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Brave new world. Again.
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Does anybody here still own a grease pencil?
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[Clint Wardlow] “Does anybody here still own a grease pencil?”
How else do you expect me to mark up my CRT monitor?
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I do, but it’s a wicked PIA to keep the point sharp enough to only hit this bit and not that byte.
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[Craig Seeman] “I think you exemplify the modern editor and the future.”
His example exemplifies a future, but not the future.
It’s nice to be able to cut on a laptop efficiently when you have to, but it’s not nearly as good as cutting with large monitors and proper audio monitoring for anything other than web work. If your production is going to be seen on 42″ or larger screens than cutting on a laptop with headphones distorts all your decision making. Full size keyboards and lots of desk real estate is better than any laptop on a crowded coffee table. And while facilities have been dying for the last 25 years, I can open my address book and still find a bunch of editing shops that have been open for all that time because they fill a need that a lone editor in starbucks can’t quite handle.
Ask Mark Rudonis. Ask Walter Biscardi.
It’s nice to have options, it’s nice to be able to cut on a laptop, but the future doesn’t come in one size.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf -
Craig –
On the matter of moving large files around, I just stumbled across SoShare in an email update from NoFilmSchool. It utilizes Torrent technology to enable rapid transfer of huge files (up to a Terrabyte, free).
I just did my first test this morning, delivering a file to a client. It was a 179MB file, which had taken about 3-4 hours in and out on my Dropbox account (I’m in the boonies, with a medium speed DSL connection). I put the file into SoShare, and it synced in about 1 hour – I called the client to see how the download would go – he had the file in under a minute!
I’m currently sending off my next render (about 600MB), and it’s a third of the way there after an hour. It will probably take my client about 2 minutes to download. If this works out (SoShare is in Beta, but working well) I’m going to be dropping Dropbox – I pay 100 bucks a year for 100GB). It allows you send files privately, publicly, and will hold the file for 30 days, or until you cancel it.
I’d like to hear how others experience works out with this, since it’s a work in progress, but it worked like a charm for me:
I have no monetary interest in this, other than saving my skin when I’m under deadline…
Joe Bourke
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Clint –
I have a black and a white grease pencil – I also still have an airbrush, bottles of india ink, crow quill pens, fountain pens, protractors, and slide rules. I’m read for when the grid goes down. Now all I need is some 16mm film for my Bell and Howell Filmo A with spring wind, and I’m good to go!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmo
The camera Robert Capa is holding is the model I own…wish I had the actual camera he owned!
Joe Bourke
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[Herb Sevush] “Ask Mark Rudonis. Ask Walter Biscardi.”
Walter seems to be just fine with an iMac, no?
You can use Thunderbolt to get to almost nay professional monitoring system available. It’s really easy and some of them will fit in the palm of your hand, like the TTap.
Jeremy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Walter seems to be just fine with an iMac, no? You can use Thunderbolt to get to almost nay professional monitoring system available. It’s really easy and some of them will fit in the palm of your hand, like the TTap.”
My argument was about Craig’s prediction that an editor with a laptop on a coffee table is the future of editing. It was not Apple specific. An iMac is apparently fine for many editors, if not most.
To me it doesn’t really matter how small the TTap is, I can’t see myself lugging around 2 23″ monitors and my 24″ Flanders to a coffee shop. The idea of permanently editing on a laptop screen would cause me to rethink my career direction.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf -
[Jeremy Garchow] “Walter seems to be just fine with an iMac, no?
You can use Thunderbolt to get to almost nay professional monitoring system available. It’s really easy and some of them will fit in the palm of your hand, like the TTap.
Jeremy”
Guy here at work is running FCP 7, the CS 6 suite, and Cinema 4D off a New-ish MBr. Monitoring from 2 27″ apple displays and a projector. Hasn’t had any issues yet…
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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
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It’s not the coffee shop per se, but there was just a thread on here earlier about MacMinis being used as a capture station when that used to be a MacPro.
When monitors are as thin as sheets of paper, you might be able to carry all of your monitors with you.
Have you looked at how thin a retina screen is?
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