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[Noah Kadner] “but I can’t imagine a realistic scenario where an HD downconvert from a 4K version will look inferior to a relink to an HD original. The 4K derived version should always have higher apparent visual quality if all is correctly exported.”
Agreed. What are these alleged issues you’re talking about?
– RK
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[Scott Witthaus] “Certainly can do that, but I don’t think this is normal behavior.”
No, it’s not not. It’s a bug. Haven’t seen it often, but when it hits, it drives me absolutely bonkers. Because you can’t explain it and fight with it… until it dawns on you. Somehow FCP is not purging old renders correctly/thoroughly. I would definitely send feedback. Especially if you’re able to reliably recreate, since that’s bug reporting gold! ????
– RK
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[Stuart Lanceley] “For some reason (something I’ve done accidentally or unknowingly) the ‘Position’ of the ‘Basic Title’ is no longer “X: 0 , Y : 0″”
I see people do this all the time. Move the title CLIP not the title TEXT. Often times not even understanding the difference. In which case the text is obviously only visible within the borders of said title, therefore resulting in an “inexplicable” crop.
[Stuart Lanceley] “by default in the ‘Transform’ options in the ‘Video Inspector’ tab, even when creating a new ‘Connect Title > Basic title’…”
The only way that could be possible, is if you defined some other, edited title to be the standard, other than the actual default standard title.
– RK
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[Paul Golden] “It’s hard to compare Apple with Adobe when it comes to software sales discussions/strategies.”
But, oddly, that was only one of three comparisons I brought up. I guess it’s telling that you ignored every other one.
[Paul Golden] “it uses software sales as somewhat of a loss-leader for its hardware […] That is why Apple can afford to sell FCP for $300.”
Oh, right. 600 million to even a billion in revenue, depending on what you include in the package, is totally what any and everyone would consider a “loss-leader“. Ab-so-lutly!
Exactly how much do you figure software development like that costs?? 1.5 billion?? ????
[Paul Golden] “Even though Premiere and After Effects is a fraction of Photoshop’s user base, it is an important part of Adobe’s Cloud ecosystem.”
Don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone counter-argue their own point any better and not notice it. ????
– RK
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[Michael Gissing] “Absolutely right that it’s your opinion.”
Yeah. If only I were FAR from alone with it, too.
[Michael Gissing] “Doesn’t alter the fact that there are more holdouts than converts in my little world and even then the converts are prefering Pr & Avid to X.”
While at the same time the numbers show that there are more FCP users now than there ever were. Go figure.
[Michael Gissing] “I don’t expect people to judge everything on my little world either.”
Other than yourself, of course. ????
[Michael Gissing] “Most have dual boot or dual partition and are also holding onto old Mac Pros as well or building Hackintoshes.”
Which makes an amazing amount of “professional” sense, I’m sure. Totally worth it for dead, inferior software. I’m sure somewhere, someone actually even thinks that’s healthy, clever business sense. Which leads me back to my original point…
[Michael Gissing] “to poleaxe pesky old software“
Or users? (case in point) ????
– RK
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[Scott Witthaus] “Perfectly stated Bill. Well played.”
A big +1 from me, too. I’d even venture to say that that is also Apple’s exact logic and reasoning behind how they’ve done things so far, MAY continue to and why. Whether I like or agree with it or not, or would do this or that differently, I completely understand where they’re coming from and commend the overall approach. NOT wanting to win the Feature List Length Contest at the cost of bloat, instability, performance and increasingly convoluted handling, for the mere sake of appeasing the specialty needs of a minute portion of their users, whilst making matters that much worse for everyone else. Unless they can of course have both. 😉
I can choose to add what it is I need OR, even better, exclude what don’t need. Basically the opposite of what others apparently have chosen to do. So, for me, to say that with X you have LESS choice, options or ability is rather backwards in the grand scheme. If you don’t like the approach, that’s a whole different matter and why there are alternatives.
– RK
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[Paul Golden] “… whether FCP is a significant part of Apple’s business ( of course it’s not)”
Right. 600 million if not in fact going on a BILLION bucks is just chump change for Apple, that they just chuckle at while sipping Martinis on their yachts. No future in that. And that’s not even counting the Macs that were sold for the sole or primary sake of running FCP & Co., which I’d say is pretty safe to say is somewhere in the thousands.
But then I guess you think that PPro and AE are a “significant part” of Adobe’s business next to Acrobat and Photoshop, too? Or Resolve and Fusion etc. a “significant part” of BMD’s next to their various hardware? Not to forget AVID and Media Composer being a “significant part” of their now rather insignificant business?
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Whatever. I guess certain weak memes and logical fallacies will never die… oh well.
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[Oliver Peters] “You currently have to juggle three pucks. How is that different?”
Huh? How is only needing to move only on a single axis NOT considerably different and in fact easier, especially if you’re limited to using a mouse? How is having to CIRCLE your color easier, better or more efficient? It’s not. Or just because everyone does it that way, so they can’t possibly be wrong? It’s equal at best, but even that I don’t buy.
8 out of 10 times I don’t even use anything more than the color board (and I have all the relevant 3rd party tools), since it is in fact by far the fastest and most intuitive… for me. After balking a bit in the very beginning, too, at the notion of a BOARD, the color board is now my favorite tool by far for primaries.
More UP… less DOWN… left right for the color angle (which isn’t one). Simple click and a scroll of the mouse. Fast and precise. Though I would like at least one decimal place for the values.
Aside from maybe better/improved LUT support of sorts and maybe some tweaks, I don’t expect that much is going to change. And that’s a good thing imho. If I actually need curves or vectors etc., which I rarely do, I can pull them up any time. But I don’t have them in my face the whole time unless I need them. That’s what I call uncluttered and flexible.
– RK
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[Oliver Peters] “There are correctly several good third party color correction tools for FCPX, but of course, they are hampered by the kludgy way in which developers must integrate their plug-in into the FCPX UI.”
While I don’t have any real issue how the integration currently is (other than the best ones needing a floating window), will Apple pimp the on-board color-correction tools significantly anytime soon, rather than e.g. expand the APIs to accommodate other options and possibilities? We’ll see.
– RK
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[Michael Gissing] “Whether you can imagine it or not, there are still an astonishing number of broadcast documentaries being cut on 7. As a doco post finisher I still get more from FCP7 than Pr, Avid & X (in that order).”
Then that’s the epitome of masochism and obtuseness IMO and I for one have absolutely no sympathy. They are willfully and intentionally working with an NLE that has been DEAD for over six years and the “Will it work?!” question has come up for every iteration of macOS since. Therefore any and all issues, problems or incompatibilities are 100% self-inflicted and have nothing to do with Apple or anyone else. There’s no “How was I supposed to know?!” to save you from the responsibility or to talk your way out of it. There are real things that are more worth getting artificially perturbed over.
– RK
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