Scott Davis
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Any plans for it to in the future?
Scott Davis
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Storage is so cheap. Why not move them to an inexpensive external for storage?
Scott Davis
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Are they in the favorites folder? One way you can back up favorite effects is to create a new project, put a bin in it, then copy your favorite effects into that bin. When you need them, just open up the project.
Scott Davis
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[Dave LaRonde] ” But I fear the days of the great-big Mac Pros may be numbered.”
I agree totally. Its been a long time since anything other than a speed bump on the towers and why has Thunderbolt not been introduced in the towers yet? Makes me wonder and makes me a bit sad.
Scott Davis
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[Chanse Chanthalansy] “I am not a premiere fan ever since it was released”
The original Premier was not good. Premier Pro, along with the whole Adobe suite, is fantastic. I’ve only been exploring it for a few days now; but there are a lot of things I really like about it and that are really smart. It seems like Adobe sat down with a roomful of editor and said “what do you want or need?” and then implemented a whole bunch of those suggestions. Apple on the other hand…
Scott Davis
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In my opinion I believe that FCP X was not a “mistake” or a botched release. I believe it is a well thought out, strategic move. FCP X seems to be supremely designed to be the “editing” tool on the iPad and future touch screen devices Apple will come out with; intended for consumer level shoot, cut out the bad bits, post to YouTube workflows. I can not look at the systematic and wholesale elimination of almost every pro feature from FCP as anything other than Apple taking a well respected brand and re purposing it on a consumer product. For me the absolute final indicator will be what they do with the towers. I see them ending production of the towers and only having the iPad, iMac, and a laptop or two.
In your situation, I would highly recommend Adobe Premier. If nothing else, Apple has forced me to take a look at the Adobe products and I am finding them absolutely fantastic! Kind of like what FCP should have been.
Scott Davis
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[Stefan Buhrmester] “Apple can’t decide to just kill all the existing solutions.”
Apple can decide to kill any product they feel like. Unless you have a contract with them, why are they obligated to provide you with anything? If one day the folks at Apple decide that “hey, this computer business sucks, lets quit and go live on a beach somewhere and surf; they absolutely can as long as they fulfill any legal obligations they have. You pull out the “moral” whip and try to use it to prove that somehow Apple is obligated to provide you with a product. Apple has no obligation to you.
You have the right to complain all you want; you don’t have a right to demand Apple provide anything.
Oh, Apple didn’t kill “all the existing solutions”. Avid, Premiere, Vegas, Edius, Media 100, Lightworks……
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Highly recommend the book Avid Agility
https://www.amazon.com/Avid-Agility-Working-Intuitively-Composer/dp/1449998925
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Do a search for synch or nesting and all the related problems with them. Magnetic timeline and compound clips are a means of addressing this. I don’t disagree with you over the mind-boggling lack of absolute bedrock requirements for working in broadcast at this time. I personally think it was a big misstep to release FCP X at this time without them. Not sure what the thinking on that is.
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I don’t understand by what you mean when you say Apple is not listening. 64 bit, background rendering, cleaner interface, much better media management, compound clips, magnetic timeline (all things I and many, many others have been clamoring for for years) The gigantic missing parts (no edl, xml, log+capture to name a few) is very disconcerting at this point; but for Pete’s sake, this was a massive, massive re-write. Give them a bit to see what happens before a completely reactionary jumping of ship.
We all jumped on the Apple bandwagon long ago because they where innovators and pioneers. Now we should criticize and abandon them because they are doing the very thing that brought us into their fold?
Scott Davis