Chris Harlan
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[Lance Bachelder] “Here you go with the personal attacks again. WTF? You can dish it out but you can’t take it…”
Excuse me? We must live in completely different realities.
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[Richard Herd] “[Chris Harlan] “the reports I’m reading say it is still seriously flawed”
Just curious why you are reading reports rather than testing it yourself?
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I’ve tested it, and I’m hoping someday to use it. I have a relatively intense, deadline driven workflow, which I have to integrate with a team. Right now, there are still too many issues to consider–both in coordinating delivery, and with the program itself–to try to integrate it into the workflow. Frankly, its a no brainer not to. This recent update suggests that it might be possible for me to try it when my flow decreases a bit and monitoring is out of Beta. I’ve been wishing I could do with FCP X what I’m currently doing with Avid to get my cutting fingers back, which are rough cuts that I then finish off in FCP 7, and X to 7 seems like it might let me do that. Of course, I can’t do any of this at the expense of my clients, so probably after UpFronts–sometime in early summer–I’ll work a few projects through.
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[Lance Bachelder] “C’mon… this is hater central. Do you have a mirror in your edit bay?
“God forbid you ever become in charge of things. Man, you have a myopic view of the world. When you pulled in here, you were one of the loudest “haters” of them all. I had to calm YOU down because your vitriol got personal against reasonable people who liked the program. Now that you have religion, anybody with any qualms or issues that you don’t agree with is a “hater.” I think you’re the only one in the above conversation who approaches this with anything resembling hate. Talk about needing a mirror.
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[Bill Davis] “I won’t take this as a ham-fisted attempt to cast aspersions on me, tempting as that is.
Instead, I’ll treat it as a legit question. “
I’m not sure what you mean by “casting aspersions.” I certainly wasn’t. You were reacting to the term as if it isn’t used in common conversation about structure, so I was asking. Here, the state of story’s backbone or spine is fairly common parlance. I’m just surprised it isn’t everywhere.
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[Andrew Richards] “I also have to be wrong and say “no way, not till March at the earliest” like I did about 10.0.3.”
Anything that will help. Thanks for the sacrifice.
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[Steve Connor] “I managed to pre-empt the launch of 10.03 by a day, let’s see if I can do the same for new Mac Pros 🙂
“Go for it. If you can make that happen, I’d be grateful. Those Z800 are starting to look mighty tasty.
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Bill, the term “spine” in regards to story structure is actually new to you? I’d have thought that someone with your experience had come across it many, many times.
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[Lance Bachelder] “True words and don’t forget Vegas Pro! At least these paid Editors gave it a fair shake and tried it on some paying gigs, that’s really the only way to get into it and make a real decision. “
Well, Lance some of can’t even try it yet in our paying gigs. I know, in theory, that broadcast monitoring is now in Beta, but the reports I’m reading say it is still seriously flawed. I’m sure that will be worked out, but it ain’t yet.
Also, in this thread which posts do you see as being from haters who are afraid of FCP X succeeding? I don’t see any, but maybe I missed something.
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[Herb Sevush] “[Craig Seeman] “From my own “travels” that seems to be the shift with 10.0.3. I see very few haters.”
In my travels I meet a large number of editors who simply think Apple is dead as far as pro editing goes, they laugh if you even mention X. For many X is not even part of the equation, it’s not even worth hating.
“My general conversations in facilities and with other editors over the last few months echoes what Herb is saying, even though I hang around here with the hope that FCP X will become, for me, that long-lost crazy uncle.
One of the things I don’t understand is the whole “making editing fun again” meme. I mean, I’ve been doing this for a long time, and it has never not been fun. Maybe that’s because I’m a producer/writer, as well, and the NLE is/should be transparent for me, as if it were a fancy word processor.
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[David Lawrence] ”
[Herb Sevush] “But for X the problem still remains, how do you know what should be on the primary storyline when solving that mystery should be the aim of your work?”That’s the question, isn’t it?”
Indeed.
[David Lawrence] “Another thing I find constantly amusing are statements like this one from Michael Friedman in the article:
[Michael Friedman] “It’s hard to think of ways to convey feelings about software. So, I am merely trying to express the small sense of elation that I felt when I realized the upside of losing my trusted track framework. I felt encouraged to experiment more. I felt slightly liberated in my timeline edits.”
Yup.
Here’s a pro tip that works for all track-based NLEs – duplicate sequence. You’re welcome. Go crazy. Experiment to your heart’s content. Digital media solved the experimentation problem decades ago.
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