After a bit of thought I have decided that mobile is less good for blogging. Drafting and thinking stuff through is ultimately a good thing. Just cause you can don't mean you should.

For this reason I am folding this baby up, taking the odd post with me and moving everything to www.saamvisual.com. It may not allow for the same spontaneous posting but it will be better quality purely because it will need more time to put the stuff out.

See you there. And twitter.

At last I got round to watching something by him. It was the BBC Machines documentary part one. Fascinating links between Ayn Rand and the global economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

Just a few more thoughts after using it a bit.

I genuinely think that the slow down is with a Sony Camera format we had on the team that causes problems wherever it goes in the mac world. Other than that the 'final' cut of the school project looks pretty good and was fun to edit overall.

Set-backs? FCPX crashed a lot but after a while I realised that the error message referred to 'Audio Hijack Server'. I wonder if Rogue Amoeba are to blame with their brand of under-the-hood tricks?

Nested sequences are good but I still don't really get how to expand or shorten them from within a nest. 

Motion has an amazing feature for replicating human gestures! It seems to work pretty well - am testing it out. Anything to free me from learning tedious key-framing graphs. Human motion is the best motion. 

The first edit of a 15 minute film exported to 13 gigs. I then did a H264 1080p version and it was 1.5 gigs. Even that took a couple of hours to upload to vimeo plus. Fun.

My main feelings about how FCPX will boost stuff is in getting more quick experimental projects out of the door. The previous version of Motion never seemed to work without major pain on a 17" MBP. I did a pop video for some students but it was a real hassle. I am hoping that these feelings will be something from the past now on. 

It's all about the creativity man - give me some flexible and quick tools for playing about with lots of interesting and intriguing ideas.

I know that lots of people are moaning about various things¹ but my early feelings about this new version are that it is a pleasure. Yes it has crashed a couple of times, but the general feel is one of joy. I am editing a multi camera project for a school related event. It isn't a pro project. It does have a potential nightmare in it's bones: multiformat flip and SLR sources being imported. In the original FCP this would have caused no end of hassle, but in this version I am able to get on with the happy process of editing. So far I have just been enjoying it.

¹for a really helpful view on the issue have a look at this: http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/final_cut_pro_x_backlash

What happens when you take a popular tune for younger teens and then jam the words through an optical character reading app? How about after that adding some app-based instrumentation and multi-track goodness? This happens.

Ps. I cheated - I did the multitrack edits in soundtrack pro, but everything was sourced via my iphone using an analogue line-in connection. You know, keepin it human and all. Pps. The words: You know you love me
I know you care
Just shout whenever,
And I'll be there
You want my love
You want my heart
And we would never, ever, ever be apart

Are we an item?
Girl quit playin'
We're just friends,
What are you sayin'?
Said there's another as you look right in my eyes
My first love, broke my heart for the first time

And I was like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
I thought you'd always be mine Baby, baby, baby ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
I thought you'd always be mine Oh oh For you, I would have done whatever
And I just can't believe we ain't together
And I wanna play it cool
But I'm losin' you
I'll buy you anything
I'll buy you any ring
Cause I'm in pieces
Baby fix me
And just shake me till you wake me from this bad dream
I'm goin down, down, down, down
And I just can't believe my first love won't be around

And I'm like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
I thought you'd always be mine Baby, baby, baby ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
I thought you'd always be mine When I was 13, I had my first love
There was nobody that compared to my baby
And nobody came between us, no one could ever come above
She had me going crazy, oh I was star-struck,
She woke me up daily, don't need no Starbucks yeah!
She made my heart pound, I skip a beat when I see her in the street
And at school on the playground, but I really wanna see her on the weekend
She knows she got me dazing cuz she was so amazing
And now my heart is breaking but I just keep on saying...

Baby, baby, baby ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
I thought you'd always be mine Baby, baby, baby ohhh
Like
Baby, baby, baby, ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
I though you'd always be mine I'm gone
Yeahh, yeah, yeah
Yeahh, yeahhh
Now I'm all gone
Yeahh, yeah, yeah
Yeahh, yeahhh
Now I'm all gone
Yeahh, yeah, yeah
Yeahh, yeahhh
Now I'm all gone, gone, gone, gone
I'm gone