Timothy Auld
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[Tim Wilson] “Speaking as somebody who spent a lot of time around Avid editors, some of them could be pretty inflexible, and so focused on editing that they didn’t need to be especially tech-savvy. “
Yeah, I was one of them. I became “tech savvy” (to the lame extent that I am) when this business became a wild west free-for-all. It was born out of necessity. Otherwise I would still be happily scratching my chin and spending a lot more of my time worrying about what I really get paid for.
Tim
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Non post: Shrimp boat. My hands were never the same again.
Post: Very early in my career I was hired by a pharma company and when I sat down to look at the footage I found it consisted of “scientists” burning a series or pigs with a butane torch in order to test some damn cream. They had thoughtfully surgically removed the pigs vocal chords so they didn’t have to listen to them scream. I stood up almost as soon as I had sat down. Only editing job I’ve ever flat walked out on.
Tim
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The RM-440 was for amateurs. The Convergence 90. Now there was an pro machine.
Tim
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Based on my twenty or so years experience with Apple, they are the very soul of irony.
Tim
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Or they could do it tomorrow.
Tim
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You are frightening and intimidating me with your clarity of thought this late in the day.
Tim
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I don’t think that that is at all outside them realm of possibility. It all depends on how committed Apple is to the product. If they stay with it it could become a standard. But given their track record they could just as easily kill it and pretend it never existed.
Tim
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Excellent idea. I have colleagues who love the idea and potential of FCP X but have always had stability issues. And in my admittedly limited experience I have had stability issues, But I also know from reading this forum that there are people who are not experiencing this. So I’m looking forward to the responses.
Tim
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Not from what I am hearing from people.
Tim
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Certainly commonality of language binds people and subjects together. I will never forget sitting down at at Sony 2000 edit controller for the first time, having worked extensively with GVG and CMX controllers. Much to my surprise and confusion Sony had come up with entirely new terminology to represent conventions that had existed for decades (thankfully my mind has blocked out the details.) Why? I don’t know. I do know I did not encounter many other Sony 2000s after that. Realizing full well that I may have to work with FCP X one day I am still totally agog at what Apple did here. Primary storyline, secondary storyline, roles? Just the sound of the names is amateurish at best. And…it may be powerful, it may be versatile, it may have great databasing capabilities…but – after a year – it still ain’t stable. How many of us can afford that?
Tim