Scott Sheriff
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[Stephen Bakopanos] “Nor is it called “Final Cut Broadcast”. Some people here seem to think that being a “pro” is the exclusive domain of broadcast editing.”
Well that’s just silly. I don’t believe there are any amateur broadcast editors, so it would seem your hypothesis is wrong.
However there are plenty of amateur film editors, and the term “indie” is just a euphemism for amateur.
Either you get paid, or you don’t. It’s just that simple and there is no in between. If you’re an unpaid amateur, you can sugar coat it all you want with terms like indie, but you’re still an amateur. If you get paid, your a professional.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Richard Harrington] “You used XML in the background if you ever used a SEnd Command in Motion. Your motion graphics department uses it too.
Its usually a background player.”
That is a great point! In all the “I never use/don’t need XML” posts I don’t think anyone has mentioned that.
Maybe a lot of us assume they never use any part of the suite but FCP.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Jeremy Garchow] “That’s not what I am hearing, but maybe I am wrong.”
Yes, I for one do not have a copy. But I have seen plenty of posts from people that want to add seats to their shop, and now can’t.
I also saw a few posts (elsewhere) from people that ordered a computer from apple and the suite from a third party vendor, only to find out their software order can’t be filled, and their only choice is Ebay.
My system is pretty stable on OS 10.6.2 and FCP 6.0.6, and I’ve decided to freeze it there. But you never know what will come in the door tomorrow. I’m a little pissed off that the option to have the $299 upgrade has been taken away without any notice. Had they said it was EOL by a certain date, I would have bought a copy to have on hand.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[MIke Guidotti] “Even with the “technology hater” use of the word we still would not be Luddites – the new release of FCP actually restricts the amount of technology you can use!”
Agreed. It is inaccurate.
I used the term Luddite in another post as a term of endearment/sarcasm. Now we can have three definitions!
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[MIke Guidotti] “I never put the Apple sticker on my prius!”
You have seen others do it, right?
Maybe on the Honda Civic, or Subaru Outback?Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Jeremy Garchow] “last I checked, FCS3 didn’t break the night FCPx was released”
No it didn’t break. You just could no longer buy it.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[David Battistella] “Very clever. Your pretty loud from a keyboard but I’m sure you wouldn’t run your mouths much in a room full of professionals.”
I noticed you said “mouths” in replying to Aindreas.
I can’t speak for Aindreas, but I can speak for myself.
Anytime, anywhere.
Debate, panel discussion, interview, whatever.
Haven’t turned anyone down yet.
And I haven’t changed my position, or backed down when speaking ‘offline’.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[MIke Guidotti] “We are not luddites. We are actually reverse-luddites; based on our chief complaints about the iMovie X “upgrade.””
I was using it as a term of endearment.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[James Poll] “All they’ll care about is making sure that it’s super-easy for Johnny Amateur to upload his self-important video about head lice to YouTube.”
Damn funny! Wish I said that.
[James Poll] “but we’ve also seen an awful fracture in the Mac community itself, what with all the “young minds, fresh ideas” people complaining that all the Pros are old luddites who can’t handle change, etc. It really is sad to see. Here I was thinking what a great community we had – full of people devoted to the Mac, but after this past week and seeing all the infighting and outfighting, one really begins to wonder why one bothers at all. I do realize that I’m generalizing when I say that, and that there are a lot of dedicated and helpful souls around, but does anyone else find this bickering just so utterly depressing?”
Three cheers for you!
Actually this has been going on for a while. I think the rise of the 5D, and the rise of the posts that criticize those that paved the way is not a coincidence.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Andrew Richards] “”Luddite” and “fanboy” are both perjoratives. I’ve seen far more use of the latter than the former this past week.”
Thats because a lot more people are familiar with the slang term ‘fanboy’, then the word Luddite.
There have been plenty of other words used in a pejorative way by the apologists to directly demean individuals with whom they disagree. These terms are almost always used to infer (inaccurately) the apologist is more intelligent, more skilled, more talented, or younger than the person that they disagree with. Fanboy has no such connotation.As far as ‘fanboy’ being considered a pejorative, that would be driven by context. If used to disparage an individual directly by name, perhaps yes.
As a label for a group, or to indicate someone is participating in ‘group think’, then no. At best it might be a stereotype.
What would you call someone sitting in coffee shop with FCP open on a MBP grinding away on a render, reading the RSS feed from macrumors on his iPad waiting for this years keynote speech to start, while he’s talking to apple service on his iPhone about an issue he’s having with his iPod connecting to his iTunes account? Is that a casual user? No. It’s simply much easier to say ‘fanboy’.
Just like it’s much simpler to say dog, than Canis lupus familiaris, even though the word dog is occasionally used as a pejorative. My dog will wag her tail if she is in the room and hears us talking about “the dog”. She knows she is a dog, and is not offended. Fanboys know they are fanboys. Apple knows they are too. What other computer company includes window stickers for the users car with every machine? Stereotype, yes. Inaccurate, no. I’m not sure why they get offended and deny it. But if they don’t want ot be identified as fanboys, it might help if they scrape the apple sticker of their Prius and leave the iPad at home next coffee shop trip.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair