[Clayton Moore]

Or as one of my email chains remarked, which I think is where it’s headed eventually…………

“Apple is splitting FCP into two tiers – free entry level, paid upper level, similar to Resolve. Just as with Resolve, Apple is putting all AI features into this paid tier. This seems to be driven by their need to increase services revenue.”

I mean training from 2018 on how to use FCP is still 95% accurate. I think Apple may have finally decided after all this time that “significant” updates rather than incidental updates have to be paid for period.

[Clayton Moore]

Great observations all. One of the manor problems looming is “support” If in re-launching their new model, they are hoping for 2,500-5,000 new customers just to start out, they had better be able to finance the support infrastructure for that customer base. Not even a Forum? Thats a basic tool of support these days.

If they sell both of those early adoter plans they offer, they raise just under 2 million _____ then what? In the world of technology thats barely lunch money. The quality of the products aside there are more questions then answers here it seem to me.

[Clayton Moore]

What about this promotion ?

https://www.digitaljuice.com

[Clayton Moore]

As someone who worked in the software support business for over decade Ill just say this.
This is an Adobe bug that had Adobe and Apple (Steve) not had a falling out sometime ago would have been fixed by now. Its time that both companies make nice and move on. But if you look at the history of this error and the fixes to it, its clear it “could” have been a non issue by now.

Ive seen more then one “technical issue” clear up once the “non-technical” issues were addressed.

[Clayton Moore]

Of course the Can-O-Worms that you can open is the market in general.
Who is working now, how are they doing. What are companies willing to pay for video work. It wont matter how pro your stuff looks of course if the “current market” wont sustain paying for a big ticket rig.

If your in LA, or SF, or NYC, or Chicago a similar large market then any competitive edge you have is very good. After that it really comes down to how well your stuff works. How smooth and light and durable.
How much do your muscles ache at the end of the day …. LOL !!

[Clayton Moore]

Good advice, Im also looking at some standard DVD issues myself right now. In my case it looks like its compressor related in that the default HQ DVD settings ( Could be my imagination) don’t look as good as they used to. Ive not been doing to much DVD creating for a while so ……………………

Im about to run a test comparing an SD DVD I made a few years ago with one today using the same DV information and the current default. All I really need to know is do I NOW need to ratchet up compressor settings to get at least what I was getting before. If so I need to know that so I can account for the extra encoding time if needed.

Having saId that more time in compressor always gets pretty good results. I was frustrated years ago there was not a good solid “hardware” encoder (affordable) even better Apple chip on board for such things.

[Clayton Moore]

I’ve also had good luck with Panasonic 25GB BDR’s as well as SONY. I also use two SONY BD-RE’s in order to preview projects from time to time and re-using them has been fine.

I use a MacBook Pro and Both Final Cut Studio and ROXIO. My burner is a Buffalo HDDVD/Blu Ray burner.

[Clayton Moore]

Noah’s point about appearances is a valid point. The market however can be complex. There was a time (pre digital) when high quality content creation was something only someone who was capitalized quite well could do. I can see its hard for manufactures of Rig hardware to market their product as simple, easy to use — while at the same time price it in a way that seems a bit high. Trust me if the market for this stuff was as huge as iPhone, the price would drop like a stone as more and more fabrication came from Asia. But it is what it is, so shop around and get what you can afford. One things for sure, if you pay top dollar for it, you will get good service, and it will last and work very well for you. Noah is right no the money, if how you look to clients is important, it not, hit home depot and have a ball 🙂