Jules Bowman
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Not quite sure how to interpret that. What shoes do you see me as wearing?
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Really Bill? Every time? Bet you’re the life and soul of the party.
Bill, the sky is blue.
Bill, grass is green.
Bill, your name is Bill.
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🙂
It was seismic
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Indeed, but there have been some corkers. The FCPX one made me laugh a lot, as did the Michael Jackson one, if I recall correctly.
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The only reason apple will ‘care’ about the top end pros is because of association. I bought a mac and FCP when I started because the top end pros were using it and I could afford it. I knew of avid from my time in TV but FCS offered too much at a good price and had been pre validated.
And not just by the Leverage team.
Apple care about money. If they cared about The industry they would form a little ProApps offshoot that could even run at break even and could have delivered FCS and Pro Macs forever. Even at a small loss it would have been sensible and its not like they couldnt hire in more coders to do it: there aren’t a finite amount of them.
Apple is where it is because of the iDevice purple patch they hit, but part of that is the association with the creative sector. I would say a high percentage of people associate Apple with creative professionals.
They have started damaging that association now. it will falter further as time passes. apple will be superseded by others in people’s perceptions of who are associated with professional creatives. and then Apple just won’t be as cool.
so sure, they want the world to believe they care about the professional creatives. They want the world to associate them with the professional creatives. And yep, some professional creatives will love their iPhones and iPads. But believing they care about the professional market is folly my dear little blinded chums. They’ll keep pretending they do because they want that association. And you’ll keep trotting out specs and possibilities and theories and beliefs of what and where and how glorious it will all be, but the cold hard truth is they care about the middle classes disposable income. Stephen Fry espousing the aesthetic beauty of the iPhone 4 is far more knicker wetting to them than Walter Murch going ‘meh, it’s not as shit as it was’.
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I’m stating opinions as opinions. I started the whole post with ‘i dont like it’. That is my opinion. The subsequent bits, therefore, can pretty much be construed as my opinion too.
Though I understand how you could misinterpret that given you’re projecting your own personality onto me.
I believe the Jobs quote was ‘ the next upgrade will be awesome’. I believe it was listed as an upgrade when released. Revisionism doesn’t change fact.
As for your smug condescension at the end…. really? Go away.
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I don’t like it.
Magnetic trackless timeline is stupid. Renaming things is stupid. A project isn’t an event. The world cup is an event. The queen’s jubilee is an event. Your project is not an event. No manual save is insane. This is not an upgrade to fcp7 which is how it was sold. Marketing spin is insulting… It doesn’t background render, stop saying it does. But more than anything EOLing the software I had invested 8 years of my life in after making me wait for the awesome upggrade which never came is the rudest a company has ever been to me and for that alone I always hold apple in contempt when it comes to anything other than their toys, which they do well.
I don’t like it and I don’t see it as professional software. Anyone who uses the argument that they make money from it so it is pro… That’s a stupid argument. I could cut pieces and be paid for them on pinnacle studio 9. Why? Because I have a degree of aptitude for framing my shots when i shoot and narrative when I edit. If I do that for a job, is pinnacle studio 9 pro? In fact I could do it on iMovie. Is that pro now?
I don’t hate fc10 as an independent entity. I do think it is stupid. When they finally hack tracks back into it and add a manual save I may even consider trying to again. But I do hate apple for dumping on my work life which is taxing enough as it is and pretending fc10′ was an upgrade. In fact was THE upgrade to rule them all.
What I really dislike is the almost acolyte defence of it on here with incessant digs as those who mock fc10 in the context of it being an upgrade to fcp7 WHICH IS HOW IT WAS SOLD TO US and the impact it has had on our work lives. Which is what we had been made to wait for for 2 bloody years. Which is what kept us on expensive macs. Which made us pump more money into third party plugins, most of which are now going to be redundant soon.
Sure, my thousands of pounds are but a few lines of Charlie on a handful of hookers backsides at the Christmas party for apple, but for me they are a lot.
But hey, I’m in the wrong because I don’t get where the puck is going to be. I’m scared of change. I’m a hater. I’m irrational. I should let it go. I’m holding it wrong. I just don’t get it. I’m not willing to persevere. I don’t work on leverage or some post house in Germany. I am just wrong.
Haterism doesn’t materialise in a vacuum.
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Why are people who dislike fc10 considered haters. The use of such a dismissive and derogatory term is a bit arrogant.
Are those who think magnetic trackless timeline is wrong stupid people to you? Antiquated dinosaurs? Just wrong?
This moral high ground you seem to stand on is a tad tiresome. And insulting.
It’s just as easy to say you a haters. Of those who don’t follow your party line. Your beliefs. Who challenge your opinions.
why oh why are you such haters?
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Well, aside from the fact that at the moment it is a buggy bit of software that has dispensed with an ‘editing paradigm’ used by the majority of the professional industry and it has been superseded by PP because its 10th incarnation needs ‘a bit of time’ whereas PP just evolves sensibly and that Avid still dominates in the ‘minds’ of a fair proportion of editors who ‘matter’ when it comes to giving a piece of software that ‘pro’ association and that that very industry that will give the ‘kiss of pro’ is generally fatigued with Apple’s hubris and cloak and dagger mentality and have tried and generally ignored FC10 and its adopters are fanboys who will, with all due respect, never make an impact on people’s perceptions of the apps ‘pro’ status when put on the front cover of Apple Monthly no matter whether they make a living from it.
So sure, make airy statements that there is no reason FC10 can get there too, but know you are wrong. There are reasons it can’t get there. Many many of them in fact. And instead of this constant almost religious belief in Faith of an unknown and unknowable future second coming, let’s start basing these discussions in the facts of now.
FC10 is a flawed buggy non-industry standard, non skill set transferable patchwork of a piece of software that appears to corrupt and destroy work rather capriciously giving its competition, who are already ahead of it, 3 to 5 more years head start to claim FCP7s market share and respect.
Yeah. My money is with the atheists on this one.