[John]

jim

i’m thinking you might win the prize for the most consistently hysterical and pointless cow postings in the media 100 forum. i don’t know why you bother. i honestly don’t.

Can you be that bored?

Anyway I just want to clarify your position so i can understand this bitching we have endured since june 2002- is it that ….

a – you really don’t like the product but are forced to use it?
b – you really like the product but don’t think it has the same marketing cache as FCS?
and therefore not as “cool” and subsequently you are unable to say ‘ i edit on media 100’
c – you write your postings in a white hot rage that subsides later when you consider it more thoughtfully?

the reason i ask is that i have used this software for 10 years, and it has never been perfect. it has had bugs throughout its life. it has had shortcomings and it has let us down. but it has also enabled me and people like floh and jack s and nick g and elliot and so many others to earn a good living. a great income. not with the expense of an avid or the claustrophobic simplicity of premiere or instability of emc or duplicity of in:sync

and when it has let us down there has generally been a fix of some kind – either from the changing owners of media 100 or here on the cow.

so i’m not sure what you expect from your edit system. is it perfection?
do you really think that media 100 put out a product if they know it is hopeless?
do you think adobe or apple or sony or any of the nle makers are hugely different from each other?

in 10 years, the team at media 100 have never ever ever been more receptive to feedback as they are now. and i think they must find your petulant remarks annoying.

in all the years, the gang here at the cow never more receptive to a question or cry for help but you seem content to squander these resources.

just more and more, rant and rave

and didnt you buy Final Cut 4 in June 2003?
bidding us farewell with these completely innocuous remarks in a posting……

“why not just buy a product with REAL PROMISE” (your punctuation not mine)

c’mon jim
take a deep breath before the next on-line spray.

if it were paper you would be wasting ink.

john buck

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[John]

Well Media 100 released the Intel-based Macintosh version of their software at NAB. It was a major achievement for the team given the time period that had. A complete Universal Binary version that covers PPC Macs is not far behind. And they also showed 24p access in a version 12 technology demo.

john
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[John]

del
can you drop me a line off list
i am interested in your old video editing stories for a book that i am writing
john
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[John]

yeh i know
by the time i tool around with quicktime and all that its just quicker
to find the slap – find the audio waveform clap
and then clap and slap 🙂

funny how the client just thinks it all happens automatically with new file names!

thanks anyway charlie, i appreciate your feedback
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[John]

looks like i have to engage the timecode track using quicktime for fcp to see it?

[John]

thanks charlie
here’s the thing
they used a smart slate and the first three files import with timecode data -spot on
and then the next 34 – nothing?
weird

john

[John]

david

you may have missed the PR – in case you did

“it plans to support the new Apple

[John]

absolutely.

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[John]

an amusing statue story in honour of SoftHarbor

When Microsoft came bidding in the fall of 1997 to buy Hotmail, they came six at a time, they flew down from Redmond and sat in Hotmail’s conference room across the table from Sabeer Bhatia. They offered a figure, something that would have put tens of millions of dollars in Sabeer’s pocket. Sabeer rejected it, and they stormed out. A week later they were back. Sabeer took a straw poll among his investors to see what price they might be able to anticipate. Doug Carlisle’s figure was the lowest: $200 million. Privately, Sabeer had half-jokingly been saying he wanted a billion dollars, so he challenged Carlisle’s figure: “You don’t think we can get more than that?” Carlisle laughed and rolled his eyes. “Sabeer, if you ever reach even my figure, then I’m going to build a life-size bronze sculpture of you and put it in my front lobby.”

Sabeer went back to Microsoft and asked for $700 million. “You’re crazy,” the negotiators shouted, followed by a few expletives.
“You’re out of your mind! You’ve blown it!” Time passed. Tensions rose as Microsoft piled cash on the table. $200 million. $250 million. Carlisle took to saying, “It’s statue time!” $300 million. When Gates offered $350 million, Sabeer’s management team took a straw poll in favor of accepting. Now he really was alone. On New Year’s Eve 1997, the deal was announced. Sabeer is forbidden to publicly reveal the price, but the S-3 registration filed a month later stated that the ownership of Hotmail had been exchanged for 2,769,148 shares of Microsoft – at the time of the deal, worth a walloping $400 million.

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[John]

i export a quicktime out of fcp as an uncompressed movie and then just do the export targa sequence in quicktime pro

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