[Paul Dickin]

Hi
In our world the principle is long been a part of lossy codecs.
What’s new is applying it to the direct SDI/HDMI output port as well as to the compressed chip data.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
The Flip?
At 80% not good enough…
EOL’d because camera phones do it better.

[Paul Dickin]

[Richard Herd] “What is that small mac tower…”
A model of the then new Power Mac G5 – Isaacson’s book tells of innumerable models and prototypes.

[Paul Dickin]

[Mitch Ives] “someone was suggesting that the 17″ was on it’s way out. Apparently it only sold 500K units, which is considered too small for Apple. The 13″ MBP sold the most (over a million)… with the 15″ behind a bit…”
Hi
Worse than that.
50,000 for the 17″ – the 500K figure was for the 15″…
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/23/apple-predicted-to-discontinue-17-inch-macbook-pro/

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
In 2010 the BBC announced ‘Project Fabric’ as the new metamorphosis of its Digital Media Initiative – aka Don’t Mention It… Google why ;-(

In this video https://vimeo.com/12557132 a slide shows the proposed use of Premiere Pro (and FCP) – its discussed at about 11 mins in:

” We will be able to exchange material between what we call ‘Craft Editing Systems’, FCP – we have 2500 – and Avid – we have even more, and ‘Desktop Editing Systems’ (Premiere Pro and Cinergy).

Now the desktop editing systems are playing a very important role – when you produce a programme you have to book a Final Cut suite to do your editing, and you have to book that at a certain time.

What will happen is that everyone – literally everybody – will have access to desktop editing systems where they can actually choose whenever, wherever,to start using a desktop editing system.
So this has gigantic implications for the whole of the BBC.

All of a sudden people that on paper don’t have the qualities to do this editing have access to editing machines, and they might be very good…”

There is further info about ‘tools for everybody’ and the ‘experience of the editor’ at 17.40 mins in.

The whole presentation is interesting from a Cloud collaboration point of view – the BBC’s thinking (as of 2010…)

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[Paul Dickin]

[Bill Davis] “I’ve never read a single thing about Steve Jobs ever editing a home movie.
…he was frustrated that iMovie was overly complex for a simple home vacation video edit…
But I don’t recall SJ ever mentioning video editing in any quote I ever read.”
Hi
Mention it? Maybe not.
But the likelihood is that it was at least in passing a part of his life:
https://www.tofslie.com/hey/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/jobsoffice-960×639.jpg

Thats a DSR-170 DVCam camera (or the DV equivalent) alongside the ali case for a DCR-VX9000 earlier DV camera, another handycam on the shelf,and a tripod, all in his study at home.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
I would agree that there should be a reworked form-factor replacement top end TB Mac ‘Pro’.

BUT:
Buried deep in the MacRumors forum threads about the introduction of Sandy Bridge E5 Xeon chips is a passing mention of an Intel employee who had said that what was different this time round (2011-12) was that Apple engineers hadn’t shown up at Intel’s Xeon reference motherboard design dept – last time they came was to discuss the 2010 Westmere Xeon mobo changes.

Obviously as a rumour that is as dissmissable as Shane R’s ‘two sources’, but whilst NDA’s (and employment contracts) prevent people saying what is happening sometimes what isn’t happening can slip out. Maybe…:-(

Time will tell.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
From the UK the late 90s buzz that I remember hearing was that with the replacement of the 6 PCI-slot 9600 PowerMacs with the 3-slot G3 ranges Avid and ProTools hardware wouldn’t fit in the new Macs.

So initially they thought they’d sort that by moving to 6-slot Win NT boxes, but the uproar from (as Tim W stated) ALL the user base brought about a rethink and the necessary re-engineering to shoehorn the video/audio hardware and SCSI card into the Macs Apple were producing.

[Paul Dickin]

[Craig Seeman] “…all point to issues with handling the metadata in the database. I think these will all be solved in some fashion or another as they expand the workings of the underlying database.”
Hi
All that is I guess down to OS X and an emerging substructure of ‘CoreData’ APIs.
I’ve been doing some long-form writing recently and legacy tools like Word (and Safari for research, FileMaker for ‘data’) are horrendously ill-thought-out for the preparatory selection, sorting and assembly of background information, and for re-working (re-working, re-working!) all this miscellaneous text into an organised final draft.

Metadata is everything for me. Management of it needs to be a background OS (iOS) task that pervades the desktop and is unified into every running application’s work space…

And once the writing is accomplished then I’ve got to go over it all again to rework the words with the video/stills from the original sources to bring it into FCP X (maybe…) to do the movie of the book 😉

That’s where my puck needs to be…. (wishfully!)

[Paul Dickin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Is it an API “
[Aindreas Gallagher] “They fired a lot of critical people didn’t they?”
Hi
Others left as well – Bertrand Serlet left Apple. Wednesday, March 23, 2011….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd97us27eSg

Did he just leave or was he ‘pushed’ by the changing ethos inside Apple?