Timothy Auld
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Might be better to post this on the FCP X techniques forum. You’ll probably get more action there.
bigpine
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Yes. Disk utility.
bigpine
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And who comes up with the naming conventions? Would the metadata tags be dialog 1, dialog 2, sfx 1, music 1. And if so then what’s the difference from what we do now? This is a serious question. I know
there are a fair number of intelligent people out there who excited about this but I don’t understand how
it would work. And I would like to.bigpine
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Maybe. It all depends on what this segment of their business means to them. Reading between
what few lines Apple has provided to date, I am driven toward the opinion that the answer is
“not very much.”bigpine
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I forget which release it was but I recall a four or so years back Apple put out a very
buggy version of FCP. Again, as I recall, there was an update addressing many of the
those bugs within days. It’s been what 6 or so weeks since the release of X and there
has not been a peep about an update to address the bugs in X. As much as I would like
to think this is not the case, this leads me to believe that the FCP X department is just
an empty room in Cupertino.bigpine
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Citizen Kane? Really? Well, Anything’s possible I guess. It could’ve been written on MS word. But what, exactly, is your point?
bigpine
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Bill,
Apple did not give Firewire to IEEE. They funded IEEE’s development of the technology, which
pretty much amounts to buying it. And to whose “objective” standards do you refer? Your own?bigpine
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If you can use FCP you can use Avid or any other NLE for that matter. The concepts are the same.
The biggest difference is probably that there are many different ways to achieve the same result
in FCP. Not so much in other NLE’s. This business is in a constant state of change. Nothing to be done about that but sit back and enjoy the ride.bigpine
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For me selects are more about visualization than organization. Metadata is great for organizing, for finding things you need in a specific situation. I also tend not to discount anything that I think might be useable, so my selects are often more of an assembly of anything I think might be – even marginally – useable in some way, and less a collection of what I deem to be “good takes.” Very often one sentence – or even one word – from what otherwise might be discarded as a “bad take,” will end up to be integral in crafting the best possible scene you can. For me to be able to see all those things together and then be able to play with them like a Rubic’s cube, is invaluable to me. I accept that it may be a limitation in how I approach editing but at present I just don’t see how metadata can achieve the same thing for me.
bigpine
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It most certainly seems that this is what Apple currently aspires to be.
It is my opinion (and I really want to stress that fact – it is my opinion) that any corporation that rises to the heights that Apple currently occupies does not exist to serve its customers. It exists to serve itself – and by that I mean it exists to make as much money as it possibly can for itself and its shareholders. They don’t care about me, they don’t care about you. They care about selling a lot of stuff. That is why they (and just about every other corporation) are here. Anyone who thinks that any corporation this big has a heart or any sense of loyalty whatever is, I think, kidding themselves.
bigpine