I've sort of sorted it out, but thank God that I was able to take a far and wide look around as, besides some quick response from the great Joel Osis yesterday, this forum's sheer lack of life and, most sadly, lack of response from AD really and clearly confirms, and in a loud and clear state, what I have felt for too long long time now: it is like communing with the dead and the buried. I could not feel more indifferent to this software when I compare my feeling about it a few years ago. When once there was momentum, now there is a strong feeling that this whole package is on the verge of flatlining. And this is Autodesk, not some small hokey sofware house.
I don't know where the life and the already minute community of Smoke and Flame seems to be hiding out these days, but it certainly is not here or on the Facebook group. These places are dead as a Quantel dodo. Walking dead sofrware. From once frequence visits on my part, I now visit this forum around once every two weeks at most, when once I visited all that time. Nothing now is really being said or ansered to. Nobody cares. I've seen this pattern before. Once it seemed such a "relatively" vibrant place, but now there is more life in a morgue, or in a forum devoted to the Commodore Amiga's VideoToaster, by some passionate peeps who just wish to keep it going, like some re-enactors of some middle ages battle. This is deadware. The future really is with Blackmagic and The Foundry and AD, in this dept at least, seems to be one some strange suicide mission and the ultra-talented and admirable programmers really should evacuate temselves from quick as sharp. Like that scene out of Citizen Kane you should all move across to that other newspaper. I have a feeling that Resolve+Fusion will be the place to go. Resolvsion. This sheer lack of life and response from any official AD employees on the Area (you pathetically put all your eggs into the great Brian Mulligan's very giving basket but, as the basket reference suggests as a danger, he has now left the Smoke/Flame orbit for fresh pastures and what are you doing to plug this very great gap? F*ck all) again confirms something that I have felt for a very very long time and felt very very very strongly: AD does not seem to care one little sh*t about about Smoke and I am tired and so very very boredof defending this small piece of out of the way land to my students when AD seems to have no energy at all in pushing it and polishing it. Dead software walking. This place is grinding to a halt as in some sort of a coma. There is simply nothing at all going on with it that I can see, and this is something that is TOTALLY suicidal, as I have felt for some time and voiced some safe time ago. I hate to say then that "I told you so", but if I rewind back a year or two, this is exactly where I felt, and in a way knew, that this software was going: Nothing to do with the mac platform and a retreat back to the Linux ultraexpensive model that nobody else at all is plouging. Museums wait for such attitudes. Suicidal, not even in the midterm, let alone the long. I might as well be recommending that they use Deluxe Paint IV on the Amiga, for the chance of contact now that students will have with this sotware. Probably the last message I send on this board, and I really used to love and admire this piece of software that I really now just think of as sad...
Cheers
Tony
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