[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “Work as you like, when you like, where you like. And lose no quality along the way.

Golden era stuff, right there.
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It really is, and it’s achievable on any NLE on both Mac and PC. The choices we have now are amazing!

[Steve Connor]

[Tim Wilson] “Fair enough. I hope your reference to (me?) “shouting at you” is a simile and doesn’t reflect what you feel I was actually doing. I thought I was being uncharacteristically calm…but since I’m so rarely calm, I don’t know exactly what that’s like. ???? Apologies nonetheless.”

No apology required Tim, I was referring to the OP “shouting” at Doug

[Steve Connor]

[Tim Wilson] “Well, I’d like to hope that people would watch a video before commenting on it.”

and I’d like to hope that if something is put forward for discussion then any element of it is up for discussion without having someone shout at you for discussing the “wrong” thing, especially on a forum that can wander OT as much as this one.

The video is excellent, I watched it while editing some 4K video on my 2009 Mac Pro! as you say it’s great that someone in his position is talking about it. Apple certainly dropped the ball at some point on the Pro Computer front and perhaps in the future we might learn the truth of why that happened. I’m just glad they refocusing on it now.

[Steve Connor]

[Doug Metz] “Won’t happen again, I can assure you.
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I REALLY think it’s up to you whether it happens again, video was put forward for discussion and you gave your opinion on an element of it. Nothing wrong with that

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “How about you address the ISSUES he addresses, rather than merely the form he uses to package them? Perhaps then we can all benefit from your thinking?
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Perhaps you should have made the boundaries of discussion clearer when you made the original post 🙂

[Steve Connor]

[Brian Seegmiller] “Don’t even get me started about managing tracks.
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Did anyone SERIOUSLY have a problem with tracks before FCPX came along? Sure I prefer the magnetic timeline now we have it but I NEVER found myself stressing about track management and I still don’t when I work on other NLE’s, It’s just part of our craft isn’t it?

[Steve Connor]

[Andrew Kimery] “I know you’ve been struggling with your account snafu for a while, and this may be an extreme suggestion, but what if you change your payment method to a prepaid CC?

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If you use PayPal it’s easy to “switch off” the debits

[Steve Connor]

[greg janza] “its all irrelevant until the day arrives when FCPX has made an actual dent into the professional marketplace.
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It has already and did so quite a while ago- obviously not in the area you are in but it’s a big world out there. Where I am more than 50% of Production Companies are using FCPX and that’s growing.

[Steve Connor]

[nick ring] “Definitely a feature I miss from the “olden days” of FCPX before they combined projects and events into libraries. You could skim through the projects without opening them. Would love to see this come back in the current structure.”

I forgot that you could do that in older versions of FCPX

[Steve Connor]

[Bret Williams] “All very good points. So what do you think of the second video on the page addressing actually doing it the same way by making compounds?
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It would be nice if you could just “skim” and edit projects in the browser instead of making compounds, not a big time saving but it would be a slightly more elegant solution. I sent that as a feature request a while ago