General impressions?

Hey,
What are people's general impression of LiveType? Stable, creative, useful tool?
Chris

My impressions of the Livetype supplied with FCE-HD:
1. Lot's of cool features which once you get the hang of the timing parameters can be made to do what you want.
2. Stability: mine crashes often as I'm entering text, especially as I type way ahead of Livetype's ability to keep the canvas updated. I save often.
3. It seems that to create a set of titles screens, you need to have text track for each one (is that really right?). By the time I get to the third or fourth track (each with the same livetype font (bar, set to repeat 4 times in 10 seconds), livetype slows to a crawl. My 60 second titles (6x10second pages) is taking several HOURS to render, can't be previewed in the canvas, etc.
This performance drawback renders Livetype fairly useless to me. Either I'm missing something, or it is just abysmally S L O W, even on my G5/2.5DP with 4GB of RAM.
Ed

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General Impressions of the X1

After a week with the X1 here are some general impressions:
Pluses:
Keyboard: Excellent. Amazing to type on. Backlit (though see comments below). Fingers don’t fight the keys. This was the overwhelming factor in not buying another MacBook Pro or iPad. Mac keyboards are just OK. And typing on the glass of an iPad is very difficult. The X1 keyboard is an absolute pleasure to type on.
Speakers: Very good. Very loud. Good quality sound.
Screen: Very good to excellent. Covered with Gorilla glass so don’t have to be careful with it. Yes it is reflective and if you are used to a matte finish it will take some time to get used to.
Wifi: Has two antennas. Reception has not been an issue to far - very solid regarding wifi. Very very pleased with reception. Posts are popping up about an issue with the sim card reader for broadband but not a road warrior and left it out of my configuration.
Battery Recharge Speed: Recharges to 80% in 30 minutes. That is the boast and it is absolutely correct. Blazingly fast when compared to anything else Ihave ever seen. Kudos to Lenovo.
i3 processor – 64 bit – Windows professional 7 with 8 gig RAM. Word is up in seconds. Amazingly fast. I have never had a 64 bit machine before and am now wondering why I procrastinated. Maybe should have gotten the i5 processor but my experience says that RAM is more important than processing speed for general tasks. I am not a gamer so the i3 might be a non-starter if you are.
Construction: Excellent. Top points. No latch. But engineered pressure keeps lid closed. Very ingenious. Well thought out. Unit arrived in perfect condition.
HD camera for conference or Skype calls: Seems OK - not as good as I was expecting.
Fingerprint Security. Neat feature. You can turn the X1 on with your fingerprint. However it does seem to have a mind of its own and lately has been rejecting my print. Seems finicky but worked well in setup and shortly after.
Could be better:
Basic Footprint: Lighter than MacBook Pro but not by much. But footprint is larger. The bezel around the screen accounts for the difference. A little disappointing as I wanted to go smaller but got a little bigger.
Time on battery: Fully charged they said I should get 5 hours with moderate use. Doubtful. Battery monitor is very good and from what I can see accurate. Gives you many options to increase time– i.e. dimming screen, turning off speakers, etc. It seems to beat my two year old MacBook Pro by about 1.5 hours on a charge. An improvement but I expected more. The quick charging though makes this almost mute.
Click Pad: Good but not great. The MacBook Pro pad is the gold standard. The X1 pad is good. But it should have been better in my opinion. Hopefully an update from Lenovo will improve its responsiveness and accuracy.
Backlight. Good but not great. The top of the keyboard is very visible. The bottom not so much. The light is not homogeneous over the entire board. It does not affect your abilities to type in the dark it is just a little odd.
Overall
I am very pleased with the X1. The engineering and construction is solid. The computer feels substantial without feeling weighty. The screen is very good. The keyboard is simply brilliant. And the recharge to 80% in 30 minutes is not a brag - it is fact which makes working on the X1 with or without a charger a complete pleasure.

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General Support

I'm new to Sun and Directory Server but come from a platform technology where I found it easier to deal directly with "Support" for everthing ranging from general questions to hard down problems than try to engage other customers of that product.
In the Directory Server world, what's the general impression of this forum as a source of support and good information exchange. When do you contact "Support" for help.
Thanks.

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How do I provide feedback to Adobe? Is anyone listening?

