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FCPX cutting a hundred million dollar feature right this minute.
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I think i heard Argentina (My country) in his speech, but couldn’t figure out in what context.
I really don’t know the guy, but he is really selling everything as the next revolution in the world, but please, those Seiki monitors are crap, 30hz refresh rate at UHD is useless, for a bit more, buy a Dell 24″ Ultrasharp.
He sounds really exagerated, like speaking to elder people in a retirment home, he describes the MacPro as a nuclear reactor!!!! Editing on a laptop!!! I really don’t know what he is doing there, but he sounds like a used cars seller.
Santiago Martí
http://www.robotrojo.com.ar
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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Joss Whedon funded the project himself (at just over $200,000) and enjoyed the independence of acting as his own studio. “Freedom is glorious,” he comments. “And the fact is, I’ve had very good relationships with studios, and I’ve worked with a lot of smart executives. But there is a difference when you can just go ahead and do something.” As a web show, there were fewer constraints imposed on the project, and Whedon had the “freedom to just let the dictates of the story say how long it’s gonna be. We didn’t have to cram everything in—there is a lot in there—but we put in the amount of story that we wanted to and let the time work around that. We aimed for thirty minutes, we came out at forty two, and that’s not a problem.”Some of the music was influenced by Stephen Sondheim.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Horrible‘s_Sing-Along_Blog
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Nice Tom, I gonna blame you, if I do’t get any work done today thinking of more 🙂
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[Brian Mulligan] “It has everything to do with FCPX and Apple as a whole. Everyone is lumped in to the same pot. FCPX can help this guy make his wife’s YouTube videos better… and it can cut a 100 million dollar Hollywood feature. That’s quite a range… but most things will fall within the mean.
“And this is a problem because…?
Don’t you use Macs?
The post started with a $100 million dollar movie that is being cut (or was being cut) on iMacs.
So what?
To be a professional and use FCPX, you are going to spend a lot more than the $300 price on the tin.
It’s not about the money and these days it’s not about the gear.
Jeremy
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Great post, Oliver – that totally nails the trials and tribulations of the indie scene.
Especially the “deferrals never get paid” part 😉
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[Tom Sefton] “Clerks?”
Not really a good looking movie. Final cost after post, adjusted for inflation: $350,000.
And what is the point of this exercise? That every single film that people shoot on the cheap is going to be a Clerks, Blair Witch (eww), or Pi? No, those are the exceptions. The rule is, they are crap.
And you aren’t spending twenty bucks on them either.
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[tony west] “Blair Witch Project?”
Not a good movie. And do you really want the career that the filmmakers on that film got?
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[Tom Sefton] “Pi?”
Final budget (adjusted for inflation): $85,000. Also: not shot in living room.
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[Jeremy Garchow] ”
It’s not about the money and these days”That’s because there isn’t any. Not that it’s a good thing.
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[Oliver Peters] “The odds of that happening to the average small filmmaker are like winning the lottery and getting struck by lightning at the same time”
True, I guess I did go into hyperbolic overdrive. 🙂 I’m just consistently astounded by the quality of stuff (on the web etc, not “hollywood” releases) I see and hear that *was* done for virtually nothing on someones home rig. FCP, Pr, even MC, and all the gear/SW to make something is much more accessible than in the past. But yeah, people/locations/licensing etc add to the cost. To make something “real” you’ll blow past 50k in a heartbeat…
[Oliver Peters] “so deferrals almost never get paid.”
lol. when I was doing freelance production work I would run away as fast as I could when I heard that word…
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