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[Gary Huff] “Re: OT- What I want on my iPad 3…..or 4 by Gary Huff on Feb 9, 2012 at 7:56:12 am
“I think I could enjoy using one for rough offline editing now and again, but I fear the offline/online process, along with things like TC, will never exist in Consumerville, and are rapidly being exorcised from Prosumertown as well. Pity.
The other side of it is, though, that the more I use an iPad–got one of the first ones–the more I appreciate laptops. There are a few interesting things that Pads do better, but I really do believe that the huge sales over the last few years have more to do with gee-whiz than their actual superiority to other portable computing platforms.
I do really like the hybrid elements that have been produced, however. The glass trackpad on a Macbook Pro is amazingly useful to me, and maybe that would not have come about without the iPhone and iPad.
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[Shane Ross] “[Jeremy Garchow] “Capture from tape absolutely required third party in legacy, and fcp7s interface to plug in to sucked. ”
I beg to differ. I captured all the time directly into FCP via Log and Capture. Batch captured, captured now…output to tape. ALL within FCP. I never used the capture/output apps provided by AJA, Matrox, or BMD. It was not “absolutely required.””
Ditto that. Drivers might have been required from 3rd parties, but Log and Capture is what I used almost exclusively for years.
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[Steve Connor] “Actually I’m cutting a feature on it at the moment!
“Cool!
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[John Pale] “Until the next generation of processors from Intel is available, no new Mac Pros. Until then, its kinda pointless except for the addition of Thunderbolt.
According to this, should be around April.”
Undoubtedly that’s true, but Steve had such mojo last time. Have you loaded MC 6.01 yet? I’m wondering if it fixes the underrun bug.