[Steve Connor]

[Rakesh Malik] “How do people USE this software if you have to keep re-importing footage every time you use it?
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Because it doesn’t happen to most people.

There is a definite “thing” with some imports though, I always make sure there is NO camera icon on any footage I import before I move on.

You should never interrupt importing as well, as jeremy said that does some crazy things sometimes.

If you are having constant file linking problems then its time to trash prefs/reinstall etc. It’s certainly not a common issue with FCPX

[Steve Connor]

FCPX is very dependent on the GPU and the Intel one on the Air isn’t great, your previous MBP probably had a faster GPU.

Definitely worth doing a speed test on the drive as well.

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “It works consistently as designed.
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I find the only consistent thing about it is that it’s consistently inconsistent.

[Steve Connor]

That about sums it up Jeremy! Thanks for posting.

[Steve Connor]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Dear Steve, what’s got into you?

This really isn’t like you. You’re usually one of the most level-headed people on this forum and I have a lot of time for your opinion.

What’s with all the red mist?”

I was going to ask you exactly the same thing! Do you not see how extraordinarily patronising a statement like this this is

“I find it hard to believe that any editor only ever works with clips directly from the browser. If they do, you’ll have to excuse me because I’m going to have to pass on watching their work. I know beforehand (without wanting to sound unkind) that it will be rubbish.”

Because as someone who DOES work directly from the browser most of the time in FCPX I take great offence at this.

[Steve Connor]

[Simon Ubsdell] “However, just on a really basic, practical level, you surely must run into situations where your client asks for a version that’s a little bit of one other version, a slice of another and a chunk or two of a couple of additional versions.”

CTRL-C, CTRL-V or Compound clip on the rarer occasion it’s needed

[Simon Ubsdell] “I know by now that there’s no chance of convincing you over the internet of the many virtues of string-outs and pancakes and so on, but I suspect if we spent half an hour in a room together that might change just a little.

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You talk as if none of us have ever edited on an NLE before! We’ve all used string outs and pancakes before

[Simon Ubsdell] “I find it hard to believe that any editor only ever works with clips directly from the browser. If they do, you’ll have to excuse me because I’m going to have to pass on watching their work. I know beforehand (without wanting to sound unkind) that it will be rubbish.”

Good grief that is an enormously patronising statement to make, I’m genuinely shocked

[Steve Connor]

[greg janza] “If FCPX is truly the greatest thing since sliced bread it’s sure taking a long time to get the word out.”

Yep, only 2 million or so people seem to have heard of it, shameful!

[Steve Connor]

[Simon Ubsdell] “There are undiscovered tribes in deepest, darkest Borneo who are aware that the only tech companies that look clean are the ones that haven’t been found out yet.”

It’s not that Google are hiding what they do with your data, they are very up front about about it, If Apple wanted to do the same thing then why would they hide it? They don’t even use the fact that they don’t sell you data as a lead in their marketing!

To be honest I’d rather be Panglossian than the cynic you appear to be, making judgements based on zero evidence apart from some vague overarching conspiracy theory.

[Simon Ubsdell] “So Apple have decided that they don’t really have to compete in the AI sphere just yet and they can catch up whenever or if ever they need to?!

By your account they are even more clueless than I could possibly imagine them being. Goodness gracious me!
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I have no account on this at all, my point is that no-one actually knows where any of the tech companies truly are with AI at the moment

As for that Google Duplex demo, as many have pointed out it was all a little too good to be entirely true https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2018/05/pretty-much-all-tech-demos-are-fake-as-hell/

[Steve Connor]

[Simon Ubsdell] ” If anybody thinks that Apple are innocent custodians of their personal data, there’s this bridge that I’d like to interest them in.)
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Yep, that’s a great justification for giving it all away to Google, imagining a conspiracy with Apple and what they do with your data.

[Simon Ubsdell] “I think there’s a good case to be made that if you’re not right at the front with the race leaders in the AI contest, then you are absolutely nowhere on anything that is going to matter in the years ahead.”

I know quite a lot about AI, I do a lot of filming with IBM and Watson and I’m pretty sure that no-one knows definitively where AI is headed at the moment. Looking at Google’s tech demos is one thing, real world use and application is another. If Apple wanted to catch up quickly they could easily leverage their relationship with IBM and sprint right to the front of the pack.

[Steve Connor]

[Simon Ubsdell] “In the case of editing between timelines, of course, FCP X is a major step backwards – it’s a lot more cumbersome than any of the competition.”

It’s not a step backwards because it’s entirely designed NOT to edit between timelines, just read pretty much any of Bill’s posts and you’ll see how it’s not necessary with the FCPX model if it’s used as intended.

[Simon Ubsdell] “Where we stand right now, FCP X is getting long in the tooth – what was once bright and shiny and new is now the “new old”.”

I might even drag out “poppycock” for this one 🙂