Chris Harlan
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[Bill Davis] “Which merely means that if the wide world of editing best reflects the needs of LA promo editors that you hang with – it will have rough going.”
Bill, it is not about who I personally “hang with.” Believe me, it is as discussed in this town as much as it is in this forum, because here it is an industrial matter and important to many people’s livelihoods. There is no room for pie-in-the-sky-well-hey-maybe-someday.
[Bill Davis] “If, on the other hand, the wider world of video editing better reflects needs that are NOT always aligned with the specific needs of LA promo editors – then it may well do just fine.”
As usual for you, you take something completely out of context and turn it into something that is not–with, I might add, your own brand of condescending snottiness. I know of no one, among the posters on this site, who so regularly twists and distorts what others say. If you actually bother to look back, you will see that Oliver was making a comment about advertising agencies, and I was simply reporting back about my local experience. You turned it into something else. Why? Got me. FWIW, the FCPX dismay extends, here in LA, well beyond the world of promo preditors to include pretty much the entire entertainment industry.
[Bill Davis] “And if it continues to grow and develop (and it’s direct app sale model and the economic strength of Apple give it a superb chance of doing so) then people may change their tune over it’s initial years, just as they did with V1 starting back in 1999.)”
This old chestnut needs to be retired. In 1999 NLE was relatively new. v1 had an excuse. A dozen years later, vX does not.
[Bill Davis] “Sooner or later we’ll know who had a clearer view of what it takes for an editing software package at the dawn of 2012 to do well in the marketplace.”
I don’t CARE how FCP X does in the market place. I only care how I do in the market place. If FCP X can ever help me with that, I’ll be on board as soon as it does.
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[Oliver Peters] “like ad agencies”
I know of no one in the LA promo world that is considering it. I do know of a few boutiques who are thinking a bit harder about Premiere because they do so much AE work, but no fcp X.
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[Frank Gothmann] “Sorry, but I disagree. Even several years from now there will be a lot of interlaced SD material. Huge markets (India etc.) will take much, much longer to transition to an HD world (if that ever happens). And even then, a vast amount of programming will simply be upscaled from interlaced SD. Plus there will be interlaced HD, 24p, 23.976, 25p etc. etc.
And converting between any of them, scaling things up or down, is a complex thing and FCP (old and new), Compressor & Co. do a terrible job doing that.”Seconded.
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[Craig Seeman] “They may replace it with an equally if not more powerful new line.”
That would be great. My guess, however, is that they just aren’t that into it anymore. FWIW, I’d like to be wrong.
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[Bill Davis] “the neighborhood wasn’t over-populated with jerks who were more interested in gleefully pointing out how superior their world view is”
Now, Bill. Be easy on yourself.
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[Herb Sevush] “The roll out was so bad it was parodied on the Jay Leno show”
Oh, oh. I think Coco’s gonna be pissed.
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Frankly, you seem to be reading things into Kevin’s statement that just aren’t there.
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[Herb Sevush] “Fortunately I’ve never had a single hardware malfunction with any of their cards and converters and this is going back at least 7 years.”
I heartily second this. I’ve been using their cards for a similar amount of time, and have always been happy.
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[Craig Seeman] “I’m not sure if they ever marketed MacPro or MBPs in their end of year tax write off emails. They’re looking for broadest reach sales.
“For business? For write-offs? I just went back and looked a bit. This is the first year in the last five without a featured MBP, and the second without FCP.
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I got the usual year-end flyer from Apple reminding me that I can get my end-of-the-year write off, but this year, instead of Mac Pros and MBPs, they suggest iPads and MBAirs for my business deduction, instead of the usual trucks.