Chris Kenny
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[Robert Brown] “You just listed a bunch of toys for consumers which I admittedly own myself but could live without – except for the mouse that was a good one.
But what is Apple’s “track record” with pro products? They don’t invent them they buy them from somebody else, play with them a few years and then KILL them, or in this case mutate it into a consumer product. “
The Mac is widely used by creative pros, and iOS devices are starting to see widespread enterprise adoption.
In any event, you’re missing my point, which has nothing to do with the “pro” vs. “consumer” market segments. It is, instead, about how plausible it is that a new Apple product is merely misunderstood, rather than being a failure. And this is, in fact, quite plausible, given Apple’s track record of introducing products are are initially misunderstood, but go on to significant later success.
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[Dave LaRonde] “And you still haven’t answered my question: how much is Apple spending to buy you off?”
“Anyone who disagrees with me must be disingenuous”. Nice argument.
In any event, you’re misrepresenting my actual position, which is that a) Apple probably should have kept offering FCS3 during a transitional period, but that b) the fact that Apple stopped doing so does not mean copies of it are literally unattainable and, realistically, will not have the sort of apocalyptic effects on people’s businesses that some have tried to claim.
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[Dave LaRonde] “In an earlier thread, you had the unmitigated gall to question why broadcasters and post house owners would EVER be upset by Apple’s Dirty Trick. Shame on you for even suggesting such a thing, and thank you for supplying the evidence why they’re angry.”
What “dirty trick” are you referring to?
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[Bobby Mosca] “Don’t show me something sick, show me something big. Show me a major film or broadcast production editor or team use this for something intended to be seen by tens of thousands, if not millions, of people. Because if nobody in that realm can make it work, and work well, is there anything else to say?”
Surely people realize this is not a reasonable standard to be applying to an application released three weeks ago. Even incremental updates to established NLEs aren’t generally pressed into service for high-end work that quickly.
With respect to adoption for different levels of production, FCP X is likely to follow a pattern similar to the original FCP, but probably a little faster. That is to say, it will be adopted bottom-up. My guess is someone will get some attention for editing an indie feature in it within the next 12 months.
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[jurriaan van der kamp] “But if you launch a first version that makes a simple audio cross in about seven steps you make one thing painfully clear.Jou abandon the profesional users!”
It’s pretty clear that Apple intended for audio crossfades to be performed via the new fade handles, but people want something that saves some clicking vs. that approach. Fine. I expect we’ll see such a thing in a future version.
But I have no idea how handling crossfades, by default, via a more complicated method that provides more control, is somehow indicative of FCP X not being a professional app.
People keep making arguments of the form “I don’t like XYZ about FCP X, therefore it’s not a pro app”, where XYZ has no inherent relevance to pro vs. consumer editing.
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[Robert Brown] “The theory that Apple is just way ahead of the curve and we’re too dumb to realize it just wreaks of the same arrogance of the whole “X” release.”
It would, if this didn’t happen with virtually every major Apple product announcement.
Seriously. The original Mac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad (among others) all faced very similar initial reactions in some circles. “The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things,” etc.
Oh, sure, this time it’s different, right? Maybe. But given Apple’s track record, that’s not the way to bet.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “what the h–l kind of software are you thinking of chris? are we all to dance a money jig to have any efficacy expressing our basic cut in a four year cycle?
its slicing video chris – it may not be halving a paragraph in MS word, but by god, its not unwrapping a UV mesh in max either.”
Its an edit decision Chris. Thats all it is. It doesn’t take 46 cores to note a decision point in a standing video asset.
There was a time when GUI word processors were taxing on hardware, and people asked similar questions.
“The interface isn’t that responsive on some hardware” may be a valid reason not to use the app today, but it’s not really a sensible criticism of where Apple is headed or evidence of poor UI designed on Apple’s part.
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[Chris Harlan] “Now THAT’S wishful thinking on your part. You of course mean FCP7/FCS3.”
Obviously, FCP X not having been released yet at that point. I’ve been typing “FCP X” so much it has become automatic at this point.
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[Tom Wolsky] “Aside from putting anything you want, any random association of material, into the event and puttIng that media in folders in any way the user chooses.”
Err? You can create folders in events… but you can’t put footage into them. They’re used exclusively for holding keyword/smart collections (i.e. stored queries).
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[Chris Conlee] “All I know is that working in Hollywood for the better part of a decade, I’ve never been on a FCP show, but I’ve been on dozens of Avid shows and features. And I’ve never even heard of somebody doing a show on Premiere.”
And I strongly suspect Avid is defining “pro” along these sorts of lines, to arrive at the 80% figure. So we’ve now got at least three competing definitions:
1) Anyone who gets paid to edit video.
2) Film/TV editors in general.
3) Hollywood editors.And people just go right on using the term (and building elaborate arguments around it) without specifying which of these they mean. It’s made this whole debate hilariously unproductive.
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