[David Lawrence]

[David Roth Weiss] “Did that become E-Pix, or any part of the E-Pix laser disk editing system?”

That I don’t know. Not much info about E-Pix out there!

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[David Lawrence]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “Good god, you were keeping that under your hat a bit there David. Pretty avidly keen to hear your gathered thoughts on FCPX.”

@Aindreas

Thanks! BTW, I’m enjoying your threads. Especially amused by posters who put us in the “luddite” camp, lol. It was fun watching in the background but I knew I had to eventually say something.

First post is ready and will go up sometime Thursday.

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[David Lawrence]

[Robert Brown] “But I also believe the concept of apprenticeship has it’s merits.”

I absolutely agree! I also share your concern about FCP de-professionalizing the industry, but I’d argue it’s not FCP Studio we need to worry about, it’s FCPX.

X clearly discourages best practices and industry standards. Anyone who thinks mastering it will make them a “Pro” will have big gaps in their knowledge if they ever have to connect with the rest of the industry.

Just the other day, a producer I work with was telling me how a client of his was excited about X because he thought he’d be able to use it to do what he normally hires my colleague to do. I think we’ll be seeing a lot more of that, for better or worse.

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[David Lawrence]

[Robert Brown] “Ok I’ll remember that next time I have to explain to one of our new hires why you should turn the scope on.”

Well, that or maybe up the bar with your new hires? Don’t know about your town but in mine a lot of very skilled people are looking for work these days.

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[David Lawrence]

[Robert Brown] “Actually I hope they don’t listen. FCP IMO has done more to de-professionalize the industry than anything I can think of. Lot’s of fresh “editors” showing up with no video or technical backgrounds. “

The exact same argument was used against desktop publishing when it first started. I think it’s bogus. An open tool is as good as its user.

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[David Lawrence]

Brilliant, Kevin. On many levels. I hope they’re listening.

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[David Lawrence]

[Scott Thomas] “Wasn’t it around this time that Robert Abel was working on interactive laserdisk? I’m assuming they had their own tools for authoring?”

Yes, as a matter of fact, Bob Abel and his team showed us a demo of Guernica at the ranch. It was a HyperCard-based interactive laserdisc. IIRC, the disc itself was created the old school way (linear tape and CMX) with HyperCard driving the interactivity. I remember it being a very cool project!

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[David Lawrence]

Thanks for your interest everyone!

I’m working on a series of posts that will mostly focus on the meta — paradigm, metaphor, UI. That kind of stuff. Will try to get the first out soon. Stay tuned…

–David

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[David Lawrence]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “they’re going to try to move the consumer market in some bold way like they think steve jobs would, like they tried to move us – with a gun of sorts to their head.
Some time in the next ten years apple are going to mess up really badly”

I think this is already happening. I wonder if what we’ve witnessed with the FCPX release is what happens if Steve Jobs is out of the loop and the marketing people are making the decisions.

[David Lawrence]

Thanks, much better!