[Craig Alan]

understood. it seems like it would meet my needs for the time being since i’m using an external esata raid now.

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[Craig Alan]

https://www.dcinematools.com/-ware/connecting-technologies/1556-thunderbolt-faq-cnet.html

Thunderbolt currently runs with a top speed of 10Gbps. Since there are two wire pairs, and the system is bidirectional, a single cable can have up to 40Gbps coursing through it at its maximum theoretical capacity (20Gbps upstream and 20Gbps downstream). Intel says that those speeds will one day top 100Gbps in data throughput when it moves from a copper wire to optical fiber. In the interim, copper wire has both speed and cable length limits, keeping cable length at 3 meters or less. The data transfer is also bidirectional, meaning it can both transmit and receive data at the same time, and at its top speed.

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[Craig Alan]

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/71/862364

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[Craig Alan]

Who knows?

https://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-apple-isnt-leaving-the-pro-market/1427

Maybe even Apple doesn’t know what they want. Why did they announce that FCP X was a fully professional app when it isn’t? FCP X might well fill the needs of the prosumer level market, which could be considered pro and is a group that needs an easier work flow and one geared to mostly smaller budgets.

Why did they drop Color and DVDSP? DVD-s, they believe, is a dead distribution system. And Color? Well, if video is going to be distributed through the Internet and viewed on computer monitors and Ipads and Phones than what should an editor color correct on, an analog signal and a broadcast monitor?

My guess is Apple plans to improve color correction within FCP X. They will add the ability to communicate with other programs because they won’t own 100% of the market and will need to import and export – but they don’t care about the past and about the current workflows.

Do they want to redefine what pro means? They certainly had no problem redefining long standing industry vocabulary like project and storyline. I’ve been telling people in the education market that video production is becoming another form of literacy, a valuable skill set for all professionals, not just Hollywood and high end production pros. People will produce videos at all price points and post them on-line as a means of distribution. This will be a huge growing business with many types of producers. They will be able to do this with Imacs and thunderbolt raids. They will be able to use Ipads as part of the process both for production and distribution.

Think about FCP X’s media management system. All your clips and media available to any project/storyline? Well that might be perfect for an in-house or DIY producer who owns all his/her clips. It is not perfect for a pro who has many different clients.

But I think that dropping the high-end is a mistake. Most of the great image creators are in the high-end. The DIY producers will soon discover that, democratic or not, video production is time consuming and difficult.
You can’t zoom a mike. When their audio sucks, they’ll turn to pros for a fix and advice. Image is still about capturing light and when their images don’t pop or sets a drab mood, they’ll turn to pros to fix it.

It’s not that easy to tell a story and when theirs doesn’t communicate the intended message, they’ll turn to pros to rewrite it or reshoot it or reedit it. And next time out, they’ll turn to pros period.

The Apple brand is sold as being the best, like BMW being the “ultimate” driving machine. That might be a harder sell if it were clearly not true. And if what they are left with is style and ease of use, things could change fast.

I agree with Apple that sometimes you have to move on. Yet, if all the pros move to Adobe, and Avid and whatever else other than Apple, then so too will the educators and production schools and classes. If the schools move away from Apple for production … then that’s your future producers. Not all of them but many of them. Apple has tremendous resources and experience in this field. They’ll go where the market takes them if they can’t take the market with them. They’ve been on quite a run lately, but this too shall pass.

As for the Mac Pro: If Thunderbolt gives them an effective way of creating a modular and powerful computer system, its days might be numbered. Does Apple want to give up both the software and hardware market for high-end production professionals? I doubt it. But who knows.

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[Craig Alan]

She gives ample examples of purple representing death in movies. Just as in life, purple/death can also represent renewal or transformation. This motif of death becoming life plays well for any symbolic reference to death and is a common archetypal character/symbol in spiritual, mythological, psychological stories.

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks.

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[Craig Alan]

How do you feel this affects color and sound? It’s true Blue-ray has not become ubiquitous. I don’t like taking an HD project and burning a SD DVD. But watching on a computer monitor using the average computer speaker system is not the same as watching on a fairly ubiquitous large HD TV with decent to better sound.

What do you use for your up-loads when the viewing needs to be private?

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks very much for explanation.

[Alex Gerulaitis] “Yes if it becomes more adopted by 3rd parties”

Just to be clear, it may become possible to send a true TV signal to a broadcast monitor via thunderbolt, if you have the right CUDA graphics card; that is it could replace the need for Decklink Extreme 3/3D/3D+?

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[Craig Alan]

[Kevin Cannon] “Tangent Wave and the Avid MC Color”

will tangent work with composer 5.5?

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks so much everyone. Very generous. I’ll start by getting my system functioning and trying out on some old projects. I really hope Apple adds the ability to send projects to and from color correction systems in FCP X.

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