Don Scioli
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Hey, I’m glad they didn’t come out with a new, new Mac Pro. I have a 2008 2 x 3.2 Ghz Quad Core Mac Pro with 16GB ram, a ATI 5770 and 6TB’s of internal storage. It runs FCP 7, FCPX, Avid MC6 and PP6 great with no appreciable lags with footage @ 1080P. Now I don’t have to worry about putting out over $5k for a new machine for a year. No new machine envy.
What, me worry?
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When I was in film school at USC, a bunch of us went to see an experimental play at the old Goldwyn
soundstage In LA, it was called Leviathan and was about Moby Dick in space and the author was Ray Bradbury. So we watched the play and it was cool and as we were beginning to leave, who shows up but Ray Bradbury, who proceeds to talk and take questions for over an hour.To say it was inspiring was an understatement.
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My dream came true….I told everyone…Steve didn’t disappoint.
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I’ll start off this reply by saying that you all with think I’m nuts or smoking the weed or both. But I swear this happened.
About a month ago I HAD A DREAM, a real dream, not the beginning of a fairy tale, but some of you may think this in fact is a fairy tale,but it was as real a dream as I or anyone can have. I was hanging out with Steve Jobs, he was gone of course and we talked and hiked around the Palo Alto hills for a while, and he was really friendly and funny. This went on for awhile, then I was driving him back to his house in Los Altos and I finally worked up the nerve to ask him if Apple was coming out with a new Mac Pro. He looked at me as if that was the most ridiculous thing anyone could ever say. Of course, he said, what are you thinking, Apple would always make a computer like that. I dripped him off, we said goodbye and that was that.
I awoke from the dream with that kind of dream feeling you had as a kid, that all was right with the world. I knew it was true.
Full disclosure. I read the Isaacson book about 6 months previous, and I met Jobs in the late 80’s as part of a film project, but had not been thinking about him for a while. I leave it up to the reader to make a judgement.
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Could you imagine this happening in the auto industry? you buy a new, say BMW, and after 2 years, you cannot get the car serviced at all, anywhere it’s EOL. Or, as in the Case of Final Cut Pro X, you go to but a new BMW and they have the car set up with right handed drive, a left handed gear shift, right foot brake and no front window….plus the radio only plays NPR.
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I was impressed by Panasonic’s $13K “inexpensive” 3D camera. The booth set up was impressive for such a small camera, with good 3D. It was about 1/4 the size and weight of Cameron’s 3D rigs.
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I didn’t want this to turn into an argument on the merits of X vs. 7. in leu of reading the book, here is what happened on page 119… you make the judgement.
When Apple was getting ready to roll out Final Cut Studio 2 they had just purchased the app COlor, which had a previous list price of 25k. Some of the Apple product managers wanted to charge a premium for Final Cut Studio with Color vs. Final Cut Studio without Color. Names such as Final Cut Studio Platinum or Final Cut Studio Extended Edition were bandied about and at the product meeting with Steve Jobs, a full assortment of package designs, each with it’s own name, was clearly laid out on the table. The Platinum Edition had a nice shiny platinum stripe across the top. Each of the others had some feature to differentiate it from the standard edition. The product managers told Jobs this was being done to accommodate the addition of Color to the mix.
Jobs looked at the boxes, then at the team.
“Put the software in the box,” he said
They looked at him.
“Put Color in the Final Cut Studio box. We sell one product. Period”.
Silence from the group.
“What’s next,” Jobs said. -
I’ve tried many times, each time a new update comes out I try it with new fervor. But it lets me down every time, with by crashing, the magnetic timeline, pulling my hair out trying to delete one frame, on and on. So I’m still using 7 and making the move to Avid.
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No the monitors are a matched pair @1280 x 1024.
I downloaded the 6.01 version and that seems to clear it up, maybe.
I noticed that people had this problem as early as 2005 as evidenced by prior forums. -
Yes, I have intensity pro on my Mac Pro 3.2 early 2008 and it works great with the 9.2 beta 3 for Avid MC6, Final Cut Pro 7,FCPX and Adobe Premiere Pro. the out put in all is mostly geared towards 1080i resolution.