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Great FCPX Event today in Hollywood!
Special thanks to Michael Cioni of Light Iron for a really well organized and informative event in Hollywood today. I got there before 10AM and there were already over 100 people in line. I really think this will be bigger than the Cold Mountain story had on FCP3 as hundreds turned out to learn about the workflow on FOCUS. LightIron, ARRI and yes even APPLE were there showing the post benefits of FCPX and ProRes.
1st Asst. Editor Mike Maztdorff showing some FCPX workflow tips at the morning reception:
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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We really should’ve done a better job of coordinating a COW meet up. Well, that’s assuming we actually want to meet each other! haha I found Bill, but no one else.
I too thought the event was well done. Good job to Light Iron for coordinating/hosting it. The presentation broader in scope than I had anticipated which means there wasn’t a lot of nitty-gritty detail but the book and the FCP.co articles can fill in those gaps.
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It was good wasn’t it? Great turnout too. Nice to see some X skeptics there, and interested, as well. 🙂
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Wait. FCPX and Hollywood? That just can’t be! I mean, really…
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Scott Witthaus
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Really fun day! Got to hang with Andrew and Patrick and Leo and others. Matzdorff was kinda mobbed so all I had time to do was wave hi and goodbye. Bummed I missed others. Only sorry we didn’t do something formal-er as well. Phil and Greg were generous to provide transport – and Mike Horton joined us for for beers. Felt a bit ike a mini NAB preview. Based on what was said from the stage, a big day for X. Cioni’s talk about “cost per frame” and the general tone of how after all the testing and tuning, X turned in a stellar workflow performance on Focus was really nice to hear. And not just from one perspective, but department after department. Stage mention of Dean Devlins next project and other hints say this will not be a one time thing. There appears to be a legitimate new workflow in town. Who knows what’s next in FCPX land.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Wait. FCPX and Hollywood? That just can’t be! I mean, really…”
lol, I know huh? Seriously though, while light iron was obviously interested in selling their services, and Apple was there with hardware and running demos, this really was about the process of using FCP X in the workflow of the film. And from the point of view of the folks involved (co-director, producer, editorial, color, DIT etc) it was nothing like the Cold Mountain Clusterf*ck. Not without hiccups, but they really enjoyed it. The editor described it as “the happiest year of my life”.
Anyway, pretty cool event, and there was free lunch as well. Very important! 🙂
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~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~ -
[Charlie Austin] “Anyway, pretty cool event, and there was free lunch as well. Very important! :-)”
More important than the free lunch was the free beer!
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My favorite line of the day from Mr. Cioni: “Don’t settle for a “default future”!
That’s good advice for everything in life… not just post production.
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I concur Mark – I was sitting there in the theater (2 seats from you by the way) thinking this guys the next CEO of Apple – very inspiring. His company/staff was just on it al day – far better than many of the NAB seminars etc.
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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[Charlie Austin] “The editor described it as “the happiest year of my life”.”
Ddi the editor talk about his/her experience in the past? What platforms, software, etc.. And why this year was so happy?
I was at a Sony /Avid 4k thing last week and the Avid demo artist just went through a list of features. I think she must have been tired. She just read off a piece of paper and it was like “oh this is cool, you can go to this menu and change ratio….” That type of demo. Nothing inspiring. Would be interesting to know why that Focus editor was so happy.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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The Directors are also Guild Editors so along with Editor Jan Kovac and 1st Asst. Michael Matzdorff, all praised FCPX over all otter NLE’s they’ve used and said they figured there was a 3 to 1 less clicks ratio advantage over Avid.
They all liked it enough that they’re already using it on their next feature and Warner Bros. is totally cool with it. They also mentioned Dean Devlin is cutting his next feature on it also.
It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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