[Christian Schumacher]

Jeremy, if you had followed our discussion here regarding Mobile Me
and what apple did with it, then you could’ve seen what I mean.

They will disrupt features used by creatives that now (as you posted)
are going to be offered by Adobe – plus other features that
Apple apparently refused to implement themselves in the first place.

I think this is relevant in the context of Final Cut Studio’s end,
along with what it’s been worked out by Adobe for the future.

This is NOT about bashing Apple – it is about discerning what’s to come.

Cheers,

[Christian Schumacher]

The apps address multiple areas of the creative process — image editing, ideation, sketching, mood boards, website and mobile app prototyping and presentation of finished work — Adobe said in a statement.
(…)
The Creative Cloud will be a hub for access to desktop and tablet applications, finding essential creative services and sharing work with others.

It just looks like others are picking up where Apple already left off…

Does that sound familiar?

[Christian Schumacher]

Any user iDisk can mount at anybody’s desktop.
A public folder accessible to all in any browser too.

iPhoto/iWeb together with Galleries/Webhosting are making money, yes.
Slow servers, oh yeah. But workflow implementation itself is flawless.

[Christian Schumacher]

I enjoy your posts, Glen. Keep them coming, man.
I’m sure that vlogger you posted the other day will love MagiX.

Everyone dismissed him as just an annoying kid (well he was) but the fact is:
HIS CHANNEL HAD WAY MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED MILLION VIEWS!

Talking about democratizing the industry, eh?

Back in the day only the media could sell people to advertisers.
Now the net landlords are the ones who are pursuing that old trick.
And they have at their disposal a World-Wide-Web-of-Raw-Materials.

The difference is huge as the sky is no longer the limit. Literally.
And they promptly feed in their hands using a nice thick collar.

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? It’s alright we know where you’ve been.

[Christian Schumacher]

My opinion is that Apple has been ejecting a lot of creatives by their latest decisions.
Mobile Me’s trimming did more than “sucking for a lot of people”.

I brought that up because I see it as one dot of a bigger picture.
Those “people” were loyal power users not regular folks with their iThings.

These folks are covered, indeed. And that’s my point.
The Mac should fit them accordingly in the near future.

Cheers,

[Christian Schumacher]

“MobileMe was killed because it was a dismal failure.
They didn’t kill it because some editors used it to share videos.”

Andrew, It wasn’t editors sharing movs only – a known small niche.
I know a lot of different content producers that used iDisk as well
This is the x-FCP forum, but I wasn’t thinking of editors exclusively.

Think here of all the photographers burned at their now-former-galleries.
Plus other creatives EOL’ed by the termination of iWeb hosting.

Adding those up you might want to rethink that.
Anyway, thank you for your response.

Cheers,

[Christian Schumacher]

Thank you for the precious perspectives. They were all very meaningful in this thread.

Let me wrap this up with these two quotes – but adding a silver lining to them at the end.

“And that my friends is Apple’s future. Power to the people mofo!”

“The whole industry is following iOS, not just the Mac”

Bring it on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vqgdSsfqPs&ob=av3e

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[Christian Schumacher]

WOW, that’s less than an hour…Anyway, in AE this will work for sure.

[Christian Schumacher]

OK First create the new desired sequence, at full HD.

Choose square pixels and check your FPS too – that should match your original one. (29.97?)

Load your working sequence on the Viewer/Player.

Then, record it into the new one – if in FCP 7 it will ask you to conform to file (in this case your original sequence)

You would say “No” to that since you want it to be Full HD in the first place.

FCP will resize your sequence to the new one automatically if this is set in Preferences.

It should preserve the proper sequence settings while scaling your timeline to the new one at the same time.

Good luck.

[Christian Schumacher]

FCPx lovers are assuming that FCPx critics are non-educated enough.
Well, the converse is also true, ironically. Because I am assuming that
they can’t grasp the myriad of intents one should have in crafting an edit.

I appreciate Jeremy’s position when he tries to engage in a healthy
and thoughtful debate here. Cheers, mate.
But I suspect that having a compound single clip placed in the timeline
won’t give you the visual clue of the original set-up, where the edits are just there.

Instead, in FCPx, it’s buried in a nest that you HAVE to work with in a exclusively fashion.
And surprisingly (not so much, alrite) we have to to think of it beforehand.

I have read your ideas on how dynamic panels could be
the right response for a lot of the problems people are facing.
From all the useful input you have provided, those should be pretty obvious…

Sure one could just build all your footage into one-single-big-fat-project-string, but
where did all the alternatives go? Should we create an additional project?
I am sure you’re going to need it right there as fuming memories chips are melting.

Some people have to deal with tens of hours to get to a less-than-ten-minute-piece:
That’s what I’m talking about, primarily. Depending on the complexity of the subject
that tool they use (sometimes only tool) should help them. Not hinder them.

Has anybody here suggesting to leave Apple’s rocky boat ever heard
of the definition of freelance job? No choosing anytinhg!
OK, now go put your iphones in your tight pants pockets and sit down 🙂

Expanding David’s example, where one could have the select’s cut
itself presented right in the scratch timeline at a glance,
all the Clip created markers could be combined with Timeline created markers
additionally as you work within the edit.
Though markers be it on clips or compounds should make a viable feature request.

I see how compounds work well with a lot of things, but is crucial
to have tracked based sequences and the ability of having trivial features,
such as duplicating a timeline, custom auto-saves, custom window lay-outs
and finnaly the Viewer for the intertwined edits of sequence content
or the beloved and essential “gang” feature.

Not mentioning here the legacy expected features, of course,
just the core-design ones. And speaking of them…
As long as FCPx’s flawed design doesn’t catch-up,
it won’t fly beyond the hipster’s desk. (or hands for that matter)

It’s still full of restraints and the worst part is that they are blatantly scrammed in there.
And on purpose. It is sad but true: There will be plenty more hands out there
than workstation desktops – for FCPx’s glory.

At the end of the day (or the decade) we wish this tool to improve itself…
AND the craft of editing as well.