[Craig Alan]

Does FC have a plug in limit?

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[Craig Alan]

[Lillian Young] “But it’s iMovie + Motion, basically. “

Have you seriously used iMovie? It’s ain’t no FC Express. or Adobe Premiere Elements for that matter.

That said, I do like how you can a swap the location of the timeline and event windows with a really cool animation effect. Wonderful time killer when you realize that your movie looks like some amateur Utube video that any child could produce.

Have you tried the Cloud-Bill-Monthly forum here on the cow? Maybe someone could help there.

Last time I looked they even had an Adobe rep answering posts.

Seriously, I think if you want to stay with Adobe the problem is treatable. But if you want to rant, you’ve come to right place.

Here’s a debate forum hint: it’s far more effective to call someone else an amateur for choosing FCP X than to call FCP X a toy.

Most of the users here have forgiven Apple for dumping legacy. I haven’t. But now that I know X, I would be equally pissed if Apple EOLed it and came out with FCP 8. But I’m from NY. I don’t want LA celebrity pizza. I want NY Italian pizza that folds with one hand.

https://kenkaminesky.photoshelter.com/image/I0000wUJ6VRzhmQc

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[Craig Alan]

Well that sounds promising. Aperture still works so I’ll give it a year and see how this evolves. I have about 2.5 TB of raw shots to edit and organize for a multimedia video and not really in the mind set to learn a new program first.

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[Craig Alan]

[David Roth Weiss] “hat ten years from now you will not be making a living in the business of post-production.”

10 years from now is a way off the way this tech is evolving. There is more professional productions than ever before. Look at all the producers going into streaming videos into people’s homes. It used to be 3 networks and a couple of local channels. Then when cable hit, HBO and the like were added. Now a lot of new productions from Netflix Hulo etc.

As far as the middle and low end … things have changed to generalists that can do production. Specialists in post are limited to well budgeted productions. Yes. But there a lot of free lancers making a living as video producers.

I remember several years ago I was at an event and got into a conversation with a news videographer using a high end Sony camcorder. He took out the cartridge to load it into a laptop so he could edit it and send it to the station. He told me that he used to do just camera operation. Now he says I have to produce it, shoot it, edit it and even do my own sound. Other than talent, a one man band. But he still made a living at it.

Lots of wedding video people are one man bands. Sports events music head shot artists etc. They have to do more but can make a living. And lets see where net neutrality brings us as people can make a living producing their own series or movies. It hasn’t taken off quite yet but the technology is there. Distribution is available to all. Getting people to pay for it is the challenge. If a model for this can take hold then mini production companies can take hold and hiring a post pro would be a good person to be a full time member. though i can also see directors editing their own stuff.

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[Craig Alan]

Reluctant to rely on third party plug-ins. It makes each update a concern. And the money adds up since they often have no incentive to make it work with each update. Nor does Apple always support these third party developers by helping them transition to each update. I remember when FCP X came out the buzz was that plug ins would fill in all the gaps. I’m not saying that there aren’t good plug ins for FCP X; but it is taking hold cause Apple filled in a lot of what was missing.

I suppose since Aperture still works, I could transition to a new app like Lightroom, but there are really mixed reviews if Lightroom really has the same abilities that Aperture has. The sense I get is better with some, less with others, like all pro apps. I feel fluent in Aperture and that’s the real problem with this constant learning curve of EOLing apps. When FCP 7 was EOL I was pissed cause I had started to get to a new level with it. But I felt really sad for the editors where using it was just an extension of their mind, the mechanics being mastered. That doesn’t happen over night.

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[Craig Alan]

Yup thanks it’s in there. I feel the same way about it as i felt about FCP 7. Was hoping for a major update and speed boost and instead EOL – there goes the learning curve. Yes I can still use it but getting deeper and deeper dependent on a app headed no where. On the other hand – like when I gave up on FCP 7 – have no idea what to move to.

However, I moved to FCP X a year to early (as it turned out) and I suppose Photos could add all the features back.

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks John. Taking this all in.

Ran into one snag. My phone and work Mac have the email set at IMAP. My home computer is set to POP stay on server for one month but I could uncheck that box.

1) Does that mean remove immediately? Or not remove at all?

2) Can I just change it to IMAP before doing the manual migration?

Road Runner gives you these options

3) And use the trick you mention above to move the “on my mac” mail folders to the inbox?

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“(iPhone settings) under settings / messages (scroll down) Keep Messages set to ‘Forever'”

yes that is my settings but it doesn’t seem to always work on my Macs. If the Mac was shut down, some times it syncs when turned on and sometimes not.

4) Is there any way to sync my messages currently stored on my phone and sync them with messages on my Macs?

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Here’s what I find for the exchange office 365.

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks. I was told migration assistant was all or nothing.

didn’t know there was a custom.

Will 2011 read 2008 docs without messing up formatting?

Will migration assistant bring over mail and – on my mac mail boxes?

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks John,

1. I use aperture and all libraries are on a raid.

Though like FCP 7 it is EOL. I’ll worry about that later.

3. Don’t use drop box but dragging my documents over to the new documents folder is a pretty simple. And a huge collection of docs really don’t take much storage but i do like the idea of having it all synced so might consider it. But I like to have different docs at work than at home. And worry about privacy on the cloud.

4. Really hope I can stay with MS OFFICE 2008. But we’ll see.Mixed reports from fellow 2008 users.

5. Can’t I sync messages on my phone to messages on the new Mac?

6. I’m using IMAP but I don’t know how to bring over the “on my mac” mail folders on El Cap.

In the past a simple search told you what user account library files need to be brought over and export import from Mail.

Also my job uses exchange.

And same question about safari links.

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[Craig Alan]

[wes thom] “First, Isobar does claim to protect from a type of surge that is typically made irrelevant by protection already inside all appliances.”

1) And what type of surge is that?

2) Does it provide any surge protection that is relevant?

[wes thom] “spec number defines 2350 joules. That means it may absorb 780 joules and never more than 1580 joules. Protection is what specs define.”

The specs read: surge energy absorption : 2350.
1) Why then is it never more than 1580 joules?
2) And in what way, if any, are any of these amounts relevant to protecting an IMac or a Pegasus raid?

Is there any disadvantage to plugging the UPS into a surge protector multi-outlet?

[wes thom] “Isobar only does protection it says it does.
“

Tripp Lite says the Isobar “contains the strongest surges, including direct lightning strikes.” They also say it “protects equipment from damaging surges and eliminates interference between connected equipment.”

“Destructive surges can be hundreds of thousands of joules. …
Protectors are only connecting devices to what actually does protection. … Many ignore what they do not see – buried ground rods. But those rods (not a magic box) are critical. … Surge protection is about a current not entering a house. … This solution (dissipating a surge outside via buried rods) is a well proven solution. … Nothing inside (ie near zero power strip protector or UPS) can avert that hunt. … But it is called a surge protect[b]or[/b]. That proves it does surge protect[b]ion[/b]?”

You didn’t actually use any numbers in this explanation nor was there any need to. You were being really clear. Ground rods protect the inside of the house from destructive surges. A power strip protector does not since it has no connection to ground rods.

Then in the last post your said:
“Panel can be grounded and still transistor protection may not exist. Since some wires obviously pass through without a low impedance connection to earth.
… Transistor protection is compromised if any one wire does not connect low impedance to earth. Some wires that must connect to earth ground can only connect via a protector.”

What type of protector would that be?

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