[Will Griffith]

Larry.. it is bad all around on this.

Avid is having a big party right now. Their faces are sore from laughing and giggling with delight.

🙁

[Will Griffith]

Why in the world would I get a hacked 1U solution when I can just build a PC myself
that is faster and cheaper?

And how long before OSX Server is dead?

BTW… XRaid EOL was instant. So quick that it was impossible to get spare drives!

[Will Griffith]

You would jump and take your chances if there was a fire behind you.

Good communication could prevent all this.

RED can be irritating but you know they are listening. Apple.. well not so much.

Lets say we get a 100% new FCP at NAB. It will be a year from now before it is stable enough for me to
even want to upgrade.

[Will Griffith]

Jeremy.. I don’t want to use CS5, but Apple is forcing our hand here.

I don’t have room for a rack full of MacPros and Apple may EOL Final Cut Server soon
for all we know.

I think I can horde a bunch of Xserve parts and run Final Cut Server for a few years
without problem since it works OK with most non-Apple apps… but I can not spend
any more money on a DYING Final Cut suite that may be consumer garbage by NAB11.

That means our planned refresh of systems will be PC because if Apple continues on the
consumer path then I won’t support it anymore. Our IT department can deal with it.

[Will Griffith]

I’ve read it. Not much there. They are comparing different processor equipped Mac Pros to
xserves and not addressing any of the issues I have.

Most of the real problems are communication and Apple’s lack of it. I would hate to be a VAR right
now.

Apple is making a gradual progression away from providing the tools we want. Can you deny
that?

[Will Griffith]

We have CatDV. It’s great… but has completely different functionality.

[Will Griffith]

{{hand slaps face}}

… never mind.

As I said in an earlier post…

EOL Shake
EOL XRaid
Pro Apps stagnation
EOL Xserve
No future path
No information

It’s over folks.

[Will Griffith]

(sarcasm on) Ah com’on…. who needs LOM? Redundant power? Form Factor?

There is no way to sugar coat this or believe that a MacPro is all you need.

[Will Griffith]

Most people don’t. However, they are a big piece of our
workflow along with Final Cut Server (which they also have
been slow to develop).

Add these up…

EOL Shake
EOL XRaid
Pro Apps stagnation
EOL Xserve
No future path
No information

equals… ?

Maybe they have some great big awesome deal coming out soon,
but evidence points otherwise.

[Will Griffith]

… try Adobe CS5.

I use it to export when finished with edit in FCP.

FLV, H.264… basically any format in Adobe Media Encoder renders much faster than Compressor.

No hardware upgrade needed. 🙂

-will