Michael Horton
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FCP was developed on a Mac and all features were developed on a Mac and then only one member of the team at Macromedia ported the thing to Windows which was difficult in those days because Microsoft was messing between support for ActiveMovie and Quicktime for Windows.
This is in my interview with Randy Ubillos, creator of FCP and can be read in the upcoming “SuperMag” Magazine that we will be handing out to 1000 ticket holders at the FCPUG SuperMeet at NAB, April 16.
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Since Apple and Avid pulled out Hotels have been dropping their rates. You might want to check again. This year might be cheaper than last year. But yes, Vegas is expensive. But so is Seattle. 🙂
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Walter, they’ve been doing this for years. Its about a 30 minute hands on experience of one of pro-apps. Its not about learning the tool, but taking a test drive. The Apple classroom has always been like this. And just try and get a seat. Unless you show up as soon as doors open the entire day’s classes fill up.
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You are reading me wrong. This is same Apple classroom they always have on show floors. Its not a certification classroom.
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Actually Apple WILL have their classroom on the show floor. It will be in someone else’s booth obviously but they will have a classroom. Can’t say where yet until the ink is dried. Course anything can happen between now and then.
Michael Horton
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[Steve Wargo] “[Michael Belanger] “Still , I think Apple should make a small presence just to handle their huge client base of FCP users.”
“They will. At the SuperMeet, April 16. Will be a bunch of them there. Possibly wearing armored suits.
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Perhaps we ought to get a petition going that Promise promises to include pretty blinking blue lights in its Raid.
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Mark
Then you’ve never been to a SuperMeet. There will be 30 vendors at the SuperMeet each behind a 6ft table just waiting for you to talk to them and ask questions. People like Walter and Jerry and others you know from the online world will probably be there too and they are if they just happen to be in the middle of some clique then simply become a part of it. These folks are the nicest people you will meet and are open to meeting others and solving problems. That is what these gatherings are all about. That is how we all met.
Its up to YOU to come up and talk to them Mark. There is zero room in this industry for wallflowers, meaning if you don’t make the effort to talk, then yes, these gatherings are a waste of time for you.
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[Tim Kolb] “Apple’s customer base…as much as the “fan boy” and “cult” remarks are used a bit too often…is based to some degree on association. I think FCP has more user groups than any software I’ve seen. mac users enjoy each other’s company and I think that this has been a big factor in solidifying Apple’s customer culture. I wonder if that will be maintainable with more ‘distant’, ‘individual’ approaches (the web, etc…)
“Well despite all this online drama about Apple pulling out of the Show floor, Apple will still be at NAB. I know several Apple folks who will be there the entire week. Apple is supporting our SuperMeet BIG TIME and will be there in force. https://www.lafcpug.org/nab_2008
I imagine Apple will be at other events or quite possibly hold some of their own. You simply just wont get that Big Booth in the South Hall to hang around. Not a deal killer for me.
I continue reading about all this disappointment about Apple pulling out of NAB. I read all this nonsense about how they could of really stuck it to Avid had they just stayed. Hey, let’s dress the Apple employees working the booths with “We’re Number One” T-shirts.
Look, NAB is expensive but only if you choose to make it expensive. Most of us with no money still go and we stay off the strip and Hotels there are cheap. Really cheap. Most have shuttles to the strip where you can get transportation to anywhere. You can do NAB comfortably cheap. You just have to choose to do it that way. It’s just REALLY expensive for those companies who want a booth.
And you dont need Avid or Apple on the show floor to make or break your NAB experience. They will be there in some sort of fashion. You just have to find them assuming you need to find them. You know where Apple will be. They will be at the SuperMeet April 16 for some good ol’ one on one face time. I don’t know where Avid will be but I’m betting they will be easy to find.
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Mitch
You cant get answers on future products on the trade show floor either. Thats policy. What you can do is bitch and moan about the stuff you want to the people who really matter and have more power than that temp guy at the booth who’s been hired away for a week from the Apple Store in Dayton.
Plus you get to eat crappy food and hang with Jerry Hofmann.
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