James Culbertson
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I still miss Equilibrium’s Debabelizer.
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[Scott Witthaus] “[Misha Aranyshev] “Short-attention-span-instant-gratification crowd is quite big. It makes sense to cater to them if you’re after the numbers.”
Would you care to expand on this? Right now I am having difficulty connecting the above to anything.”
It isn’t connected to anything. Misha is trolling you. Best to ignore.
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[Michael Hancock] “They decide to tease new features in FCPX, a program purported to be used by millions of people, but they only show it to a room full of people…”
What percentage of those millions of people are actually all that worried about the future of FCPX, as opposed to having a desire for this function or that function, and perhaps fixes for a couple of outstanding bugs?
I’d love to know what was presented at that gathering, but for me knowing it happened is one small bit of info that there is a future for FCPX.
Though to be honest, I don’t spend much time worrying about the future of any of the current NLEs. Any of them could go away, change drastically, or become unusable or unaffordable for some reason or other. Change is a given so why worry about it; that is just the way things are now with regards to all things in video production.
I do enjoy following these discussions when I have the time though.
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[Lance Bachelder] “They could stop making Pro apps and Mac Pro’s tomorrow and probably be a more efficient company.”
The question is not whether they would be more efficient. The question is whether they are making a profit or not. As long as they are making a profit they will continue to make Mac Pros and Pro Apps.
There is also the question of whether such pro machines and apps help the profitability of their devices… the profitability of the whole ecosystem is greater than the parts kind of thinking.
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[Lance Bachelder] “My long term fears isn’t about FCPX updates as much as it is about its existence! I visited an Apple store Sunday …. There used to be a table full of iMac’s and various tables with laptops but no more.”
I would assume that pro’s generally don’t go to Brick and Mortar Stores to make their purchases. When is the last time you have made a major purchase of a Mac or PC at an actual store versus online? For that matter when was the last time you purchased anything related to video or audio from a non-online store. I buy everthing from the Apple online Store and B&H online, and have done so for probably the last 10 years at least.
I imagine that the Apple Store like most stores is focused on more general consumers rather than specialists.
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[Oliver Peters] “Have you been under a rock? :)”
Ah, I do remember something about that… I have not been to NAB for some years.
Vashon Island, WA where I live is called the Rock; so I guess I do live on a rock.
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[Oliver Peters] “We are now several months past Apple’s preview of the next FCP X.
Wait. There was a preview of the next version? Can you post a link to that?
Pure speculation, but assuming this is to be the case, will this be too much change (and not in features) in a few short years for FCP X users to stay in the fold?”
No.
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[Tim Wilson] “Why do I feel like some of y’all are two clicks away from needing your accounts moderated or something? LOL”
Only if we start to talk about rubber ducking…
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… I once offlined an ad spot for American and Canadian theatrical distribution. We were given approval, and were about to send out for CC and sweetening, and the client said this looks and sounds perfect (on their laptop), and said don’t change a thing…
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[Jeff Markgraf] “But I would ask, “so what?” I would never judge color on any computer display.”
Of course, the final CC arbiter is often a client viewing highly compressed footage on an uncalibrated 7 year old PC laptop. 😉