Gary Pollard
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Yes. I too see limited functionality in touch screen. But I’m old.
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[Joseph Owens] “I also get a kick out of people who use the work “paradigm” as if they knew what it meant, and no it doesn’t mean ‘new user interface’. “
No, the fact is that some people disagree on whether the “back to basics” nature of FCP X IS just a “new user interface”
From OED:
paradigm
(ˈpærədɪm, -daɪm)
Also 7 -digme.
[a. F. paradigme, ad. L. paradīgma, a. Gr. παράδειγµα pattern, example, f. παραδεικνύ-ναι to exhibit beside, show side by side. Formerly also in L. form.]
1. a.1.a A pattern, exemplar, example.
1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 208/1 We now haue none enterpretour of the parablys ne paradygmes. 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. B j, Giue me a paradigme or example, of a deliberatiue kinde of epistle. 1669 Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iii. 45 The Universe‥was made exactly conformable to its Paradigme, or universal Exemplar. 1752 J. Gill Trinity v. 91 The archetype, paradigm, exemplar, and idea, according to which all things were made. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 133 Socrates makes one more attempt to defend the Platonic ideas by representing them as paradigms.
b.1.b attrib., as paradigm case, a case or instance to be regarded as representative or typical.
1955 J. L. Austin How to do Things with Words (1962) xi. 132 We were content to refer to ‘statements’ as the typical or paradigm case. 1962 Listener 4 Oct. 516/1 Plato’s morality is supported and underlined by his theory of Forms, according to which mathematics is the paradigm case of knowledge. 1965 Mod. Law Rev. XXVIII. 509 The paradigm case at first instance—the core situation—appears to absorb so much attention that little concern is expended on the appeal process. 1974 Jrnl. Philos. LXXI. 337 Nagel employs a fairly standard ‘paradigm case argument’ in his analysis. 1977 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XXII. i. 13 A paradigm case is Anderson’s description of Breton vowel lowering.
†2.2 Rhet. (In L. form.) See quot. Obs.
1586 A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1625) 100 Paradigma, a manner of exhorting or with-drawing by example, as to say‥‘the nature of the Dolphin is not to suffer the yong one of her kinde to straggle vndefenced’. 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 252 margin, Paradigma, or a resemblance by example.
3. a.3.a An example or pattern of the inflexion of a noun, verb, or other inflected part of speech.
1599 Minsheu Span. Gram. 20 Now it remaineth to giue a Paradigma or example of euery Coniugation of their Moodes. 1698 Wallis in Phil. Trans. XX. 358 It will be convenient‥to Write him out a full Paradigm of some one Verb. 1859 Max Müller Sc. Lang. (1861) 81 Paradigms of regular and irregular nouns and verbs. 1892 Davidson Hebr. Gram. 72 Skeleton paradigm of the regular verb.
b.3.b transf. and fig.
1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem ii. 25, I would be pædagogue—hear poplar, lime And oak recite the seasons’ paradigm. 1964 Listener 6 Aug. 200/2 If one uses the word ‘paradigm’ as Wittgenstein himself used it, to denote a logical or conceptual structure serving us as a form of thought within a given area of experience. 1966 A. F. Parker-Rhodes in Automatic Transl. of Lang. (NATO Summer School, Venice, 1962) 173 The concept of paradigm thus enables us to approach the problem of mathematizing the process of syntactic description with greatly enhanced resources. 1970 Eng. Stud. LI. 18 Although Ohmann determines objective criteria to state the similarity (and at the same time the dissimilarity), there still remains a whole paradigm of related structures out of which the author has to choose the particular alternative(s) to match the marked term with. Ibid. 46 But, of course, for her Edwardian family life is a convenient paradigm of civilisation as a whole. 1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1974) xxiii. 155 There is a generation of men and women for whom‥the Moon was the paradigm of the unattainable. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Mar. 238/4 The unfolding of terror and duplicity which follows is easily seen as a paradigm of the suppression of Dubček’s liberalizing administration. 1973 Nature 6 July 59/3 The use of induced epilepsy as an ‘interfering technique’ in the study of learning and memory paradigms. 1975 Language LI. 1009 The publication of Chomsky’s Syntactic structures provided a new paradigm for linguistics. 1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideology i. 19 In the drive for order, proportion and propriety, the demand for socially cohesive categories of Nature and Reason,‥history once again selects criticism as both paradigm and instrument of such a project. 1976 Language LII. 286 As for the periods in between the quantum leaps, Kuhn contends that each period of normal science in the development of a scientific discipline corresponds to one and only one methodological framework or paradigm. In a nut⁓shell, paradigms are ‘universally recognized scientific achievements that for a time provide model problems and solutions to a community of practitioners’. 1976 F. Zweig New Acquisitive Society ii. x. 132 The television set‥is the paradigm of consumer culture, with its disarming passivity prone to desires divorced from action.
