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[SMS]

On 29/05/10 7:58 PM, John Higdon wrote:
> In article<4c01b986$0$1655$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
> SMS<scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's the app that keeps a lot of people buying Macs. Quite a deal
>> compared to Avid, especially when you have no need for the level of
>> functionality that Avid provides.
>
> More and more studios are switching (or adopting from scratch) Final Cut
> Pro. A friend of mine who owns a video production house (that does
> commercials you've probably seen) used to dismiss Final Cut as a toy.
> That is no longer the case.

My nephew produces a lot of major commercials and he's a big Final Cut
Pro user for them. He uses Avid for some movies where Final Cut Pro
doesn't have necessary functionality, but even for most movies it's
sufficient. They used to take the P2 cards from the Panasonic studio
cameras and stick them directly into the Mac Books and start editing
on-site, until Apple dropped the CardBus slot from the Macs. Finally, in
June, Panasonic will have a USB reader for P2 cards (AJ-PCD2), but for
some reason such a device was very difficult to produce, and it's
ridiculously expensive.

[John Higdon]

In article <4c01f3d1$0$1613$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

> They used to take the P2 cards from the Panasonic studio
> cameras and stick them directly into the Mac Books and start editing
> on-site, until Apple dropped the CardBus slot from the Macs.

Some studios do pretty much the same thing only with hard drives pulled
from a Red camera. The drive is copied into the server (that has
something like 42 TB on line), and then go to work on the FCP
workstations. Pretty impressive to see it all go.

--
John Higdon
+1 408 ANdrews 6-4400
AT&T-Free At Last

[DanS]

John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote in
news:higgy-BBD0A5.20481929052010@news.announcetech.com:

> In article <290520102040444092%nospam@nospam.invalid>,
> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
>> he doesn't. all he does is post silly quotes when
>> challenged.
>
> His silly comments about ProTools leads me to wonder what
> other nonsense he spouts. He is definitely what we in the
> technical trade refer to as a "front panel" expert.

This explains it all......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narciss...ality_disorder

-Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates
achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior
without commensurate achievements)

-Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power,
brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

-Has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of
especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his
or her expectations

-Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the
feelings and needs of others

-Requires excessive admiration

-Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.

[George Kerby]

On 5/29/10 10:06 PM, in article vgl306ds3j68k6f57fjojtqe1siqctesou@4ax.com,
"John Navas" <jnspam1@navasgroup.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 May 2010 17:23:37 -0700, John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote
> in <higgy-B3D477.17233729052010@news.announcetech.com>:
>
>> In article <gra306tt5ajij49hva3th21rkmsv29805e@4ax.com>,
>> John Navas <jnspam1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for your concern, but I get out quite often,
>>> and that's not what I would call a major business app.
>>
>> What do you define as a "major business app"? If ProTools, a pricy but
>> highly respected and powerful application employed in recording and
>> broadcast facilities worldwide (businesses all), an application that has
>> touched just about everything you hear on radio, television, commercial
>> recordings, and the movies is not "a major business" app, then I needn't
>> waste any more time naming things that you would not "call a major
>> business app".
>
> What do you have to back that up?
> None of the several audio professionals or businesses I know use it.

That's because you don't really know any professionals.

[George Kerby]

On 5/29/10 10:18 PM, in article 46m306hu9hoecuqt7vr0ks3g8l11a0li5d@4ax.com,
"John Navas" <jnspam1@navasgroup.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 May 2010 20:09:22 -0700, John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote
> in <higgy-776D21.20092229052010@news.announcetech.com>:
>
>> In article <vgl306ds3j68k6f57fjojtqe1siqctesou@4ax.com>,
>> John Navas <jnspam1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What do you have to back that up?
>>> None of the several audio professionals or businesses I know use it.
>>
>> As I say, you need to get out more.
>
> 'Those who have evidence will present their evidence,
> whereas those who do not have evidence will attack the man.'

"F.O.A.D."

--Anny Nomis

[SMS]

On 29/05/10 11:17 PM, John Higdon wrote:
> In article<4c01f3d1$0$1613$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
> SMS<scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>
>> They used to take the P2 cards from the Panasonic studio
>> cameras and stick them directly into the Mac Books and start editing
>> on-site, until Apple dropped the CardBus slot from the Macs.
>
> Some studios do pretty much the same thing only with hard drives pulled
> from a Red camera. The drive is copied into the server (that has
> something like 42 TB on line), and then go to work on the FCP
> workstations. Pretty impressive to see it all go.

But the big advantage of Final Cut and an older MacBook was that you
could immediately look at the results out in the field and begin
editing, which was very useful when you were not shooting in a studio,
but out in the field.

[George Kerby]

On 5/30/10 9:07 AM, in article g7s406h0h4ktkedd3c8l7susbrmp7lkm82@4ax.com,
"John Navas" <jnspam1@navasgroup.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 May 2010 20:20:58 -0700, John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote
> in <higgy-F72A48.20205829052010@news.announcetech.com>:
>
>> In article <290520102002477445%nospam@nospam.invalid>,
>> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>> Network authentication and policies are, and they're entirely missing from
>>>> Apple.
>>>
>>> that's there too.
>>
>> You bet. Since the Mac rides on top of FreeBSD, anything available for
>> Unix is available for the Mac. I have a system that networks four
>> ProTools workstations together using nothing but OS utilities, shell
>> scripts, and Perl. Rather than being an Apple activity, it became a Unix
>> exercise.
>>
>> Try that on Windows sometime.
>
> Windows tools abound.

And you are such a tool.