[David Roth weiss]

[Jeff Markgraf] ”
Again…what? What different direction? Someone, PLEASE explain this. My head explodes every time I see this notion that Apple and X have abandoned audio presented as gospel truth.”

Jeff, first of all, you really need to examine why this makes your head explode. Does your head explode when your clients disagree with you or when they opt to choose a different creative direction from the one you’ve chosen?

And next, you work in a biz that’s mostly track-based, and the entire discussion of the forthcoming roles editor, which may or may not actually be forthcoming, is about a translation tool that’s an abstraction layer that makes a trackless app function more like it does have tracks.

As I’ve said for more than four years, as far I’m concerned, the trackless timeline is a solution looking for a problem. So, since I see no benefits that apply to my workflows, and since the unrealized fix that’s talked about is to make it more tracklike, should I need to worry that expressing that here makes your head explode?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

I’m not religious, but I’ll ditto that amen…

And, just as one does not have to jump off a cliff to know it’s not right for them, no experienced editor has to become fully proficient with an app to know its not a good fit for there needs. I made the decision after just three edits… I later went back and cut a project with X, and arrived at the same conclusion. Does that make me somehow deficient?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Sorry your Cubs got clobbered, I was pulling for them…

Meanwhile, Jeff there don’t have to be deficiencies in certain tools or in the people who choose not to use them, for those tools to be rejected by some, adopted by others.

For the record, for those who work with tracks, have worked with tracks for their entire careers, and who don’t find tracks inhibiting or in need of change, it should be easy to understand why they might not want to take the time to become proficient at X, especially as it has a fairly substantial learning curve.

In pointing out that tracks make the product unsuitable for them, why does that have mean that either X is deficient or the person rejecting it for their purposes is deficient?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

He says right in the video that he’s tried X, so the argument that he’d like it better if he tried it is just not applicable.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Tony, what you keep forgetting is that you can’t just kick the tires on FCP X, which is the application’s #1 problem for experienced editors. There’s a significant learning curve for X that many experienced editors simply aren’t willing to invest their time in.

You can try your best to counter that argument, but I’ll tell you in advance that even your own home team will probably not agree with you.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

They don’t call it a media doubler for good reason. You should never ever consider a 5400 rpm hard drive for video storage and playback, unless that is you want to buy twice… Once as a mistake, 2nd to rectify that mistake.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Because he was concerned he’d chosen the wrong NLE for the job and he needed help.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Hey Steve, why don’t you clone your working boot drive and update to El Capitan, then you can text safely and tell us of your results.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Nice post Vashi! And don’t be even slightly concerned you were rambling, your real life accounts are welcome here where conjecture typically rules the day.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

If those are the original hard drives you should replace all the drives. When one fails, it’s a very good indication that others will soon follow suit. And, with one drive dead on a RAID 5 enclosure and the others maybe ready to join it, your data is now extremely vulnerable – if you don’t have a backup of everything on that RAID, you should do so immediately.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.