I agree that a few of his gripes sound like user error.  I actually did a sizzle reel recently shot on RED, DVCPro, SOny XDCam, 7D, and 5D.  We spent a week transcoding everything, but towards the end we just used a few files in their native format and it seemed to work fine.

For my own experiences, Final Cut has a fundamental flaw with Project architecture and media management.  If I'm on deadline with Avid, and we have 3 other editors using the same footage, its not an issue.  We save to our own bins, and the handoff is easy.  Does Avid crash?  Absolutely.  But I'll take Unity attic over auto save vault any damn day.  FCP, you have to have people drag projects to their desktop, and then at some point an editor has to open multiple projects and combine, and I don't care what you say, the more projects open the more likely you are to crash.  I've crashed twice THIS MORNING with 4 projects open, all of them necessary.

His statements about trim mode vs FCP's slip tool is absolutely true.  It's an inferior design in every way.  That's why I always say if I'm doing something with a lot of FX, i prefer FCP because its just a tad quicker than opening Avid's antiquated Effects Pallete and Editor tools.  But when it ocmes to story and precision cutting, Avid is a bit more friendly.

I've always described the difference between the two as such:  FCP is an editing program for computer users, and Avid is a computer program for Editors.  While I love my little FCP system at home and it serves me (mostly) well, my opinion on the system as a whole is only reinforced the more I use it.

Agreed.  We must end the silence.

.....so....what's up.

I'm reminded of "Knock" the shortest story ever written.

"The last man on earth sat alone in a room.  There was a knock on the door...."

Yeah I'm with Mike on this one.  If you're a true fan of the original Karate Kid then you might remember Miyagi's speech to Daniel-san where he explains how Karate originated in China as Kung Fu and came to Okinawa.  It was converted to Te (hand), and then later to Kara-Te (empty hand).  THis is essentially true (there are other styles, like how Pan Gai Noon became Uechi-Ryu, and Korean styles like Kang Duk Kwon and Hwarang-Do took Japanese influence and became what we know as Tang Soo Do and Tae Kwon Do, but Karate was the most proliffic).

So yeah, you don't need to be a historian to know this stuff.  If you loved the film, theres a good chance you did some light reading and figured out that Karate and Kung Fu are as alike as oil and water.  And I say this as one who doesn't prefer one style to another.

Even Kung Fu has styles in it that look very different from one another.  THe Northern Shaolin styles you see in movies is very different than what Bruce Lee started off in (Wing Chun) and what my first Black Sash was in (Jing Mu). 

There's WAY fucking much more I could say, but I'l save them for the inevitable Karate Kid DiF, or the rage-tweets that I'll pound out when I'm watching the remake.

Yeah, without giving too much away, no one was shitting on Alien 3.  It's more just a sad resignation of what could have been and where everything went wrong that prevented it from living up to the excellence of the first two movies.

Ah, Voltaire.