Franz Bieberkopf
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David,
… sidetracking (and I think I’ve asked you this before) but I’ll ask anyway:
How was your experience with audio work in PPro?
Franz.
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[Bill Davis] “We do quite a bit of image licensing from Stock Photo houses. …”
Bill,
I didn’t realize you were talking about stock photo prices.
“Value” is a pretty loaded word and “photo” is not generally taken to mean stock images.
I thought you were making a universal statement about images. Though I don’t know it from experience, I find it entirely plausible that stock photo prices have come down.
Franz.
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[Bill Davis] “With rare exceptions, the value of any one photo is diminishing – while the value of functional access to huge global storehouses of content is increasing. That’s the disruptive fact.”
Bill,
I’m not sure how you’re squaring the “values” of the first part with the “fact” of the second part.
Franz.
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[Andrew Richards] “Allow me to make it more relevant then. Does anyone here service their own broadcast monitor? Mixer? Vectorscope? Camera? Lenses? VTR?”
Andrew,
You are raising the more interesting question.
There are those who will prefer to have a camera with a built-in lens, and built-in batteries.
There are those who will prefer to buy cameras with interchange-able lenses. Likewise with batteries that can be replaced with spares or replaced.
My own monitor does have an SDI module that I could purchase if I wished. The last monitor (SD), likewise.
You’re raising the question of to what extent things need to be serviceable (not just user-serviceable) and expandable (not just user-expandable).
I take it you’re satisfied with the direction of Apple’s offerings. Is there a certain basic expandability or serviceability you would require? What would that be?
Franz.
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[Andrew Richards] “… it wouldn’t make a dent in Apple’s sales …”
Andrew,
The thing is, you’re essentially asking us to see it from Apple’s perspective. Craig (and others) often make the same argument here.
It’s not an argument without purpose, but my feeling has always been that I Apple can take care of its own perspective. What people come to the forums for is the perspective of editors and those in post – how changes in technology impact on us and the people we deal with.
The market will do what the market will do – I can get that perspective from the tech section in the daily paper.
It’s good to come here to see a more relevant perspective.
Franz.
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[olof ekbergh] “They are made to be recycled not repaired.”
[olof ekbergh] “I think things are changing for the better. It is very efficient to recycle aluminum, and the boards, glass etc are also recycled. It is just the way of the future.”
… then you haven’t read the linked article:
“…the display is fused to the glass, which means replacing the LCD requires buying an expensive display assembly … The design may well be comprised of “highly recyclable aluminum and glass” — but my friends in the electronics recycling industry tell me they have no way of recycling aluminum that has glass glued to it like Apple did with both this machine and the recent iPad.”
So this is not “made to be recycled”, regardless of marketing spin.
An innovative tech company might be taking on the issue of what happens to their products after short life-cycles.
Franz.
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[Lance Bachelder] “I’ll be cobbling together a system in the coming weeks …”
Lance,
I hope you’ll be posting about your experience, for the benefit of the forum.
Franz.
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[Bill Davis] “… the FCP-X model of expressing EVERYTHING as metadata …”
They got rid of the data? No more picture and sound?
That would really change everything in post.
Franz.
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[Jason Bernagozzi] “in my video practice I utilize various hacking strategies to create “glitch effects” with 1080p video. Normally this is accomplished by having my custom made program glitch the video within a 1920×1080 frame (much like a 1080p QT not in fullscreen mode) and then I record using Screenflick or some other screen capture software.”
Jason,
I have no answer to your question, but I just wanted to say this is fantastic and if you can package it in a real-time box that looks and acts like a guitar pedal, I’ll buy one.
Franz.
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[Craig Seeman] “I suspect FCPX will continue to tie more closely with the OS and hardware and they want to drop backward compatibility as quickly as possible. It’ll be interesting to see how quickly 10.6.8 support falls, which by this summer, will be two OSs back.”
It’s interesting to speculate about Apple dropping support for 10.6 in light of these numbers:
https://insights.chitika.com/2011/mac-os-x-lion-fails-to-roar/
That data is 6 months old (I’d like to see more recent data) but it shows that Lion isn’t the upgrade success they might like it to be.
Franz.