Paul Dickin
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[Mike Parfit] “So the main question seems to be whether Apple is willing to accept this failure and acknowledge it quickly enough to recover and advance…
…whether Apple still has enough creative spirit in this field to accept the short-term embarrassment…”
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I don’t think Steve Jobs ‘does’ embarrasment/acknowledgement/acceptance.
He blew out IBM over the 3GHz G5 affair, and he’s blowing out MobileMe – “not our greatest moment”.[Mike Parfit] “….away from the terrors of creativity into the safer but sadder path of mediocrity.”
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I don’t think I would describe the Cloud and Apple’s new huge datacentre in those terms at all.[Chris Kenny] “I think I have a pretty good feel for these things.”
Maybe 😉
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Apple. Seriously – Who the hell are these guys?”
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Apple has an expert on video – what he doesn’t know is not worth knowing…
“Actually, all of the new HD camcorders of the past few years use USB 2.”
https://images.worldofapple.com/jobsemail081016.jpg
https://gigaom.com/apple/camcorders-and-usb-is-steve-jobs-right/“Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent.
It clears out the old to make way for the new. …you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want …”
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[Bill Sitkin] “How will news and stories be accessed in coming years? Are we witnessing the death of television?”
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The shared experience of high-profile sports events, or global breaking news will go on as its always gone on. On TV channels owned and resourced by big business conglomerates.
But now without Apple.[Bill Sitkin] “Will we see power struggles increase over net access?”
Hugely. With Apple right in there pitching for a branded slice of the action.Anything other piece of the action that the Apple userbase carve out for themselves could poof 6/21-style be nuked at any time of Apple’s choosing in the future 🙁
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[Michael Aranyshev] “Just like DVD.”
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DVD and BD are products of the old Hollywood way of imposing a technology for their own benefit.But yes, the DVD of Momento – fabula/syuzhet – is an early stab at taking story-telling into the 21st century 🙂
I also like Chabrol’s ‘À double tour’ for its recursive storyline/editing. 🙂
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29.97 ≠ 30?
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[Shane Ross] “…the magnetic timeline pushing things down…”
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Hindsight will show that you are floundering in misunderstanding.
Chris has explained repeatedly there is no ‘up’ or ‘down’. Its all an interface metaphor, and perfectly workable in such a clip-connection manner once understood.YOU may need ‘tracks’ to work, but your AAF/OMF output software and 8-track audio SDI connectivity doesn’t.
What’s needed is metadata to identify which timeline asset belongs to which output channel. An interface which allows that to be allocated doesn’t inherently need ‘tracks’.It needs an editor who understands how to drive the interface.
Audio metadata tagging will come ‘later this summer’ say Apple.Other things needed may never happen, But that’s not a GUI fault.
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[Phil Hoppes] “…the rest of the interfaces they don’t care about. It does not take rocket science to see that FCPX was designed to run on iMacs and MacBooks…”
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It seems from the Thunderbolt reviews today on the rumour sites that the PC Express card slot on the 17″ MBP doesn’t work if you are using Thunderbolt for data transfer. So the card slot will likely be summarily axed at the next revision. -
[Chris Kenny] “…a consequence of people believing Apple is deliberately abandoning the pro market, and it is my opinion that Apple is not actually doing this and future events will make that obvious.”
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On the subject of the way events work out 😉
2003 Steve stands up at the G5 launch and tells us “3GHz within 12 months”.
Three years later the G5 (and IBM) are history.2008 After the roll-out of MobileMe Steve sacks the managers – “why the fcuk doesn’t it do that ???”
Three years later MobileMe will be history – iDisk. iWeb etc.2011 Furor after the summary zero-notice axing of FCS 3, with the App Store telling the world that FCP X has a 2.4 review rating.
Three years later?My prediction: Before even three years the Mac Pro and all conventional NLE products are axed (summarily, without warning) and FCP X is totally rolled into an iPad app for the new ‘professionals’, to edit iCloud footage for sale (huge revenue to Apple) from iTunes.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “…apple had no evangelists this time round…”
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They had Larry, but now he’s in mourning…
https://www.larryjordan.biz/goodies/blog.html -
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Here someone who’s commented on the audio features:
https://danrubottom.com/2011/06/what-apple-did-get-right-in-final-cut-pro-x-part-1/