Douglas K. dempsey
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David – You’re the Man! Or Mother, to be precise.
Doug D
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Or maybe he just wants to be rich and retired and do whatever he wants. And not have to “fight” for pro improvements within a consumer company. IF that means he starts doing plug-ins in retirement … well, everybody needs a hobby!
Doug D
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Well that system actually worked, because … especially if you had an expensive service contract … Avid would basically guarantee the setup would work. Same with fiber-channel drives … once everything was authorized, you kind of understood if something goes wrong it is mean-failure time in hours, or your edit suite is overheated and baking the drives. We had everything on A & B sets of LTO cassettes. Never lost any work. But then, the whole setup with CPU, breakout boxes, drive tower etc… was worth north of $80K!
Doug D
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[Oliver Peters] “Realistically, though, Apple ran “legacy” for 12 years. We are on a more accelerated pace these days. Therefore I give FCP X 5-6 more years in its current form – or something along that same development trajectory. After that, be prepared for a revamp.”
By then, Apple and Netflix will probably be releasing Apple NetFlix TV movies in Fan Fiction format. The movie is in the cloud, you use “FCPX Fan” to edit your own version of it, in the cloud, as you watch it. 🙂
Given all the mobile “Shoot-Edit-Social Media It” apps, the iTunes Compressor package is step one, and soon a MobileShare module in X seems likely.
Doug D
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In fact, in the era I used Avid (1990s-2004), they were like the stern parent to Apple users … never authorizing CPUs or OS until a year or more after they came out. “But I want to use the new tower with Avid.” “You’ll use it, and the new OS, when they WORK, kids. Not before. Now go do your homework.”
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Doug D
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James, don’t get me wrong. I did get over it right away, because I love X. And the whole Library package file concept is one of my big arguments “For” when pitching X or not.
But the consumer “Baby’s First Birthday” logic of Events is a blemish and non-users who scoff are not wrong.
As someone who grew up making “projects” with blocks and toys, car models, carpentry and tools, drawing, painting and graphics … The sudden misappropriation of the umbrella term Project, now used as the term for an iteration WITHIN a particular project … Sorry, but it’s “newspeak” — trying to make words mean something they are not.
I never had an issue with Apple’s “ad-speak ” when they said “Think Different” rather than the grammatical “differently.” That is marketing shorthand. But, as Oliver and others have agreed here, the confusing use of Project makes it a chore to communicate with ordinary humans when talking about X.
Doug D
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MY own single biggest interface complaint is the buffoonishly-named terminology. I’ve been told, “who cares what they call things, as long as it works” but it is in this area that I am made to feel silly.
I STILL find it nearly impossible to converse with a newcomer about FCPX without stumbling over the concepts, “When you start a new Project … er, what I mean is, when you start a new JOB…we can’t call it a project because that actually means a new sequence in FCPX.”
I maintain that the single biggest giveaway that Apple is pandering to “everyone else” is the concept of “Events.” If we can chuckle that the standard NLE is a mixed metaphor based on film & the editing bench or flatbed (Tracks), on tape editing (Play and Record ‘Monitor’ windows) and computers (Hierarchical Folders as “Bins”) … then we must laugh outright at the concept of “Events” which is based on the Kodak Family Scrapbook. The idea that you can or would sort clips as events comes straight from iMovie and iPhoto and presumes you are a hobbyist who hauls out your camera for a birthday or a wedding. And so you of course will chuck all these “events” into a family “library” and then on the weekend, open up your “make-a-movie” software and begin a new “project.”
No matter how many times I use the app, I must consciously read, think about and decide when I am creating a Library, or a Project or an Event. And given the way I work, I find that I must have an “Event” in every “Library” called “Edits” which contains all of my “Projects” for that Library. My head spins just trying to type that sentence!
To me, that is the Fisher Price aspect David alludes to.
Doug D
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Thanks Robin, very interesting. And you are insightful in seeing iMovie v10 as the new FCExpress, rather than the popular and dismissive barb of calling FCPX “iMovie Pro.”
Doug D
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So I’ll ask again, does anyone know if Randy Ubillos is more or less responsible for the non-traditional interface and feature design for X, and what editors were consulted during initial development? In the general press, he is often presented as the “auteur” of FCPX.
Doug D
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haha, I love that story Michael! I’m not working on features, to be sure, but every project is a collaboration, even when it is a short documentary my wife and I are making. At some point, the argument becomes, “you’re not making it better, you’re just making it different.” Then it’s negotiation and bribery to keep a cut or dissolve you want, over the wishes of your partner! We have also tried it out on third parties, only to discover they don’t notice of don’t care, one way or the other. As I said, “not better, just different.”
Doug D