Katherine Taylor
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Yep – a preference to turn it off and remove it from the interface would be ideal. I may sound nick-picky but I’d rather just not have it there at all, and I just worry that if Avid continue down this path then they’ll clutter it up with more stuff.
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One of the great things about the Avid interface is that you can hide all the elements you don’t use. I like the interface to be as minimal and clean as possible, literally a simple timeline and source/record with no buttons and use hotkeys exclusively. These smart tools and extra nonsense Avid insist on adding just clutters things up. I do not want Final Cut Pro!
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thanks anyway – guess I’ll have to live with them :-). I don’t like the design changes they are making at all.
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Simulating a “z-depth” pass , with gradients and masks, could also help create some depth for Form to use.
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Oh yeah. I guess that would be Batch then 🙂
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Instead of waiting until they had a feature set suitable for demanding high-end customers,
There was social currency in using FCP 7 for amateurs, students and Indy film-makers precisely because it was a tool that was also used by “Pro’s”. Along with that came the perceived lack of “ceiling” to the creative potential. After all, if a Feature Film can be cut on it then what’s your excuse?
Anybody who takes their filmmaking passion seriously, at any level, does not want to hear that their creative ambitions have been defined for them, even if in reality Apple are just saying “we’ve decided that you’d never use the complicated stuff anyway”.
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I played around with the trial of 2012 a lot. I loved it, if only because I’ve always been jealous of Flame operators and never had a chance to use one :-). I know that Smoke is more of a “Porsche Boxter” compared to a “Proper Porsche” Flame, but many of the modules are identical. What is missing is Batch (the procedural compositing module) which is a shame.
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With regard to the keyboard layout, Smoke 2012 allows you use FCP shortcuts. I’d imagine 2013 has a preference for this too.