[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “So I’m good for now.

That’s all.”

You may have mentioned that before

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “For me, the old “chasing hardware” days are gone.

No time for it. Not when my “off the shelf” gear runs rings around anything I’ve ever had on my desktop before.”

Lucky you, for many of us (there are more than a “few”) more power is very useful.

[Steve Connor]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I appreciate Pr, I appreciate the people that appreciate Pr and all that it can offer, but it’s hard for me to see some sort of competitive advantage when I can get the similar panel results outside of FCPX, while keeping, in my opinion and for my work, a more creative interface for the actual work that I do most of: editing.”

Great post Jeremy and some very interesting insight!

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “I make small, shitty corporate videos. Yet I STILL remember how pissed I was decades ago when I saw somebody at NAB in a discussion I witnessed, claiming that a piece of work I had created – was THEIR work, not mine.
“

Not the same thing surely? If you make a film for a client then it’s their film, if you make something while employed by a company then it’s theirs surely.

[Steve Connor]

[Tim Wilson] “I do also have my Macromedia Final Cut t-shirt, which I’ve never posted a picture of before. I’ll post it after I take a picture of it on my next good hair day, I promise.”

I’d be happy if I could actually FIT into any of my T-shirts from the 1990s!

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “Had to laugh as I read the initial copy at how studiously they’ve avoided the inconvenience that the original program was basically single handedly written by Randy Ubillos before he went to Apple to build FCP into the powerhouse it would become.
“

Certainly it’s a bit rude to not mention Randy but I’m not sure you could call it revisionist as they haven’t tried to change or refocus the history of PPro.

[Steve Connor]

[Kirk Pitts] “I had three crashes working on a new project in a new library yesterday. Mixed variety of content, mostly pictures and internet video. Didn’t lose anything but it was the first crash I have had in some time.
“

Did you optimise the “Internet Video”?

[Steve Connor]

[Gabe Strong] ” once they figure out how to
actually have decent performance, without requiring a GPU that could fly a jumbo jet with it’s fan.
“

That deserves an LOL 🙂

[Steve Connor]

[Simon Ubsdell] “What’s interesting about this thread is that it was only FCP X editors who thought it was a specific criticism of FCP X, rather that what it was: a generalised criticism of all NLEs.
“

Some see windmills where there aren’t any 🙂

[Steve Connor]

[Tim Wilson] “That’s why the whole “locked out forever” trope has always seemed like a straw man.”

Yep!