It would be nice to keep v12 chatter here on its own. It's been quite handy for me, and probably the whole team. I'm not sure how well that would work if the beta program were to be opened up though. I think it would only continue to work well if it's opened up further by way of invitation, otherwise, we'll end up with 11.1 questions in here, and 12 questions over there. It's not rocket science, but still, you just know it will happen, so, with that in mind, perhaps moving out into the main MC forum might be a better idea? Perhaps just open this forum up first and see how well the early adopters manage to organise their postings. If it worked, and the model was perpetuated, it could turn out really useful for keeping help related to specific releases better organised within interact as a whole.
what would the early adopters find then?
the new tag window is getting there, slowly.
the new image related abilities are extremely welcome.
Otto does well, but I wouldn't say he was a major shouting point. He's a catch-up feature that other apps have had for years, so the reaction is more likely to be along the lines of "finally!"
Talking of Otto, how is he configured by default?
I was thinking about this earlier, because to begin with, he was way ahead of most us, removing this and updating that, you know?
are the task settings independant of the watch folder list?
If they are, I think they should all be turned off by default. When my network machine went down, all my video files were considered broken links and were removed from my library. I've changed the instructions to leave network files, but still, It's a mapped network drive, and I've not got around to testing if MC recognises that as 'network'.
There could be a fair few unhappy campers around if you just go "here try this, see what you think" and Otto kicks in and removes half the database because he thinks the files have gone missing.
There's the IPTC import thing to consider too...
it appears to rely on the prescence of an MJMD tag in the file. if none exists, it goes ahead and imports any IPTC data it finds. If there are things like keywords in the IPTC header that do not match existing keywords in the MC database, the database keywords will be replaced by the incoming data. It's fine once you realise what's going on, and so know what to do to get things sync'd the way you want, but until then, the potential for disaster is ever present.
should be interesting, if nothing else
Just for the record, I'm 100% with Alex regarding the little 'Alexicons'. I agreed the last time, and I still do. I was surprised at the number of people who missed them when they got pulled before, and had this gut feeling they would be back sooner rather than later. I'm not too fussed about the forced thumbnailing they cause, despite the problems that caused me with some video files, but for me, the ability to quickly tell a files 'import status' from the colour of its media icon far outweighs the eyecandy value that is 'Alexicons'. I don't know, Perhaps a halfway house could be attained by not using alexicons for non-imported files?
-marko.
