Philip

Dailies or rushes are one possibilities. That could require some color correction but Color is only one way to do that. Often the rushes are down-rez to standard definition and placed on DVDs for review. This would include syncing the sound, one-light color correction and adding window-burn timecode.

Sometimes the editor is on or near the set and starts doing a rough cut as the footage rolls in. This gives the director a chance to see what may have been left out when there’s still time to shoot some additional footage.

OTOH, Apple’s prices are dropping faster than ever before. The new models are all substantially less than their predecessors.

Philip

I guess I hold a grudge. When Apple claimed to have invented the personal computer, I had two at home and I only had to build one of them from a kit (Altair 8800). If you look at this link you’ll see that there were several before them. I always resented them for that. http://oldcomputers.net/kim1.html

Later during my career they screwed over two companies I worked for and countless customers when they left no upgrade path or backward compatibility when introducing new products. Perhaps they needed to do this to survive but it made me wary of getting into bed with them.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m no fan of Microsoft, Intel, Sun or SCO. They all have their good and bad points. (I do like Adobe, AMD and Google, so far.)

I guess I’m trying to keep some kind of score in my mind to help me decide who I should do business with. Apple won me over with OS-X and more reasonable prices. But now it seems that their prices are trending up faster than comparable Windows hardware.

I was hoping to buy a laptop this year but now it would have to be the $2500 17″ if I want to use it for DIT work. Maybe I should look for a used 15″ our just haul the Mac Pro out to the location.

Philiop

I have sent another note to Apple with the correction of my statement as quoted below.

My apologies for misrepresenting your comments, I must have been absorbing all the negative chi from the other 2 posts which I quoted.

Please find below the note resubmitted to Apple.

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I had previously sent negative feedback on the exclusion of ExpressCard slots on the new MBPs. That feedback included this statement which I have been requested to correct.
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I strongly urge you to reconsider this move. Here are a few strongly worded reactions of some very widely read video professionals who have condemned the removal of the Expresscard slot.

http://lfhd.blogspot.com/2009/06/apple-wwdc-and-new-computers-reaction.html

http://philipbloom.co.uk/2009/06/08/apple-why-15-mbp-loses-its-express-card-slot-and-gainsan-sd-card-slot/

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/06/08/why-no-expresscard34-slot-on-new-macbook-pro-models/
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The writer in the last link Philip Hodgetts would like to clarify that I had misrepresented the gist of his article as posted below.

11.Philip said …

Just to put this on the record. I do NOT condemn Apple’s move. If you re-read my post I demonstrate why I think it’s mildly disappointing for the small number of video professionals who might have used a 15″, but I totally understand why Apple did it. Dropping the ExpressCard slot on the 15″ makes perfect sense since almost no-one used it. Apple cannot make all their hardware for niche users like video pros. Video pros have the choice of the 17″ – which will give a much better user experience than the 15″ for Final Cut Studio.

I don’t condemn, but I do understand. I’d appreciate it if you took me off that list of people who condemn the move as I believe you misrepresent my statements. Thanks

Philip
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Please note for your reference.

An eSata (port multiplied) connector would be a perfect addition to a video pro laptop, but I wonder if the market is big enough. I’ve been hopeful that eSata would appear on laptops but I’m not so hopeful anymore.

Philip

It’s a quibble, but you got it wrong on the Canon 5dMKII, it shoots to Compact Flash (which is what pros use on that camera, the 1D Canon series, and the Nikon D3/X series too).

Apple can use whatever reasoning they want, but they really did impact working pros with this decision.

ESATA would have made a much better port to include, then Compact Flash, and I can’t even fathom the SD slot except for soccer moms and dads with their point and shoots.

Yes, I can afford a 17″, but I don’t want one.

Maybe next year we’ll get ESATA?

I don’t condemn, but I do understand. I’d appreciate it if you took me off that list of people who condemn the move as I believe you misrepresent my statements. Thanks

Philip

Glad we are making our voices heard somewhere, if nothing else. Maybe Apple will take heed … here’s hoping

~ Tess

You are all free to copy it and submit your own grievances.

I am very disappointed that you have decided to remove ExpressCard slots from all but the 17″ MBP line.

As video professionals, this expansion slot is critical as we use it to connect to external hardware as well as E-SATA harddisks and SXS Cards, to name but 3 of the numerous uses we have for the ExpressCard slot.

