Peter Krajcik
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Hi,
it seems to be complicated to explain you this matters – it looks you’re Pro not reseller.
It doesn’t matter if we sold them anything 5 years ago and know they should be happy because we saved them a lot fo money. They went with Apple, they trained people, they invested to Apple products (ok.less than to Avid but thats not a point). Now they need to buy 50 seats of FCS. Most of them needs ingest tapes and output to the tape. I simply can’t tell them with a smile sorry guys, Apple changed its mind and you should look around and shop for Avid or Adobe if you want to do things you did before.
Apple thinks you don’t need ingest and output to tape and you shouldn’t shot on multicamera because according to Apple it is old way of doing music video.
Well it is over guys. May I offer you Avid ? Yes, you can be pretty sure nothing similar happens to Avid in next 5 years. Believe to Avid. -
Lou,
as it might be complicated for end user of FCP to switch to other platform, it is much more complicated for reseller to turn 180 degress and market Adobe or Avid. In enterprise business you simply can’t tell to customer: choose Avid, Adobe or Apple NLE and if they chose FCP, you come one day and tell them: ok, now we sell Avid so switch to Avid. They trust to you that you will pick a right product and make their investment safe. Yes, Apple can’t compete with Avid in broadcast, but they easily could in NLEs.
Pro market was one of the reasons why Apple survived when its market share was very low.Will they do the same with QuickTime ?
I personally think that new QuickTime (or what will be the name of new version of product) is the main reason why basic ingest/output functions are not present in FCP X. QTKit is a toy, QuickTime framework is very, very old.Peter
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Hi,
I would like to add my comment as an Apple Expert Solution provider, so my opinion is from other side (I mean not end user’s side).
That’s really fine that Apple finally moved on with Final Cut. Yes, it is an evolution (in context of what Lion and all other related pieces of puzzle could do).
But my hate as a reseller is because of total Apple ignorance of partners and customers.
We were working on couple of projects where FCS or FCServer were a key parts of infrastructre. Big projects with 10s of seats and lot of other technology related to broadcasting and designed to work with traditional workflow. We knew there will be new FCPX, but nobody expected it won’t be replacement for FCP. No body expected that Apple wil not notify partners they will discontinue FCP or FCServer. They just made a radical cut in place where they shouldn’t. if big customers realize that there is no stable future with Apple, they will go with Avid or Premiere. Ok, that’s business, but we have evangelized Final Cut, we made trainings for our customers, we made support, we convinced them to switch from Avid to FCP. No Apple representative came and made a deal. And now we simply can’t sell FCPX to customers because of App Store.
You can argument that you don’t need a middle man, but there is a lot of customers who simply need a service company to install and service things. I am not talking about small studios – I am talking about public TVs or big production houses. Apple has no business model how to manage this thing.
Yes, it will be colder tomorrow, but I simply hate this ignorancy.Peter
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Send me your email (peterk@sunteq.sk)
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Hi Richard,
send me an email address where I can send the application for conversion – I just received a permission from BMD to forward it to you.
Peter
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Hi,
it is actually not a problem of field order. I hope I am not wrong, but when you have a wrong field order it means that fields that belong to the same frame are swapped. So, odd field plays after the even field (PAL). But our case is different: Suppose you have three frames A,B and C with fields 1 and 2, Normally it is in this order: [A1A2][B1B2][C1C2] but our case is this: [..A1][A2B1][B2C1][C2..].
Peter