[Frank Gothmann]

[Lance Bachelder] “Who are “most people”? One guy with a YouTube video? “

Google Warp Stabilizer vs FCP X and “most people” means the finding of… well… most people who wrote about their comparison of the two.
Actually, I only used most because of your findings, without it it should read “everybody”.

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[Lance Bachelder] “End result: FCPX did much better job at both stabilizing and removing jello cam. “

That a very different result most people find when comparing the warp stabilizer with X.
eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW3qU6pXBtA

I am very happy with the performance, even on a tired old Quad Core Macpro with a GT120 I find working with it wonderfully fluid and
completely beach-ball free. On a modern machine it just flies.

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[Frank Gothmann]

Finished my first job with CS6 today. Discovered a few bugs but no deal breakers. Quite pleased with the release,better than I thought it would turn out, promise of more great things to come and no stability issues for me so far. Still waiting for Edius 6.5 in June, feature list sounds splendid and, together with Avid, it’s the most rock-solid app for tape in and out plus it just screams with speed at certain tasks.
Path is clear. Jumping between Edius and Premiere, depending on the type of job.
We also have an Avid for certain things that come in but it won’t be my major NLE.
It took quite a long time and lots and lots of experimenting but we now have the entire toolset together to replace FCP studio and the Mac and have an equal if not better and faster workflow implementation across the board.

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Preordered and excited!

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[Bill Davis] “Oh. Then you’re NOT a software engineer. And as such, what you’re saying about the software engineering in X is simply unsupported opinion. Fine. Now I can assign the appropriate weight to your opinions on that particular topic.

You do know that’s a silly statement.

[Bill Davis] Actually, I too use a lot of Apple software. I seldom find it to be “buggy.” Perhaps I and the hundreds of millions of other people on the planet who keep rewarding Apple with their purchases are just unable to see the flaws that annoy you so. “

See, Bill, unlike you, it seems I am capable to give Apple credit for stuff where credit is due, and critique where that is due. You simply think everything is top and golden.
I can give you lots of things I like about X and OSX, at the same time I can give you lots that is broken and braindead. Same for Windows, Avid, Adobe and tons of other apps.

An application corrupting projects under not precisely known circumstances is, presumably not only in my book, bad engineering and needs to be fixed. If you think it takes a software engineer to figure that out… well…
I can go on about bugs and issues, spinning beachballs, memory leaks, Soundtrack Pro, DVDSTP, Motion, Compressor & Qmaster, itunes, Quicktime, Lion Server, Samba but there is no point because you don’t want to hear it. Look at some non-Apple centric forums and read up on the implementations of Lion Server, bring some beer, popcorn and have fun because you’re in for a wild ride.

And I am not saying by any means that Apple are alone in this boat; there is tons of sloppy software out there. It’s just that they aren’t really any better and they, too, only cook with water.
Apple are just different with great marketing, twisting reality quite a bit and a huge number of people happy to come back for round 2 after having been burned. To me, that’s an admirable persistance but not rational and I don’t really understand it.

And about the “the hundreds of millions of other people on the planet who keep rewarding Apple with their purchases are just unable to see the flaws that annoy you so. “… c’mon, Bill, you cannot possible think this is a serious statement.

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[Bill Davis] “It’s clear you’re a software engineer. I’m not. So I’ll defer to you or others who’ve examined the code inside X and would know if it’s as “sloppy” as you’re publicly stating. “

I don’t have to be a software engineer to see bugs when I run into them on a daily basis. And that related to lots of software from Apple. That’s only half the problem. The issue is that a lot of those bugs are there for years and years – unfixed.

[Bill Davis] “I would have imagined that you understood that my fundamental point was the the many issues (like transition luminance value shifts) that were problems left over from Quicktime are no longer an issue in X because they jettisoned the old QT code that was causing them.”

QT is a mess and I hope for the best. It remains to be seen how well all that is fixed once other apps start interacting with AV foundation. Cause at the moment it’s just a phantom in the shape of QT X and FCP X. Plus a lot of the issues in QT are related to the codecs themselves. Prores has tons of Gamma issues, in Windows not even QT Player can play it back without shifts. DnxHD or Cineform in QT wrapper has none of that. Again, not related to the architecture per se but specific coding and bugs that are simply left unfixed.

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Always the same bull**** about the old, analogue (?) workflows “less relevant to modern editing” that got retired in favour of something new and amazing.
You really learned your Apple mantras well.

Jobs had lots of great ideas but he also had a ton of extremely stupid ones, often living within his own reality distortion field. I’ll never forget his speech at All -Things Digital about people loving itunes for Windows so very much – probably one of the buggiest and most hated apps on the Win side ever.
X smells like jobs bigtime. It has all the good things of him and Apple as well as the worst. Great ideas with big potential that never gets fully developed because it all is suffocated in oversimplification and the need to be different for the sake of being different. That plus often very sloppy software engineering, as if someone had lost interest halfway through.

And by the way: Core Video and Quicktime are totally different things. Core Video is NOT a replacement for Quicktime and never will be.

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[Frank Gothmann]

[Bill Davis] “Time to switch to an all LED studio light strategy to balance out the energy profile!”

It not that bad given the performance. Lots of high-end gaming PCs with multiple GPUS draw a lot more power and some people use three gpus. Some of the newer mainboards I am checking out for a server built have 7 PCIe slots, all 16 lanes (which has been unheard of pre i7). Perfect for a great server built.

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[Craig Seeman] “I notice I left one thing out. I need
Force headers for every GOP
That’s required for Blu-ray compatibility so I need to do that to emulate a Blu-ray encode.

On the other hand Compressor 4.0.3 Blu-Ray encoding (.h264) can’t be played in QT (any) or FCPX.”

Thanks for the effort, I appreciate it.
Ah, Episode, from what I know the encodes can be used for self-burned discs with some apps but they won’t pass Sony or Eclipse verification for replicaton (same for Matrox’s Compress HD card). Does Episode actually produce proper elementary streams? The spec sheet on their site only lists transport. If so, that’s very likely the reason why it plays but those streams cannot be used for authoring.
https://www.telestream.net/pdfs/datasheets/EpisodeSeries_Format_Support.pdf

None of the encoders I know that do produce compliant elementary streams work in X, ie. compressor, adobe media encoder, squeeze, mainconcept reference, netblender or cinemacraft.

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[Craig Seeman] “BTW the H.264 encoder is MainConcept if it makes a difference . . . and it might”

Can you post the settings or a screenshot of your seetings? Curious!

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