John Davidson
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Ah. That’s the one area of weakness – still working out the blogspot iframe stuff, but you can go to:
https://www.magicfeatherinc.blogspot.com to read in full.John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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“Where were you on 6/21?”
LMAO!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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If media and cuts had come across I would have probably started shouting mean things at my mac.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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It’s one of the top grossing mac apps. So far we’re really digging it. I’d be happy to be a forum leader.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Big ups for admitting that. You seem to have started reaching the acceptance phase Andreas. You’ve been right at many times too, but I just felt Chris has taken the heat so often yet still comes back for more. I couldn’t take much more after day 2 so I became a reader only for a while. Till I saw Al Gore anyways.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Apple hosts the software for free, there’s no packaging and development costs, users never have to worry about losing their serial number, and they’re instantly aware of updates and bug fixes to the plugin. I’ve been crying to Adobe for a plugin store for years after I lost some plugins from red giant that I still can’t find.
The only overhead for development is your time and inventiveness. FCP7 relied on 3rd parties as well, you know. No offense, but your point is kinda lost on me.John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Since we’re speculating…
Short term there’s going to be a hit for Apple. I think there are lots of places that are going to jump back to Avid, and some to Premiere. As the feature set matures, NEW editors will use FCPX. They will learn it, and think the track based system with no real metadata we use is archaic and unintuitive. Apple will eventually release a v2 that includes edit to tape, OMF export, and many things we need. People will be amazed. V3 will include proper OMF volume levels, better color correction, and a non-magnetic mode, and everyone will be amazed yet again.
Avid will enjoy a small surge for now, but it will be short lived. The new editors will demand FCPX because they can’t even begin to understand how to edit destructively. The older editors will remind them constantly how non-pro the youngsters are, and bemoan the downfall of their industry.
in 5 years FCPX will be the dominant editing system again. In fact, that may happen in 1 year, except for very very rigid editing ecosystems like film, with it’s older editors being the last of the breed that edit the old way.Eventually the tape issue will be moot, because in 2013 the FCC will approve the merger of ATT, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon Fios, resulting in a single company with every single former congressional representative receiving under the table kickbacks, being place in VP positions, or on it’s board. This company will then charge $10,000 per month for internet access of 2 Mb/s download and .39 Mb/s upload. At that point Aindreas Gallagher will have made his 10 billionth post bemoaning FCPX, which effectively brings the entire internet to a halt. This will lead to a revolution within the united states, where new laws will be placed into effect stating that internet is now a utility and not a luxury service, and the hybrid ISP will be broken into tiny regional services. Internet speeds will flourish to gigabit speeds for $40 per month. All former congressmen and senators who sold out to the ISP’s will be convicted of treason and sent to live in Canada, with only Rogers internets pathetic service. At this point tape will be pointless, as an entire high res movie will transfer in 90 seconds, using Super ProRes Pro.
Of course, I could be wrong. This is just a guess…
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I dunno. 10 hours later they released their FAQ that gave an acknowledgement of new features coming as well as a timeline (this summer). Maybe he told them to speak up so all these nerds would stop harassing him.
And I know it was totally unrelated. It’s funny to pretend it wasn’t though ;).
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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In my mind he was a a member of the board of a company that’s very important to me. It took SO long for us to get FCP to the point where using it wasn’t treated with skepticism. I very much want to get FCPX mainstream, so I said what was important in that regards. I believe that this is going to work itself out, but not everyone can plan around that belief.
Perhaps a board member with a little clout can light a match to motivate Apple to clarify what’s going to happen with FCPX.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Lol. Yeah. He was very polite. We’re both southern boys.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.