Chris Harlan
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[John Davidson] “We’re closing down the office Mon-Wed and everybody here is going. Schedule is already slammed but maybe we’ll see you guys!”
I’m going on Sunday afternoon, and driving right through Santa Clarita to do so. Always like driving the Pear Blossom this time of year. Hope to see you there.
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[Walter Soyka] “Are you sure Lance has your back?”
What? You think he might mess with the strings on my racquet? Delate my balls a bit? (That’s a set up if anyone want it.)
[Walter Soyka] “I know everybody posting here can take a little heat, but combative back-and-forth does nothing to encourage other readers to become posters themselves. This forum is just more fun when it’s civilized.”
Agreed. Then, we’ll have to duel it out over chess. You catching NAB this year?
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On another note–you going to NAB?
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[Walter Soyka] “Seriously, can we all drop the ad hominems altogether, go back to our corners, and forget this sub-thread ever happened?”
I don’t know, man. I’m feeling feisty today. I think we’re going to have to fight. Tennis racquets at dawn? I’m tapping Lance as my second. Who you got?
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Joe–I think its more of an appreciation of how far Premiere actually has come.
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[Lance Bachelder] ” love it guys – I’m the grump? Fair and balanced we are not…
“Well, yeah, man. You definitely get the grump hat. You’re the only person I’ve seen on his forum actually threaten to physically fight someone over postings. And you’ve done it several times. I know, because I was one of them. But, hey, I take it in the old school John Huston-y, Errol Flynn-ish, Bogarty way I think its meant. As I say, I like you. I have no doubt you would be terrific to work with or for. But, yeah–you do flash out a bit.
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[Steve Connor] “To be fair that doesn’t happen that much, it’s the biggest strength of the forum that we DO debate all NLE’s and I think it’s been an unexpected bonus of the launch fiasco that this forum has proved to be so useful.
“Well actually, I think pretty much every time there is a Premiere thread of more than three or four posts, someone manages to chime in with a loud, deeply-felt “What’s all this, then?!” That’s generally followed by a small posse of hearty X enthusiasts who get mildly belligerent and vaguely personal. Then, that is usually followed by yet another debate about forum name change, which gets either vetoed or ignored by Tim. Its fairly predictable.
Premiere seems to be the big trigger. No one goes OT bonkers over an Avid, Resolve or Lightworks thread. Nor do I recall it ever happening with the occasional Edius, Vegas, Smoke thread. There seems to be something about Premiere in particular that sends sparks to the territorial part of the brain.
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[Lance Bachelder] “Why are you always a pretentious ass in every reply you write?
“Sigh. I like you Lance, but you can be one grumpy dude. Maybe chill, huh?
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I took that a few weeks back, just to see what it was like. It was fun. It got me thinking I would like to do the certification, really more for myself than anything else. The cost of the tests–realistically a hundred a piece, even though Avid’s suggested price is 25–seems worth it to me. Spending 5 grand for a repetition of stuff I’ve already taken in does not.
Whether or not the certification test can be taken without the courses is, I’m guessing, a current internal debate. Since they have now published all of the course material–which I’m guessing was also a matter of internal debate–I hoping it is only a matter of time until they allow anyone who wants it access to the certification process. Of course, that could already have come to pass. I’m still waiting on answers. Maybe I’ll get some at NAB.
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I think the only one who cares about a name change is Tim, but since it his call…
I have noticed that the shortcut menu below the banner was never changed to reflect the original forum name change. Changing that might help some.
I wouldn’t want to lose any discussions here, so I hope people don’t go. I do wish they wouldn’t get so incensed when the topic moves away from X for an afternoon or two.