FCPX cutting a hundred million dollar feature right this minute.

[Charlie Austin]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “it feels like a ton of new players are making new money expanding narrative edited drama.

It doesn’t feel like the same thing can be said about people singing.”

I agree with you there. not so much talking about distribution/amount of product… I was kind of referring to the fact that, 20 odd years ago, to make a decent sounding recording you had to either spend a pile of money on fairly complicated gear and learn to use it, or hire an engineer and rent expensive studio time.

Not any more. You can make a really great sounding recording in your bedroom… you don’t even need musicians. Only a few of the multitude of studios, some very well known, remain. The condo building I work in was built on the lot where Cherokee Recording Studios used to sit. Gone with all the others. Google it. 🙁

And now, for less than the price of a single Digibeta deck back in the day, you can make a pretty good looking movie in your living room.

In both cases though, crap is crap. You can’t buy talent. But the days of needing to be a highly trained, and highly paid, expert just to get a product out there is, IMO, on it’s way out. Except at the top of the pyramid.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Charlie Austin] “But the days of needing to be a highly trained, and highly paid, expert just to get a product out there is, IMO, on it’s way out.”

you are a near ridiculous nihilist charlie. the things you have decided, are apparently the end of all things.

it seems over-emotive.

https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Bret Williams]

Is that guy getting paid by the hour?

[Charlie Austin]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “you are a near ridiculous nihilist charlie. the things you have decided, are apparently the end of all things.

it seems over-emotive.”

LOL… maybe. I just like to plan for the worst, and hope for the best. Keeps me from being disappointed… 🙂

EDIT: I have a lot of friends in the music biz, talented, award winning folks. It’s really hard for a lot of them to make a living these days. Not impossible, but home studios/software have certainly taken the air out of the business…

I realize that multi-million dollar movies are a different beast but seriously… most of us editor types aren’t involved in making them. We sell them, but you can be damn sure that if iMovie trailer templates get good enough many of us will be selling pencils. lol

But… somebody has to make the templates right? Top of the food chain baby! 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Gary Huff]

[Charlie Austin] “And now, for less than the price of a single Digibeta deck back in the day, you can make a pretty good looking movie in your living room.”

No you can’t. Because these people spend all their money on the camera, and nothing on lights, sound, art direction, ect., and what you end up with is two losers spouting pothead philosophy (that you can barely hear) on their ratty couch in front of a bare white wall.

And people aren’t buying these movies. They are still buying the Pacific Rims, Hobbits, and 80s action films.

[Charlie Austin]

[Gary Huff] “No you can’t. Because these people spend all their money on the camera, and nothing on lights, sound, art direction, ect., and what you end up with is two losers spouting pothead philosophy (that you can barely hear) on their ratty couch in front of a bare white wall.”

LOL… yep, as noted in what i wrote after the bit you quoted:
[Charlie Austin] “In both cases though, crap is crap. You can’t buy talent.”

A talented person can do it now. That wasn’t the case without a ton of financial backing in the not too distant past…

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~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Walter Soyka]

[Gary Huff] “And people aren’t buying these movies. They are still buying the Pacific Rims, Hobbits, and 80s action films.”

I’ve been thinking about getting into producing 80s action films. This validates my thinking.

Now I just need to source a DeLorean. And 1.21 jiggabytes of storage.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Bill Davis]

Props to you Aindreas.

You argued long and hard against X’s capabilities and potential for adoption.

But given reasonable evidence, you’ve admitted your thinking was flawed.

Which puts you leagues ahead of nearly every politician, news channel bloviator and corporate shill who have been proven just as wrong but remain unshakably convinced that nobody ever goes back and looks at the overtly wrong things they said and holds them accountable.

Gold stars for holding yourself to a higher standard.

It’s funny, but now that Google is archiving everything – it’s kinda interesting that so many more politicians are getting hoist on their propensity to speak from both sides of their mouths on so many things.

Here’s hoping that the fact that what we say yesterday will hang around to dog our futures will mean that speaking judiciously will gain stature.

And yes I know that I’ve stained myself with the same “opine first, think later” brush right here in the past. I know it’s been a damn tough lesson for ME to learn in my public arguments!

But good on you for stepping up and pointing it out.

Well done.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Brian Mulligan] “That being said. This is the biggest issue with FCPX and the “PRO” community and why it will always get flack.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/27226

The barrier of entry is non-existent and you end up with post like the above. The craft of editing and video production is much more than the ability to download an app.”

I respect your opinions, but come on, really? This isn’t the craft of editing and video production, it’s to help his wife create better YouTube videos. This has nothing to do with FCPX, he started on Camtasia and Windows:

“She loves to film beauty-related Youtube videos. The part she hates is editing them bc it takes her so long (3-4 hrs).”

I highly doubt your job is in jeopardy here. Good for him for wanting to do a better job.

[Marcus Moore]

Thanks or posting Andreas, don’t know how this flew under the radar for a month.