What? Why is there no paper custom size in Apple Numbers? (With workaround)

I built a giant spreadsheet in Numbers and I want to export it as a single page PDF.

Not to worry, I just create a custom page that's like 5 normal length worth (8.5 x 55.)

Hold on... NOPE! Numbers does not allow you to create a custom paper size!! WHAT???

OK, fine, I'll just make one in Pages, and then I'll call it from Numbers...

?? NOPE!! Nothing there!!!  No Custom page sizes for Numbers. Really Apple???!!

Apple Pages: New custom paper size created and saved.

Apple Pages: New custom paper size available.

Apple Numbers: Only presets. Where is the custom page size???

WORKAROUND:

Are you ready for this? Alright, COPY your entire spreadsheet from Numbers, create a new document in Pages and use the custom paper size previously created (8.5 x 55in or whatever suits you), PASTE the entire table in this elongated document and reframe as needed. Save this Page document. Voilà! Now you can Print/Save as PDF in ONE SINGLE PAGE. Furthermore, I opened my one page elongated PDF in Preview, and from there Exported a JPEG. Works great.

Why do you force this convoluted workaround on us Apple?

How do you like your current Adobe Creative Cloud subscription?

I'm currently a CC subscriber. I started a few years ago with a $39.99 /mo discount, that automatically turned into $49.99 /mo after the first year.

I wasn't too happy about that, talked to Adobe and I got a second year at $39.99 as a "Black Friday Special". After these two years, the subscription turned into the current regular price of $49.99 /mo and I was out of option for a special discount.

Well, the thing is I'm not too happy about this situation... At $39.99 /mo it's $479.88 /year which I feel is a fair price for what I'm getting.

At $49.99 /mo that's now $599.88 /year which is a bit steep. I would be OK to pay $499.99 for the year, but not more. Currently I pay $99.88 more /year than I am confortable paying.

What to do though? I can't use any Special anymore, seems like Adobe are out of discounts for us current users. If you are a new user, you can occasionally get the $39.99 entry price, but after that, nada.

My primary NLE is FCPX, I probably use it 50% of the time. Then I use Premiere maybe 40% of the time, and MC 10% of the time (at best.)

In addition to Premiere, I use Media Encoder heavily. Then I often find myself firing-up After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and Audition for specific tasks that I know how to do quickly and efficiently in these apps.

I have no use for any other Adobe CC app as it is. So I pay $49.99 for ALL APPS (25 of them) but I use only 6. That's only 1/4th of the apps count and I'm not counting the iOS apps. Actually, I'm also using Portfolio (out of laziness to just set up a proper website.)

Anyway, I certainly wonder why I need to pay for all the other stuff I'm not using. Now If I only pay for single apps, it's obviously more at 6 X $19.99 = $119.94 /mo. This does not fly at all. I wish Adobe would offer more plans in addition to the $9.99 Photoshop, $19.99 Single App, and $49.99 all apps.

How about $9.99 Single App, $19.99 four apps, $29.99 eight apps, $39.99 sixteen apps, $49.99 all apps? Even better, add the option to scale up or down at will during the 12 month period. Too confusing? Too complicated to implement?

Would you like that? I would!

Is macOS (Sierra) gaining some intelligence?

Whoa!  This is new to me. Pretty dandy.

Why does Final Cut Pro X 10.3.2 suck at handling a large number of files - Update: it's the cache!

As much as I like FCPX, its my to go NLE these days, it sucks when dealing with a large number of files.

Disclaimer: I'm on an old fashion mid 2012 Mac Pro, with a 3GB Radeon graphic card.

The core of FCPX is the database, well it's not a very efficient database when it starts to slow to a halt trying to deal with ~4000 files at once.

I am building my SFXs library so it's available and handy within FCPX, of course forget adding Aliases to the Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/Final Cut Pro Sound Effects, it's terribly unresponsive and crashes the app with a large number of files.

Instead, create a SFX Library LIBRARY and import and organize your sounds within said Library. (Are you confused already?)

Anyway, alll this is fine, except that I have a 10,000 files in an Adobe sound library I want to import, and oh boy! is FCPX freaking out!  I actually have to make it into smaller batches, else it crashes. Under 1k files is much more digestible it seems.

Then after this pain, it's time to assign roles. I want to assign the same Adobe_CC2015_Library role to these 10k files...  Forget it. FCPX is totally crippled.  Again, I have to do it in smaller batches, 4k or so files. Which brings the beach ball of death and oooops! I'm not touching anything, holding my breath... Nope, can't hold my breath for this long... 1min. 2min. ... All right! Finally it happens! Hooray!

Man! Just trying to select ~4k-6k files brings the beach ball of death!  It finally does what it's told, but it's certainly is not responsive, got to have patience.

Switching from one Event (one SFX Library) to another takes some time... Like 4 or 5 sec. of the beach ball right there with the 10k files library. Hmmmm.

I actually have another audio library that's near 100k files... Well I might wait a little before I bring this one in.

What's your experience in dealing with a large number of files in FCPX?

---UPDATE
Best practice is to store FCPX cache on a separate drive, preferably a SSD. That will speed up things tremendously.

How to transfer the Color Picker swatch from one Mac computer to another

If you are like me, you have a color swatch full of specific colors within Color Picker.

But what if you work on a different computer and need that specific swatch?  Or like me, you are now using a new Os - clean install?

Well, it's easy, the swatch leaves under: ~your home folder/Library/Colors

It's called: NSColorPanelSwatches.plist

Just copy it from your old Os User/computer and paste it to your new Os User/computer and you are done! (You might need to quit and reload apps.)

Much faster than recreating it by hand. And actually if you need different ones, you can create as many NSColorPanelSwatches#1, #2, #3 as needed.  As far as I can tell, only one can be active at a given time, so some renaming has to happen.

Empty Color Picker

No custom NSColorPanelSwatches.plist

Populated Color Picker

Custom NSColorPanelSwatches.plist present

9:00am March 7 2016 iLok is DOWN! - 10:44am it's back ON.

9:00am

iLok License Manager unable to connect!

 iLok website DOWN! What the ???

Just talked to an Avid Customer Service person, and they confirmed iLok is down, they apologize for the inconvenience, nothing else to do but wait. LOVELY!

How long? Why? What's going on? I cannot work!!!

10:44am it's back ON. Boy!

Fast, Zero Downtime. Hmm... Not quite.