Yep, that’s me! I’ve had a few emails about the confusion as well. Bill Davis is indeed a common name, but two Bill Davises who are both deeply into Apple based post production? Uncanny. 🙂
I haven’t been too active on the Cow recently, but I go back to the frontier days of FCP when I installed version 2.0 in an Avid centric facility in 2001 and haven’t looked back. It was a bumpy road for a few years- a lot of beta testing, restarting, and hand wringing for a while there, but eventually around v 4.5 FCP really smoothed out and I spent more time editing and less time reading and posting here.
The shakeup of FCP X has brought me back, and that’s a good thing. This past year has introduced us to some of the best editing and compositing options that we’ve ever had access to. Autodesk Smoke for Mac at today’s price point and feature set would probably not have happened had Apple not hit the reset button. Avid MC 6.0 with open hardware support and FCP crossgrade options? The rise of Premiere Pro? And not to mention the very rapidly evolving FCP X itself.
These are exciting times to be in this line of work!
Bill