Gary Pollard
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Well David, you can label observations pejoratives all you like (and apply it more to people who disagree with you than those who agree with you).
But really, I hope when temperatures here cool down, someone can stand back and ask how helpful this forum is currently being to a newcomer to FCP X.
Something about the mote in others’ eyes and the plank in our own. It works both ways.
We probably agree on more things than we disagree on. I think Apple’s lack of backward compatibility on this goes as far as being unethical and immoral.
I think what Apple has done is to say: “Suppose we were designing a new, computer-based, editing from the ground up, with no preconceptions.” It’s the Godardian back to zero. We should be able to disagree on the merits.
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[Brian Mulligan] “The new XML is called AXEL from interent reports. [Apple eXchange Language Editing] I”
That’s worrying. Sounds a bit like another proprietary format, and Apple does not like playing with others unless it has control.
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Come on David, surely you can see that this has become perhaps the least constructive forum on Creative Cow by now, so much so that it’s been necessary to create another one for users to get constructive sharing.
As for the question of helping others, I freely admit a lot of people here know a lot more than me about editing on FCP and many other software packages. That’s why I’m here. I will help where I can. I have been a long time reader of these forums, which are pretty much the best on the net, in general. I thought it would be nice to be a bit more involved because I am interested in the new software.
But is the recent tenor of repetitive and negative posts, and shouting down the positives, here really “helping” anyone?
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Phil.
None North-American buyers getting gouged on software prices comes as news to you? It’s been happening forever.
Try checking out the US versus the non-US prices for Adobe Production Bundle, as I just did.
US$2,065 in the international store. US$1699 in the US store. NOT including packing and postage.
So I guess if you take the 50% offer you just get ripped off US$183 instead of US$366
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I found it in the international store. You just choose the Full Edition and type in the word “switch”. You still get gouged on pricing though, as international software users have some to expect.
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You’re not “dissenting” when you are in the self-styled majority, and wish this forum to contain NO comments on the positives of FCP X.
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[Scott Sheriff] “This is a business, and the people that invest money in films, or TV shows are not doing it for art. “
This is both. And the real long term drivers see that.
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[David Roth Weiss] “don’t expect you’ll convert others of little faith anytime soon by battering or badgering them with the message.”
The positives of Final Cut Pro X are NOT the message being battered and badgered here. I know you would like to be the the “We hate FCP X” forum. It is not.
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There’s a saying I read somewhere that once Nazis get dragged in to an Internet debate rationality has left by the back door.
But I do agree that Apple has decided megalomaniacal tendencies.
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[Craig Alan] “Imagine if MS came out with a new version of Word that was unable to open any previous documents created in MS Word.”
That’s one reason I already save ALL my documents in Rich Text Format. That, and in case I ever get ticked off with Word.
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