Chris Harlan
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[Charlie Austin] “[Chris Harlan] “You are a braver man than I. I would never put my clients up here.
”Meh… it’s all stuff that’s done and out there, no different than a reel on a website. Not posting anything that isn’t already out in the wild. *That* would be suicidal. 😉
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I don’t know. It always ends up bitting me somehow, so I almost never do it. I was fondly reminiscing the other day about work I did in the middle of the last decade, and I suddenly find myself in water where someone wants to argue about one of my current clients as if they are the evil empire. I don’t post my reel here, either. Tempers can run high, and some line crossing does go on; I’ve seem members of this very forum try to discredit individuals with their employers because of their positions on FCP X. Sad, huh?
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[Charlie Austin] “I’m gonna start posting things here in my Cow profile that I’ve cut in X and finished. Just for laughs. “
You are a braver man than I. I would never put my clients up here.
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[Neil Goodman] ” Even a wedding videographer i sued to work with in college wont touch it.”
My brain did take a few brief steps tangoing with the notion of suing someone to work with them before I realized that auto correct had struck again.
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[Dennis Radeke] “[Steve Connor] “now tell us what’s coming in CS7 :)”
I like being employed, so will defer for now. 😉
“Like we’d tell.
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[Charlie Austin] “[Chris Harlan] “And, FYI, I have no idea whether it is at all normal for Seattle’s Fremont Troll to use FCP 7 or not.”
I heard he switched to CS6.
“Oh, c’mon man! The Fremont Troll? You know that if he wasn’t on 7, he’d be all over Lightworks!
Here he is on a snack break. I believe that’s a Linux programer in the foreground.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “James Culbertson] “Are you normally this way on this list?”
mmm. hard to say really – what are you normally like?
“Aindreas, you are hardly ever this way on this list. Normally, you are that way. James is acting like he normally does. This is a fairly normal response from me as well. And, FYI, I have no idea whether it is at all normal for Seattle’s Fremont Troll to use FCP 7 or not.
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[Frank Gothmann] “I believe people here firmly overestimate the importance and success of TB. “
I heartily agree. We video folk happen to benefit greatly from it because of its data throughput capabilities, and tend to extrapolate that its design was somehow for us in the first place. It seems to me that Thunderbolt really came into existence as a bridge between the worlds of portable or modular computers and desktop computing. I believe the impetus behind Thunderbolt was to develop the ultimate docking solution, where you park your Air with a single connector and it functions like a desktop. The reality might just turn out to be that masses of people don’t really need or want that. WiFi might be enough for most users.
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[Walter Soyka] “Apple has a whole lineup of really, really nice machines in their categories — except for their workstation, and it’s been this way for two years now.”
But it’s part of the PLAN, man! You have to see that, right? To think otherwise would be heretical.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Apple has no issue with dumping products.”
Oh yeah. Let’s Shake on that.
[Jeremy Garchow] “An extremely modest MacPro refresh was made available at WWDC, not afterwards. “
Shirley, you jest! No. It wasn’t even extremely modest. It didn’t get close to that mark. It was a blundering, infinitesimal PR refresh that kind of took place. One that they had to apologize for on the same day.
[Jeremy Garchow] “shamed in to making a new MacPro? I don’t see it. “
The Developers were quite upset and very vocal about it. And, they have quite a bit more pull than video editors.
[Jeremy Garchow] “Since the decision was made to keep the older tech on the shelf, it seems to me that someone at Apple has a plan. “
Why? They kept Shake on the shelf for years, and they didn’t have a plan. They just knew, instinctively, that they couldn’t quite kill it, so they just let it languish and get long in the tooth.
[Jeremy Garchow] “What Apple was shamed in to doing was removing the blue “new” tag off of the MacPro on the Apple Store a day or two after WWDC.
“That’s for sure. And they should have been ashamed of it; it was a chiseler’s move.
[Jeremy Garchow] ” It allows doing more with less despite what Gallagher argues.”
Yeah, well we’ll just have to disagree about that.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Walter Soyka] “I don’t know what it will be, but I’d assume it will offer some serious power in order to differentiate from the rest of the line. If it doesn’t, what’s the point?”
It will have power due to it being a brand new CPU.
If Apple wanted to offer the latest intel power plant, they could, but they must not see a point to that release.
Yet, they obviously see a point in keeping that channel open.
“I know I’m in the minority here, but I still believe that Apple gave up on the Mac Pro, but then was shamed–mostly by developers–into promising something new. I DO believe we will now get one because of last year’s developers conference, and that it will be pretty good because they will live up to their promise, but I don’t think they actually give two poops about it. If they did, they would have been upgrading it all along.
Something that isn’t discussed here much–if at all–is the idea that, in addition to mobility, Apple is committed to lower power consumption, and in the light of global warming, monster trucks like the Mac Pro just don’t fit into what they want to be producing. I, personally, would still like to have a monster truck, but hey, maybe they are saving me from myself. I certainly don’t believe that this is the primary reason for them potentially ditching the Mac Pro, but I do think it feeds into it.