Chris Harlan
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Uploading proxies is not out of the realm of possibility.”
Agreed. That proxy web editor that Avid was showing off last year was pretty cool.
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With proper bandwidth throughout, distribution across the Internet to an off-site render farm might make perfect sense for an operation, that swells in size several times a year. But this is, of course my point, about “The Cloud.” If I say off-site rendering over the Internet, everyone knows exactly what I’m talking about, but its not as sexy or mysterious as “Cloud Rendering.” “Cloud” is sales jargon that clouds communication and understanding.
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[Tim Wilson] “For all anybody here knows, Steve might think that they knocked this out of the park and that we’re all a bunch of whiners.”
I emailed Steve Jobs a week after the NAB event and actually got one of those rare responses. FWIIW, here t is:
ME: There is a great deal of fear in the professional Final Cut Pro community, after last weeks demo, that they have been abandoned. In certain circles, it is bordering on panic. I’m certain that that is not what the demo meant to engender, but, unfortunately, it has.
SJ: The feedback we are getting from the Pro customers is very positive.
My gut tells me we are all in the antenna camp, though I guess I keep coming back here because I want us to be in the MobileMe camp.
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[Marvin Holdman] “Interesting question as FCPX doesn’t seem to support SMTPE standards.”
How do you mean? Am I missing something about FCP X? Or is it just a shot at its general non-broadcast compatibility in terms of an NLE?
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Agreed. Over the years, the effect of FCP on Avid has been terrific, as well. I think without FCP we would have been stuck with something like 2.8 forever. I really like 5.5 and am looking forward to 6, which we will see in December, I’ve been told.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “neXt was a quite an amazing software platform too no? “
NeXT was amazing. I remember seeing it at the student union and thinking, now THAT’s a computer! Couldn’t afford it though. I remember they had little clips from Star Wars to demonstrate its video capabilities.
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[Marvin Holdman] “Going the route of Newton, Next and The Cube?”
To pick an off-topic nit, “NeXT” was not an Apple product, but a separate–and for a time rival–company whose OS, when ported to NeXTstep, became OSX after Apple acquired NeXT and required Steve Jobs. So, NeXT was hardly an abandoned mistake.
For what it is worth.
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[Craig Seeman] “I don’t think they’re ducking it, I think they’re finding far more problems then they expected.”
I can see that. It suppose it might even be taken as a sign that they’ve realized a major re-think is in order. Of course, it could also be seen as “yawn.” What people inside Apple are probably saying about the FAQ currently is “See! That’s why we never say anything. Because if we say something people expect us to hold to it.” I understand that some folks think Apple’s passive/aggressive non-comunications policies are quaint, but I find them totalitarian.
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[Craig Seeman] “Apple mentioned “summer” so that would give them one more week.
Several people are saying they’ve heard about a couple of updates between now and November.
Apparently lots of developers are waiting for APIs. I believe RedGiant and others have said as much as well.”Actually, the APIs weren’t about a summer deadline. From the FAQ:
We will release a set of APIs in the next few weeks so that third-party developers can access the next-generation XML in Final Cut Pro X.
How long ago was the FAQ published? Two months? So, it ain’t like they got a week to go. It’s more like they are six weeks behind.
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I was just making a cheep joke. I get the iPad thing. I use it as a controller for the likes of FCS, Logic, and Omnisphere. I don’t quite share your total cloud vision–a bit Utopian from what I see day to day–but that doesn’t mean I can’t envision editing proxy files on the go. I’d kinda like that. As to the food fight you guys are all having, I don’t really want to be part of it. Mom dressed me in clean clothes today and made me promise to stay that way.