Martin Curtis
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Several things come to mind when discussing the future iterations of the MacPro.
What does a Mac Pro have that no other Mac has?
I’d say high speed expansion. Whether it is additional hard drives (SATA) or expansion cards (PCI) no other Mac has the ability to give you access to such speed. Until Thunderbolt came along.I’d also say cores, lots of cores. It seems that the latest high speed chips from Intel may either be frightfully expensive (in the thousands, sorry I can’t remember where I saw that) or not as fast as we would like. I think these two factors, and the increase in speed from the cheaper CPUs and the increasing utilisation of the GPUs, will see the end of the high end chips. Did anyone ever buy the $10 000 Mac Pros you could spec up?
Who needs the most speed? Word users? emailers? Twitterers? Nope, editors. For rendering, and rendering being what it is this is something that may be able to be farmed out across Thunderbolt. Perhaps that is what’s coming next.
The 99% is happy with i5s – a quad core i7 is even faster. I would miss the presence of the towers, but I haven’t actually bought one since the G4s.
Mac in a 1U rack; Mac Mini + . Who knows. It looks like 2012 is shaping up to be just as tumultuous as 2011.
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[Bill Davis] “Didn’t the guy from ABC Sports pop up here and say that the PROS working in the big network trucks initially were grumpy, but when they noticed how the database stuff could make their lives a LOT easier, they all started changing their tune and embracing what the new approach does really well?”
The way FCP X has been re-imagined seems to dovetail with this post about Avid and the future of media (by this I mean all the stuff we shoot and edit and have to store somewhere).
Many of us will have access to so much media from so many projects that something had to change. 2011 has been a helluva year.
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[Tom Wolsky] “A couple had used iMovie and were loving it, the natural upgrade path. Those with legacy backgrounds were frustrated”
This mirrors my experience with iMovies 1 to 8. I could not use iMovie 8 (the “different” one) and so threw myself into FCP (which was a life-changer), while I read of kids who had no previous iMovie experience who would just jump right in to the new one with no preconceptions and no problems.Perhaps Walter Murch was able to use FCP Classic so easily because its metaphors mirrored the film world so well, whereas the new one breaks all that.
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[Michael Gissing] “Five years ago I asked the tech people in the Australian Broadcasting Commission when we would be able to deliver files”
That will change when the NBN rolls around. Which may take another 5 years… or ten… -
[Thomas Hughes] “even though this will only be used in-house for training new employees?”
… until the years pass and someone else in the company is looking for “stock footage” of company activities they can use on the company’s new website.In theory: no. In practice: can’t hurt even though it’s a PITA to chase everyone down to sign them.
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The Apple 1 went on sale for $666.66.
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I saw a presentation demonstrating background rendering in FCP X. A clip that needed rendering began rendering, then this process was deliberately stopped by the presenter before it could finish. Playback of the clip showed it playing back the bit that had rendered followed by the bit that hadn’t and it was all smooth. I reckon that’s a feature.
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It’s been a long day and I’m tired, but would it be silly to suggest iPhoto? It can catalog movies and has fields for key words and other information, as well as smart albums for grouping stuff together dynamically based on search criteria.
iTunes can do pretty much the same.
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[grinner hester] “I always skip the courts and just go get my money. Easier, cheapewr, quicker, and sometimes, even fun.
“You’re in the videography business. Take a camera next time and post the video on YouTube! Maybe you could get a guest spot on Dog The Bounty Hunter. Or Repo Men.
As for the OP, I read a website full of stories from a guy who owned a video game rental site (wish I could find it again…) and every bad debt went straight to the debt collector. That would immediately screw the debtor’s credit rating and IIRC he was always paid.
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MPEG Streamclip doesn’t do AVCHD files at all. It has many other tricks but that’s not one of them.