Marcus Moore
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Thunderbolt in it’s current state is really just a much more robust Firewire. Until Intel can implement the much faster optical version that can support everything that PCIe can provide… the crossover point is moot.
That’s why I remain convinced that the MacPro can’t be a radical departure from what we know- there’s simply no way to replace PCIe today with anything else. Perhaps Apple was hoping that Intel could evolve Thunderbolt faster than it has, but regardless it’s not ready for the really heavy lifting yet.
And there’s no room for anything smaller or less capable than the current MacPro. Anyone who doesn’t need a MacPro is already using a topped out iMac.
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I hope the FCPX dev team can put it’s best foot forward this year and show how they’re going to solve some of the few remaining key issues. I think, like Herb, a lot of FCP7 users are still holding on to the existing platform.
In that respect, Apple has it’s own “WindowsXP” problem. Convincing people to move off the old system and onto the new. Undoubtably, some will choose to go to a different platform when they finally leave FCP7. But I think this is the key year when FCPX will make it’s case for the hanger’s on.
A new MacPro and another substantive update would, I think, go a long way towards calming peoples fears.
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You choose your own level of involvement in speculation, I suppose. A lot of people get burnt out of Apple’s products before they’re released because they generate so much discussion, online and in the press. This is in no way Apple’s fault and there’s really nothing they could do about it outside of going the “pre-announce” route, which it’s almost entirely unlikely.
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Exactly, we need organization, but not “tracks” as other NLEs have them. Track information is just another form of metadata. What we need is for Role info to be represented in the timeline. Tracks are a means to an end, and not an end unto themselves.
The parallel I keep coming back to is Events. The static organizational model from other NLEs are Bins. You make a bin, you put something in a bin. FCPX’s keywording goes at the same problem from a completely different direction- it’s unquestionably a more fluid solution, but with the same result.
Once Apple leverages the Role data for clips in the timeline, it will “look” very familiar, but the underpinnings will be [like Events] very different.
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I agree with you completely on expanding the capabilities of the Event viewer. I guess the way that I edit, which is to do rough selections and then refine in the timeline [which is not how everyone works]- the passive scan and drop has been such a HUGE time-saver over FCP7 “double click clip, scrub, next clip, scrub” that having to double click (or command click) on a clip to bring it to the Event viewer seems archaic to me. I can see certain operations where getting finer skimming detail would be advantageous, but it would need to be a special operation.
Playing thru an export in QTX yesterday, it occurs to me that it would be great if they could incorporate a way where if you’re hovering over part of an single thumbnail Event clip- it zero’s in to a second or so of content to allow for making finer grain selections on that thumbnail.
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People are going to talk about things their invested in. I’m honestly fascinated watching this software evolve- so speculation is only natural.
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I’m trying to imagine how a scrubbable filmstrip would do anything but slow things down.
Right now there’s no clicking involved in putting material in the event viewer- just scrub over your Event clips. You’d have to double-click a clip to have it “stick” in the Event viewer, which takes us back to the FCP7 paradigm. There may be a compromise but I don’t see it.
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Oh, I know they’re there every year.
Last year they released 10.0.4 just before NAB [which was mostly maintenance with a few minor feature tweaks] and then held their “one on one’s” the warmup weekend.
I’m definitely hoping for some proper announcements though. We’ll be due a major update by early April.
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I never look for keywords in the Event browser anymore. It’s way too easy to just type in a couple of search strings to get to a clip or group of clips in an Event of 1000s. Or of course you can set up a smart collection for any search you’ll be visiting frequently.
I’ve also really taken to the method described recently where you tag elements in their name, such as JohnQuinLower3rd.GFX. By setting up a smart collection looking for the search string “GFX”, you instantly create a watch folder for any GFX element you import.
Love media management in X. LOVE. IT.
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Except (again) that we know a new one is coming this year.