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Apit, just admit it. You were flame baiting. Twice.


As for Apple laying off 40 offsite people (not programmers) in L.A. and Austin, it is possible that this was deadwood. I don't know them, so I can't say.

Adobe has had several large waves of full time employee layoffs over the last 15 months (600, 680, ...), does that mean that CS5 won't make it to market? I don't think so. They've been doing cleanups for as long as I can remember

Apple is famously secretive, but when asked recently their "main birdy" said, "Don't worry about it," with a smile.

This has been interpreted by those who have followed Apple for a far longer time than I have as meaning that there is an FCS4 coming either this year or next (based on Apple's standard life cycles). Additionally, analysis of the code of the current FCS3 release shows whole sections written in Cocoa, Apple's new framework, with the code showing specific signs of being part of a completely new code base, with these parts shimmied into FCS3.

The FCS3 code is so old, it is creaking. Still, it works very well for those who use it full time to create TV shows and movies (although Avid is nipping at their heels now in a way they weren't able to do only a few years ago, when they were struggling to restructure the company from top to bottom. As I have said here many times before, Avid provides the best "elbow editing" by some margin, and I think their new MC5 hits it out of the park by merging some features from trim mode into their segment mode).

I know you see Apple as primarily a gadget company, but they have successfully fed the computer business from iPhone customers, and FCP is so far ahead of any other NLE in volume that it wouldn't make any sense for them to kill their profitable hardware business (a claim few manufacturers can make after a long race to the bottom that Apple avoided), by letting FCP fall by the wayside.


I've just finished rendering a huge project that I have to deliver at the end of the day today, and I need to focus 100% on checking every detail of it. After that I have another monster that will be consuming most of my waking hours for a long time.

I don't write for myself, or to show off any kind of knowledge, or to promote any production-related manufacturer's goods and services, because I have no stake in any of them.

Elsewhere, in a surprise to many, Bill O'Reilly has become the voice of reason at Fox (in a world of Hannity and Beck crying on air), aiming to provide "a spin-free zone." In spite of that, many people of course complain that he is biased. It isn't easy for him (I think that unlike Beck, O'Reilly is honest about what he says and I respect him for that), but he keeps going (and is of course paid well for it). Everybody finds that it is only possible to please some of the people some of the time, and that's all anyone has been able to do throughout human recorded history.

I'm not paid to provide either my facts or my opinions here, and both seem to provide discomfort to a few old-timers here.

With a thank-you to those who said they appreciated my writing, I'll bow out and let the forum focus on Vegas Pro 9.0d.

So take a deep breath and enjoy the most well-rounded NLE forum on the web, which this surely is.