Chris Harlan
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[Shane Ross] “Well first off, here’s my review of MC6 (shameless plug):
https://lfhd.net/2011/11/03/the-more-open-avid-media-composer-6-0/
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Good review! Thanks.
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[Steve Connor] “[Chris Harlan] “I’m looking forward to the 3D stuff. I just turned down a gig because I don’t feel comfortable in that space. Now, I can play.”
I’ve edited a few 3D shows in FCP7 with the Dashwood plugin, which is also available for FCPX now. If the footage is well shot and the stereographer has done his job, then post in 3D is not particularly difficult.
It’s when it’s badly shot that the fun begins.
“Ironically, I was hoping FCS4 was going to bring 3D. I’ve looked at the Dashwood plugin in depth and it seemed cool. I could just never really justify it because 99% of my work is TV, and we just ain’t there yet (and, I have my doubts we will ever be.) But now, I’ll be able to play, which sounds great.
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I’m looking forward to the 3D stuff. I just turned down a gig because I don’t feel comfortable in that space. Now, I can play.
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Mike, thanks for the report. I’m guessing those guys have a hard job right now. By any chance did you ask them about Mac Pros?
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[David Lawrence] “Marco Arment (creator of Instapaper) nails it:
https://www.marco.org/2011/11/02/scaling-down-the-mac-pro
“Agreed. Unfortunately, that is right on. I still think it is to their benefit to have trucks (as Jobs put it) in their eco system. Even if sales don’t justify them individually, they add value to the overall system. Of course, that system itself may be dissolving now too. iOS 5 devices no longer need personal computers, only access to centralized servers. It looks like the Larry Ellison/Oracle view of thin client computing has gained enormous ground in the Apple environment. Frankly, I’ve always been in Gates’ camp when it comes to thin client. In my book, a true personal computer trumps a terminal–no matter how snazzy–every time.
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On another note, James, I will add that I find your landscape photography exquisite.
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[James Culbertson] “[Chris Harlan] “When asked how he felt about his maxims being used…”
Classy. But name-calling doesn’t do much to undermine what I am trying to say.
“As to name calling, I think we have a case of pot-kettle-black, my friend. I was just being a little less passive/aggressive about it. As to what you are “saying” I don’t see much there other than “Leave Brittany Alone!”
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[James Culbertson] “Some helpful quotes from Marshall McLuhan for those stuck in the looping mode of internet-based tribal paranoia on this forum”
I think my absolute favorite McLuhan quote comes from an interview transcript in Argh, Really?!, this year’s follow up to his 1970 masterpiece, From Cliché to Archetype. When asked how he felt about his maxims being used as pretentious fodder in silly arguments, he blithely replied, “You know, I’ve been dead, now, for over three decades, and it still blasts my chaps when toffy-heads toss around bits of my sayings to justify anything and everything under the sun. I’ve had a talk about it with both Einstein and Gandhi, and they feel the same way. Fenneman, too! And Schrödinger–he just steams and steams when New Agers use that cat thing to justify all kinds of Hoo-ha.”
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[Walter Soyka] “If Apple does indeed drop the Mac Pro, it will slot right into the timeline I laid out in my article FCPX and the Domino Effect [link], showing Apple’s continued march toward exclusively consumer-oriented products.
“Totally agree. And I’m pretty sure it ain’t an “if.” The iPhone has become a commodity, and the revenue from it and related products is just too powerful for them not to continue to focus exclusively on commoditization, even to the point of eventually burning themselves out.
Hey, Walter, when we were talking about BeOS a few months back, I had no idea how serious a contender it was for the Mac OS. That Jobs biography is filling in a lot of little holes in my understanding of what was going on back then.
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[Craig Seeman] “[Chris Harlan] “did not pay well”
Profit is all unfortunately. They lost money and laid off 200 people. That bothers me because, given what it takes to find and train talent, I’d think if they were anticipating an upward trend soon, they bite the bullet and hold on the staff through the MC6 upgrades and see where they stood.
“Craig, these are hard times, and Avid is not the only company having difficulty navigating in them. I certainly can’t–and don’t want to–argue with you that they may ultimately fail. And, you are right, I was perhaps being overly optimistic about 6 release. The point I wanted to make, though, was that the cross-grade was an attempt to invest in their future by enlarging their base, and from that standpoint it may succeed as a bump. An Avid may succeed as a leaner company, since the commoditization of NLE software is probably nearing its end, and the price of specialty equipment may again scale upward.
[Craig Seeman] “I can’t predict the upgrade price but I’m hearing lots of unhappiness in some quarters on the ProTools 10 HD upgrade costs. That Price ranges from around $1000 to $2500.
“Actually, I thought it was beginning around ten grand. Of course, HD will not be the norm as multiprocessor CPUs can now generally duplicate the performance of dedicated hardware. For those who actually need it, though, it might be worthwhile. Commoditization seems to be backing away from high performance CPU arrays in favor of mobility and battery life, which will begin to give them a cost equivalency of dedicated hardware.