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Alright Gentlemen, please join me here at:

It’s All Connected — Clip Relationships and The Magnetic Timeline Paradigm

I’ll be out tonight and much of tomorrow but look forward to your thoughts and continuing the conversation.

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[Walter Soyka] “The degree to which you need to adjust your thinking about editing in X vs Legend is the degree to which you internalize the data model.”

And that in a nutshell, is the problem with FCPX. More soon.

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[Walter Soyka] “Yes.

(My shortest post ever in this forum?)”

Short and sweet! 🙂

OK, I think we’re all on the same page.

I’m gathering my thoughts and will get try to get a new thread started soon!

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[Jeremy Garchow] “To me, if I need a phone number, it’s easier to simply hit command-space, type in the contact name, and hit enter once spotlight finds it”

I never tried that before. Fantastic tip, thank you!

[Jeremy Garchow] “So while the skeuomorphism might not be for everyone, I think there’s a hint of logic behind it even if it it’s a tad outdated. And if the keyboard shortcut editor is an example new skeuomorphic Apple design, then perhaps my brain cells might just rearrange.”

I don’t think the keyboard shortcut editor is the kind of skeuomorphism anyone’s complaining about. I agree with you that it’s excellent design (Adobe could learn a thing or two from it).

The problem with skeuomorphism isn’t the use of graphics, it’s the use of inappropriate graphics that serve no purpose other than ornament. The FCPX keyboard shortcut editor works because the keyboard image is appropriate and functional. The iCal Corinthian Leather serves no use whatsoever. It’s visual garbage.

[Jeremy Garchow] “Also, these guys say Windows 8 is almost not terrible. ;)”

They really like their Start Bar, don’t they? 😉

Looks like Win 8 is a mess on the desktop, but the Metro UI on a nice smartphone like the Nokia Lumia 900 is really pretty sweet. Much nicer than Android to my taste. If I wasn’t so invested in the iOS ecosystem, I would definitely consider it.

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[Michael Gissing] “Apple just made a stylish non tape version of the Walkman. Phones with screens and internet access were around before the iPhone. Apple just made it look good. Making hardware that looks good and software that reinforced difference and a simple but closed system is how I see Apple. Hardly innovative.”

Have to disagree with you Michael. Apple did far more than make good looking hardware and simple to use software. They mainstreamed interactive digital media and technology in a way that no other company ever had before. Until Apple, MP3 players and smartphones were niche toys for technophiles. Apple single handedly created new digital consumer markets thru excellence in experience design.

I don’t like the lock-in of their closed systems either, but I think their design innovation and ability to create markets has been profound. Whether that continues now that they’re gone from underdog to the biggest company on planet earth, remains to be seen.

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[Bret Williams] “It was all pretty acceptable until iCal. I think that pushed it over the edge. Books still reside on bookshelves and they still look like books. Mail still comes in an envelope to everyones house. A camera still looks like a camera. Icons and images are used everywhere everyday to help us understand the point of something before we read it. Heck, that’s the difference between TV and radio. Sure someone could tell us or describe something, but we grasp quicker through a combination of sound and visual. “

Agree that iCal was where Apple jumped the shark with skeuomorphism. I don’t think the problem is the use of icons and imagery as much as the OCD emphasis on literalism. On a touch-based system, there’s a certain rational for it but as it starts bleeding into the design of desktop software, I think it’s problematic.

In terms of design, it’s also remarkably conservative for a company as innovative as Apple.

Weirdly enough, Microsoft seems to be leading design innovation in software these days. On a mobile device, the Metro UI is beautiful, functional, and wholly innovative. Have you tried Photosynth for iOS? It’s amazing. I guess being the new underdog is making them try harder.

In many ways, Apple has become the Disney of technology companies — massively popular, massively successful, extremely high quality, but very conservative in conceptual design of their mass market software products.

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[Joseph Owens] “The Globe & Mail (Toronto/National Canadian newspaper) says the Apple we used to know no longer exists.”

It’s true. But I still think they make interesting hardware. Even if it’s not the most powerful technology on the market, I still think it’s well designed and a pleasure to use.

Apple software is another story.

This is a company that used to employ Don Norman as VP of Research and head of their Advanced Technology Group.

Now they make software with Rich Corinthian Leather and fake wood. FCPX’s annoying chrome and animations come from the same design philosophy that chooses visual glitz over usability.

My inside sources say there’s a big internal fight at Apple over the design direction of software. This recent article in Fast Company agrees:

https://www.fastcodesign.com/1670760/will-apples-tacky-software-design-philosophy-cause-a-revolt

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[Bill Davis] “Inside the software, for example, you can bake in your Vimeo or YouTube account settings. From within the software, you can then simply “print” your video to that account with nothing more than a stop (inside the software) to append search tags. “

[Bill Davis] “Does the Master file remain connected to the editorial functions ala X and Share? Or is that master disconnected from further revision?”

Wait, so are you saying that once you “publish” a video to YouTube in FCPX, you can update the video in FCPX, then re-publish the updated video back to its YouTube page and it will replace the old video but keep the view count and all the existing comments? AFAIK, replacing video is possible within Vimeo, but it’s never been possible with YouTube. If FCPX enables this, that feature alone would be worth the price.

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[Jeremy Garchow] “If you live by the sword!…..

https://androidandme.com/2012/09/smartphones-2/samsung-htc-to-block-us-eu-sa...”

Another win for consumers!

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[Franz Bieberkopf] “Perhaps a new thread is in order …

I’ve often thought that we need some sort of wiki for conceptual references, as I tend to lose the thread and rely on searches and faulty memory later.

Oliver Peters has a sketch for a historical outline, for instance, and there are certain recurring themes.
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Franz,

I think you’re right. This thread is getting too big for all the ideas floating around.

There are some key inter-related ideas that you, Jeremy, Oliver, and Walter have raised that I want to try to expand on. I’ll go start a new thread for this.

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