Franz Bieberkopf
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[Craig Seeman] “52% of the facilities purchased FCP within the last 12 months.”
Additionally,
Further in the thread you also clarify your own thoughts:
[Craig Seeman] Also it’s not clear that the number is specifically FCPX. Many facilities are still on FCP7 or 6 given the comments about the diminished 7 uptake which is believable.”
Franz.
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[Craig Seeman] ” In Apple’s April briefing with Larry Jordan and others Apple mentioned there were more FCPX installs than FCP7 installs …”
Craig,
There was a thread on that too … I think the consensus was that they were comparing purchases of 7 (not upgrades, mind you) to purchases of X.
But, you know, it was vague …
Franz.
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[Craig Seeman] “I’ve posted their reports here. They do facility surveys …”
Craig,
You are being a bit ingenuous. This says nothing about who they are, what their resources or objectives are. They’ve been soliciting people with chances to win iPads though (twice! in the last month):
[Craig Seeman] “SCRI wasn’t a “vague” guess.”
Here is the thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/32053#32104It includes this:
[Craig Seeman] “Short of paying $1500 for the report, we are looking at coffee grounds. There’s a lot that’s not being clearly defined. 52% of “something” in broadcast and professional facilities have FCPX installed.”
So we’ve agreed it’s vague.
Franz.
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[Craig Seeman] “I believe SCRI had a percentage of facilities (I forget the exact wording) of FCPX installs.”
Craig,
A vague guess by an unknown third party is not “reported numbers”.
Franz.
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[Craig Seeman] “… seemingly very high sales numbers (when last reported)…”
Craig,
“Numbers” have never been “reported” (unless you’re using some new meanings of those words).
Franz.
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[Craig Seeman] “I just don’t think they had any business interest in selling a 2012 MP without Thunderbolt, USB3 and whatever other revisions they have coming for it.”
Craig,
… but you neglect to note that they are in fact selling such a machine.
Franz.
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[Craig Seeman] “Ahh the shrinking of the size of the TV Broadcast/Feature Film niche compared to the overall video post industry which actually is growing faster in other areas.”
Craig,
You know that’s going to need a cite …
Franz.
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[Walter Soyka] “A reel ID, taken in conjunction with timecode, uniquely identify individual frames, helps you conform EDLs across systems, and helps you match back to the original source media.”
The labs I’m dealing with are using Reel ID as a crucial part of the conform – this is with RED, C300, 5D, etc., likely because it is well integrated into XML and EDL workflows (even if its meaning or use has shifted slightly from the original purpose).
I don’t really care if it is referred to a tape, card, drive, folder or whatever, it’s a useful bit of metadata pipe. Certainly one can imagine better implementations of conform workflow – but I don’t think Apple will be the one filling that need.
[Bill Davis] “So the card (reel) is just one kind of a bit bucket. … I think more in terms of creating and managing cloned buckets of the DATA that reel originally contained. With that attitude, I see it as a virtual data arrangement that I can label and store and move and re-name and ALL the foundational metadata about date, time, image IDs, etc, etc, etc, remains attached.”
It’ll be interesting to see if Apple ever gets serious about metadata, Bill. You were mentioning Lightroom recently – that’s not a bad aspirational model for Apple in terms of metadata.
Franz.
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[Craig Seeman] “Apple’s logic team was making great efforts to stress it will not shift toward a GarageBand interface.”
[Neil Goodman] “theres not much you can do else to it.”
I’ll be much more convinced of Apple’s commitment to a trackless salvation when Logic gets rid of those old-fashioned tracks.
Franz.
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[Oliver Peters] “As far as the timeline – it’s both.”
Oliver,
I’m interested in the breakdown. If I squint I see surround effects suggestions and sub suggestions that he wants passed to the sound editors; there seems to be a clear breakdown of several sub mixes of music tracks as well.
… you can’t just publish that screen grab and not expect questions about the lens and speculations if it was 600 meters away or more …
Franz.