Jim Giberti
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[Chris Harlan] “Now, see–I wish I’d been clever, like that, instead of just whining about braying.
“I wish you had to Chris, then I wouldn’t have had to clean up the coffee I sprayed on my screen.
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[TImothy Auld] “Jim, I think we started out on this forum at loggerheads (I’m sure at least partially because I am a stubborn SOB) but I agree with every word in your post. I really cannot imagine what they are thinking.
“I don’t recall that Timothy, you seem like a perfectly reasonable man to me. But if we did, then I’m sure it was mostly your fault.
See how responsible I am.
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[TImothy Auld] “Will I ever trust them to continue the support of anything they sell whether or not developed in house. I don’t think so. But, like James Bond, I try never to say never.
“This is the crappy situation that I really didn’t want or need to be put in and I think it’s a malaise that Apple has induced within the international creative community.
Ironic huh?
Apple?I’m a big loyalty guy and a big communication guy.
I don’t think it’s asking too much of people I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with to communicate their loyalty to me.
You can’t tell me they’re not aware of the instability and concern they’ve spread for the last couple of years, with endless EOL’ing and not a single outreach to the community regarding our future together.
We have a very different view of responsibility, Apple and me, and I’m pretty sure my approach is better.
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[TImothy Auld] “and “professional” to me means what you become when the check clears.”
And one of those clapping Orson Welles from me too.
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[Walter Soyka] “Why not compare FCPX to mature apps? The market must. FCPX is not competing against FCP1. It’s competing against PrP CS5.5, MC6, and FCP7.
“This is the only valid comparison Walter.
We’re talking professional use, the community that’s been based largely around FCP and whether they’ll stay with Apple or move to another program.
That’s the debate.
Not to beat a dead horse, but if they allowed for demagnetization, a simple track grid and mixer (you know that old fashioned proven stuff) FCPX could be a great program.
Right now it’s half a great program and half a not great program.
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I just want to thank the Academy and Aindreas Gallagher without who’s inspiration, none of this would be possible.
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[Chris Harlan] ” one-note hit-and-run braying.”
I’m sure it was inadvertent Chris, but you just leaked the title of the new Michael Bolton release.
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[Paul Jay] “Im tired of the Apple isnt for Pro whining by professional whiners.”
Imagine how tired people are of people who call other people whiners.
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[Robert Bracken] “I’m really excited to see where FCPX will go. It will achieve great things.”
I don’t mean to nitpick Robert but this statement is in opposition to itself.
If, looking forward, you’re excited to see where FCPX will go, you can’t logically draw the conclusion that “it will achieve great things.”
It could be an abysmal failure – Apple’s had some real stinkers in the past.
It could achieve great things if Apple came out of the sanctuary and listened to professional editors regarding what makes it so lacking for so many.
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[Craig Seeman] “Granted it has some severe limitations but “Professional” means many things to many people”
As an often frustrated professional producer using FCPX, I’d say Craig nails the X conundrum with this statement.
My frustration with Apple is specifically because I have a hard time balancing the “professional” aspects and the “severe limitations” in day to day use.
A new iteration of FCP should have hit it out of the park.
It didn’t.So many of us are ambivalent toward FCPX because Apple delivered an ambivalent product.
As the most profitable and visionary company of it’s kind, in history, Apple should be way beyond half-baked, works for some people, products.