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OT: So what will be the next cool conference?
Since this is just a general discussion and debate forum that for some reason has FCPX in it’s name, I wanted to throw out a question about conferences that maybe cannot be answered.
For example:
NAB is NAB. At least it’s in Vegas where there are enough rooms, hotels, cabs, etc. Gigantic but in a place that can handle it. And there is a very good learning/networking/purchasing to noise ratio. Not going this year but will return next year.
CES. See above.
SXSW. Done as far as being edgy and cool. Too big for Austin. Not nearly enough hotels, cabs, or mass transit. I went five years ago and it was getting really big. I quit going after last year because it got to the point that the PITA factor (pain in the ass) was greater than what I was getting out of it.
And many many more that I can’t even name.
So, what’s next? What’s out there in terms of conferences, meetings and/or get-togethers that will be a “must-go”? The thing you can say 10 years from now “I was there in year 2….”
That’s what I want to find…
– Scott
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
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Not able to attend NAB or CES this year as well, perhaps next year. I would love to attend any conference or conventions that relate to film. Yes, that is not a typo, said film, any format. Just purchased a Rhonda cam from the good folks over at pro8mm.com and it arrived yesterday. Crazy as it may seem, film is a big interest. I am not a dinosaur.
The magnetic timeline, it’s magnetic-o-matic!
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Anyone who looks at the first round of LOTR’s vs the recent Hobbit series loves film. Millions of pixels on film, thousands in 4K. Film is so much better in so many ways but I’m afraid it’s almost gone. The cost savings are just too great. Last thing I saw shot on film in NYC was the new Spielberg movie coming out in the fall. And he is one of a very small group, getting smaller by the second.
Tim
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beyond cliché to say this but – I’m usually curious what adobe roll out at max? They do work very hard to defend the rental deathstar. Adobe max sessions have been getting towards near must watch the last year or two. Not all of it, but some is utter gold.
this one from joshua smith last year has to be one of the more absorbing, madly personal presentations I’ve seen in a long time. plus his stuff kicks ass.
https://2014.max.adobe.com/sessions/max-online/?PID=2159997#/video/611
Also the mobile app notions they preview there have been getting increasingly interesting? I’m locked into lightroom at this stage and curating and picking on the ipad version is nice.
OT: I have a personal fantasy that they’ll release an iOS AE companion this year that allows for paint and live motion sketch record to be dubbed together with a stylus on an ipad. Working with CC synced brand assets, If you could feed certain paint and animation stuff done on the ipad through to desktop AE that would be rather sweet. Paint and motion sketch can be underused on the desktop.
Went off topic on this, but they’re generally very open at adobemax on the notion of what they’re about editorially. Shantanyu Narayen aside.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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Nobody votes for SIGGRAPH? My Utah Teapot has a sad now.
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hey – i’d vote for LEAF as was but it’s gone the way of the do-do. Coming back from leaf we convinced our employers at the time to drop change for an intergraph with a pvr drive and a speed razor edit box out of that show. And we got to see the godzilla fx panel hungover. salad days.
edit: just checked – lord it’s not even online properly anymore – London Effects and Animation Festival. was sort of a Siggraph/NAB.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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[Aindreas Gallagher] ” i’d vote for LEAF as was but it’s gone the way of the do-do.”
Glad you clarified. I thought you meant the Lake Eden Arts Festival in Black Mountain, NC near Asheville. Great music festival but I don’t remember anything about video…of what I remember…
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
It’s not until November but CCW is now owned by NAB and I suspect they will be making changes to make it more mini NABish.
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And since Spielberg isn’t editing film on a flatbed, but instead scanning it into a computer, what Rez is it being scanned in to?
I always thought the true benefit of film was its latitude. Not necessarily its resolution.
Doesn’t 4k have 9million pixels? Or are you talking about 1 scan line having thousands?
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I thoroughly enjoyed the Southeast Creative Summit in Atlanta in 2013, but it did not survive into 2014. I felt it had real potential to be something very cool. A shame.
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Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
Siggraph…
I used to go religiously in my CG days.
I might have to drop in on one if it comes back to New Orleans 🙂
That was my fave over Orlando, LA, Boston and Vancouver.
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