When you did away with the floppy disk drive, that was fine because there were viable alternatives to portable storage and support for alternative boot devices. This is not an equivalent situation.

Many hardware vendors have built their products around the idea that a PRO level laptop would have an Expresscard expansion slot. By unilaterally deciding an interface is obsolete, you have burnt many companies which make products that make buying a Mac worthwhile.

I strongly urge you to reconsider this move. Here are a few strongly worded reactions of some very widely read video professionals who have condemned the removal of the Expresscard slot.

http://lfhd.blogspot.com/2009/06/apple-wwdc-and-new-computers-reaction.html

http://philipbloom.co.uk/2009/06/08/apple-why-15-mbp-loses-its-express-card-slot-and-gainsan-sd-card-slot/

http://www.philiphodgetts.com/2009/06/08/why-no-expresscard34-slot-on-new-macbook-pro-models/

On FCS: my suspicion, or perhaps simply my desires and hopes, is that FCS3 will be a 64-bit system that uses Snow Leopard’s 64-bit specificities, plus the ways in which Snow Leopard interacts with OpenGL and more recent graphics cards from Nvidia, for example.

My hope has a corollary: that they have finally developed a new database model for the innards of Final Cut, and that we can get real-time editing features for a specific combinations Core2Duo CPUs and GPUs.

Tito

thanks a lot for your educated guess. I guess then I have to spend money on FCS3 ( I need a new Mac sometime next year and that will only ship with Snow Leopard)

Regarding the laptops. I do agree with your point from a product placement perspective from Apples view. I heard that the new battery is just soo big that the ExpressCard didn’t fit any longer.

Overall I am not happy as well. I don’t like in particular the glossy screens. I hoped for an option on the 15″ to switch to matte as there is on the 17″ but no luck.

In addition I really hoped for Bluray support in Mac OS X and drives on the laptops. I know Apples position on it but just don’t agree. I think Bluray drives are a good option for archiving and sharing HD video.

Well I still love Mac OS X so much that I would never ever switch to a PC.

Cheers
Andreas

We do know that Snow Leopard only runs on Intel Macs (as does the current release of Adobe Production Suite and Avid’s latest releases). Don’t know what that means for FCS.

Philip

do you have any idea or feeling if Final Cut Studio 2 will still run under Snow Leopard and Qt X ?

Cheers
Andreas

However, as Flash currently is on OS X (apallingly coded) on an iPhone or iTouch it would dramatically reduce battery life, and Apple would get the blame. So they keep it off the platform and at the same time push their own (and Google’s) agenda toward open standards on the web. You’ll notice there’s no Flash on any of Apple’s sites For a good reason. On OS X, Flash is just plain badly coded. The only thing that makes the we workable is Clic2Flash which blocks Flash elements unless I want to load them. I pretty much run a Flash free browser and only occasionally load a Flash element. I’m happier, my processors run 20% lower load (even not playing anything – just from Flash elements loaded on a page) and when I go to YouTube I automatically see the H.264 higher quality/lower processor load instead of Flash. (Something Click2Flash does).

Read me very clear: I think Flash on OS X is an apalling piece of programming and the world would be much better off without it. On Windows it’s not so bad. iPhone/iTouch are OS X. Also remember that no smartphone plays Flash, just Flash Lite a subset – for performance reasons.

If anyone’s arrogant it’s Apple and I

Philip

I moved to the Mac Pro when they finally got a stable OS in OS-X mainly because Windows wasn’t stable for video editing. Now Windows is much better and the Adobe video suite has improved enough to be a contender.

I love OS-X but I don’t like being constrained so severely by the Apple hardware policies. I was set to buy a laptop for video editing and was just waiting for Apple to refresh it’s design. Well, now I’ve got to reconsider.

“Except there are 40 million active Internet users who see every Flash site as a black blob (iPhone and iTouch users according to figures from today’s keynote).”

Yes, shame on Adobe for not supporting the iPhone, iTouch and the other Apple platforms. Clearly they are just thumbing their noses at those 40 million active Internet users. Apple had pleaded with Adobe to allow Flash on their hardware but you know those Adobe people … they’re completely unreasonable and unwilling to be accommodating.

And you’re calling us arrogant?

Peace,

Rob:-]