For those who are still Fishing…..

[Herb Sevush]

The question isn’t whether it can do something FCP7 can’t, the question is whether it can do something that PPro can’t. Does anyone know?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Jeremy Garchow]

Rig Motion Effects.

Scrub all of your clips in your entire project (or as FCPX calls it, Event). Basically, you have access to all of your media all the time, if you want. Or not if you don’t.

Autosync audio.

Sort, tag, and rate your clips quickly and easily.

WYSIWYG titles.

Ken Burns!

Star Wipes.

I’m sure I am missing a few things.

[Craig Seeman]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Hey Craig, AJA ioXT passes through: https://www.aja.com/products/io/io-xt.php“

Good to know. Although it is the most expensive of the Thunderbolt video I/O devices.

[Jeremy Garchow] “To me, web streaming is in it’s composite video days. Bandwidth is the major limit, otherwise the technology is pretty much there, wouldn’t you agree?”

Right now the top mass available streams tend to be in the 1000kbps to 1500kbps range. Even that limits a lot of viewers without a lower bandwidth option. You can almost get away with larger than SD sizes if it’s talking head video.

[Jeremy Garchow] “And what’s that you say? FCPX does something better than FCP7? Blaspheme.”

Getting out my kevlar vest just in case.

[Bill Davis]

Thanks David,

I’m looking forward to your futrure post.

Glad to hear that I can use X264 without too much fear.

I was kind hoping that Telestream was going to solve the encoding/transcoding complexity by publishing a set of “click and stream” encoding standards inside Episode that might catch on – at least in broadcast – so that some standards emerged that let everyone have a level playing field – but I suspect that’s not going to happen. There’s just too much competition in that space and too many engineers in too many companies who want to try to become the “defacto standard” and therefore get the long range licensing prize.

I actually also still have hopes for the TS Wirecast virual switch model – but it’s too soon to tell. It’s interesting to see that their “backpack” web transmission rig is now down to the size of a hardback book. Be great if that redundant multi-signal agile wifi signal distribution stuff gets simpler, cheaper, and ubiquitous. That could be the real game changer we’re all looking for – particularly if we get some form of “direct to laptop” switchable video feeds. Even if those were barely SD, that would make a lot of bread and butter conference coverage video possible at greatly reduced cost and hassle and potentially change the entire “information video” industry for the better.

Imagine being able to do an expert panel gig by just sitting iPod Touches on small stands – one in front of each person on stage on a panel — and having a tool to capture those streams, switch them live – and send the result out over a Static IP line.

I could travel with a briefcase instead of schlepping road cases around! THAT would be bliss of the first order!

Take care.

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor

[Craig Seeman]

[Bill Davis] “Be great if that redundant multi-signal agile wifi signal distribution stuff gets simpler, cheaper, and ubiquitous.”

Teradek Cube? Attach to cameras with HDMI (or HD-SDI) and wirelessly transmit to Wirecast.
HDMI version is around $1700 each and you can send multiple cameras to Wirecast. Than and a MacBook Pro and you’re all set assuming local high speed connection is available. Otherwise there’s LiveU which works as either in to or out from Wirecast.

[Bill Davis] “I was kind hoping that Telestream was going to solve the encoding/transcoding complexity by publishing a set of “click and stream” encoding standards inside Episode that might catch on – at least in broadcast “

Do you have “ultimate” settings in mind?

[Bill Davis]

Craig,

You must have had the same experiences I have.

You go into a market and ask the top 4 broadcast stations for their HD web delivery standards and you get a page of needless complexity from each hat bear no relation to any other stations (and seldom to the settings you can see on your encoding software!)

These were driven by engineers telling marketing what their servers and playout systems could handle – each driven by individual manufactuer standards without ANY coordination.

It’s a functional nightmare.

If the broadcast industry doesn’t get their act together – it’s going to get worse. Particularly since they’re in an environment of losing market share to the web so rapidly.

In streaming it’s WORST not better. Particularly since streaming is often served to a GLOBAL market where there’s not telling what kind of distribution system or end user equipment is in play.

So it becomes a “least common denominator” game.

Which, not to put too fine a point on it… sucks.

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor

[Craig Seeman]

[Bill Davis] “You go into a market and ask the top 4 broadcast stations for their HD web delivery standards and you get a page of needless complexity from each hat bear no relation to any other stations (and seldom to the settings you can see on your encoding software!) “

Alas that’s where DGFastchannel and ExtremeReach come in to play. They’ll even handle ProRes now and I believe DNXHD as well.

[Bill Davis] “These were driven by engineers telling marketing what their servers and playout systems could handle – each driven by individual manufactuer standards without ANY coordination.

It’s a functional nightmare. “

I agree. Actually the biggest problem I see is at some of the broadcast stations themselves where they get in a bunch of stuff and have to make it work with there ingest/playout system. They just want to throw in the pile ‘o files and get a GXF out or whatever.

[Bill Davis] “In streaming it’s WORST not better. Particularly since streaming is often served to a GLOBAL market where there’s not telling what kind of distribution system or end user equipment is in play.”

Hmm but delivery these days is pretty much Flash H.264 and HTTP H.264 (segmented, etc). Flash or Wowza does both. Things are moving towards Dynamic methods to account for variable bandwidth delivery although that’s still fairly early. The technology is already there to eventually move from multiple in to multiple out to single high data rate in deriving multiple out.

Support for streaming appliances themselves is still on the weak side. Blackmagic and Matrox Thunderbolt devices don’t have passthrough to allow for multiple camera input. Bonded G3/G4 devices are still expensive for pedestrians but they are cheaper than satellite trucks.

Actually I think streaming might be moving much faster to standardize than broadcast, which is truly one nightmare compounded on another. I mean we’re still dealing with horribly compressed MPEG2 Transport Streams. Heck if this keeps up I’ll be getting a better 1080p stream from H.264 on my computer than what I see on my HDTV provided by Cable company.