Dominic Deacon
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Under the “window” tab there’s an option called “toolbar”. Clicking that has always locked the pane in for me.
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[Bret Williams] “I don’t think you can really monetize a facebook group can you?”
I believe you can now. I think this rule was changed recently. I am a member of a group called Melbourne Creative Network and they recently barred all new members unless a $10 fee was paid. There was a fair bit of outcry but it was claimed that this was a recent addition to Facebooks terms and was all above board. I assume that was true.
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I can think of a couple of reasons that wouldn’t involve bugs. Rather than quitting out of the program try this: Have a second project tab open in phggotoshop at the same time. Click into the second project tab and then click into the one you want to work in. Do your tools work again?
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[Bill Davis] “From what I’ve read, the slim new Apple MacBook Pro runs within EXACTLY the same thermal parameters that also arise from thicker and even RUGGED laptops from many other manufacturers sporting the same level of performance. It get no hotter, cools no less efficiently, and should fail and NOT fail at exactly the same rate as any of it’s competitors.”
I’m not sure that’s really true. Even after the fix the macbook will still only run at the chips base clock speed. Those thicker, more rugged laptops will run at the boost clock speed. Personally I wouldn’t be spending that kind of money on a processor to have it topping out out at 2.9ghz. That processor is just too powerful for that form factor.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “And sorry… but if you put together a PC that actually matches a Mac spec for spec, then, oh gee… you’re not only not saving anything, but you also have just a pile of boxes on a table as a starting point. One to two days later you have yourself a machine.”
One to two days!? I’m not good at it and I’d budget an hour and another half hour to install windows on a bad day. You watch Linus obviously so you can watch videos of him putting computers together in 10 minutes, outside, in a bustling Chinese mall. It’s not a complicated thing.
As for them not being cheaper I’m not sure how Mac people keep making this claim. I just built a 16 core PC with two 1080tis, 64GB RAM, M.2 drives, 8tb of hard drive storage for $AUD6000. You can’t buy a Mac that powerful to begin with but if you wanted to try the entry level iMac Pro (which I couldn’t get my work done on) starts at $AUD7,300. No I didn’t get a 5k screen with mine but I already have screens. Otherwise every part in my machine is equal or superior- hugely superior as far as CPU and GPU go- for a massive discount. Plus every parts replaceable and I can replace whenever I need to because I put them in there in the first place.
As for my machjine being glued togethr with spit and gum. No spit. No gum. I used actual real life screws for everything. You want to asee stuff stuck together with glue take off the back of your Mac. There’s a hell of a lot of glue back there.
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There’s lots of ways to bring up your shadows. In Camera Raw you can just grab the shadows and blacks sliders and drag them right to lighten those areas without touching the highs and mids. Obviously there’s also the curves and levels adjustment layers for this.
There’s also the Shadows/Highlights function. Click on Image / Adjustments / Shadows/highlightlights. Click the button that says “show more options” in the dialogue that pops up and the start playing with the sliders to get a feel for what they do.
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I agree with everything Gregor said. The initial outburst against FCX was unreasonable though I was a part of it. At the time I was a kid who had no money but who had invested what was, to me at least, a huge amount of money in FCP because I thought I would build my future business on it. Then Apple threw my investment away a couple months later and replaced it with another program that, at that time, was totally insufficent to my needs. These days I could get by with it but there was no way to know that that would come to pass at the time. I was pissed. I would say both justifiably and irrationally pissed which is a good trick to pull off if you can do it. It turned out a lot of people could do it.
This has resulted in this absurd pushback from the Apple clan where FCX can do no wrong. FCX has no grading tools? Great, our program is unencumbered by specialist addons! FCX gets some basic curves tools etc? Great, just goes to show FCX is up to date with everything all the other programs have! Those new tools are broken? Apple is taking a bold new stance on these tools, reimaging the whole field! Apple fixes the broken tools? Look how quickly they fix their errors!
There is no reasoning with these people. Whatever happens is seen through a special lens that puts Apple always in the best possible light.
But it’s just a program and is not any of the things Simon paints it as. Even as a program it lags miles behind Premiere for professional users so any abuse about the direction of the industrry should be squarely laid at Adobes door. It’s followers on this forum are some of the most dogmatic people you will meet outside of a scientology convention but they are in no way representative of FCX people generally.
For most it is a tool to get the job done. Just as for me these day Photoshop is the tool that gets the job done. I rely on it and I love it but if you come to me and ask me what should be improved I will have two hundred complaints about how it can be better. That’s how a user should be. That’s how the huge majority of FCX users are. For some here FCX is something else entirely. But surely that’s the fun. If you’re going to have a decent debate you need some zealots to fire up the moderates or it gets boring fast.
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[Shawn Miller] “and 3D applications are a LOT harder to learn than any NLE.”
You’re not joking there. All the talk of the difficulties of learning new NLE programs in here often does my head in. You can pick up any of the NLEs and just start using them intuitively. To learn them properly takes no time at all. On the other hand there’s learning 3ds Max and rendering with VRay. Whole different world where the difference in diffculty to learn the app is almost impossible to convey but let me give it a go: if learning FCP for me was like picking up the basics on a go cart then learning 3ds Max is like learning to fly an F-16. I’ve been learning intensively for months and still feel helpless at times.
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Gtx cards are aggressively marketed at gamers. Nvidia expects pros to be using their quadro line. The looks aren’t that important to me but if they are for you then these cards are nicely buttoned down and pro looking.
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[Bill Davis] “If people wanted Brutalist style buildings – or ASUS style hunky “fixable” component based laptops – that’s what you would see people using.”
Asus laptops look okay to me. I think if you’re after the best looking computers though you’re probably buying a HP or a Microsoft rather than either Asus or Apple.
I don’t really buy the idea that the numbers of computers Apple sells proves their worth. Coke sell a lot more sugared water than anyone else. It’s not because of their own relentless pursuit of excellence as there’s not much you can do with sugared water. It’s the advertising and their brand image that moves the bottles.
