I wish FCPX adopted these Premiere Pro features

[Jim Wiseman]

I got nailed for quite innocently using the word “football” a few days ago. Then I saw it another recent post somewhere else. Maybe I’ll put asterisks on the ends of it next time it seems pertinent. How about the dinner table no-no’s, Politics and Religion?

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.1, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC, 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500, Helios 2 w 2-960GB SSDs: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz, 24Gb RAM, GTX-680, 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD, Multiple OWC Thunderbay 4 TB2 and eSATA QX2 RAID 5 HD systems

[Andrew Kimery]

[Tim Wilson] “With a nod of respect to Lumetri and other vastly underrated in-NLE grading tools, EVERYBODY uses Resolve. “

You and Oliver (and the press release) just mentioned Avid, and there are shows/facilities that grade and finish with Symphony, so I just wanted to toss out that Resolve was in the mix as well. Also, when I worked at Pie Town a lot of the grading was done inside FCP (using 1st and 3rd party tools) though one of the guys did use Color. If all of the shows now leave the NLE for grading then that certainly is a change in their workflow style.

It terms of workflow speed there is something to be said for keeping the grading inside the NLE. Last minute notes/fixes/tweaks are much easier to do when you don’t have to send a fix to another app, apply the fix, export out a new piece of media, import that new piece of media into the NLE and then drop it into the timeline.

[Tim Wilson] “Which is why, if there’s a need for flexible, extensible, large-scale workflows for the next 20 years, The Avid will be around for the next 20 years too.”

I agree with all you’ve said about Avid but, if Apple had released FCP 8 instead of FCP X then Bunim/Murray, Pie Town, etc., probably wouldn’t have switched back to Avid. Some companies ditched Avid for FCP Legend, and others were never Avid to begin with, so even though Avid has The Force obviously some people were fine with something that was only kinda like The Force.

Of course Apple did release X so what’s my point? If people left Avid once there’s no guarantee they won’t leave Avid again for something that’s a better/cheaper/faster/whatever NLE that has a ‘good enough’ multiuser environment. Ditto for new companies starting out. MC plus ISIS might be too expensive so they’ll go with X or PPro with EditShare and probably stick with it as the company grows.

There will always be some need for flexible, extensible, large-scale workflows but Avid already has that market pretty well covered and I don’t see a whole lot of growth potential in that sector.

[Tim Wilson] ” Did you know that there are something like two-dozen non-scripted shows on THE WEATHER CHANNEL?”

Funny you mention that. I just saw an article the other day where the Weather Channel had some layoffs and is scaling back their original content in order to refocus on weather and weather related info. They are expecting things to get nasty with the increase in over-the-top services and skinny bundles so they are trying to get back to their niche as opposed to being seen as just another channel full of reality shows.

[Andrew Kimery]

[Jim Wiseman] “Rental takes away the onus of development of products that have pretty much reached most of their necessary features and require a little “help” to keep the cash flowing.”

I don’t think rental factors into it all that much. For example, Adobe still needs to keep me on the CC hook for another 2 or 3 years before they’ll get in subscription fees what I would have paid upfront for a perpetual license of the Master Collection. Also, for years I’ve heard people complain about what they consider the BS updates to Photoshop that Adobe was charging an arm and a leg for. Same thing with Avid 10yrs ago.

It’s all about competition. If Pixelmator, or that other new photo app that came our recently, can turn into a legit Photoshop competitor then Adobe will be forced to stay on top of it’s game. As an editor I don’t feel trapped using PPro because if it doesn’t meet my needs there are 2-3 NLEs I can hop right too. If I was primarily a PS or AE user I would feel more beholden to Adobe (regardless of payment method) because there is relatively little competition.

[Tim Wilson]

[Jim Wiseman] “I got nailed for quite innocently using the word “f***ball” a few days ago. “

This particular F word has become the spammiest of spam words in the 20 year history of our online community, perhaps by an order of magnitude over previous winners.

Think about how many ads you see for fantasy sports.

Then add the number of you antiestablishment hipsters and skinfkints, hipster or nay, who want to watch the nfl without paying for cable, satellite, or for a full season online subscription.

