[Mitch Ives]

[Bill Davis] “Remember, I’m NOT saying it’s flaws should not be discussed. Of COURSE they should. What I’m saying is that there’s absolutely NO reason to apologize for software that meets the needs of that large a swath of the overall market.”

I can agree with that.

As for percentages, if you’re throwing in iMovie and MovieMaker, then I think the FCP X number is lower than 80%. If you’re referring to what all the people on this forum produce, then 80% is probably a fair number…

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]

[Charlie Austin] “Exactly. I’m as big a fan of X as anyone, but it’s far from perfect. It’s getting there though. lol. As Darren points out, it’s sometimes hard for aficionados of any NLE to admit that anything about their choice sucks. :-)”

Pretty much my position. I like X a lot, but I also have a “no denying when the King has no clothes” policy. I think if it has an area that needs work, we SHOULD be talking about it… not pretending to ignore just so we can curry favor from someone or some company.

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]

Would have been better if he had visited in April when it was taking 2-3 months to get a BTO MacPro. Now that the wait is down to a claimed “1 week”, he decides to visit?

The Beats deal must have been more important I guess?

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’ve seen that too…

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]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I’d suspect your plugins. “

You may be right, but that would be like saying, I suspect the problem with your car is the engine. If you remove the engine, the noise will stop. What’s a car without an engine?

Apple’s whole premise with FCP X was to leverage the third party market to develop the things Apple no longer has any interest in doing. Unless they come up with a system like the one they use for apps in the App Store, I don’t see this fix coming soon. That would actually be a good thing if Apple rated plugins for speed and compatibility… or maybe just certify certain ones that are not slowing down FCP X.

I’m happy that your projects don’t require any additional capabilities, but for most of us, I suspect that we’ll need to use plugins to fill in the gaps…

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]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Not one render, background or otherwise, until export. “

I sure wish that was true with me… lots of things need to render…

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] “You’d have to outbid me. I rode a CL175 (blue, not red) my first and second year of college. The second time I watched this, I had an oddly powerful urge to go looking for that missing left front amber turn signal lens…”

That’s interesting Bill, I’ve known you for what 20 or so years and never heard that story. I myself had a Kawasaki 900 the first few years of college…

BTW, awesome find on the video… watched it several times…

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 happy, but I was coming from a 2008 MP with a 5870 video card, so I should see improvements, wouldn’t you think?

It’s interesting, because many things are faster, while others don’t seem to be any faster at all. I’m surprised by some of that. I haven’t bothered to document all the details… rendering is definitely a lot faster, but I guess I was expecting to see a lot of rendering disappear all together, which I’m not seeing.

I’m giving Apple some time to update the OS and hoping that the FCP X team will be able to further optimize things, once they’re allowed to get back on FCP X development.

The machine is extraordinarily quiet, which I love. You do want to carefully assign TB devices to the three different buses to get maximum speed, which I’ve done. TB2 disk arrays are amazing to watch on this machine. I’m getting 850-970.

Cheap USB 3.o drives are very quick on the new MP… makes Firewire drives look painfully slow.

FWIW, I’m on a maxed out 8-core…

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]

[David Mathis] “Now if they would only come out with iVacuum, would make life easier. “

Oh great… now they’ll buy Dyson…

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]

[Tim Wilson] “People like Spotify and Beats are Netflixing music, and Apple shaved years off their development time and dozens if not hundreds of millions in infrastructure money. This was a great deal for them for that alone.”

You’re right, it was another circus owner.

I recall Fed-X saying the same thing when they bought Roadway (RPS)… to shave off two years. Turned out to be the biggest disaster in the history of the company for years before it got fixed. Let’s hope this is different?

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