Glen Hurd
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Because, with guns, hammers are used to fire the primer, which then ignites the cartridge powder . . . and since we’re talking about shooting . . . 🙂
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Dense Runyon poetry – never thought of it that way, but as usual, you’ve nailed it.
Brendan: Throw one at me if you want, hash head!
I’ve got all five senses and I slept last night.
That puts me six up – on the lot of you!Or . . . sometimes it’s just stacato funny!
Brendan (sarcastic): . . . You got heart kid. How soon can you be in Minneapolis?
Brad: Yeah?
Brendan: Cold winters, but they got a great transit system.
Brad: Yeah?
Brendan: Yeah.
Brad: Yeah?
Brendan: There’s a thesaurus in the library. Yeah is under “Y” . . . . Go ahead, I’ll wait.Brick was cut on FCP, btw.
Looking forward to Looper. 🙂
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Flaming in short hand – what a great idea. Done right, it can sound like poetry. That’s one of the reasons I love Brick (2005).
“No, bulls would gum it. They’d flash their dusty standards at the wide-eyes and probably find some yegg to pin, probably even the right one. But they’d trample the real tracks and scare the real players back into their holes, and if we’re doing this I want the whole story. No cops, not for a bit.”
– Brendan Frye
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Thanks, Dave. Can I call you Cliff? Heh. 🙂
Yeah, I used the Hollywood descriptor a little tongue-in-cheek. The other adjectives seem to generate resentment, so I tried to side-step them for now.I used to be more confrontational . . . but then I took an arrow to the knee. 😉
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Yeah, I know. But the real point of Game Theory (and, thus, the prisoner’s dilema) is to show that if you can grade each combination of choices between two players – whether they are “co-operating” or simply making decisions that influence each other – and then evaluate if a consistent choice can guarantee an improved outcome against an unknown’s choices, each time, that you can then make a rational decision. 🙂
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Apple PR. Great marketing. But your thoughts on them making gnomic comments in secret rooms made me wonder if they know that gnomic isn’t necessarily tied to mythology.
Speaking of gnomic, here’s that Larry Jordan quote,
“Dual Viewers is analogous to Source and Record monitors; though Apple stressed that when they implement a feature they try to do it better than it has been done before.”Wow. Dual viewers, but better than it has been done before.
Let me ponder that a moment.OK.
It was a good chuckle, anyway.
Have you seen this Smoke thread, Aindreas?
you-killed-it
Not nearly as wild as a certain debate forum, but nice to see comments/answers from the Smoke development team! Kinda kills the need for PR and number twisting, too. Concerns/complaints met with logic, explanation, and admissions of compromise and intended purpose.
No 3rd party bullhorns.
No new PR.Mark Twain’d be proud.
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Hmm. Sounds like typical political “speek.”
“suggests the company owns 52 percent of the market when it comes to new seats.”
In other words, out of all new seats – whether PPro, Avid, or other – FCP X sales made up 52% of all new “seats” bought. Considering that the other seats cost at least 3x as much, one could also say, “FCP X sales made up no more than 1/6th of the revenue generated by new editing software sales.”
Additionally, Apple notes that there are now more editors working with FCP X than with Final Cut Pro 7.
Yeah, duh.
In other words, there are now more FCP X purchases than there are FCP 7 current users.
Is that an obvious statement or what?
Next year it will be even more true – whether they sell another copy of FCP X or not.Anyone remember Pogue’s articles on FCP X, mouthing Apple’s answers to us confused editors? professional-video-editors-weigh-in-on-final-cut-pro-x
Good to see that Red support is still on their to-do list.
Classic Apple.
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Very excited for you Jeremy.
Just a couple of questions.
1. Why are those who disagree with FCP X as a viable product called “haters” when those who support it as excitedly as you do aren’t called “the interminably undaunted?” Hater rolls off the tongue though, doesn’t it. Heh. I love the word “hater.” It represents someone who is so . . . hard to control.
2. Why are you excited by Resolve’s ’round-tripping’ with XML? The whole point has been to get a product that supports basic broadcast workflows. These involve support for accurate picture monitoring and for the ability to send video and audio out for other specialists. Just getting one of those features doesn’t mean the bird is ready to fly. I guess it is exciting to get some progress though.
