[Mitch Ives]

Tim, I realize that your comments are directed at media delivery, and FWIW, I agree with you. Though, I don’t necessarily agree with you that being anti-subscription is an age related thing.

At the same time, I also understand Bill’s point. Even those in denial have to acknowledge that software subscriptions have not gone well for those companies that have tried it… and please don’t tell me they’re doing this for the consumer. They aren’t. They’re doing it for the money and to even out cash flow.

Under the old method, you had to generate an update that provided value, otherwise people would sit it out and wait for an update that was meaningful, and worth the money. With the subscription model, you have a captive audience… in essence you’re pre-paying for upgrades, without knowing whether there will be anything of value. That’s a non-starter for me… and apparently I’m a member of a very large group…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

The file I downloaded is 11.1b1. Is this a beta or is it a final release?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Bill Davis] “One side crows:

“FCP X has roughly half the installed user base of Legacy at it’s peak.”

The other side crows:

It’s taken FCP X just 3 years to reach the adoption levels it took Legacy 7 years to achieve.
“

So another words: It’s faster, but it’s slower?

Sorry, couldn’t resist. As my grandmother used to say about statistics: “Figures never lie, but liars figure”. Basically, it can be whatever you want it to be…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

I’m kind of surprised that it took that long. The school I taught at for 5-1/2 years switched quite awhile back…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[John Davidson] “I always thought the old 30″ were too high, but to each his own!”

Still using one on a new Mac Pro. I like it better than those glossy screens they have now…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Lance Bachelder] “The only real drag with FCPX so far is key framing – just doing a simple move on a picture or graphic sucks due to the lack of interpolation features. I’d like to be able to right-click on a keyframe and change the interpolation – is this too much to ask?”

No it’s not… and I’d like that too.

In fact, I’d like the ability to add keyframes in any order I want and have it work every time. Whenever anyone asks me if there is anything flakey in X, I say yes, the key framing. It’s intermittent and is inconsistent in it’s application. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve had to go back in and redo a keyframe that didn’t take, I’d be able to add a fair amount to my retirement fund…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Andrew Kimery] “I think anytime someone can correct inaccurate information it adds to the discussion.
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+1

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

[Bill Davis] “Of course, there’s always the clueless bozo over in the corner saying “Dammit, I liked the OLD parking lot.””

Or perhaps there’s one who thinks all of that RFID stuff is a violation of their privacy. You know, like knowing your pattern of how long you park there and when, which gets passed along to someone who burglarizes your house? Gathering information can be a double-edged sword…

It’s important not to outrun our headlights… and all this cloud stuff is coming faster than people can evaluate it’s impact. All this home automation comes to mind. Are we at a point yet where we really know whether having an app that can unlock the doors to your house is definitely a good idea? Using old school locks at least reduces the number of people that are capable of breaking in.

Which brings me to an amusing thought. It appears that the biggest deterrent to car theft these days is having a manual transmission. Apparently the number of people who know how to drive one has dropped off precipitously…

See how I brought it back around to cars?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

The update came and went. Nobody’s excited anymore… until the next update?

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Mitch Ives]

Sorry, missed that. Thanks Shane…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill