Chris Harlan
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[Walter Soyka] “Maybe people will be willing to sacrifice a CPU socket for Mac OS or a lovely object on their desk”
If only it were made of lucite. The tube is the new cube. And it has the roundest corners ever conceived, at last in anything not designed to perk coffee or filter air.
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[Craig Seeman] “Asus is showing very good support for Thunderbolt on their motherboards and they have a couple very powerful laptops with Thunderbolt as well.
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I just got one of their monitors as well, and so far, I’m quite fond of it.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Do they offer a loyalty buyout program?
I’d much rather spend 100 times the price to keep dead hardware around for a few more years past its useful life.”
Thank you. You have changed the course of my morning. I now believe in humanity again.
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Well, heavens to Betsy, you’re a whole new robot.
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[Andrew Richards] “I really, really hope there is fire behind the smoke this time. If they do announce something, I hope I’m not disappointed—but I’m bracing for disappointment.”
Andrew! How ya been?! I’m bracing as well.
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[Shawn Miller] “Funny, I remember wondering why Avid wasn’t trying to woo PPro users with inexpensive cross grades as well as FCP7 refugees. It will be interesting to see if they make more of an effort after PPro Next is released.
“Actually, their current price is the same as the cross-grade was, so I think they’ve decided to permanently offer it.
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That was fabulous.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Looks like Yoshimi is still fighting the good fight.”
It’s demanding to defeat those evil machines.
This opening of that song is my ringtone for an old girlfriend who did, indeed, have a black belt in karate. Sadly, I have not heard it in a while.
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[Bill Davis] “The only thing missing from this thread is that one thing that separates the two camps (X is useful, from X is not very useful) tends to be those who desire to keep working the way they have in the past, only faster and more efficiently – verses those who are happy to change to a new way of working because they see that the way our industry is changing, it can be very valuable to learn processes directed at how the industry is changing………………The actual editing skills will always remain the same. But you simply have to be ready and willing to re-think “how to edit on an NLE” if you want the benefits that X’s engineering team built into the new program.”
Bill, I know that you won’t believe this, and probably never will, but there are just some things that X does not do as well as other NLEs, and because you don’t regularly do those things you will never see that. You don’t think those needs exist. On almost every large project I work on, for instance, there are times when it is extremely beneficial to have multiple bins and multiple time lines open, and though I could work around that with X, it will cost me hours to do so. It doesn’t matter how strong the metadata indexing is, or how quickly you can call up and dismiss clips. It just isn’t as valuable as having multiple bins open. You don’t see this because you don’t have to do some of the things I have to do. I know you are trying to be nice, but it gets really insulting every time you pull out that “old school dudes just want to be old school” meme to explain why everyone does not embrace X to the degree you do. I know you think it is somehow my dogged bull-headedness, but you are wrong; I’m open to all kinds of new things, and there are just some things that X is not better at. And that’s okay; its not its fault. Or yours either. You just need to try and understand that you are not walking in everybody’s shoes.
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As everyone has pointed out, a lot of it depends on what you do. I don’t use it currently, because it doesn’t yet meet my needs. I still use FCP 7 (I’m on a project on it right now) but I’ve moved largely to Avid and Premiere.
From my perspective, there is no single answer, though there are two issues to consider with X:
1) Does it meet your needs?
2) Is it the way you want to work?
On one level, I can now actually achieve anything I need to do on X. There was a time that wasn’t true, but that time is gone. However, I still don’t think of X as an efficient choice for me. When I look at my workflow, and what I need to achieve, it just doesn’t live up. It can do it, but not as fast or as well. On the other hand, there are many people here who will testify vehemently that X is a much faster, much stronger option than anything else out there. And the thing is, everybody’s right.