Periodically I find situations in using Adobe products where I can't imagine why the product or service is set up or operates in a particular way. When I go to Adobe web site there is no avenue for feedback. I wonder, does Adobe make it difficult to give feedback because it doesn't want to hear from a very loyal customer?
Today, for example, I got a message to update Adobe Acrobat Reader. This sent all kinds of beware signals in my mind because of past experiences. (see explanation below) So I decided to give feedback using a feedback button on the updater. The feedback assumed I was already done the update because it asked me to give a general impression of my experience. So I stopped there and proceeded first with the update. However after I finished the update, the feedback button had disappeared. Why? Because the last step in the updating process was to reboot. Once I rebooted, I could not find a feeback mechanism anywhere in the Adobe web pages.
So here's my feedback on this particular experience.
1. Make a feedback mechansim appear after bootup in a manner similar to the message asking me to update.
2. And now to the feedback I wanted to send Adobe. Stop 3rd party companies from sending "update" messages for Adobe Acrobat.
Explanation: Although it hasn't happened recently, in the last few years I have received multiple times an Adobe update message that I'm now guessing came from Google instead of Adobe. I think it came from Google because I kept receiving the message even after the update was completed. More important, after the update I discovered that Google Chrome was installed. I really don't like Chrome. It messes with and controls a lot of things on my computer that I don't want to have happen. For example, after discovering Google Chrome on my computer I uninstalled it. But then I found the attachments and forwards people sent me in e-mails no longer would open when I clicked on the web page addresses in the e-mail. All I got were blank pages with some kind of "sorry" message. So I searched the Internet for about an hour and eventually found one helpful soul who explained how to unscramble the Google Chrome uninstall problem. Get this, first I had to install Foxfire and then make it, not Internet Explorer, be primary. Later on in the process, I was able to switch back to Internet Explorer as primary. There was a lot more involved but the outcome was successful. My conclusion, two hours of wasted time after updating a product from a company I totally respect, Adobe Reader.
Please tell Adobe to stop letting third party companies use it's updating mechanisms. Not knowing for sure if the update is coming from Adobe or from some other company is real incentive to ignore update messages, which in turn means the product in question becomes less and less effective.
Thanks for listening.

Pat,
Thank you for your time and your thoughts about my experience being spam related. I agree with that as a possibility, but read on.
Maybe my use of the word "message" was misleading. In my entry above I was referring to a pop-up message for updates that happens at the end of boot up process. I've always regarded those updates were linked to software installed on the computer and therefore trustworhty, especially when the company logo was included. I'm a bit more cautious since the Google Chrome incident, but still find it difficult to be totally certain about the origin of the update.
In the subsequent updates for Adobe Acrobat, after the Google Chrome incident, I discovered a small checked box on the lower left hand corner of the update page. And beside the box in very small print was "install Google Chrome". I can only guess who was behind that connection, but I never imagined it was from anyone other than Adobe or Google, since those were the only programs that appeared to be related to the "message".
I'm not trying to make a case against Adobe, far from it, other than to give them feedback for what its worth that somehow their product is being combined with another company during updates on my computer. The computer in question is dedicated almost exclusively for Adobe products including Creative Suite Master Collection which I use in my photography business. My intention are to keep all images and videos relatively secure by minimizing the risk of things that you explain can happen, so there is no e-mail correspondece or Internet searches other than to Adobe company sites. So, updates are about the only outside connection I have with that computer.
Thanks again.

Problem inserting ANY content into Lightbox Widget

I'm trying out Muse. So far, generally impressed EXCEPT for Lightbox widget.
I'm following the Adobe Muse Training - Building your first website in order to see how the program works.
So far, I have spent over 3 hours trying to insert video into the widget and am about to give up.
With Widget inserted and trigger defined, I click the widget, "Widget" appears in the Selection Indicator. I click again, "Container" appears. I click again "Container" appears again and inner container shows blue selection lines.
Now, whether I go to Object > Paste HTML or just right click and paste inside the selected container, the result is the same - the video is pasted on the page itself, NOT in the container.
I have read, re-read, re-did, started from scratch, restarted my computer and I'm going crazy. There should be no reason why it does not work.
It should be like selecting a div tag in Dreamweaver to select the entire tag or element and place inside.
Any ideas? Help!
M
As an additional oddity, I WAS ultimately able to insert the video file into the lightbox, but only after the video appeared (maddeningly) on the page. Then I dragged the video image into the inner container. THEN it worked. But why I have no idea.
Lightbox widget needs some SERIOUS fixing.

