Matt Callac
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[Brian Mulligan] “Touchscreens are not the end-all-be-all of user interaction.
If you edit for 9 hrs a day like I do, a touchscreen editing would be deadly. Your hands & fingers would a mess before to long.”not to mention your neck and back from hunching over the touchscreen all day.
-mattyc
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[Tom Wolsky] “That’s obscure, and way more buried than it should be.”
I guess It makes us weird that we want to name something right when we create it.
-mattyc
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[David Roth Weiss] “I put a damn smiley face on that one Miriam. What’s a guy gotta do here to get a giggle, laugh at my own jokes, write a humor disclaimer at the bottom with asterisks?
HUMOR ONBOARD*****”
maybe you should change your signature file to something like
“90% of the time I’m 50% joking.” -
[Walter Soyka] ”
How long will it take you to feel comfortable with FCPX, if and when it becomes feature-complete? How do you feel about the fact that Avid and Adobe have older, longer-tested code bases?”It’ll take me longer to get “comfortable” with FCPX b/c it’s a different paradigm. I know I could get up and running on premiere in about a week and avid in about 2 weeks.
I’m currently learning FCPX and have been in downtime since it came out. That way once it DOES meet my complete needs I can hit the ground running.
-mattyc
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[Simon Ubsdell] ”
If you are an Adobe user I’m sure you can’t be unaware that their business model is built on charging healthy amounts for upgrades – I have no doubt this model works pretty well for them.”yep. that’s why I was at CS2 for so long and just now went to CS5 (and they threw in 5.5 upgrade for free since we bought just before the release).
-mattyc
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Absolutely right – great post. In a year’s time the migration will be complete and it will take something truly extraordinary from Apple to lure them back – and something even more extraordinary to make them forget the events of the last ten days.”
Call me old fashioned, but I’ve never done an upgrade to machines that I’m using to make money for a business till the software or OS has been out for at least 6 months (though typically a year.). 2 months ago I finally took our machines up to snow leopard. Quite frankly I just don’t understand the sense of urgency to make a decisions right this minute to move to adobe or avid.
[Simon Ubsdell] “Adobe have got a really strong offering which they have shown a massive commitment to taking forward at a very considerable pace”
I really think adobe is going to end up with a lot more users…but it actually won’t even help them out that much. The way they started packaging their software if you needed AE and PS you might as well have bought the Production bundle. So a lot of FCP editors already have Premiere. So adobe will end up with more users, but really won’t be selling that much more software.
-mattyc
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Scary thing is, the guy probably makes more money in the youtube affiliate program posting his bad videos, than some of the people on this forum make doing actual editing work.
-mattyc
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[David Roth Weiss] “You should probably have been using FCE or iMovie all along.”
that one kracked me up.
-mattyc
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[David Roth Weiss] “You should probably have been using FCE or iMovie all along.”
that one cracked me up.
-mattyc
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[Mitch Ives] ” I would have called it iCut 1.0… “the future of editing”, so everyone knew it was a radical departure and not in anyway an FCP upgrade. I also would not have discontinued FCS3, but then I have a business degree and all of this seems so obvious.”
I totally agreee. Those are the two main misteps as I see it. If it weren’t for the FCP name people wouldn’t have had the expectations of all the features already being there.
And if they’d have kept FCS 3 on sale, there wouldn’t be as many people yelling about apple not caring about the pro users.
-mattyc