[Marcus Moore]

Thanks for the recap, Franz. I think I remember most of these conversations.

Very glad I didn’t say, “Invented”! 😉

[Marcus Moore]

[Mark Suszko] ” DVD and/or BD is going to hold strong for a good ten years yet.”

10 years is a LOOOOONNNNGG time. I wouldn’t hazard to guess tech trends on that timescale.

You’re right that there’s no one answer. But I’d be very curious to know the advantages to disk distribution from those still asking for it. In many cases the answer may simply be- “that how we’ve been doing it.”

I think the assumption that someone is going to have a disk player of any sort has already reached it’s apex and will only decline from here out.

Again, I’m not doubting people have situations where they’re asking for it- I just see the reasons dropping like flies on a very short timescale.

[Marcus Moore]

I’m saying is a presents potential benefits to certain workflows.

If when you start a project you have the option to start with a blank page or open a project template where you’ve defined segment lengths, commercial breaks, lower3rd and inter-title styles, broadcast safe parameters… I’d like to see that.

[Marcus Moore]

“Introduced” is a broad term. I’m sure many of these things had been experimented with in some form or another at some point in time.

They were new to Final Cut, and many of them differentiating factors from the other major NLEs.

My overall point is that they haven’t done lots of backtracking- but if one out of a dozen ideas didn’t work out for them- that’s pretty good.

I can still see the rational behind the separated Event Project structure, but it was just too confining in lots of other ways to make it’s potential benefits worthwhile.

[Marcus Moore]

I think we should consider a differentiation between creative structure and nuts and bolts delivery structure.

I agree with you completely that structuring embedded in an NLE shouldn’t inhibit creativity- absolutely.

But what if the structure is more to do with specifics of a broadcast delivery (commercial breaks), or even a TV series own internal, repetitive structure.

Pragmatically, any corporate video series, or commercial series, or TV series has repetitious elements. Making those things a known commodity in the structure of an edit- especially if these are things you can customize… that’s interesting.

[Marcus Moore]

Of all the new ideas FCP X introduced, like skimmable thumbnails, trackless editing, magnetic timeline, connected clips, metadata-based organization, roles… it would have been astounding to me if all of them worked out exactly they way they were planned. If the original Event/Project structure is the one thing they have to backtrack on, that’s a small price to pay for the advantages all the other stuff make in my day to day work.

I certainly hope this is the biggest foundational change they have to make for the foreseeable future.

[Marcus Moore]

The only way to dive in is to start driving it on some real jobs- probably just one editor to start so they can figure out process and workflow and can pass that practical knowledge onto the others. But someone’s going to have to go thru the frustrating process and come out the other side knowing and understanding the app really well.

The people making the app take it very seriously from everything I’ve heard. At the company level, theres no writing on the wall now to suggest Apple is softening on either FCPX or Logic. If Apple wasn’t committed to it, then I think we would have seen the axe fall 2 years ago.

[Marcus Moore]

Even with 10.1.2? Though I’m stuck on the last version mid-project- it’s killing me because I’ve been hearing about a lot of overall performance and stability improvements.

[Marcus Moore]

Just generally. Nothing specific to what’s been said here.

[Marcus Moore]

There’s no winning here. The most recent update didn’t have many sexy new features, but very solid pro-workflow oriented changes to media management and XML import/export. In fact, Apple actively avoided mentioning a big list of new generators, transitions, and effects because they didn’t feel they were important enough.

Complaining about where X’s feature set is today is like complaining about where Premier’s feature-set was 4 years ago. By that I don’t mean that X is behind 4 years behind. As a growing application it’s remarkably strong in some areas, and still needs work in others.

And of course now we’re likely in for a bit of a stretch before X is updated again- perhaps a maintenance update in the next month or two, and then a strong 10.1.4 later this year after Yosemite is out. With Media Management pretty well nailed down, what’s next? Audio? Editorial features? Color correction? Timeline organization? Will be interesting to see what they tackle next.

Only disappointed to see that GPU RED acceleration didn’t make it into this update.