Jim Giberti
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[Herb Sevush] “As opposed to the last 8″ floppy you bought, the last 5 1/4″ floppy, the last 3” floppy, the last Zip Disk … yes I guess it’s only tape formats that get obsoleted, it will never happen to P2 cards. “
I could buy a really nice car with the purchase value of the cases of MO, Zips, Syquest etc.
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[Chris Harlan] “I think this discrepancy of experience is probably explained by the simple fact that dismay and “that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach” have no loud verbal analogs. As you are asking yourself “WTF?,” you are pretty much speechless. You are in no way ready to commit to a boo, so at the time, you are pretty silent on the matter.”
It’s impossible to judge people’s reactions to group events like this. People, by their nature, get caught up in the energy of the presentation and atmosphere and, as you say Chris, aren’t likely to reflect their concern or confusion by countering with boos. A good example is political conventions (which is kind of how this was handled). Everyone on the floor is screaming and waving whatever gets said on stage but the analysts and pundits watching in the studios focus on the content of the speech after the fact.
That’s what happened here. Once the balloons dropped and all the excitement abated, the serious political questions started getting asked and concerns got raised and discussed. It wouldn’t have taken a stroke of genius to have an Apple counterpart to Dennis R from Adobe sign on to the Cow and answer the questions and calm the fears of the professional community. From here it would have spread throughout the community – really simple way to back channel your info…if you’ve got the inclination.
That’s what I meant by managing change as opposed to just creating it. They acted as if those concerns weren’t valid or weren’t important to them for far too long.
That was the essence of David’s question – was it worth the mess it’s created for so many people?
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[David Roth Weiss] “I’d suggest that the benefits might have been vastly superior if Apple had chosen an entirely different and less disruptive path.”
That’s not only your question David, but the $64,000 question – why’d ya do that?
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[Walter Soyka] “I disagree with Gerald Baria when he claims “newer=better” in his signature. Newer is newer, and newer may be different, but newer is quantitative and better is qualitative, so they strike me as tough to equate.
“To that broader philosophical point Walter, with the unprecedented industrial and technological change that our age is experiencing, I think it’s fair to say that there is more and more evidence that “older” is often better.
We are, and will be for a long time to come, dealing with big new directions for mankind that have proven far from “better” for countless people.Considering every new idea to be better is classic human hubris. “Forget about what those old folks used to do this is the new way” is counter intuitive. It’s ignorant to disregard invaluable, accumulated experience, which is why it’s so valued in so many cultures. Definitely not in the newest of the new, the US.
Back to Apple. If they were full of conviction as to the revolutionary nature of X, they should have been armed to the teeth with arguments, presentations and lots and lot’s of information regarding their vision long before 6/21. The way they handled the Super Meet, for instance and in retrospect, was handled far more like a typical American political event than an interaction between visionaries and their creative client base.
I can’t think of anyone, from the existing user base, to the third party developers, to the people who were working with NDAs while developing the training products, that are happy with the way Apple handled this.
How could that happen?
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[Bill Davis] “So David, to directly address your question, the tumult wasn’t just necessary – it was inevitable. Without regular disruption things remain the same. And in a rapidly transformational world – staying the same Is actually falling behind.”
I have to disagree Bill, organizations, businesses, and governments all have one thing in common- at their best they exist to serve their members/customers/citizens. Ask any average person what they want in their life and “tumult” and “disruption” will fall at the very bottom of anyone’s list – business or individual.
A good business or organization should be judged on how they manage important change – not simply their ability to create it.
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I’m just in my first week of really knee deep work with it. I’ve been at it and nothing else for a few days. With that in mind, It would be presumptuous to do an honest comparison of my experience vs 7
However I will say this – nothing I’ve experienced so far was worth the drama they created. In order for this much upheaval and confusion to have been “worth it” the program would have had to have immediately apparent advantages to the professional community for one simple reason – the “P” in FCP.
Given the funding available to them, there should have been an integration team working along side the development team for the last year or so to guarantee that the things that make it not “P” were there upon release. And for gawds sake hire a communications firm to teach you how to talk to your customers.
And I like the program.
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[Helmut Kobler] “My big issue with zooming in and out of the timeline is that it often feels very slow and laggy. Not sure if that’s because I’ve been cutting with native 5D footage (vs ProRes) or what, but fot all of X’s vaunted speed, zooming in and out of the timeline disappoints a bit.”
Hey Helmut, re my post to Neil – I’m editing with Pro Res and it’s super fast.
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Hey Neil, I just tried a quick recreate of your issue, separate audio, music as well as some title tracks and a second storyline. Using the traditional Command+/Command-, my timeline grows and shrinks instantly, no glitches with the display either. On an i7 8 gigs Ram
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[Rafael Amador] “As Charles Darwin said “The function develops the organ”.
If I would need wings, I would learn how to use them :-)”I like this.
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[Helmut Kobler] “The nice thing about crashes is that I’ve never lost any work (just about 10 seconds for re-launch), because Final Cut constantly saves your changes.”
So FCP X has redefined “Crashing” too.