[Mitch Ives]

IMO, Bill’s initial post was well thought out, and like all of you, I have no inside knowledge about how the database structure works. Having said that, my intuition has told me from day one that the database is the 800lb. Gorilla in the room… that it controls everything… i.e. “traffic cop” style.

I’ve felt (without proof) that it was(is) responsible for some features being missing initially, and possibly to this day. By that I mean, until it can be developed in a way that is “database compliant” it won’t be included. We have been asking for the ability to keyframe the color correction filter from day one, yet we still seem to be waiting. I can only speculate that they haven’t figured out how to do that within the universe that is the traffic cop database?

To Bill’s definition of a bug, which seems a bit constraining, I would suggest that a bug can be intermittent and not always reproduceable. If it was, chances are it would have been caught prior to release. The AutoSave bug in FCPX is one of those. If it was always 100%, they would have fixed it by now. The titler bug apparently was, and has been resolved. I also think a bug can be quite unacceptable without stopping the program completely.

FWIW, I do seem to be getting more spinning beach balls under 10.0.3…even with a new project, but it may be something unique to my environment… I honestly don’t know. I think that their perceived increase in frequency may be why some people think 10.0.3 is slower?

I also take heed to Paul’s comment that you might want to be careful about when you decide to starting doing things that might trigger an internal reorganizing. While not a problem in the off time, it could be a disaster if you’re under a tight deadline. Some things in FCPX might be best left to after the project is delivered?

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]

[Steve Connor] “I think the Macbook Air is almost a hybrid iPad/Laptop anyway, perhaps they might offer a dual boot OSX/ iOS version with touch screen one day”

Hmmm… nice idea.

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 think if you would read the article, Mitch, you’d easily be able to glean what you’re looking for.”

FWIW, I did read the entire article… I’m not sure why point you’re making here? Not being confrontational, just not getting your meaning…

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]

That’s all fine… nice article. It would have been helpful to know who the actual author is (not staff) and what their experience level is, so we could get some indication of their qualifications for judging what’s important and ground breaking, however.

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]

[Steve Connor] “I’m on SL with no delay on a 2008 Mac Pro 8 core”

I’m curious how much ram you have and which video card you’re using, since I have the same machine with a K3?

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]

Is it useful enough to judge color, etc.?

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]

[Steve Connor] “Still no keyframes in CC!”

Ouch… that hurts. Was really hoping for that. Well, there’s an awful lot to be happy about, so it’s a good day overall. I wish Apple would comment on being able to keyframe C.C.

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]

[Thomas Frank] “So now Multi cam is in, layered PSD support, XML1.1 and Broadcast Monitoring is in.
Wonder what everybody will be botching about? 😉
Layered PSD is the big one in my eyes!”

The broadcast monitoring is beta, so let’s not get carried away until we see it? Also, can we keyframe color correction now? If not, that’s still on the list…

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] “In one of my computers, I’ve had a Kona 3 in there for many more years than it should be allowed to have worked. I can choose to use a PCIe box and that Kona3, or buy the ioXT which is daisy chainable (some other io boxes aren’t) has more capability than my Kona3 and has a suggested price of $1495. “

Same here… and yes the IoXT has a lot going for it, especially at $1495.

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] “Thunderbolt? I didn’t mention that. Enough to sell who what?”

You did. Perhaps I didn’t understand your point. My point is, that we may not have a choice. Those of us wanting external monitoring may have to buy one of these… other features notwithstanding. Did I explain that clearly (perhaps not)?

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