Timothy Auld
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I have an ipad and it’s fun and handy for some things, but does not increase my productivity one bit.
And there is most certainly no way I could edit and deliver the kinds of projects on which I work with
an ipad. I am all for things being easier and faster, but in my world I cannot deliver what I need to
with FCP X. And so I will take your original advice and not use it. Who knows? In a few years it might
be all the rage. I am not against learning new things. In fact one of the things that appeals to me
about editing is you are constantly being forced to solve new problems in different ways. After years
of working on Avid, I bought and learned FCP because I saw a lot of work going there. I don’t see that
happening with FCP X anytime soon.bigpine
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And my point is, in all the various incarnations of writing instruments over the course of history, how one
operates those instruments has not changed. The tip was not moved to the side, nor has there been a limitation of the types of media on which you can write.bigpine
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Ball point pens work in essentially the same manner that feather quill pens did. Or charcoal on
a cave wall, for that matter.bigpine
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Wasn’t really talking about that. How close was Apple to being the most wealthy company in the world
in 1999? How much do they owe to what they are now to Final Cut Pro?bigpine
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By the way, Apple’s stock price in late 1999 was in between $65-70. By the beginning of 2000 it was
close to $100.bigpine
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OK, semantics. What drove the sale of G3s and G4’s? The point is where was Apple as a company in 1999,
and how much does Apple owe to FCP to it’s current market position? They paid a lot of money to have a huge Apple logo at the end of LOTR. Who was buying Apple computers in 1999?bigpine
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Absolutely true. A good editor can tell a story using all manner of software packages. Using
one system rather than another does not make anyone any more “pro” than anyone else. In fact, most
editors I know work on more than one platform and NLE. The trick is, can you make them all do
what you need to to artfully create the piece on which you are working. If you can do that, you generally get paid. When the check clears, you are a professional.bigpine
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I have yet to run in to a facility or broadcast setup where the Avid’s were not PC based. Also, I’m pretty
sure Pixar does not make its movies using MacPros. But I guess those places aren’t creative enough either.bigpine
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The vast majority of Avid systems I encounter at post facilities and broadcast operations are PC based.
bigpine
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At the risk of being accused of being deluded to the point of derangement (and it wouldn’t be the first time) I have to say that my sole loyalty to the Mac platform has been based on FCP. I run FCP 7, CS5 and
Avid on MacPro based systems. When the time comes to purchase new computers in the next few years, I will likely be looking at that other platform.bigpine