audio effects in new iMovie '08 - what's to become of Logic Pro ? what about a truly integrated media authoring environment?

[Krister Joas]

On Aug 18, 2007, at 7:03 AM, j o a r wrote:
> On 17 aug 2007, at 22.39, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>
>> I'm amazed at how much resistance I'm getting for making a request  
>> that appears to be reasonable given the technology is already in  
>> place... and has been ..
>
>
> You're not getting any resistance from me. I've only stated why I  
> think that this support isn't currently there. Filing enhancement  
> requests (as you've done) is the right thing to do here.

I agree with Kevin.  I think you have resisted it by trying to  
justify why Apple has no obligation to provide it in iMovie since  
it's not a pro app and by arguing that even if it's a regression that  
alone doesn't set the priority to get it fixed.  I can perhaps agree  
with both to some degree but I'm not sure what you're trying to  
achieve by arguing those points.  Maybe I'm just misreading your  
messages.

Someone who uses Apple products in their job use a combination of  
"Pro" apps and other apps to get their job done.  The computer as a  
whole is a professional tool and if only some parts gets the "Pro"  
attention then the other parts become weak links and the whole system  
is no longer a professional tool.

> Oh, and btw.: Just because other apps have this functionality  
> doesn't mean that iMovie 08 would get it for free. Sure, it would  
> be easier compared to having to invent things from scratch, but it  
> would still take engineering and Q&A resources to [1] implement and  
> [2] maintain.

If Apple keep reinventing the wheel instead of writing some video/ 
audio capture code once and reuse it everywhere that too takes away  
resources.  Rewriting iMovie also uses precious resources.

I think the constant churn in especially the software industry is a  
problem.  Ideally, any new product should be an incremental  
improvement over the previous revision of that product.  A rewrite is  
an opportunity, and perhaps a necessity, for the increment to be big  
but the downside is that regressions are almost always introduced in  
the process.  If the regressions are big enough then the new version  
might end up being worse than the previous version.  Not an uncommon  
phenomenon.

Krister