Timothy Auld
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I’m still on snow leopard and I can’t move at the moment. Thanks for the information.
Tim
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I am sure it was totally my fault and I beg your pardon. If only our friends in Cupertino would do the same for us.
Tim
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Jim, I think we started out on this forum at loggerheads (I’m sure at least partially because I am a stubborn SOB) but I agree with every word in your post. I really cannot imagine what they are thinking.
Tim
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But would that really work with X. Have you finished a five camera, diverse codec project with it? And I’m not even asking about VO, music, SFX. Have you done something of that nature on X? Longer than 5 or so minutes? I am not asking this to show anyone up. I recently looked at X for a project, did some tests and – even with the reliability issues aside – it was not up to the task. Have you finished and delivered to broadcast specs a project of a complex nature and a length of 22 minutes or so with X?
Tim
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Indeed. I never felt “lured” by Apple. I bought in in 1999 because because I thought it would work for me in a couple of years. And it did. Quite well. But the point is I bought it back then for the same reasons that I think Apple has with bringing out X: Self interest. I think they are making a huge mistake for the long run in the way they are behaving at present, but as wiser people have always tried to tell me, you should never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Tim
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Like the law and justice who are at best distant cousins (this is not my line, I wish it were) Morality and corporate imperative are rarely intertwined.
“Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!” Othello
Tim
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And screwed a lot of people in the process. I am not arguing that Apple is not doing what is in their best interest. I think they are. But I have been monetarily hurt by the decisions business decisions they have made. Do I think they are evil? No. Do I think they are doing what is in the best interest of their shareholders? Yes. Will I ever trust them to continue the support of anything they sell whether or not developed in house. I don’t think so. But, like James Bond, I try never to say never.
Tim
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I’m pretty sure that “committed” would be defined by how long Apple intends to support this particular iteration of FCP (and I don’t think there can be a lot of argument that they do not have a good track record in continuing to support their own proapps) and “professional” to me means what you become when the check clears.
Tim
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Now, that’s funny.
Tim
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That is not at all what he is saying. He is saying that certain materials have certain properties. And there is no answering why that is because why at its essence is a completely open question. It has nothing whatever to do with faith.
Tim