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

[Bill Davis] "Geez, dude. Your slip may not be, but you're arrogance is showing."

What? Because I went to film school? Because I edit for a living? Because I engage in continued education?


[Bill Davis] "In your world the only editor worth listening to is one who can drop by an AFI "new media convergence seminar" at the drop of a hat. Or for whom unionization is a functional issue. "

THAT conclusion is completely in your head, not from anything I said. I can't even figure out how you've arrived at it. And, yeah, film and television production is one of our local industries? Is that somehow a problem for you?

[Bill Davis] "News flash. Over the globe, that's a fraction of a fraction of the people who edit for money. Some for a LOT of money."

Yeah, but News Flash, pal. YOU were the one who was talking about the broadcast industry. You brought it up. So don't get all "news flash" when all I'm doing is responding to you. Maybe YOU should stop fixating on it so much.

[Bill Davis] "And for sure, let's not tell the poor folks outside LA, NY, Chicago, and London that they're just dismissible rubes - might make them feel like their editing isn't REAL editing, okay?
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Again--totally out of context, and completely unfair, like many of your posts. That's horrible cr@p to put in my mouth, and doesn't reflect anything that I've said. Now or ever on this site.


[Bill Davis] "Well Chris, if you're correct and what's happening in editing is "just ain't that special" - then this whole forum is a waste of time. Isn't it.
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Again, no relation to what I was talking about or what I said. This forum has been very useful to me and a lot of other people. I was simply addressing the fact the you seem rather convinced that FCP X has some sort of secret sauce for the next generation of editors, and that I don't see it. It's FCP X that "ain't that special," not what's happening in editing.


[Bill Davis] "We've spent a year talking about what X and it's competitors strategies might be for the future -and what that might mean to ALL editors. Not just those who have Broadcast Engineering sitting on the coffee table in the waiting room of their stand-alone production building.
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I don't even know what this means, or what it has to do with me. Again, YOU broached the subject.


[Bill Davis] "You actually amaze me with your single-minded focus that all "worthwhile" editing must be what's done by people just like you.
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Again, your projection from your head. You don't have to look any further than this actual thread to find evidence that your assessment of me isn't true. Just read my earlier response to Carsten, and you'll see how completely out of line you are.


[Bill Davis] "And screw the poor saps working everywhere else. Anything that meets their needs, but not yours is crap. I get it now."

Wow. I think what's particularly funny about your method, is that you have no compunction what-so-ever about making statements up and attributing them to me. That way I don't actually have to say something you loathe, you can just put the words in my mouth and growl away at me.

[Bill Davis] "I'll get right to work on a new T-shirt for you. "If you don't cut in LA, you don't really count.'

I'm sure you'll wear it with tremendous pride.
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Oh, dude; go to bed.