[J Hussar]

My guess is it was in the Chronosync phase. It might have sync’ed incorrectly? I’m a fellow sufferer with a 2019 Mac Pro and stuck with Catalina – not moving off 10.15.3 until the bug mess is fixed. 10.15.2 was all kernel panics. Lost mail. Lost data. etc.

My approach has been to disable all security and that T2 chip. Gateway disabled, SIP disable, Security of T2 disabled, and allow boot from external drive (set in recovery mode).

At this point only rare crashes. Apple is more dangerous to me than viruses! Ha!

Apple’s walled garden is a Gulag. Sick of the consumerization of the computer/workstation space. I’ve been with Mac’s since the beginning.. Now really, actually, considering an escape – especially if this ARM chip transition culls what is left of the real pro software. Tim makes me nauseous.

[J Hussar]

Had the same issue when I ran that little updater for iTunes for ios13.

Was the definite cause and effect – not sure who is at fault, I had the error in the console having to do with the “code signature” – so, did Apple somehow depreciate C4D, or was C4D code signature bad and just waiting to break?

I luckily keep a clone of my drive and replaced 3 frameworks in the System/Library/PrivateFrameworks. I replace the following with version from May 25th (I’m on El capitan BTW)

AirTrafficHost.framework
DeviceLink.framework
MobileDevice.framework

These were the ones ‘updated’ by the lousy little installer from Apple.

All works again – but will it be broken again?

[J Hussar]

I saw that ad and let out a dismal laugh.

I’m in the process of moving from FCP7 to Premiere Pro now. Painful.

My final straw is that Apple is just too arbitrary – deciding for us what features we should have and killing others – making it very difficult to plan ahead at all.

At least with Adobe I know that Premiere will be around for a while and is more open of an open architecture.

For all we know – with FCPX – Apple will decide we no longer need all those ridiculous codecs and strip them out. Basically it’s a trust issue, and Apple blew it. Like any bad relationship where the person you’re with become arbitrary and unhinged, its time to go.

On the other hand I love all our 12 core Mac Pros – so far they haven’t totally destroyed that line yet. And if Apple does destroy the high end, we won’t be left high and dry with a lot of older projects that are outdated and can’t be transferred to another archtecture.

I have used macs from the beginning, The OS remains well put together, it really works well when working with multiple apps and has been very stable. But they really need to make a real Pro division that takes this stuff seriously. The mothership can make stainless steel watch bands and emojis and phones, etc. And one dfivision can make powerful computers, not appliances. Even Jobs got it – cars and trucks. I’m not sure Tim Cook gets it, or even Ive. Ubilllos certainly does not get it. He is making software so he can make dull videos about his latest trip to Cabo.

Apple seems to be becoming a fashion electronics company – and fashion companies by their nature are untrustworthy.

[J Hussar]

Just on a deadline 2 nights ago. Having multiple sequences open in the FCP7 project saved our collective butts!

We had to have a separate sequence open just for figuring out some shot orders – for experiments. We didn’t want to mess around in the main sequence until we sorted out the problems, we didn’t want any risk any disordering of the main sequence.

When we finished the test sequence we safely copied it back into the main sequence.

What were we supposed to do, open another new project? Are you kidding me?

I don’t have any problem with new features Apple added – it’s what they’ve taken away that is the problem – and they don’t know the problem because they don’t have to edit in 11th hour, soul crushing deadline situations.

They think editing is a tra-la-la, time is no object game – not the horrific deadline, balancing on a cliff-face experience that it can be. That’s where they screwed the pooch! They just DON’T get editing in a real world situation anymore!

Not since Randy “I shoot vacation videos” Ubillos returned.

[J Hussar]

Aindreas you crack me up!! +1000

[J Hussar]

Exactly – I work with images – NOT words. This job isn’t word processing – or filemaker. I just need a clean way to lay out my images and control them. That’s it.

This is the curse of metadata derangement. Metadata is a paradigm for programmers and OCD types. It is not new, it is as old as relational databases. It is editing for programmers. Dare I say it, metadata is a scam.

This “new paradigm” nonsense has been around for twenty years – again, I invoke Kai Krause and his horrid “new paradigms” of interface design – not only did they NOT catch on, most companies that adopted those “advanced” interfaces went out of business.

[J Hussar]

[Jamie Franklin] “You Luddite whiner complainer griper.”

I almost ‘breathed’ my coffee! Hilarious!

Look at the price we pay for thinking different!

Off to the gulags for us!

[J Hussar]

HardMac is a good source – been following them for years. That said… WTF?

This would be my worst ‘Apple as an IOS company’ fear. Apple should make the divide, IOS division and computer professional division – IOS could feed off of advances of the professional division and vice versa.

For all my complaining I really think Mac is the best system. That’s the reason I got irritated in the first place – if you saw the convoluted integration of media I do with multiple apps you would probably be horrified, but the Mac is amazing at that.

I hope that it’s a false story.

[J Hussar]

If this ‘revolution’ continues maybe metadata can make the edit decisions for us.

On the other end who needs viewers anymore – a metadata analyzer will watch media for us and then tell us if we liked it.

All Hail Metadata!

[J Hussar]

I will take a look – I am willing to make the effort – it probably isn’t obvious, but I actually would like to like FCPX! I was a big booster of it to friends before I saw what they left out on release.

It’s funny, as I consider this launch by Apple – if they had just spent the time trying to make the transition easier they probably would have bought a lot of good will!

It amazes me that they didn’t stop to consider the backlash – even on OSX’s introduction they kept a classic layer so you could open your OS9 apps all the way through 4 releases up to OSX 10.4 Tiger. That’s why people didn’t bolt!

And why didn’t Apple know film production people are the crankiest people on earth?