Re: Thank you Apple - and don't change course. Please

[David Cherniack] "NLE's must do a wide variety of tasks for a wide variety of uses and users. They must interface with the analogue world of a wide spectrum of hardware. I can't imagine that any 3D software, as complex as they are to learn and use, is as complex to write."

David,

I'm not a software developer either, but it seems like the work of developing a program that can cut 2D images and audio, would be a much smaller technical challenge than writing a high end 3D package with all the bells and whistles (rigging, texturing, modeling, lighting, rendering, scripting, etc.) I would assume (for instance), that the work involved in writing a video encoder pales in comparison to the effort needed to make a decent unbiased 3D renderer. I’m willing to admit if I’m wrong… but this is what makes sense to me. :-)

Shawn