Steve Connor
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[Tony West] “Cool, now back to the arguing : )”
I don’t agree!
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[David Roth Weiss] ” If Apple gave a lick about its customers (that’s you guys, folks), they would have figured out a solution to their disagreement Nvidia a long time ago. Anyone care to debate that?
“Maybe they have, let’s see what cards the new machines have when they are announced ?
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[Bill Davis] “BTW, just for discussions sake, on another board earlier today an industry insider in a good position to know – opined about 2.2 million active X seats worldwide, a bit less than 3 times MORE than it’s nearest NLE competitor. He also pointed out that the Bureau of Labor Stastics only lists about 25,000 full time professional editors in the US labor pool and noted that the vast majority of those folks are still cutting on AVID systems.
That “might” indicate X is actually doing really well in open global competition despite the nature of the discussion here.
IF that’s true, The X approach is actually succeeding handily. So make your case as to what those “flaws” in that approach might be.
“I’d agree with this, I’ve seen a lot of Cameramen and Directors start editing using FCPX, quite a few clients of mine have started using it as well so I think it has successfully opened up a number of new markets outside of the the traditional “Editor” crowd.
[Bill Davis] “They also tend to go well beyond “just listening” with an eye to real innovation – something I think that will become clear very soon. “
Hope it’s VERY soon!
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[Bill Davis] “So if you weren’t here for the first few years, my advice is to ignore the tone and look for the actual arguments lurking beneath.
“No! the “tone” is what makes the COW such a great place to visit.
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[Michael Hancock] “I also know how people’s tone online can be misconstrued and how to read past it and look at the arguments. I try to do that, but even if I ignore the tone I seem to read into Robin’s posts, I still find the arguments trite, overly semantic, condescending and dismissive. And I don’t think I’m alone in this. But maybe I am, and if so – I apologize.
“Don’t apologise, you are not alone in this, the tone of some people’s comments run contrary to the spirit of the COW.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “[Steve Connor] “Am I missing something?”
Possibly the display option?
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Cool -score one to Robin! I don’t need the visual references that Herb needs so I’ve never looked for it!
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[Robin S. Kurz] “If you know about ROLES and know how to use AND display them… yeah, you actually can.
“On the timeline? Am I missing something? Of course you can in the timeline index (with a button press) but don’t you have to click on a clip or put the playhead over it to highlight each clip in the index?
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[Robin S. Kurz] “[Herb Sevush] “it means that while looking at my timeline at all times, without having to hit any special buttons, I can know the nature of every clip – is it sync, is it sync being used as efx, is it music, is it canned efx. […] I can’t get that, presently, with FCPX.”
… you clearly show you truly know nothing about X, not so much as the mere basics, and therefore can’t logically know what you’re even arguing for and/or against, but insist on doing it anyway. It’s amazingly cringeworthy.
“Herb is actually totally correct on this, sure you can get most of that information (apart from sync!) in FCPX but you can’t get it in a SINGLE view without a button press
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Are the drives USB2 or USB 3? You can add a USB 3 Card very cheaply to an old Mac Pro and it makes it much faster.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “[Steve Connor] “Seriously? Not everything’s a ripple edit!”
Er… then feel free to answer the question and not just quote it? Seriously.
“Whenever I want to change, move or trim a shot in the primary without rippling the timeline!