Simon Ubsdell
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[Craig Seeman] ” It might help people understand the Event, Project, Storyline format.”
I think if you’ll forgive me, you are “flogging a dead horse” as it were!
I sense that anybody who is serious about moving forward with the product has moved quickly past the point of being confused by any of this – they’re quite clever people at a guess and can read a manual.
Meanwhile those who don’t want to learn have far bigger – and to be honest more problematic – issues that are discouraging them from even bothering. For better or worse.
But I know I won’t convince you so I’ll shut up now 😉
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[Jonathan Dortch] “Also high on my list of wow factors is the overall integration.”
Let’s not get carried away here. You can’t yet actually send anything to Motion 5 other than the built in templates so for the time being at least the “send to” feature in FCP7 trumps anything FCPX can do on this front. Obviously (?) this will change pretty soon, but you know, just for the record.
Plus I think it’s pushing it a bit to suggest the Color board gives you anything as good as say Colorista – certainly way below the capabilities of the free app we used to have called Color!
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Ah but they’ve changed the names of everything – which after all is the really important part.
I mean, doesn’t it make you feel all warm inside and just like a real editor to know you’re cutting in a “primary storyline” and all the rest of it? I just can’t get enough of that stuff – finally I feel validated!
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[Craig Seeman] “Sometimes it’s important to tell people why a gasoline engine driven car is not a horse”
With respect Craig, you and Chris Kenny keep making this point over and over without actually elaborating a great deal on it, but as though it really changes anything meaningful about the end-user’s experience of the product.
What other piece of software for general use requires the end-user to understand how and why the code has been written the way it has in order to be able to use it properly? I think the answer is “none” and I think you’d have to agree.
Put it this way, you could have absolutely no knowledge of how QuickTime is written and still edit in FCP7 at then highest possible level.
I appreciate that you know what you’re talking about and I understand that for you this issue seems to be of significance and no doubt it is in terms of understanding where the product has come from and where it might be headed – but in the real world of the end-user it is surely a complete irrelevance.
Your hay/car analogy doesn’t seem to be sufficiently explanatory in this case.
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[Stefan Buhrmester] “blend mode settings in the context menu”
No, actually, blending modes are well implemented despite what Rich Harrington says.
Lot of other stuff missing though, I grant you!!!!
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Buddy man, I’m not over reacting – this is a joke – i can now sit on an imac and prep a CNN ireport on my secondary story line while my files are default saved to my home folder. “
Priceless!!!!!!!!
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[Melanie Brands] “Most of what these two gentleman have said is completely false.”
Dear “Melanie”
If you were a regular visitor to the COW you could not be unaware that these “two gentlemen” are very highly respected members of the FCP community and their opinion, even if flawed at times, is always worth at least listening to.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “oops – wrong simon, thought you knew dan cullen..”
Oh but I do – I didn’t know who you meant. Great guy, Dan, though I haven’t worked with him for about 12 months. Say hi from me if you see him first!
Simon Ubsdell
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Such fun – I’ve never seen a real live shill in the wild before!
Simon Ubsdell
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “say hello to dan”
Dan?
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com