Content can either be created inside the lightbox widget container or it can be added to it.
When creating new content like a rectangle or textframe, it should begin somewhere within the boundaries of the container.
When adding/placing content it can either be dragged into the container or pasted into it. When pasting, make sure that the correct container is selected.
Content added using "Insert HTML" is added to the page first. You can then either drag it into the container or cut it, select container and paste it there.
You can submit a feature request at http://forums.adobe.com/community/muse/ideas for the "Insert HTML" content to be added directly to container - when the container is selected at the time of pasting/adding HTML content.
Thanks,
Vikas

Problems with Contacts.. Syncing lots of people who are not contacts.

I just picked up my white 16gb iPhone and am generally impressed, but I'm having tons of issues with the Exchange contacts sync.
First, it synced a huge number of contacts to my phone, not people that I've added to my local contact list. It appears to be the full set of everyone who's ever sent me e-mail on my exchange server. I work for a very very large company. As a result, any time I do anything on the phone that involves contacts, it screeches to a total halt and becomes unresponsive for a little while. It's painfully slow, on the groups screen, the time between pressing on one of my groups and having the phone actually do something is in the range of 10-15 seconds.
I can't figure out how to delete all these extra contacts off my phone.
Does anyone have any suggestions? As much as I like my iPhone, this is a showstopper for me and I'm debating returning it.

I went to the iPhone genius bar today with the "large number of contacts crash my Contact, Phone, & Email apps" and they pretty much told me that the iPhone isn't ready for enterprise users with a large number of contacts (in the thousands). He offered to switch out the phone, but conceded that it wasn't the phone, but the way the iPhone works with Exchange -- namely that the Contacts database isn't stored remotely. It appears (to me, anyway) that you have partial data (names) on the device and then when you need to pull actual email, phone numbers, etc. it has to reach out over the network and get that info.
While the app is waiting to pull down x-thousand names to populate the Contacts app, the app (and any application depending on the Contacts app,like phone and email) times-out and quits. Maybe they will move towards the blackberry architecture where contact databases and email are stored on the device, which would greatly speed up response time, and maybe even make a Search command available.
For now, I have a device that is great at telling me about the weather, the stock market and watching YouTube, but can't quite be used to make phone calls, send emails, or look up contacts. Drats!
To their credit, Apple has sent me back to AT&T to seek out another solution. I am sure it'll be solved someday, but not yet. Looking forward to that day...

Embed jpg in a pdf without re-compressing it during export or save?

I need to create a pdf-portfolio. Therefore I want the images included to look their best. I thought it a small matter to individually compress the images in photoshop for optimal appearance and size, and then to include them in a document for pdf-export. The idea is that you open up this pdf and see the images exactly as I saw them in the photoshop jpg previerw. So far I tried Illustrator and InDesign. Unfortunately both of these seem unable to just include the original jpg during pdf-export. They are completely set on recompressing the images. Either that or they will try to do away with the compression completely. You can choose the compression alternative "none", but then you will end up with a huge pdf-file, a couple of hundred megabytes in my case. If you chose any other compression alternative, the jpg will be degraded further during the second pass of compression that will take place during export. The images will look miserable.
So my question: Is there any way to get around this weird limitation in Illustrator or Indesign? And if not, what software should I be using to design a portfolio and include individually compressed jpg's and jpg2000?
Thomas

No, png will typically be much bigger in filesize, not an option if data size is a factor.
BUT, I found a solution: I downloaded & installed Acrobat XI Pro. In Acrobat I open the pdf that was saved from Illustrator. Then it's just a matter of replacing all images manually with your custom saved jpg's. Comparing pdf's: Saved from Illustrator: 8.3 Mb and ****** looking general impression, lots of banding and artefacts. Modified in Acrobat and resaved with custom saved jpg's: 5.5 Mb and much nicer looking images, with few apparent compression artefacts, no banding.