For most of us “haters”, audio is still considered something of great importance. Too bad its completely stripped out of the XML project file when going into Resolve. And once it’s stripped, I don’t see how it gets put back in.
Perhaps I’m missing something. I’ve searched the manual. I’ve searched the update notes. Sadly, it seems to be missing. I’m sure there’s a work around brewing though. It wouldn’t be FCP X if it wasn’t. Roles anyone?
Or are silent movies part of the new paradigm? Just kidding, Jeremy – you know I love to tweak.
Ah, well. Logic X is going to solve this, right? Lets hope Apple maintains control of at least one critical feature.
“Bang up job so far, Agent Kujan.”Geesh, I sound so “hater” -ish. I guess I “hate” waiting for basic functionality while watching what looks from the distance like a fire-dance.
In other news, Resolve is kicking ass with Media Composer 6 beta – lots of excitement there. And they’re supporting more features, too, including PTZR (pan, zoom, tilt, rotate.) I’m sure they’ll eventually get around to supporting more features with FCP (once the din dies down – unless there’s not much demand for it, of course.)
And Resolve will be available on cheaper hardware that supports cards with more CUDA cores!
Yes, this little 3rd party developer is really opening the door back to Windows.Gotta love these 3rd party developers. No loyalty – just going where the market is.
See? We’re not all “hate”. 😉
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It’s kinda weird – in the hardware side of business people are always saying “Buy what you need. Don’t wait for the future, since it comes with no guarantees.”
But in FCP X land, there’s a prophet on every street corner.The weakness with Apple’s “let the 3rd party developers solve these problems” is that it makes for an inherently inferior product – for now the product not only has to rely on the ongoing development of a somewhat psychotic company, but also on 3rd party developers who, by and large, are kept in the dark about future developments as much as we are. And if at any time those 3rd party developers stumble, the entire value of the product takes another dive.
We’re not talking about plugin developers who are offering a new “solar-flare” plugin, where a sudden lack of development only effects a small percentage of production. These are critical features that define whether the entire package can be useful or not.Let me present the problem this way. Imagine there is a car on the market that has special tires. These tires have to be made specifically for that model car – no other tires built anywhere will work with this vehicle. Period.
Now imagine the car manufacturer doesn’t make those tires. In fact, when the car is sold, you buy it from the dealer with only its rims. So in order to drive that car into Broadcast Town, you need to buy those special-made tires from someone who makes tires – just for that car.
Oh, and the car has few admirers (mainly instructors and prophets and friends of the car manufacturing staff).
Who here would buy that car? No internal support from the car company – not even a contract with some poor sweat shop. Nada.
I have a bridge to sell, too, if you’re interested.And the argument that this is intended to encourage more involvement of 3rd party development is silly. How can they develop when the price of the FCP X is below the price of the one 3rd party app that used to support it? Where’s the room to grow? I know a little about business, and this is the dumbest model I’ve ever seen.
It’s also terribly vulnerable to competitors. Look at what just happened to AD. Even if Adobe didn’t need them to help design a workflow for their Iridas package, all anyone has to do is buy out or influence those who are coming up with these essential solutions, and – blammo – no competition. Hell, I’d develop a workflow just so I could be bought out!What “muggle” is going to commit to a product that requires multiple companies to keep up development for it to even gain traction into the future? If Apple can’t commit to making these essentials part of the package, then only three types of editors will be using this package: the prophets who can see the future of Apple and 3rd-party development, the disciples of Apple who are terrified of leaving the harbor in which they’ve lived for so long, and those with a curiosity and lots of extra time to explore – knowing full-well they may simply be learning an already dead language.
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They did listen to professionals – the “democratized” professionals. And how did they know who to trust? Well, I suspect the FCP X development team are “democratized” artists themselves. Isn’t that what Apple has pushed for all it’s life? The “democratized” experience?
There is nothing “democratized” about nodes and wires and the infinitely malleable logic of Shake – better dump that. But maintaining sync? Oh,yeah, baby. That’s as democratized a concept as the one-button mouse! Even the word “storyline” is so much more democratized than “timeline.” What’s time got to do with telling a story, anyway. That’s so confusing. Like clips. What are clips? From my fingernails? But “events!” I understand “events.” I went to my 3rd grade graduation and that was an “event!”Yeah, I’m a Brian Regan fan.
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