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[David Lawrence] “unfortunately the recent 6.0.2 update seems to have broken it. Only the right facing cursors display. Phillip Bloom says they’re working on it so I’ll try again with the next release. “
Well, whaddya know — turns out the 6.0.2 update included new retina graphics. The reason the patch is broken is because some of the cursor file names have changed.
Also, there are now two versions of each cursor – normal and x2 for retina display. And get this, the cursors are just .png files. You can open, edit and save them in Photoshop. If I get some spare time, I may fix this myself!
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Thank you kindly. I downloaded and installed the patch but unfortunately the recent 6.0.2 update seems to have broken it. Only the right facing cursors display. Phillip Bloom says they’re working on it so I’ll try again with the next release. It looks promising.
[Aindreas Gallagher] “Honestly – it’s a lovely link, it shows true confidence in the audience, fallon style but – to any old editor at all – why not really, really read this.
and have a hard think through about apple as an editing software vendor going forward. as they say.”
Oh you know I have. For me, Adobe is a breath of fresh air.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Certainly, FCP7 allows a hook to FileMaker through XML, and FileMaker is where the meat of the information is.”
Indeed. I find Murch’s FileMaker workflow pretty inspiring and would love to learn more about it. Especially the custom generated auto assembly from FileMaker to FCP… wow!
[Jeremy Garchow] “I am talking strictly the timeline and it’s mechanics. The FCP7 timeline could be better.”
Agreed!
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[Jeremy Garchow] “FCP7 lends itself to this method, but is it the best way? The most creative way? The most efficient way? The most accurate? The most familiar? :)”
Maybe for Water Murch, it’s the most flexible way. 😉
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “in other news – hey! – adobe are quietly posting (themselves) a nice third party hack to fractionally reduce the onscreen GUI size of their excellent timeline trimming tools.”
Link please?!
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[Michael Griggs] “A.K.A. – Apple in a nutshell…..”
AKA FCPX in a nutshell… 😉
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[Jeremy Garchow] “here’s a cartographers reaction to Apple Maps.
https://venturebeat.com/2012/09/23/apple-maps-disaster-stems-from-lack-of-da...
Be sure to read the cartographer’s linked blog post, too. “
Fascinating read, Jeremy. Thanks for the link.
I found a couple of the cartographer’s points about Apple’s software development and marketing strategies with iOS6 Maps remarkably familiar:
“You cannot read about the errors in Apple Maps without realizing that these maps were being visually examined and used for the first time by Apple’s customers and not by Apple’s QC teams. If Apple thought that the results were going to be any different than they are, I would be surprised. Of course, hubris is a powerful emotion.”
I have reached the same conclusions as you about the Apple strategy, but I am relatively sure they did not quite know how bad it would turn out. However, as you note, they may have decided that the upside outweighed the downside. The problem I have with this is that they knew this was a problem months ago and yet gave a preview of the product and set very high expectations for it in June. Stringing your loyal users along as part of “fantasy-marketing” strategy is just the wrong thing to do.
These problems are virtually identical to what we experienced with the botched release of FCPX. Except in this case, instead of it only affecting a very specialized, niche market, it’s being seen by the biggest, most mainstream market Apple has. I have no doubt Apple will recover, but the risks here are big. Andy Ihnatko in the Chicago Sun Times writes:
Here at the end of its first week, I consider Maps’ POI problems to be an embarrassment. If the problem persists to Halloween, then I’ll think of Maps as a failure. And if Apple doesn’t turn Maps around and make it into a reliable, trustworthy resource by the end of the year, then I’ll consider it a fatality. Maps will be moved to a cot in Apple’s windowless attic, where they keep Ping and the iPod HiFi.
What happens with Maps remains to be seen. Since this is a visible and serious problem for Apple, no doubt it will get much effort, investment and priority. But as the cartographer points out, the challenges are huge. I feel Apple has now created a similar problem for itself in the post-production market. It may not be as broadly challenging as mapping, but real-time database-driven media software is really hard to do well. Given the comparatively small size of the market and how Apple uses their engineering resources, I have to wonder if they are up to the long-term challenge they’ve created for themselves with FCPX.
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[Bill Davis] “You might say it’s the director’s tool for managing and selecting the dailies—the footage shot on any given day.”
Is that a fair representation? “
Yes, that seems fair and accurate to me.
[Bill Davis] “It seems counter to what I watched about Lightroom, since I was shown not only organizational tools but tools that enabled the user to largely perfect and export finished results as easily for a client as for another department.
Again, just trying to clarify my thinking about these products.”
I haven’t done much work with Prelude yet other than to just open it and poke around, but my impression and everything I’ve read about it says that it’s more geared to prep than finishing. It has tools for doing a first pass assembly and rough cut, but it’s really not intended to be a full-blown editor. I think this makes sense given how it’s positioned in the workflow.
When you think about it, photo touch-up is a much more specific task than full editorial so I can see how it might be possible to get images client ready in Lightroom. Editorial really is a much bigger job. That said, the program is very new so who knows how much will be possible with future versions.
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BTW, the Prelude product manager is Wes Plate, a name that should be very familiar around here. I expect this program will get very very good. It’s currently at version 1.0.2.
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[Bill Davis] “Will Premier continue to expand on the current approach? And if so, will Adobe ever do for video what they did for image manipulation – bring out a “lightroom” approach for video?”
They already have. It’s called Prelude.
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