[John Davidson]

This happens to varying degrees with any new Apple product launch or quarterly earnings. I think what happens is that many ‘analysts’ game the system by over-inflating their expectations so that they can report negatively on Apple, which leads to stock prices decreasing temporarily (and giving those same analysts a temporary discounted price to purchase more of the stock). I can’t find the link, but Jim Cramer talked about this a good bit about 4 years ago.

There’s a whole industry designed around pushing Apple down, reporting negatively on Apple for website web page views, etc. This industry continues because despite their best efforts, Apple long term continues to rise.

I just wish I had gotten in Apple two or three years ago when it was $80. Sigh.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Get a fully loaded imac and a promise pegasus thunderbolt array. It’s plenty fast and more advanced than the current tower offerings. iMacs due in December.

This was made very quickly in AE on the last version of the iMac. Render took a few minutes, tops, and it uses a silly amount of plugins.

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/playing-with-element-3d

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Ok, I think I’m getting it a little bit. Look on the bright side though. If you have an event with a ton of sfx, sometimes the sfx makers give you way too much in the way of handles. Maintaining the range will save you the annoyance of having to either trimming the inserted clip to the usable area or having to favorite the clip. No?

We do lots of sfx so it makes that a little easier.

I could be totally wrong.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Whatever floats your boat dude! I’m sure you’re figure out a workaround.

I think the reason I have a hard time understanding why it’s a negative is that I’ve never rejected a clip, so it’s not a muscle memory that I have to unlearn.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Not sure if this would help but you could probably make your own effect in motion for free.

https://documentation.apple.com/en/motion/usermanual/index.html#chapter=16%26section=16%26tasks=true

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

They got rid of the video animations selection from within the clip that I constantly click on – yay! Clip appearance lets you see roles if desired! Yay! The dual viewer is great! The share menu is on the timeline, which should reduce the number of Apple Discussions ‘why is share greyed out’ posts.

That’s what I’ve seen off the cuff. Very happy about this.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Yeah, that’s kind of the issue he ran in to – the deactivating takes 72 hours, so it’s not really good for an instant machine switch scenario.

On a positive note, we have production premium on one machine and two machines with the Creative Cloud set up. I was worried that by using my adobe ID on the production premium machine that it would get confused and think we had crossed the 3 machine limit, but CC seems to understand that we own one outright and are cloud renting the other two.

[John Davidson]

It’s a Late 2010 air (pre-thunderbolt) 11-inch. It comes in handy when traveling and you just want to see some footage/photos etc. It’s mostly pretty good for what it is. I’m sure the SSD helps a bit, but if working with a USB drive it’s not anything I’d write home about.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

[Michael Sanders] “You can’t install FCP X on more than five computers of one itunes account.
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I’m pretty sure I installed it on 6 machines. Maybe an 11in air doesn’t count since it’s so teensy.

According to this article there’s no limit:
https://www.macworld.com/article/1157018/appstore_licensing.html
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“That’s it. There’s no authorizing or deauthorizing of Macs, like you do with iTunes media. There’s no five-Mac limit, or device limit of any kind. If you are a Mac hoarder who has 55 different Macs at your house, all running OS X 10.6.6, you can fly that Guns of Icarus Zeppelin on every single one of them.”

[John Davidson]

That logic is why Adobe programs on mac are limited and built for PC’s. That dog will only go as fast as its slowest leg.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.