Scott Thomas
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[Bret Williams] “If a company could have that power over Apple, it would be Adobe. And Apple could have cared less. It almost seems like Apple has dared Adobe to pull it’s apps. So I don’t see them worried about Smoke, etc. They certainly aren’t going to sell more Mac pros with either the conspiracy or stupidity, so it must be stupidity. These are the people that brought us the cube, the hockey puck mouse, and the original MacBook air.”
I don’t think the exchange between Apple and Autodesk is adversarial. I think to Apple, having them port Smoke and AutoCAD over is a huge win. Apple gives a little ground to have a large developer bring over some of their biggest products.
While I think Adobe and Avid may benefit, I don’t think they were in Apple’s mind.
When I look back on the history of the Final Cut Studio, I see it as a response to Avid and Adobe’s move away from the Mac to Windows in the late 90’s. Avid was unhappy with the direction Apple was going with Copland and basically told Apple that they weren’t going to code for it. They then ported Media Composer to Windows and pushed that. Adobe was moving their app development to prioritize Windows. There are other Apple-Adobe spats like the one over Display Postscript and Flash. Remember when Quicktime had Flash built into it? That ended about the same time Adobe bought Macromedia.
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[Steve Pankow] “The mention of A62 makes me think of Charlex and The Cars “You Might Think” music video.”
I believe “You Might Think” predates the A62.
What I remember hearing was that they had a huge amount of 1″ recorders, playing back both key and fill elements.
I remember reading that their compositing device back then was a custom built CDL switcher.
I think the later Pringles and “wine cooler” spots benefited from the A62.
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Something I just remembered…
Remember a few years ago, a story that Apple was looking to sell off the Pro Apps?
At the time I railed against that. I couldn’t believe that Apple would seek an exit from a market that they were becoming so strong in.
Looking back now. I’m starting to wonder if that was true.
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[Bret Williams] “They should take a clue from the “new” coke debacle. There’s still time to release Final Cut Pro “classic.””
Was Apple trying to make Final Cut “Sweeter” to compete with Pepsi? 🙂
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[Peter Wiley] “It looks more like stupidity than conspiracy to me.”
I wrote a comment in an earlier thread about this. I’m more on the conspiracy side.
Several years ago I heard about an agreement between Apple and Autodesk that basically stated that Apple promised not to go after the high-end post market. That was the vector Apple was on, as evidenced by their many purchases of high-end tools.
Now today we have Autodesk Smoke and AutoCAD on the Mac and Apple’s retreat from the professional post market. I don’t believe this to be a coincident.
Perhaps the FTC would be interested in this?
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Does anyone here remember the rumor mill from four or five years ago?
There was talk back then of Apple building something as powerful as Autodesk’s Flame or Smoke. Around that same time, it was rumored that Apple had a “gentleman’s agreement” with Autodesk not to invade the hi-end post market.
Now a few years later we have Smoke on Mac and Apple’s apparent retreat from the high-end post market.
I don’t think this is a coincident.
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“And if you don’t like my talk, just don’t read it.”
Yes. That will suffice.
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Re: Adobe Illustrator
Prior to version 9, Illustrator was natively working with Postscript. At version 9 they moved to PDF.
It’s probably just easier that way. Postscript has only been around 25 years or so.
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Probably not since the Pinnacle CineWave I’m guessing?
The reality is that CPU power advances faster than the custom silicon that is developed for video processing. After one generation, you end up with computers that are already faster than what the video cards could handle. Case in point: ICE. You don;t see Avid bundeling those anymore. 😉
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A long, long time ago I bought some used DigiBeta stock from these guys:
They do tape recycling. Not sure what tapes are worth these days, but some extra cash might be nice.