Re: FCP destoyed my original footage.

[ed sully] "But hey, were all human here, if i had paid for an NLE system for the same price that i could have built five windows equivalents, i would be pretty defensive too. But i've learned something today thanks to all you fine gentleman, its not apple your defending, its bad decision making."

Ed,

I just ran into this post when you tried to get your anti-Apple crap going in the After Effects forum and so I began digging into some of your past posts and found this.

I am going to give it to you straight: You damaged your own files when you (to quote you) "spent a few days breaking it up and decided to apply 16:9 letter box effect to get a better idea of what i had to work with." You damaged the files by overwriting them. FCP does not do this -- EVER.

And don't call me an Apple fanboy or your words will be your last. You see, I use both PCs and Macs -- oh, and own a dozen Linux boxes to boot. I could care less whose system I am on, it's all just silicon, plastic and a bit of metal to me. I have NEVER found a perfect OS but I have also NEVER found a nonlinear system that overwrites the source files -- that takes a human to do that. And as you did say "hey, we're all human here," I would recommend that as the origin of your problem. As the old adage goes: It's a poor workman that blames his tools.

But I notice how quick you are to throw away the feedback and experience of those whose resumes (both individually and collectively) far outweigh your own.

What you are wanting people to tell you is that you didn't f*** up, but you did. It was your fault and in all the years I have spent building forums (which just passed 13 years in June of 2008), I have yet to find ANY nonlinear editing system that EVER overwrote its source files. You did that when you "spent a few days breaking it up and decided to apply 16:9 letter box effect to get a better idea of what i had to work with." You slowly, meticulously and industriously destroyed your own source footage -- one "break up" at a time. (Don't ask me how, as I wasn't there, and I do not know your workflow -- but I will guarantee you did it as NO nonlinear system works that way or ever overwrites the source files.)

If you wish to find the source of your problem, run down to WalMart and go to the housewares department and look for a mirror. Hold it up and look into it. There's the problem.

Oh, and try the anti-Apple troll garbage in this site EVER again and you will be gone. I tire of fanboys very quickly -- no matter whose KoolAid they are drinking.

Lastly, I know many of the people that replied in this thread and tried to help you. Their combined broadcast output accounts for many network series, documentaries and other fare. To treat them as idiot fanboys shows that your agenda is NOT to find the truth and solve the problem, but is rather to be a problem yourself. We do NOT tolderate that around here, Ed.

Keep that in mind the next time you decide to pull something like this and insult those who are trying to help you. Oh, and keep in mind that I do have 13 years of building communities and when I want to "disappear someone," I have built the tools that allow me to lock you out of ever seeing the COW, let alone post to it.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom
co-founder, creativecow.net

Remember: Burt Bacharach lied. What the world really needs now is an undo button.