Health Kit problems

When I open Health Kit, it takes very long for the data to load and the graphs to show. Within the separate orange, yellow and blue graph items it tells me, there is "no data". After Minutes, the graphs show up. But very often, the data is not up to date and the graph ends 2-3 days ago. Apparently, it takes very long to sync the data and render it as a graph. Furthermore, the amount of steps I see in the apps that record my steps and Health Kit is usually a few thousand steps off.
Sometimes, Health Kit even tells me that I haven't chosen any data sources at all and the overview is completely empty. So I need to switch to "data sources" and choose the items I would like to view in the overview again from scratch.
I'm using Health Kit on an iPhone 5s with iOS 8.1.1 and I've had those problems since 8.0.
Health Kit data is synced from the Withings and Polar Flow Apps and I've set those data sources as the highest in priority for counting steps.
It's hard to tell whether it's these apps not saving data to Health Kit appropriately or the Health Kit app not using it correctly. But since Health Kit seems to be slow and buggy in rendering and displaying that data and sometimes does not display data at all, I tend to think that Health Kit is the problem.
Has anyone else experienced these problems? Any solutions for this?

I don't know about rgrgeo but I am experiencing a similar problem. I found rebooting the iPhone usually fixes it for a period of time. Sometimes it requires multiple reboots before the data reappears. But so far all of the data eventually comes back and none has been lost. I have been generally impressed with Apple to date but this is really a poor job. How could something so obviously buggy be released?

Compressing DVCPRO HD vs HDV

Hello,
I am looking for general impressions on the ease and quality of compressing a 720 30p recording in either DVCPro HD or HDV using the latest versions of FCP and Compressor. Will there be differences in quality encoding to a SD DVD between the two? Will one take less encoding time or require fewer work arounds? What about encoding to H.264? If I know the final output needs to be a SD DVD, am I better off working from a DVCPro 50 recording or down converting a DVCPro HD or HDV to maximize quality?
Thanks, Drew Harty
G5 dual 1.8 4 gig RAM Mac OS X (10.3.7)

Thanks David. I'm aware of all this. For future extensibility, the MAC and storage I will purchase will accomodate anything up to Uncompressed 2K HD. However, for the near-term I will be sourcing only DVCPRO-HD (from the HVX200 via the options you cited).
Let me rephrase my specific questions:
1. EDIT: Given MAC/storage/monitor that will well accomodate uncompressed, is the *FCP edit experience* better with native DVCPRO-HD or uncompressed (though it may be counter-intuitive, the FCP manual seems to suggest uncompressed provides a better RT edit experience). Has anyone out there experienced both ways?
2. AUTHOR to HD DVD (whether Blu Ray or 'HDDVD'): Is it easier/faster to go from DVCPRO-HD timeline or 10-bit Uncompressed 4:2:2 timeline to Hd DVD? Again, has anyone out there had both experiences?
Thanks!
moldy

Has anyone used Toast 7.02 with Dual Layer media?

I bought a three-pack of Verbatim +R double layer discs just to experiment with (this is my first Mac with a DL burner). I've had some problems with Toast simply not responding but other than that occasional problem I've been able to burn Sony DVDs at 8x.
I'd like to try to burn one of the dual layers but I don't know if I should start with Toast or just create a burn folder or just let the OS do its thing or what.
Has anyone had experience with DL disks and Toast? The drive in my Intel iMac is a "MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-846" (I've heard that some iMacs have different mechanisms?)

Thanks - I'm going to give it a go today. Just from the general impression I have from numerous conversations and lurking around here and other sites there seems to be a growing consensus that Verbatim DVD media is the best (and possibly CD media as well). I usually tend to simply buy whatever is on sell in the week when I'm running low and Sony media has done well while with Maxell (usually the brand on sale!) I usually find a few clunkers in a spool (mind you this was with my MDD G4,and I had both slots tricked out with Pioneer 106's).
I'm going to go web crawling later today, too, to see what the best pricing is for Verbatim DL's - I paid $23 at Office Depot for three in jewel cases but it was the only DL packaging they had and I'm sure prices have come down! (One would think!)
I've been using 7.02 since its release in November (?) but, with Toast, I always make certain not to trash my old app so that I'll not need to fish out the CD should new versions emit flying insects. I DO wish Roxio would release Toast as a Universal app - and soon! I also may try going back to 7.01 to see if that might 'fix' the occasional freeze I'm getting.
Thanks so much for letting me know about your success with Toast and Verbatim +R DL media - I am almost borderline OCD about back-ups and the more I can fit on a single disc the merrier I will be!

Images in mp4 slideshow are 'soft'.

