[Paul Dickin]

[walter biscardi] “Except for the ethernet stupidity that I hope Apple will soon correct on the 27″ i5 and i7 models”
Hi
That’s sort of the benchmark for Apple’s commitment…
Do they spec up their new lower-level kit so the truck drivers can continue?
Or did they know about the limitation when they did the design and not care?

And since the 2009 Mac Pro continues in production (seemingly indefinitely) have they sorted that ethernet problem?
Have they replaced the old Intel e’net chip with a better functioning replacement?
Or did they just buy up all of Intel’s old stock when it was EOL’d so they can keep shipping them ‘as they were’?

[Paul Dickin]

[Erik Lindahl] ” wonder how Apple’s focus on their pro desktop market is. “
Hi
Steve Jobs clarified that very nicely last week in the D8 interview – he said “it’s uncomfortable”:

…the day is coming when only one out of every few people will need a traditional computer.
When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks because that’s what you needed on the farms. Cars became more popular as cities rose, and things like power steering and automatic transmission became popular.

PCs are going to be like trucks, they are still going to be around. However, only one out of x people will need them. …advances in chips and software will allow tablet devices like the iPad to do tasks that today are really only suited for a traditional computer, things like video editing and graphic arts work.

The move will make many PC veterans uneasy, because the PC has taken us a long ways.
We like to talk about the post-PC era, but when it really starts to happen, it’s uncomfortable…

So, no comfort there 🙁

[Paul Dickin]

[Michael Gissing] “what codec is the new iphone using to edit HD?”
Hi
Presumably iFrame (or a new derivative), which Apple announced over a year ago.
https://support.apple.com/kb/ht3905

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Is this a GOP-length phenomenon?
Native long-GOP editing must alway need an ‘invisible’ handle – to refer back/onwards to the required I-frame for the clip in/out frame.
Unless you recompress into an intra-frame codec.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
In my experience FCP beachballing is always a disk-access problem…

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
That’s how a three-disk raid-set might show up….
You would need to create a new single Partition to get rid of all the junk – an Erase isn’t enough.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Quote from link:
You can only use your professional camera for non-commercial purposes. For any other purpose, you must get a license from MPEG-LA and pay them royalties for each copy sold…. this is not just a Canon problem… Sony and Panasonic… have the exact same licensing restriction. Also, all video editors and official media players come with similarly restricted codec licenses! Apparently, MPEG-LA makes it difficult for camera manufacturers, or video editor software houses, to obtain a cheap-enough license that allows their users to use their codec any way they want!

MPEG-LA extended their “free internet broadcasting AVC license” until 2015. So until then, users can use a licensed encoder (x264 doesn’t count, in their view this makes both the video producer AND every random viewer of that video *liable*), to stream online royalty-free, as long as that video is free to stream.

Now who was it who mentioned “a bag of hurt”, and has focussed solely on an online Store?
Or the Share To Internet function of other software? 😉

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
This preview of Photoshop CS5 offers some hope…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI

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[Paul Dickin]

[Rafael Amador] “No Mac Pro, and the iMac concept is completely changed.”
Hi
I think you are right, but in a different way. The iMac will always have a place as the not-so-portable laptop that people have – to remain in their home. With the iPad to carry around in their home. And maybe the Apple-TV to plug into the home’s 50″ TV.

But one way or another the Mac Pro paradigm is already changing. Apple’s NC cloud centre will need to use computers using the 48+-core Xeon CPU’s that Intel are a only a couple of years away from providing to service the enterprise market. And the pricing of these super-chips will mean they will never be cost-effective for the workstation market.

At the moment Intel is servicing that desktop/workstation market (where NLEs exist) by supplying it with current Xeon server chips, with maybe a proportion of the cores disabled to keep down costs. But that strategy will have to change.

So Apple will have to go along with whatever Intel choose to move to developing for the wider desktop PC market. And with the PC desktop market increasingly dumbing down, Intel may choose to not bother with anything more highly specced.

With a huge proportion of over-$1000 computers being Apple-branded, yet Apple’s overall share still being relatively tiny, that doesn’t give Intel a huge customer-base for continuing to make Mac-Pro type CPUs.
https://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Apple-has-91-of-market-for-1000-PCs-says-NPD/1248313624

[Paul Dickin]

[Phil Balsdon] “Neat Video is excellent…”
Hi
Having got by (= struggled) with the various freebie noise reducers I recently bought the Neat Video plug-in – which is magnificent.

All the extra gain-up noise disappears, and with appropriate adjustment of the sharpening tool it can minimise some of the wide-aperture lens, enhancing rather than losing edge definition.