Frank Gothmann
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And once again: it is clearly not the place “editing” is happening today for you and in your world.
It is for a lot of other people and I dare say the vast majority of people professionally editing today are NOT editing on a laptop. -
Wow, that’s very interesting. Have to see how well it is implemented and working. Tnx for the tip.
Then again, far more interested in DnxHD these days. -
The most ludicrous thing of recent weeks is people starting to call Jobs an artist. Get real and grow up!
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You know perfectly well that the matte screen on your laptop is a bto item and not something that comes standard.
Good for you that you are happy with FCP-X and your newly found ability to work with a laptop in a hotel room, your flight or an an airport toilet. While I wouldn’t want to work like that for the life of me, so be it. Unfortunatly you don’t get the point. Nobody wants to deny your ability to do that and nobody wants you do work differently if you prefer it that way. More power to you.The issue is that the people who DON’T want or can’t work that way, who need a fire-breathing desktop machine and toolset to get the job done are not able to do that anymore (or almost once the tower dies). And everbody who doesn’t want to follow along with you into this brave new world just doesn’t get it, right? -
Because the Apple of the early 2000s was a very different company than it is today. Apple invested in the creative video business because they saw it as a means to secure the platform and get people to adopt Mac hardware, not because it was something were were interested in per se. And even people who used to work for Apple said precisely that (Ron Brinkman). That simply isn’t necessary anymore as their business model has moved on to large, hip consumer crowds. Graphic designers, once Apple’s core business, hate glossy screens yet this is all Apple produces these days because these once vital markets are not vital anymore.
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I think the problem is indeed that Apple wants to have it both way: powerful tool but super-simplified ui. That just doesn’t work and form should function functionality, not the other way round. Unfortuantely, in Apple’s book simplifying things means more and more often simply dropping features rather than making them understandable and usable for those who want to knowa nd those who know what they are doing and need them.
Just take a look at Compressor. Virtually zero ability to tweak codec settings. Compare this with the settings of Mainconcept or high-end tools such as Cinevision. So, potentially powerful tools that lack the depth and control that a lot of the high-end users simply need. The desired result is a “one-click” solution that simply doesn’t fly for certain markets – and sometimes delivers inferior results. -
Proprietary worked for Apple with their consumer products (so far, let’s see what the future will bring), it didn’t do them well in most other areas and more often than not turned out to be a waste of time and money for the adopter.
FCP was a success because the of the back-then incredible price point which essentially devaluated the entire NLE market. The idea was to push hardware sales via “subsidised” software and it worked. That need is gone.
Reading through your other posts in this threat and others (put on that Kevlar vest) where all this might lead to, why they did it and what not, I seriously think you’d be great in one of those Hitler-in-the-bunker spoofs on Youtube. Pushing around imaginary armies and proclaiming final victory when things went pretty much pear-shaped long time ago. -
I totally understand the reasoning and how you feel. But that’s pretty much how everybody feels who’s been with a certain OS for a long, long time. And change seems hard. But sometimes an end with fear is better than fear without end. 2 month using anything on a daily basis and you’ll start to feel at home with it. And slowly things will come as naturally as they do now. Same goes for Linux. Or using the Terminal which still puts pure fear in a lot of people’s eyes but once you get the hang of it things start to make sense and may actually make your life easier and more flexible.
That is really my main beef with Apple. I don’t want to hand in the ropes and be totally dependable on a company that has proven again and again that they are happy to flush down anything they consider “old” or in which they have lost interest. And they do it without giving proper notice. -
I doubt the final version of Windows 8 will get rid of the startmenu as we know it. It’ll be an option. It’s still in there, even in the DP; you can activate by changing the registry. And some of the new UI features once your out of metro (which sucks for the Desktop, I agree) are pretty sweet plus some nice performance tweaks even at this early stage in the DP.
Windows 7 is a pretty good OS; I don’t think MS is keen on repeating Vista all over again so I don’t see W8 bleak at all. -
What do you mean by “us”?
For me, it’s been about speed, too, all along.
When the first Macpros came out they were as beefy as any PC out there. The fact that Apple doesn’t offer Nvidia cards anymore is bad but typical political bs on their behalf. They could have done so much more on the hardware side for higher end users but that’s just not their game anymore.