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong here. I've just completed a quick experiment in Slideshow and exported w/a short-enough piece of music for the 12 slides I'm using.
The slideshow looks great when I play it back in Preview.
However, when I export as a 'video', images in the slideshow look 'soft', out of focus! (Both in the 480x320 and the 720x480 presentation size.)
Now this is the first time I've putzed around w/the Slideshow module since LR2. In the past I had produced PDF slideshows at various presentation sizes with fabulous results. In fact, the fade's were good and w/Adobe's most current Reader installed the transitions were nearly spot-on to what I had built into the slideshows in LR.
What is it I'm not getting about exporting as an mp4 here in LR3?
As well, is there a way I can trim the 'fat' from these finished movies (eg. imovie, etc.)?
For only 12 slides (w/music) at 480x320 we're looking at 3.6MB, the 720x480 file jumps to nearly 14MB!
And, last but not least, any suggestions on good places to shop for mp3 files that are drm-free?
In my experiment I used a piece by Merry Clayton, from the 'Performance' soundtrack; but when I publish something I don't want to be ripping someone's ©'d work...
thx,
mm
See both versions of slideshows I am referencing HERE. (Videos play just fine in Firefox. NO playback in Safari.)

T.R.,
Thanks for the input and your suggestion. If you follow the link I posted in my (very late) response to Pete's post (from back in October) I was finally able to wrestle a 'reasonably sharp' version of the slideshow movie I wanted to make through the Slideshow module w/LR.
What I did was this:
1) Exported images sized to 720p wide. Then
2) Re-imported the smaller TIFF's back into LR and sharpened them almost till my teeth ached (were WAY-too 'crunchy' for my liking when viewed in the content window), then
3) Brought the new, smaller and Über Sharpened images into the Slideshow module where I exported the thing with music AGAIN!
Miraculously this procedure seemed to work... WRONG. (Only temporarily!)
Why do I say this? Because when I decided to make a new slideshow sans music – using the exact same image files w/the same (Snapshot) settings I saved back in October (it is now 5 months later) – the resulting slideshow's images are back to MUSH AGAIN! (Grrrrrrr.)
So I tried your idea T.R., your work-around experimenting with the 'Widescreen' template Adobe provides... NO GO: Got the same garbagy reproduction of images no matter what export size I use for the movie files!
I'm going to keep on trying – BUT I really don't understand why Adobe would roll-out a generally impressive application like LR3 and have included a feature it would seem to me to be of real utility to many of the folks using LR. (Not only wedding shooters, which, I'm going to assume, would totally glom-on to being able to make 'cool' slideshows of the events they make their livings on; but also 'artists' that might create something more 'edgy' or engaging: Combining, say, an mp3 version of some spoken-word story or poem in tandem with an engaging series of images.) But no.
I find myself almost embarrassed now, the praise I continue to heap on this application – and Adobe – when I talk to others about Lightroom. I REALLY have no use for the Print module. The Web module is really quite nice – lots of controls to make clean, sophisticated (HTML) designs – though I still find myself doing additional, followup work in D'weaver to get rid of some clunky design issues w/my exports here. (*It would be great if we could easily adapt templates so that those of us who want to get rid of, for example, that ugly, clunky Old School link underlining that is generated with whatever is typed-into the 'Web or Mail Link' field...) C'est la vie.
Do we really need to purchase ANOTHER app to make wonderful slideshows that look as good as they should?!

Another iWeb/MobileMe business site question...

I have read the ToS and understand that you are not really supposed to use MobileMe to host a website on which items are sold. Is it also against the ToS to have a website that just provides information about your business (product descriptions, contact info, etc)?

There are a lot of iWeb business sites on MMe.
The general impression is that if you want more than just pages, iWeb/MMe is not suitable for business.
So a webstore with a client database, online ordering and paymant is not possible, because MMe does not support PHP, SSI, CGI and MySQL. Cryptic words you need to do business.
But having items for sale and use PayPal is a good combination.
The moderators will no doubt modify this post if I said something that violates the Terms of Use.

