[Gary Huff]

[Bret Williams] “But heck, I hardly ever use them. So used to doing stuff the hard way from 15 years ago.”

I mostly do a lot of healing brush and curve tweaking, so I tend to isolate the area I am working on in a new layer and then I can toggle it on/off. I occasionally use filters, but it would be nice if a smart object could take a filter and apply it down through the layers to the original. I’ll have to play with that.

[Gary Huff]

[Bret Williams] “I assume he’s talking about smart objects.”

Smart objects? I always thought “non-destructive” meant layering? I try to keep my Photoshop work as non-destructive as possible, so that’s how I always did it. Am I missing something not working with smart objects?

[Gary Huff]

[Massimo Alberto Croce] ” I sue GIMP, it s free and open source.”

I have played with GIMP…man is it rough. The UI is definitely nothing that I would call “user friendly”.

[Gary Huff]

[Bret Williams] “. It plays and looks like the 24p it was shot at.”

When you add 3:2 pulldown to 24p in a 60i container, it only marginally looks like 24p, because you still introduce interlacing.

[Gary Huff]

[Charlie Austin] ”
Why do you believe that?”

Because that level of incompetence can easily find a way to muck up anything in any NLE.

However, I didn’t know we were comparing 7 to X, so that is a difference. He could have setup his timeline as 60i because he didn’t know any better.

But even if the sequence is correct in X, all it takes is a Send to Compressor moment and rendering out as 60i, because the editor doesn’t know the difference, to add interlacing.

[Gary Huff]

[Jacob Brown] “However I noticed some wonky interlaced looking stuff going on and some stretched aspect ratios etc.”

Don’t know if FCPX would have been any better.

[Gary Huff]

[David Lawrence] “Yet.”

2014 is the year of Linux on the desktop! I just know it!

[Gary Huff]

[Marcus Moore] “But you have to market and sell your products until you’re ready to make the switch.”

Of course, but I’m sure you count yourself as a savvy consumer who understands that it’s b.s., but what about those who aren’t quite as savvy? Screw ’em?

[Gary Huff]

I think it was how Apple marketed PowerPC over Intel right up to the about-face.

[Gary Huff]

[Marcus Moore] “Two GPUs isn’t REALLY multiple GPUs?”

Yeah, better traction would be had about the fact that the D700 isn’t actually a FirePro, but then I guess they didn’t know that then.