Franz Bieberkopf
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[Craig Seeman] “A lot of Pro Tools users …”
Craig,
There’s that word again.
You seem to know a lot of people.
Franz.
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[Craig Seeman] “I do think lots of people were skipping versions though.”
Craig,
Speaking of vagaries … what do you make of the recent jumps in FCPX “top grossing” status in the app store? (down to 3rd last week behind pages, up to 1st this week)
Franz.
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[Craig Seeman] “One might wonder why so many people don’t upgrade.”
Craig,
… Adobe CS sales and upgrades are down?
Franz.
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[Mark Dobson] “FCPX it is undoubtably a lot easier for both experienced and new editors to use. Whilst I acknowledge that production houses will encounter severe limitations with FCPX …”
Mark,
I, for one, doubt it this “undoubtability”.
If software doesn’t support my workflow and approach, it is not “easier” to use – it is unusable. This is quite aside from the severe limitations you note.
Franz.
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Some more detail at iFixit:
https://ifixit.org/2884/apple-ditches-green-standard-cuts-off-federal-agencies-from-apple-products/
and WSJ:
https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/07/06/apple-removes-green-electronics-certification-from-products/
including this:
Many corporations like Ford, HSBC, and Kaiser Permanente require their CIOs to purchase computers from sources that are EPEAT certified, said Sarah O’Brien director of outreach for EPEAT. And the U.S. government requires that 95% of the electronics it purchases be EPEAT certified. In 2010, … 222 out of the 300 American universities with the largest endowments asked their IT departments to give preference to EPEAT certified computers. Around 70 of the schools required EPEAT certification for electronics purchasesFranz.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “The products that were certified did not suddenly lose their status.”
From the article:
But Apple is removing all of its products from EPEAT’s registry, even older desktops that had once been certified.
If the products are not registered and checked as conforming to established EPEAT standards, then they are not “certified” – you can choose other words if you like, “de-listed” means the same thing practically. It does have an impact on their “status” (contrary to your claim).
If an institution only buys EPEAT certified equipment, they will not be able to buy Apple.
[Jeremy Garchow] “Apple seems to be a responsible company as far as a multi-billion multinational.”
Maybe. Maybe not. They certainly claim to be. What resources to do you have to check those claims? Or do you just take their word for it?
Also I thought it amusing that from your links they base their figures on a 7 year life-cycle for products (at the suggestion of Dell).
Franz.
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[Craig Seeman] “… ProMac system beats all the Macs.”
Sigmund,
Your slip is showing.
Franz.
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[Bill Davis] “Unfortunately, that particular TV happened to be set up for Wii and so my kid convinced me to just access the Netflix interface via Wii remote. That’s a fine interface for virtual bowling – but about the dumbest human movie watching control construct imaginable.”
Bill,
I’m reminded of some recent thread postings, typically of this nature:
“There’s also some value in learning that what a particular individual has chosen to tag as “dumb” might be seen as tremendously beneficial to those who might be better able to separate their cognitive thinking from their emotional thinking and thereby resist projecting that same emotional thinking to the world as factual.
It’s “dumb control” for you. It’s extremely useful new thinking for me.
Your “dumb control” – in the hands of someone who – instead of dismissing it based on a negative emotional response – has taken the time to look at a common task that it might improve has proved to me to be a major efficiently boost.”
Franz.
(I think there was a Justice O’Conn0r quote in there too, but I’ve edited for brevity.)
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[Bill Davis] “… largely rough-in and even fine tune your visuals, then break apart and tweak your audio after your video is largely locked.”
This is a very constrained and limited way of looking at the edit process. This is an audio-visual medium in time, and interplay between all the elements is at the core of the challenges of editing – often one leads the other (video leading audio, or audio leading video) an often it is actually a more complex interplay. To restrict editing to “tweak audio after video” is a very limiting approach.
[Bill Davis] “That’s pretty much the point of the “picture lock” tradition in movie-making isn’t it? To establish a visual core that you work your audio around, rather than just splitting and moving everything section by section?”
“Picture Lock” is a point in post production where certain decisions (both visual and audial) are “locked in” – both the visual and the audio portions are developed more based on those “locked” decisions.
Franz.
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[David Lawrence] “I’ve only done the most basic testing but it seems to work like the other Dynamic Link applications. Simply select the audio clip on the timeline, then send it to Audition. Any changes saved in Audition are immediately updated in the PrP timeline.”
David,
Is it both flexible and transparent in terms of where processed (rendered) media ends up? (meaning can you change where that file gets saved and can you find it and access it in the finder?)
I really disliked the way STP was set up to hide these files.
Franz.