Workflow for using Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite

I am considering purchasing Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite as I have noticed some unsatisfactory results in Compressor, even though I am generally impressed with Compressor and happy with the program and the options it gives, especially with exporting movie files for the web.
Right Now, if I want to export my timeline to MPEG2, I either export directly to Compressor, or I will export to a Quicktime movie file, not self-contained, and then import that into compressor. The latter of the two is certainly a faster method but I have noticed quite a few mixed opinions on these forums as to whether you lose quality or not with that method because video is being "recompressed"
Can anyone tell me the workflow when using Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite? Will there be an option in FCP to export directly to Sorenson Squeeze as you do with Compressor, or will I have to export a Quicktime reference file and then import that into Squeeze? I noticed a few posts on this forum suggesting that you have to export a self-contained quicktime file for Sorenson Squeeze. How can that be good, as you would definitely be compressing the image more than once?
Also, maybe this is a quesion for the DVDSP forum, but I was wondering what codec is used by DVDSP for encoding the menus. Does it use Compressor in the background? or something else? And if I am using Sorenson Squeeze, will DVDSP use Sorenson for encoding the menus, or will there even be an option to tell DVDSP to use Sorenson for encoding the menus?
thanks for any input advice anyone can offer.

thanks for that info. that is really good to know.
the only thing is the box that says recompress all frames is shaded unless I check the box that says make movie self-contained. so, does that mean anything? does that mean that it will only recompress frams if you make the movie self-contained? and will never recompress if you just export a reference file?
thanks.

Best value in a used Mac Pro combo for heavy video editing (FCP7 + AE)?

Scouting a used system to handle heavy Final Cut Pro 7 editing and After Effects animation -- would like to stay 100% Mac, but need some advice regarding the various models of Mac Pro's, core/ghz combos, video cards, and other specs to consider. Looking for a recomendation for a base model to start with (ex. Mac Pro 4,1 quad-core 2.8 vs Mac Pro 3,1 8-core 3.2) and opinions on the minimum threshhold for RAM and preferred video cards for animation. The system I'm trying to build needs to handle more complicated animation, layers, and larger video and PNG files without lag on playback. Also, it'd be great to speed up render time.
I know there are 8, 12, 16 core systems out there that can dominate these tasks, but general impression is I don't need to go so big to get the performance I'm looking for. For this reason I'm setting a budget of $2,000 for the tower and now it's a matter of finding the best used model for the money, with room to upgrade things like video card, RAM, for optimal performance.
I am upgrading from a 2008 15" MacBookPro with dual core 2.66Ghz, 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 that is slowing to a crawl when I'm animating mulitiple elements in FCP and AE. It's what I learned FCP and Adobe on.
Thanks
Anthony

The processors are fast. And there is still lots of space on the silicon.
But the memory... it's too slow. "Why, in the times we are waiting for stuff from memory, we could practically execute another instruction stream! All we would need is a second set of registers."
So that is what they did. It is called Hyper-Threading. It lets each Xeon Nehalem and later processor (2009 and later) take on an additional thread (not quite a full additional processor's worth of compute power). It makes them benchmark quite a bit faster than the previous generation. Along with changes to memory and Bus Architecture, it is nearly twice a s fast at the same number of processor at same nominal speed.

Problems with Dedicated Piano Roll Screenset in 8.01 update

Anyone else having this issue?
If you have a dedicated piano roll screenset, does it show you the currently selected MIDI region from the arrange page?
Since updating to 8.01, this has stopped functioning for me. If I click the chain link icon off, and then back on, it snaps to show the selected MIDI region, whereas it used to follow automatically, like normal. So in other words, I used to select a MID region from the arrange page, hit my screenset number, and I would be looking at the MIDI data for that region. It no longer is doing that.
It shows the SAME midi region, regardless of which one is selected on the arrange page.
If I open the Piano Roll Editor from the tab at the bottom of the Arrange page (or open it hitting the key command "P"), it shows whatever MIDI region is selected, as expected.
It's just the dedicated screenset of the Piano Roll Editor that is not showing/updating the selected content/region.
Anyone else experiencing this?

It's interesting that one of my tests of whether I think Logic is moving in a positive direction, is after using a new major version for a few months, I go back to the old version, to see what my general impression is.
After using 7, and running 6, I was shocked at quite how horribly ugly LP6 was.
After running 8, I go back to 7 (I've tried this a few times) and every time I see my LP7 autoload it just feels so much better.
I don't like the lightened look, the ugly parameter boxes, and the horrible list windows (event list etc).
I'm going with it to stay current, and I'm hopping Apple are going to deliver on the Logic promise sometime during LP8. I hope they do, but if they don't, then I will probably stick with what I have, and start to change my opinion about my "Logic forever" position since, well, Logic 1.x, and slowly start thinking about falling from my Logic tree.
Apple have done amazing things with FCP, and it took time, so I am really trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. Logic is so brilliant in many ways.

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