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An observation
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I still bet dollars to donuts McCartneys Yamaha Grands have synths burried inside.
In fact when I saw Elton Johns Red Piano show in Vegas years ago, IIRC it wasn’t a huge Yamaha logo on the side (the sponsor I’d expect) it was either Kimball or Baldwin that night. Elton was doing shows to give Celine Dion a break and I suspect Ceasars Forum had some deal that trumped the existing sponsorship deal perhaps?
Plenty of high end sample-based keyboards have excellent touch – and unlike packing and shipping an actual string instrument on tour you don’t need to pay and pray for a tuner to get it right at every stop as the instrument faces huge variations of temp and humidity on a cross country truck show.
I don’t think it makes logistics sense to do otherwise.
For what it’s worth.
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To date I am still having way too many issues with Premiere to consider it for any major work.
When I first started using it my wants/needs were few and it served me well.
It started on a Mac then ended on my PC with the Perception PVR.
Now revisiting it in full capacity has had me hating it day by day.
Damn you Apple and Avid for ruining a once simple mind (mine of course)!
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Got to love this forum. Where else can you go from talking about NLEs to Johnny Carson playing the Theremin?!
Maybe Tim should rename it “6 Degrees of FCPX”.
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Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Oliver Peters] ” I wonder of others see this same thing.”
I haven’t really seen much of that. The people I see are all in on whatever NLE they chose.
Not a lot of hoping around and back and fourth.
The folks that I see on X are older and more established editors with a firm grip on their client base.
The young folks I see use whatever they were on in college.To me it would seem like a pain to start in one program and then transfer to another. I wouldn’t want to do that personally. Seems like too much work.
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[Tony West] “The folks that I see on X are older and more established editors with a firm grip on their client base.
The young folks I see use whatever they were on in college.To me it would seem like a pain to start in one program and then transfer to another. I wouldn’t want to do that personally. Seems like too much work.”
I know several Camera Ops of varying ages who are using it, some of which have never edited before and at least 5 of my Production Company clients are using it without any encouragement from me, all of them used FCP7 previously.
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[Steve Connor] “I know several Camera Ops of varying ages who are using it, some of which have never edited before “
Oh I don’t doubt that at all Steve, in fact I’m surprised I don’t see even more of that here.
I think it’s a great tool for a lot of people and I tell folks that but I was also giving the lay of the land in my area.
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[Bret Williams] “a! Don’t know if you’re being facetious but since it’s right here on the shelf…”
Holy shit! Not facetious at ALL!!!
I confess that I slept through Zeppelin in the 70s (the nerds I ran with were all into prog LOL), but my then-girlfriend, now-wife turned me onto Zeppelin in the early 80s. And as my joke indicates, the conversion took. I wasn’t kidding in the LEAST that I have a folder full of Jimmy Page theremin pictures.
Anyway, my wife skipped her prom to see them on the 77 tour, and is TOTALLY a Jimmy Page fan, no respect at all for the Plant crowd. LOL That said, her favorite guitarist is Pete Townshend — she played a Gibson Les Paul Junior like the one Pete used on Who’s Next, and she has plenty of love for Roger Daltrey.
We started dating because of a shared love of music. Her taste was much cooler than mine of course, but 32 years later, we’re still rock and rolling together.
When I told her about your yearbook last night, she howled. We were both pretty straight-laced (her Pete Townshend-Jimmy Page fixation notwithstanding) and neither one of us could imagine having the balls, OR the WIT, to do something like this in high school.
I just showed her this picture picture just now and she HOWLED. She agrees — coolest thing ever.
Dude, you’re my hero. Thanks for showing me this!
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[Steve Connor] “We need a forum name change “Apple FCPX – The Metaphors?””
Zing! You get the Post of The Week award!
The magnetic timeline, it’s magnetic-o-matic!
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Yamaha has been researching synths at least since the early ’70’s. When I was at CalArts 70-72 they had a couple of engineers there stealing ideas from the Buchla and Moog synthesizers at the School of Music there. That being said, they still make awesome traditional Grand pianos.
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.2, Final Cut Studio 2 & 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC: 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500: Helios 2 w 2-960GB SSDs: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz, 24Gb RAM, GTX-680, 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro Retina 2015, i7, 500GB, M370X 2GB: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD, Multiple OWC Thunderbay 4 TB2 and eSATA QX2 RAID 5 HD systems -
I saw the Yardbirds in late ’67 or early ’68 at the gym at Washignton U. in St. Louis where I was pre-med about to degenerate to Art History, for which I am eternally grateful. If you can believe it, they were opening for Ramsey Lewis of “In Crowd” fame. Frat boys loved him. Not positive who Yardbirds lead guitar lineup was then, but it was at least two of the greats. Made up my mind there and then that R&R was my future and not General Practice. Absolutely mind blowing.
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.2, Final Cut Studio 2 & 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC: 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500: Helios 2 w 2-960GB SSDs: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz, 24Gb RAM, GTX-680, 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro Retina 2015, i7, 500GB, M370X 2GB: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD, Multiple OWC Thunderbay 4 TB2 and eSATA QX2 RAID 5 HD systems
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