Paul Nordin
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>>(honey, where’d I put that Media Composer 5.5 coupon???)
LOL.
Yeah. I’ve been holding onto my un-upgraded Avid XpressPro license for years. When I shifted to FCP 6 years ago, I raised my arms to heaven and swore I would never give the money grubbing chiselers AVID another bloody penny. Now, I not so sure…thank God there is still Adobe! Breaking a blood oath like that has repercussions!
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You are probably right at least I hope so. But this has to be the all time worst, most mis-handled new product release in, well, as far as I care to think back on.
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>> most editors/facilities weren’t going to upgrade to such a radical new release in the first 12 months anyway
Well Apple made sure of that today. We don’t even have a choice about it. We’ll see what will come, or not.
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Peter, I rest my case about how great working with you guys is.
That made all the difference. With radius set to 2, which I had, payback is 12-14fps on a HD timeline. But changing the radius to 3 brought performance up to real-time 24p.
Woo Hoo
Cheers
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Wow, Jamie, you are very forgiving and a glass half-full kind of person. I’m also finishing a feature. For me rending a h264 trailer for Facebook or YouTube is not a big deal. But not being able to send an XML to Davinci for color correction, or AE for titles…now that is a huge problem. All I can conclude is that they dont care about that problem, they are solving problems for a different type of user than me, and thats who they built the software for.
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>> And then, LISTENING. They definitely need to show that they are listening.
They just did show they are listening to their target market for this product. Unfortunately, we are not it.
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Alex, I fear that is wishful thinking. They already showed this software to people in January and then at NAB. No new functionality came in this version from what they showed at NAB, and now we all know why they took no questions at NAB.
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apparently they have already removed the latest update from their download page.
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>> Stated simply, Apple is not behaving in a very trustworthy or predictable manner in the post-production space, and it’s very unsettling for those us using their…
Personally, I think Apple is behaving in a predictable manner. IF you were naive enough not to see the writing on the wall for Apple Color when the upadates were so feeble, and didn’t jump immediately to the far superior Davinci Recolve, hoping that surely Apple will meet the challenge, you just got burned badly.
Same thing for FCS3. Why should we believe there is a hidden message in Apple’s marketing plan, or that they are holding back a master plan that will fulfill all our needs? They have had as much time as they want to build this new version. It addresses the pro-am market. Not those who make a living with it. And if you have Color based grading suites, you just got left out in the dark. Time to spend a lot of money.
It makes perfect sense to me for Apple to let Adobe and Avid move into the high-end pro market. Those companies have a large support infrastructure and are aggressively building capabilities that keep pace with the escalating technology turn-over in the high-end of digital cinema.
Apple can give Pro lip service to NLEs as they did with Soundtrack Pro. But what they really do is sell the hardware.
At least that’s how I read what they have delivered, and marketed, and the functionality they targeted to release in v1.0. All their conscious choice.
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Wow. That truly bites.
And with no upgrade of FCS3 projects to FCPX format, what happens in 1 year when a film comes back from the festival circuit and needs to be tweaked for distribution? If I have a hard drive crash, can I not reinstall FCP?
Scary
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