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Context vs Content Metadata

In my continuing desire to analyze what types of metadata we use, and how we use it, I think there’s another useful distinction to be made, within the Added Metadata section. Long term readers will know I categorize metadata into six types:

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The Business of Production The Technology of Production

Waves of Operating Systems and what it tells us about NLE evolution

We were thinking about the evolution of computers over dinner – the fact that we’re both reading the Steve Jobs biography right now might have something to do with it – and I realized there were parallels between the evolution of the “PC” and the evolution of the NLE.

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Item of Interest The Business of Production

YouTube to spend $200 million on professional videos.

YouTube to spend $200 million more on professional videos http://t.co/Imw3YvFl

Google-owned YouTube will drop another $200 million into the programming to more effectively market the nearly 100 channels boasting professional videos, the company told the Wall Street Journal in a report published yesterday.

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Business & Marketing Item of Interest The Business of Production

Did You Know That Professional Writing is Dying? Or Not.

Did You Know That Professional Writing Is Dying And Only Taxing The Public To Pay Writers Can Save It

The Indie Ebook Scene Is Growing: Here’s Over 170 Authors Who’ve Sold More Than 50,000 Copies

In another one of those discussions about business models, the first post above stems from an article by Ewan Morrison,

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Apple Pro Apps Interesting Technology Metadata

Final Cut Pro X and Mountain Lion – now that’s interesting!

Last night we arrived back from the Solar Odyssey as our involvement finished on Sunday (long story shot, “creative differences”) and today my welcome home present to myself – a nice new MacBook Pro retina. Naturally I immediately updated to Mountain Lion. (New machine, new OS, might as well get it all over together).

One of the first apps I was looking at was Final Cut Pro X – very nice to see a full size 1080P signal in the Viewer window 1:1 and still have a whole heap of screen real estate. (My confession is that I’m using all the pixels 1:1 not in Retina mode. I already have to wear glasses for a computer screen so I might as well capitalize on it.)

Of course I look through the menus and what do I find in the Edit menu but: