[Mitch Ives]

These are some impressive lists for features. I’ll lower the bar for my top three:

1) Fix the bugs.

2) Give me back the Favorites folder! I want a single global one that appears all the time or at the top of the list regardless of which tab is selected. I want to be able to put something from any category in this folder. I bet this would save me upwards of an hour every day…

3) Give me an option where the playhead stays in view and the timeline scrolls to keep up. The time I’d save zooming in and output would be epic.

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] “So why, then, all the uproar about the death of the MacPro when people didn’t want to pay for them?
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Because there will always be people who have to have it… the 3D demo Apple showed was an example.

Having said that, after waiting for so long, a great many of us were thinking that the new MacPro would follow the industry trend and provide more capability for less money… as every other Mac I’ve ever owned has.

I personally don’t think this will. When I add the cost of all the TB adapters, cables, raids, 3rd party I/O devices, etc. I can see that I’ll be spending a lot more.

TB raids are all turn key. I built my own 8-drive disc arrays and used eSATA PCI cards to run them. They all cost considerably less than the TB raids I’m seeing.

Then there’s the fact that all external peripherals tend to cost more than internal ones. Dropping a BR burner in my MP was cheap. External ones are not. Fortunately, I don’t feel the need to add one to the new machines.

And the 800lb. Gorilla in the room that a lot of us are avoiding is how well will all these TB peripherals play together when there are six different kinds of them daisy chained? Regardless of how many ports they have I’ll wager that there is a single controller chip. Will this end up being like the dark ages of SCSI? I’m trying to remain optimistic.

Right now I’m using one TB peripheral most of the time. I’m seeing discussions that using several of them isn’t idiot-proof.

Does this mean that I don’t want one? Hell no, I’d love one. I can afford it, but can I justify it as a business decision? Probably not… given the changes our industry is experiencing. Fortunately there should be plenty of people that can justify 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 agree, which was my point. When the true price is announced, and then you add all the peripherals, I think the total cost will give pause. Will people buy it… you bet. Will it be too rich for many people… probably

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 also have really strange audio issues. I will adjust audio to a level that I want. I will then stop playing or commence playing, and the level will change, literally change by more than a few dbs. The waveforms change, the keyframes change.”

This may occur under other circumstances, but i find when working with still images… trimming them, etc., when I hit play the audio volume jumps up dramatically. Hitting stop, placing the playhead at the front again and hitting play results in the proper audio level. Very flaky.

It’s been this way through several versions of X. I mentioned it to Steve Martin at the SuperMeet and he rolled his eyes. We both thought this type of thing was embarrassing…

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]

[Gary Huff] “I can’t speak for Jeremy, but one issue I’m having is that I routinely get to a point where I can no longer play the timeline and have to restart to fix it.”

Yep…

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]

It all depends on the cost. Not just the cost of the new MacPro, but the total cost for all of the peripherals needed. If that total is an order of magnitude higher than what we spent getting the old MacPro operational then I think there will be a problem.

If Apple drop this MacPro on the market for $2,000 then I think everyone will jump onboard. If it’s $3-3,500 then I think you’ll hear crickets…

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 have been struggling with the keyframing in X since it’s release. For the last two days I’ve been dealing with it’s weirdness, and I find myself wanting to drink at the end of the day.

It’s absurd how flaky it is. The timeline jumping to some other clip is only one problem. I’ve tried applying the last keyframe first… or the first keyframe first. I find it works about 50% of the time. Sometimes I restart FCP X to get it to work correctly.

Apple really needs to fix this… it’s embarrassing. Clients are noticing the problem and I’m having to adjust my billings to reflect the wasted time…

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]

For the record, his name is Ive, not Ives. As much as I’d be flattered if he had the same last name as me, I’m sure he prefer that we have no connection…

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]

[Jason Jenkins] “How about an auto-scrolling timeline so I can use my trackpad less?!”

Oh yeah… that would be very helpful.

And as unpopular as this might be, the ability to have more than one timeline open at a time would have saved me many many hours on my current project…

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]

This is why I prefer AJA hardware. Everything works perfectly with 10.0.6 & 10.8.2. I’m a huge fan of Grant (going way back), but every little update seems to cause BMD hardware problems.

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