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[Chris Kenny] “”An update this summer will allow you to use metadata tags to categorize your audio clips by type and export them directly from Final Cut Pro X.”
Tagging audio clips and then mapping them to tracks based on those tags when exporting seems like it should work.”
Ah, that’s interesting. I missed that. I was actually wondering – as someone with zero programming experience – whether such a method might apply, and even considering whether I could tag audio as A,B,C, D or whatever to enable such a function.
Let’s hope.
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Seems to me Alban was poking fun at the whole “I’m a pro and you’re not” level on which some of this debate has been taking place.
You criticise him for the parody as being high-handed, which is fair enough even if arguably missing the point but then pull the “I’m a pro and you’re not” again in the last couple of paragraphs.
I don’t give a flying fig who is a pro and who is not. The software suits your purposes or it does not. For some people who get paid for their work, maybe even most, it does not. And Apple can rightly take its lumps for that.
It may work in some workflows, it is patently clear it won’t in others, but it’s banal to couch this debate in terms of “It’s only good for amateurs/DSLR users/Youtubers/anyone who isn’t me”.
Which takes us back to Alban’s original point.
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[Joseph Owens] “But I have to stand on the dock waving buh-bye to the new ship because I am one of those legacy people (small niche called national/international broadcast) that needs to deliver hierarchical physical media all over the world which also does infer that I usually generate about 9 or 10 versions of the same program in 3 or 4 standards in a couple of languages plus D,M&E, textless, captions, subtitles and so on, on several types of media, including all the paper deliverables. So although the X workflow may feel good for a one-handed operation, it does not really fit the business model that its predecessor did. Errrr… well enough… I guess.”
Although, unlike some, I like what Final Cut Pro X offers in terms of actually cutting sound and picture, I just don’t see how they can make any changes that will allow assignable tracks in the context of the magnetic timeline. I wish there was some evidence that they could.
Without any such evidence I just don’t see how ANY improvement they will make will resolve these problems despite all the protestations of adding in “pro” features again.
They may surprise me, but currently there’s the appearance of a gaping chasm between here and there.
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[Jeremy Whaley] “YES – Maybe you are correct that they have a new foundation, but my point is it’s a NEW SOFTWARE. Change the name, continue support for FCP7 and Apple would have been seen as a genius. Instead they’re trying to stop a social media outcry!”
I thought of this too. But the truth is that if Apple had done this, it would only ever be considered a niche editor and Pros would never have looked at it. It would be denigrated as “Advanced iMovie for the plebs” (as it has anyway).
I don’t like the way they HAVE done this, but I see why.
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Your shares will be safe as long as there’s an endless supply of new rubes with short memories.
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Actually if you can’t trust Apple with Final Cut, how can you trust it with iCloud?
I totally distrust cloud computing, no matter who is doing it.
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Personally I have always seen Apple, even with Steve Jobs firmly at the helm, as ruthless and arrogant about end-of-lining software and hardware and not caring much about where that leaves legacy users. When I’ve said this to people with kinder attitudes to Apple they have argued vociferously with me.
I don’t think this happened because he wasn’t around. It’s history.
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[Robert Brown] “I think a lot of us here are using Macs right now because of FCP.
I’m one of them. My Mac is used specifically for video editing. I still use Windows for everything else.
[Robert Brown] The great news is PPro makes the whole transition almost painless.
I’ve also never really understood why more people don’t look at Sony Vegas. I’ve always liked its paradigm, and some of the “new” features in FCP X have been in Vegas for ages. Vegas’s velocity envelope is a tool I’ve always found simple and accessible.
[Robert Brown] FCP had a lot of things that really sucked and that they just never would fix. Good riddance!
I agree. I know people who can edit blindingly fast on FCP but my interest in FCP and hence my Mac purchase, was largely motivated by its “pro” ubiquity, not its improved interface over other software editing programs. I’ve edited on Edius, Premiere Pro, Vegas, and even Media Studio Pro. All had things that seemed more “intuitive” than FCP.
My current biggest problem with FCP X, unless someone knows a workaround, is not being able to assign specific categories of audio to specific tracks for export. Even for stand-alone editing, this has drawbacks in my usage and will limit how much I jump into it.
Apple has never been misty-eyed about maintaining support for old products. And never been afraid to take a leap. Love it or hate it, that’s always been their way.
But that blog someone linked [https://www.onerivermedia.com/blog/?p=322 ] on their history of killing off good products does make chilling reading
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