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[Craig Wall] “So consider the source and his motivations”
Absolutely – I’d say “consider the source” in this case means the Apple PR department’s gospel filtered through some pretty shoddy journalism.
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According to the manual it copies the whole lot and you can’t choose unlike the way it used to be.
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[Craig Wall] “if you think Apple’s stock is taking a dive over this you are utterly mistaken.”
No, I know it won’t much much of a dent – just hoping really! Though like any corporation it matters to them a great deal what gets printed on the business pages and who knows this might have some small impact on the stock price – for a day or two!
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[Jamie Franklin] “He just doesn’t understand the subject he was paid to write about…”
With respect to everyone here, I have seen only far weaker answers posted here than this guy makes to all the objections. I’m not saying his answers are entirely accurate (he’s a journalist, right? and he can’t transcribe a press release properly or take proper notes at a briefing whichever it is) but they are detailed and precise and “to the point”.
None of the talented Apple apologists on this forum have had anything like as much ammunition to throw back into the battle.
OK, so he misheard the point about OMF export, I don’t think that proves a thing.
Hateful all the same!
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[TImothy Auld] “His article is also filled with “Apple says…” references. Unless I have missed it Apple
has made no official (or even unofficial) comment on this situation.”I think you’re absolutely right about this – these are things we surely haven’t heard anywhere else and yet he is happy to trot out these statements as though they were self-evident fact.
Shameless spin, in my view.
I don’t actually feel strongly about the product either way (it’s frankly neither awesome nor awful which is pretty damning after all the hype) but I am utterly contemptuous of the way Apple has tried to spin its way out of this. I hope more of the mainstream press picks up on how badly this has damaged the company’s credibility – and that the stock value takes an appropriate bashing. Sorry to any of you with Apple stock!
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It seems to me from this:
… that Apple are trying like crazy to brief mainstream journalists with the story that all pro editors are unhinged and/or unreasonable!
Stop it, Apple – you’re just looking silly now and I’m sure you don’t really want that!!!!!
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[Bret Williams] “I think it reads like someone that doesn’t know what he’s saying”
I disagree – there was so much talk of “Apple is planning this, that and the other” for me to read it as anything other than an Apple-placed piece. Especially the incredibly arrogant dismissal of the entire editing community in the last paragraph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the guy’s writing this purely as a journalist, he’s a damn fine one, is all I can say. He does actually have a lot of “good” (as in plausible, well-considered) answers rather than merely stupid ones, even if there are some small errors of fact.
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Call me naive, but I have to say reading it and having digested his claim not to be an editor other than of his son’s school projects, it looks to me like his well-rehearsed answers were fed to him by someone far more knowledgeable. This couldn’t perhaps be an Apple press department doing its job, could it? Or is that overly cynical?
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Subframe audio editing – I knew it was there but it’s great to see it in action, especially with the subframe display in the Dashboard. Very nice.
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[Craig Seeman] “A Storyline looks and works like a sequence”
No, I think the renaming of things is confusing even you, Craig. A “storyline” is the last vestige of what we used to know as “tracks”, hence the “primary storyline” (the nature of which is to always ripple the timeline events, whereas the “secondary storylines” don’t). This much is clear from the manual.
Also I would suggest that the “mystery” of “gaps” is just down to the design of the primary storyline which is meant to ripple everything as a default behaviour – this being the case you obviously need a mechanism like gaps to enable removal of material from the primary storyline in such a way as to keep the overall timeline duration the same, i.e. if you don’t want rippling to take place.
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com