my flame fish keyring is one of my most treasured possessions Randy
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Some promo material we had around our Discreet’s office…I have a few magazines and NAB promo material. All from 1998 to 2001
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Pics when its finished!!
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Mmm…tasty keyboard
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They are lapel pins. I was looking for old flame stuff on eBay and I found these for sale from some guy who sells old model train stuff. Strange thing for him to have in his shop I thought.
So fun seeing all these flame branded items.
This is not mine. But something else to keep this thread going.
My wife has a Cricket machine and cut this out recently. If you’d like one, let me know and we can cut some vinyl.
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it’s about 4"x2"
I came across this looking through old photos this weekend. While not a logo/icon I do recall people telling me this summed up their first impression of the 2014 new version which I think was called the Anniversary edition?
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Powerful? Sure. Intuitive? Absolutely not. Rumor has it, someone in Montreal brought in a civilian off the street and ask them to sit in front of a flame and to import an image. After 45 minutes of not being able to figure it out, that person gave up. The anniversary edition was then conceived.
Plus now it works and looks much more like smoke which is far superior to flame anyway.
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Oh here we go
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I was an observer in these sessions and they were painful to watch. Just some clarifications:
- It was for Smoke
- It was not any civilians but FCP and AVID users.
- Most of them could not import a clip after the allocated 60 minutes which was the first tasks we were asking them to do.
The most painful thing was to watch the users who could figure out how to import an image in the Library but would then exists to the Editdesk and wonder where the clip was. They would go back to the Library but couldn’t figure out how to bring it back to the Editdesk. This is why the Load grey button became a blue Load to Desk button before we worked on the Anniversary edition.
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wow. What a story. Really interesting. It’s certanly understable. The concept of a library… ¿floating in another dimension? storing libraries over a temporal work-desktop , is not easy to catch from scrath. But in my opinion, it´s one of the best and unique feature of flame, that puts it light years ahead, cosmically far from any other soft (that I am aware of) .
I don´t agree with certains UI concepts added last years, like the abuse of random contextuals menu (mentioned above). I’m not sure about where the libraries button were moved (a little tab within desktop area) either. A bit confuse about the hierarchy and-what-is-within-of-what for a new user. But, Flame is the BEST to handle with big (or not so big) projects. Any other finishing apps (resolve?) are in the Kindergarten compared to flame. Resolve. Oh my god. It’s a hell handle with different resolutions. Something so trivial like work with segments with tails, hahaha , it’s a joke.
Get those same folks to try and make sense of a Nuke script…
As someone who came to Smoke then Flame directly from FCP7, without any training or colleagues to compare notes with, i can attest to its utterly bewildering idiosyncrasies. Usually the simplest of tasks proved the most baffling…took me nearly two days to figure out how to do a freeze frame!
Once you get past those differences in working methods and terminolgy, it’s brilliant…I would not go back to any other nle without a fight!
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Completely! We should never underestimate how concepts that are so natural to us can be understood by someone sitting in front of software for the first time. I had the experience of teaching photoshop classes for “civilians” (some even retired), and reducing the concepts to a level understandable to everybody was a challenge. The fieldwork described by warren was a very clever idea, indeed.
Like I said. Civilians. 