[Mitch Ives]

[Oliver Peters] “I’m concerned about the GPUs. So far I’m steering away from the D700, because those seem to be the defective ones that burn up. Any update on that front?”

Been flogging one with D700’s since day one… no issues. Among my friends, none of us have ever heard of this. You sure about that?

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]

[Eric Santiago] “How many here are still using the Apple Cinema 30’s?”

Still using it… there’s value for you. Cost way less over the time I’ve had it, than an MS Office subscription costs today…

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]

[Tom Sefton] “I’ve seen nothing but great value for money from the Mac Pros we have bought and really hope that apple brings out a high res monitor to replace as I still love the thunderbolt display.”

+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]

[Andrew Kimery] “Other than just a bigger number for marketing reasons.”

That’s what I think it was all about…

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]

[Bob Zelin] “if you have a 3,1 2008 or 4,1 2009 Mac Pro – say bye bye !”

saw that and groaned… the MacPro tower gets left behind now… sure as hell not buying anymore nMP’s to replace it…

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’ll play contrarian to many of these comments. I’ve been using Cinema Displays since day one. Still have a 30″ in active use. I’ve always felt that they were superior to third party options for a very long time. Still not sure I’ve seen anything better out there. If you have a recommendation I’d love to hear it… always needing monitors. Especially if you have a 4K option that is worth a damn. Lots of crap out there. Want good, not cheap.

Apple, IMO, painted themselves into a corner. There was no reason for a 5K iMac. What was the point? There still isn’t a point. Where’s the 5K footage? Where’s the 5K TV’s?

I could understand a 4K iMac… that would make sense. Once they made a 5K iMac, I knew there would be no 4K monitor. The nMP can’t use a 5K display, so if they made one, it would infuriate the people who spent a fortune on the nMP’s. Making a 4K iMac and a 4K display would have made everyone happy. Maybe the same people that made the decision on the rollout for FCP X were in charge of the monitor program?

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]

Bet we still won’t be able to keyframe the color corrector…

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]

[Douglas K. Dempsey] “Ha ha, that statement sounds like a flashback from 2011.”

LOL… my reaction as well…

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] “My problems arise when rather than content, the subscription is applied to a tool that the consumer is forced to pay for in order to maintain ongoing access to their OWN work.

Basically, charging me to subscribe to your creative property is fine. Requiring me to subscribe to maintain access to my own property? Not so much.”

Well said. It’s my problem with CC. Where’s the off-ramp? How do I open my old work once I get off the treadmill…

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 Rofrano] “Affinity sure has come up with some very good competition to Photoshop and Illustrator with Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer (of which I’ve purchased both) but it’s the “critical mass” part that’s really hard to achieve. “

Agreed. The speed of Affinity products should have Adobe embarrassed. Since I am mostly self-contained I have the luxury of choosing superior tools over Adobe.

To answer Oliver’s question, I used Motion a lot more back when we had round-tripping. Now I see it as sort of a plugin to FCP X. There are plenty of pre-made plugins that I find more useful.

I don’t want to whine, but Apple’s lack of interest in FCP X, Motion, Aperture (or some decent replacement) has been a real PITA. I wish someone else would run Apple. Someone with enough passion to say:

“We make $200 Billion a year, we can afford to not act like accountants all the damn time and do some really great stuff, just to remind people how special we are as a company”…

Time to adjust the meds… oh wait I don’t take any…

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