Evan Schechtman @RadicalMedia – The State of the NLE – recorded a few days before NAB

[Frank Gothmann]

[Jim Giberti] ”
It does Frank, in 1.0.3. I just finished a pretty detailed short using all h.264 directly in the timeline and it edited flawlessly.
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There are different flavours of h264. Are you sure it’s high profile. Basically, use the Blu-ray preset from compressor, encode something with it and see if X can digest it.

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“You also agree that you will not use these products for… the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.”
iTunes End User Licence Agreement

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Herb Sevush] “In my business portability means absolutely nothing. I edit in my office, I need large screens to see all the little multi-cam windows. I don’t edit in the field, on-site or in a starbucks. I’ve never had enough bandwidth, I’ve always wanted more, I’ll gladly give up portability to get more.

For me flexibility means I can edit anything that gets thrown at me, including tape sources, and output anything asked of me, including tape sources, and never have to wait a moment for rendering, no matter how many effects I stack on a clip, or how many angles I’m cutting with. I want to output all my my digital files at 100x normal speed. Until I get there, my system’s too slow.

I understand that my needs are not yours, we put emphasis on different things. I can appreciate why a TBolt FCPX metadata future is perfect for some; it’s not that I don’t see the value in a lot of these things, it’s just that they are much lower on my priority scale.”

So why have you been using FCP this whole time?

[Craig Seeman]

[Frank Gothmann] “Not with 10.0.4. Don’t have it. The last version I tried was the 10.0.3 trial and it couldn’t handle it. “

OS 10.6.8
FCPX 10.0.4
H264 1920×1080 HighProfile@L4.0 CABAC .mp4

FCPX handles like a champ.
QT 10.0. plays it as well.
QT 7.6.6 as well too.

Checked the file in MediaInfo to confirm that it’s really High Profile.

[Frank Gothmann]

[Craig Seeman] “H264 1920×1080 HighProfile@L4.0 CABAC .mp4”

It has to be 4.1 high profile to be blu-ray compliant. Can you try that? Use the compressor preset for blu-ray. File extension should be .264 or .avc depending on what encoder you use. Thanks for trying.

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“You also agree that you will not use these products for… the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.”
iTunes End User Licence Agreement

[Jack Guthrey]

I don’t remember the exact positioning now (I’ve had lunch since then…) but I thought he said something about how the rigidity is what beings along robustness.

I may have heard criticism as praise though as my opinion is that a rigid workflow is a smart workflow.

[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] “So why have you been using FCP this whole time?”

I haven’t, FCP is my third NLE. EMC, *edit, FCP (with a quick audition of Premiere just as it became PPro 1.0). Avid has been too expensive and I find it slow going, especially cutting in the timeline. The original PPro had some of the problems FCPX has with audio so while I tried it, I stopped using it. I’ve never been in love with Final Cut, it was just the best price performance option up til now. The X of what I want has never crossed the Y of what I can afford, but I know where my priorities are.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Herb Sevush] “The X of what I want has never crossed the Y of what I can afford, but I know where my priorities are.”

I see. So you haven’t found it yet.

[Jim Giberti]

[Frank Gothmann] “There are different flavours of h264. Are you sure it’s high profile. Basically, use the Blu-ray preset from compressor, encode something with it and see if X can digest it.”

I wouldn’t need to do that.

It’s h.264 as most of us use it – right out of the camera. In this case 5D IIs, files dumped right from the CF cards onto Macs and edited directly into the timeline in FCPX.

[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] “So you haven’t found it yet.”

It’s a bit like El Dorado – I don’t expect to get there but I know the direction I’m heading towards.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Herb Sevush] “It’s a bit like El Dorado – I don’t expect to get there but I know the direction I’m heading towards.”

I hear you.

Before you drop $8ish-k on a Windows tower, and another couple of grand on a tesla, make sure that it’s going to help playback.

Jeremy