Right now you can't really have any control on a touchscreen that is smaller than a finger tip but touch screens will (have) evolved to work with styli and that addresses that problem, partially. You can't hold your arm up in front of you for long periods, but you can lay a touch screen on the desk surface, and that solves that problem. It introduces new ones - dirt, extraneous touches, impact resistance, viewing angles - but all solvable. Eventually "touch" screens will probably behave more like a combo touch pad and tablet AND you will be able to connect any number of specialty i/o devices just like you can now. I suspect someday we will give up the mouse just because we don't need it. Probably not hardware keyboards. Okay, maybe someday, but not in the foreseeable future.
Never say never, but the bottom line is that there is simply no good reason to take away dedicated keyboards anytime in the foreseeable future, even in an Apple world. Consumers (you and I) will want them and they require no effort to support. They don't require wires and they can do everything a finger on a touchscreen can do in a directly analogous way. You can now connect keyboards to pretty much any touch device. You can probably connect a mouse, but there's currently no real reason to given the limitations of touch devices.
Cheers,
tod
On Feb 17, 2012, at 1:38 PM, haus wrote:
> Todd -
>
> do download Avid Studio for iPad2 (or whatever the hell it is called...Pinnacle I guess) and iMovie. It can be done, and I do see FCPX landing there (at least some 'lite' version). I got a feeling "touch-editing" is not meant for us old guys....just like FCPX...
>
> For serious work? That depends on what one considers serious. But certainly some rough and prep work can be done via touchscreen.
>
> sw
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Tod Hopkins <hoplist@...> wrote:
> >
> > While the new UI ideas stems from small, touch screen design, and facilitates such interaction, that does not necessarily mean the converse is true, the the new UI does not somehow diminish keyboard/mouse interaction. Do you see anything in FCP X that suggests that it could, even in theory, be operated by touchscreen?
> >
> > The idea that anyone could do serious work using a touchscreen interface is patently absurd. I don't think anyone in the UI business, even those who live in the reality distortion field, would suggest otherwise.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > tod
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 16, 2012, at 6:28 PM, johnrobmoore wrote:
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> > > Last night, uh I mean this morning when I finished at 4:30A after a double shift 17 hour day I literally couldn't raise my right arm without a severe pain in the neck and I'm not talking the producer kind. As ergonomic as I try to make my setups it still wears in the long haul. I can't imagine how I would have felt if I'd been on a touch screen system. I think they'd have had to wheel me out on a stretcher. Perhaps there are ways a touch screen could augment the typical keyboard and mouse/wacom/control surface but I don't really see it speeding up the process. I can't see what's under my hand/finger. Has anybody grown fond of a touch screen for editing day in and day out?
> > >
> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jim Feeley <jfeeley@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Feb 16, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Nathan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > This OS upgrade seems to be laying the foundation for a touch screen iMac.
> > > >
> > > > You mean the iPad Mega, right?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jim "watched Minority Report last weekend to prepare" Feeley
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> > >
> > >
> >
> > Tod Hopkins
> > Hillmann & Carr Inc.
> > todhopkins@...
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Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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