I posted this on Eddie's Facebook, but here we go:

The way I see it, FCPX is an upgrade for iMovie/FCPE users, and FCP7 will continue to be used by professionals until the missing features are added/redesigned. It's odd to me that they're not continuing to offer FCP7, but it wouldn't shock me to see Apple include a way to get it with the purchase of FCPE, just as they did when they redesigned iMovie.

Also, according to this guy, there IS tape capture in FCPX: http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fc … artin.html

I'm pretty sure he's saying that 'walking stick' is a synonym for 'cane', which is itself a HOMOPHONE of 'Kane', which is what's in the actual title. In which case he basically has a point (although one he is clearly making in jest), but I'm fairly sure everyone would agree that since 'Kane' itself has no synonyms, it's perfectly reasonable to find synonyms for homophones.

I have never laughed as much at a podcast as during the 'The 3 Cs of England' sequence. I was literally crying from laughter. Literally.

Those are all really fantastic. Making me want to get back into doing this stuff.

That must have made for some fun audition readings:

"There's a school of alien swimming beneath us!"

"The alien are growing in size!"

Alright, Teague, I've changed my mind. Mike does know he's a jerk. I'm done here.

I agree. So why is the Harry in this story so incapable of it? He sees his father levitated right in front of him, clearly without the use of wires or other contraptions, and all he can manage in response is to grunt.

Think of it this way: say you're a huge Star Trek fan, and someone writes a Trek 'fanfic' that removes everything you love about Star Trek: instead of Kirk being a ladies' man, he's timid and shy. Instead of being explorer/scientists, the Federation focuses on studying magic in our solar system. Any time someone says 'let's seek out new life and new civilizations,' someone says 'but why?'

Certainly, this fanfic might be an interesting examination of the sort of people it's portraying. But Brian says he would like to pretend that this fanfic is actually Harry Potter. I don't understand that at all.

From what I can tell, ILM didn't even work on 2012 at all. Which is weird. Maybe Emmerich thinks they're too expensive.

I never said he self-financed. I said it was his production company. He didn't raise money and then decided if he was going to make 'Garden State' or '2012.' He tells investors that he's going to make a huge disaster film, they look at his track record, and realize that he's a great investement. If you want to go to the same investors and pitch your movie, go right ahead. But Emmerich has the track record.

There are so many false dichotomies being made in this thread. Either Emmerich is a visionary or a hack. Either 2012 is Oscar-winning or it's shit. Either 2012 is going to be made or a bunch of cheap awesome movies will be.

Sometimes movies are just fun. A movie gets made, people see it, it makes money, and everyone moves on.

I totally understand not liking 2012. Plenty of people didn't buy a ticket. What I don't understand is the people who get angry about movies like this. The money wasn't going to go to the movie you wanted to be made. It wasn't going to go to mosquito nets in Africa. It wasn't going to go to any of your pet projects or concepts. If you want those things to get funded, you need to work for it. But not by being angry at everything that gets made that you didn't like.

Does it strike no one else as ridiculous to be mad that a movie got made? Triumph of the Will, sure. Go for it. Rage away. But some silly summer film?

A studio didn't give Roland Emmerich money. Roland Emmerich made 2012 with his own production company, Centropolis.

You may have heard of some of their other films: Godzilla. Independence Day. The Patriot. Day After Tomorrow. Huge, huge successes, even the ones that critics hated. You're telling a guy that makes a ton of money making movies that a ton of people love to see that he should stop doing it.

Somehow I don't think he's going to listen.