Great FCPX Event today in Hollywood!

[Tony West]

[Lance Bachelder] ” Dean Devlin is cutting his next feature on it also.”

Lance, is this the same guy that was on Leverage? Wasn’t that an X show?

[Lance Bachelder]

Yes and there’s a profile for his studio on the FCP site. Probably his next movie “Geostorm”? He wasn’t at the event but apparently its a Warners show so FCPX alive and well on the lot.

It was at a Vegas premiere that I resolved to become an avid FCPX user.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Charlie Austin]

[Lance Bachelder] “Yes and there’s a profile for his studio on the FCP site. Probably his next movie “Geostorm”? He wasn’t at the event but apparently its a Warners show so FCPX alive and well on the lot.
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Yep. and Ficarra and Requas next film, cutting in X with the same editor, is for Paramount, so clearly the “x isn’t for pros” stigma is wearing off…

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[Charlie Austin]

[Scott Witthaus] “And why this year was so happy?
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I dunno, I have his contact info so maybe I’ll ask him. 🙂

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[Andrew Kimery]

[Scott Witthaus] “I was at a Sony /Avid 4k thing last week and the Avid demo artist just went through a list of features. I think she must have been tired. She just read off a piece of paper and it was like “oh this is cool, you can go to this menu and change ratio….” That type of demo. Nothing inspiring. Would be interesting to know why that Focus editor was so happy.”

I think that can just be the difference between a demo artist who’s made the same speech 100 times before and possibly never used/needed the features they are demoing. Where as a user, if they have a really good experience, will have an really good story to go along with it.

For example, the first time I made multicam clips in Premiere Pro CC I wanted to jump up and hug the iMac I was working on. I was completely floored that, literally, what would’ve been hours worth of work in Avid or FCP 7 was done in minutes in PPro. The producers I was with were like “Yeah, that’s pretty neat.” and I was like, “Man, you are not appreciating the mountain of awesome that towers before us!”

Prepping for multicam was one of the few things I truly loathed while working as an AE and the fact that PPro (and FCP X) have made the task almost completely automated and much more flexible (ex. being able to tweak things after the fact if need be) is freaking amazing. It’s been nearly a year and half since my first experience with the multicam in PPro and I still get excited when I think about it and will talk your ear off if you give me the chance. 😉

[Charlie Austin]

[Mark Raudonis] “”Don’t settle for a “default future”!”

Here’s an interesting Comparison… Both= Focus and Gone Girl cut on “unproven NLE’s. Bothe were chosen in some degree to suit workflow needs, Pr for AE integration, X for the ability to collaborate and cut with camera original media. However, I think these quotes give a good comparison of a big difference in why they chose a particular NLE…

Gone Girl Editor: “As an editing platform, it’s similar to the others I use,”

Focus Director: “We worked with Avid editors on our features and it struck us that things just hadn’t progressed. There was this huge reinvention of how you edit and then it stopped. We had shot a movie digitally, but it felt as if we were still cutting on a flatbed.”

Kind of interesting. The Focus director said he started using X because everyone hated it.. 🙂

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[Charlie Austin]

You can’t hide Ubsdell, I get email notifications! 😉 FWIW, I wasn’t commenting on the quality of the product no matter what they used, from razor blades and tape to todays fancy digital thingies, I just thought it was an interesting philosophical contrast. 🙂

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[Andrew Kimery]

[Charlie Austin] “Kind of interesting. The Focus director said he started using X because everyone hated it.. :-)”

Given the ‘pirate’ attitude they talked about I was surprised they shot on Arri (one of the oldest of the old guard) as opposed to, say, RED. And, interesting enough, Gone Girl shot on RED (though I think that was more for the 6K than for Jannard’s attitude). 😉

[Scott Witthaus]

[Andrew Kimery] “I think that can just be the difference between a demo artist who’s made the same speech 100 times before and possibly never used/needed the features they are demoing. Where as a user, if they have a really good experience, will have an really good story to go along with it.”

I agree. If this Avid demo artist could have wrapped a workflow, or even a real world project into her demo, it would have been much more effective. As it was, she didn’t sell any MC subscriptions that day.

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Andrew Kimery]

[Scott Witthaus] “I agree. If this Avid demo artist could have wrapped a workflow, or even a real world project into her demo, it would have been much more effective. As it was, she didn’t sell any MC subscriptions that day.”

During the X panel there was a rep from Arri that gave a short presentation and he was very nervous. Good technical info but the DP from Focus probably could have done a better job at ‘selling’ the camera than the official rep did.