[J Hussar]

I just checked – Apple yanked the reviews! Wow!

[J Hussar]

I did a google search – no Melanie Brands anywhere. Maybe ‘Brands” stands for ‘branding.’ 😉

[J Hussar]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “It’s the scale of what Apple has done – they’ve killed an industry standard. The podcast makes the point that the next major release may well be two years away. And please let no one tell me apple are going to magically remember that they killed all the pro features and do a six month update to restore all the mission critical features they threw out.

This line says it all – “this is a product for people who need to edit video, but editing video is not their job”

Look at the application – just look at it – imovie media storage, imovie importing controls, imovie timeline, no custom frame rates, no custom frame sizes, no outputting XML or OMF, no RED support, no P2 support, can’t read timecode, can’t output timecode, quicktime export options are limited to pro res and H264, no custom wavs or aiff’s no controls for them at all, no multicam, no track designation, a completely ludicrous storyline, second storyline metaphor, clip collision detection is on all the time, the application runs badly in quite recent hardware, no ability to share projects, insane “see all the media and projects you’ve ever made” in the event viewer, no ability to pause or fork autosave, god it just goes on and on and on.

In short: Apple threw out an unbelievable number of mission critical professional features, and added in an endless stream of prosumer ones: auto everything on import, vastly over simplified sequence slash project setting, a fisher price timeline that’s constantly holding your hand and Facebook, Vimeo and CNN ireport at the root of the share menu.

Apple are telling us what this application is. It’s a prosumer tool. There is no volume licensing, there is no ability to backup the installer, it’s just, it’s mindbending.

They have completely screwed the broadcast and corporate editing community that spent ten years growing with the tool. FCP isn’t coming back, they didn’t forget to include all the brass tacks professional features – they dropped them. They’ll say vaguely reassuring non-commital things about it being a 1.0 application to stem the bad PR, and in a sense, they’re right, it is a 1.0 application. the broadcast, film, post production, corporate editing tool we’ve had for a decade is dead. Apple just killed it.

I shouldn’t say sociopaths, but for apple to just grin and stick the knife in so far to the creative community .. it’s mindboggling.
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WOW! You summed it up for me. That is exactly it. Spelled out. And you are right – it is literally sociopathic on Apple’s part – complete bait and switch. Totally acting like they were doing us a favor while stabbing us in the back.

[J Hussar]

I was thinking the same thing today. I think the IOS koolaid has damaged the brains at Apple. If I have to go forward and Apple doesn’t resolve the import old projects and tape control issues asap I will just leave them behind, like people left an ‘arrogant’ quark behind for indesign.

[J Hussar]

If I asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse—

Henry Ford (?)

That is a bad analogy as Henry Ford was a “pro” car maker who REALLY understood cars. I doubt any of the coders at Apple are professional Editors or run a post house. It seems that they asked the hobbyists and book writers for input and got their inspiration from iMovie, which Grandma uses.

This is a cluster f *** – I just sent feedback saying I am impressed that Apple has decided my old projects shouldn’t be available to me anymore and that everyone’s tape libraries are now dead. And these are just a few things they screwed up.

Absolutely unbelievable FUBAR move on apple’s part. This is the IOS arrogance running rampant of the company now.

[J Hussar]

I was just doing the same thing and had the same issue.

My settings are all on “best”. I’m using SD AJA NTSC 29.97 10 bit uncompressed (rendering in the same codec) all settings to best. I scale the video clip down) in this case to 25% of original size) then I render the sequence and it looks like it has scan lines in it – it barely looks any better than the preview version.

This really is odd because in scaling down one should not see the problem. Scaling up this would make sense, but not scaling down.

Anyone else seeing this? Does it affect SD only or is does it happen is HD. Is the codec wrong (10 bit uncompressed shouldn’t have a problem given the bandwidth). Where is Bob Zelin? 😉

[J Hussar]

I’ve been watching this thread with interest. We have a LHe in slot 3 on a 2008 MacPro 2.8 Octo Core. Running FCP 6.06 and with the latest AJA v6 drivers.

It seems to work quite well…. but after reading the exchange we’re thinking that maybe we should move the card to slot 2. Sometimes we do get dropped frames, but it is not very often. Otherwise it works fine – the rare FCP quitting out – but that’s probably an FCP bug.

Anyway, thought I’d chime in with some LHe “slot 3” experience.

[J Hussar]

Well you have to tell me what drives and model numbers you have. Seagate, WD, Hitachi? Also the specific model. And it is a 2 drive array, not 3, correct?

And what controller card are you using? The Seritek I imagine – which model of that as well.

Let us know! Those are great numbers for a 2 drive array.

[J Hussar]

Yes, sounds like a great set up. LaCie is always a good bet. And the ATTO is also nice. Do they consistently update their drivers and/or firmware? Especially with the vagaries of Leopard, that would be a “good™” thing.

Actually I have always built my own Arrays, I want to get specific drives in them, not just the maker’s off the shelf device. Often time I use the most expensive and/or safest enterprise drives (I’ve never had an array fail from a bad drive (knock wood)). I think I’ve had over 15 arrays over the years just for my own use!

Luckily it isn’t days of SCSI, with cable length and bizarre termination issues. Question: Remember the special SCSI terminator a MacIIfx needed? We all all better off now without that mess.

[J Hussar]

Are you using the AJA utility? Are the Drives 10K Raptors? Alone a SATA drive really only pumps about 60 – 80 MB/s – so two drive should only be able to push 1.5 to 2 x their original speed.

Curious what you have as drives in the FirmTek – BTW they make great stuff!