Then add college bowl games.

Then add the hundreds of f***ball leagues in the nearly 200 nations and independent territories whose citizens frequent Creative COW…

…multiplied by the number malfeasants looking for a new excuse to pry away your credit card, and, even more often, your very identity.

And where better to prey than among a bunch of cranky old bastards likely to have credit cards, and who’d clearly rather have arguments than relations — surmised by myself by the spam for male enhancement having nearly altogether vanished from our servers — and lo and behold, a site with the demography and global reach of ours is among the most high-value targets for f***ball spam anywhere on the Internet.

So, yes, with sports spam having exploded beyond imagining, we have deployed a vast yet nimble array of countermeasures that have been quite effective in catching thousands of incursions daily.

(I don’t often talk about the scale of the COW’s hoofprint, but in the process of serving 30TB of data daily, plus mailing opt-in subscriptions for newsletters, threads, etc. to over 300,000 members, the door is open wide and long enough for a meaningful amount of detritus to require our attention.)

The last line of defense is for a member of our team to apply their own balls of eyes to the handful of f***ball-related posts that make their way through our defenses.

While we certainly apologize for any inconvenience, I assure you that any less diligence on our part would be far more annoying than our current approach.

Albeit perhaps less annoying than another explainy post from me.

Yr pal,
Timmy

Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Jim Wiseman]

Thanks, Tim. At least I was not permanently nuked, though the warning is quite effective.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.1, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC, 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500, Helios 2 w 2-960GB SSDs: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz, 24Gb RAM, GTX-680, 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD, Multiple OWC Thunderbay 4 TB2 and eSATA QX2 RAID 5 HD systems

[Bill Davis]

And what are all those new “f-word” spam weasels peddling?
Oh yeah. Subscriptions.
(Couldn’t resist! ; )

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[Jeff Markgraf]

Just to keep the OT going: so now that Corbyn has won the Labour leadership, is Britain about to go down the tubes? Or is he, in fact, the downfall of Labour?

Some interesting Bernie Sanders parallels, if you follow US politics.

[James Ewart]

[Jeff Markgraf] “Just to keep the OT going: so now that Corbyn has won the Labour leadership, is Britain about to go down the tubes? Or is he, in fact, the downfall of Labour?

Some interesting Bernie Sanders parallels, if you follow US politics.”

For sure I think both Sanders and Corbyn are saying stuff that it’s hard to disagree with. It’s a breath of fresh air to many. Touched a nerve.

Whether the very far left come out of the woodwork under Corbyn remains to be seen. That could be a problem for them. Tony Blair seems to be incredibly deluded. By coming out and saying all that stuff was a classic own goal. I would say he is probably the most despised politician we have ever had in the UK.

Will the USA allow us to dismantle our nuclear deterrent if Labour win the next election under Corbyn? I seriously doubt it. Although not a conspiracy theorist I do believe ultimately we have to do what we’re told. Once upon a time a deal was done and the USA came to our rescue twice. So now if the USA tells us to “jump” we say “how high?”

Will Bernie Sanders be the next Democratic presidential candidate? Odds over here on that are 6-1 with Hilary Clinton at 1 -3 (odds on) so seems unlikely.

Will Donald Trump be the next Republican candidate? Is that conceivable? Jeb Bush is 7 – 4 Trump is 7 – 2. Could it happen?

[Jeff Markgraf]

[James Ewart] “Will Bernie Sanders be the next Democratic presidential candidate?”

Lots of concern that he scares the “moderate Democrats.” So maybe not. But he certainly is helping to push Hilary away from her so-center-she’s-practically-conservative leanings. So that’s good.

[James Ewart] “Will Donald Trump be the next Republican candidate? Is that conceivable?”

Well…let’s hope not. I think he’ll eventually burn himself out. The wing nuts and low-information Republicans are currently enamored of his faux “tell it like it is” schtick. But I doubt he’ll ever be loony enough for the Tea Baggers, and the more moderate Republicans (what’s left of them) will eventually get bored with him.

Or so one hopes. And yet, the idea of his winning the Republican nomination has a certain charm, because as the general electorate always moves away from the extremes of the primaries, I suspect Hilary or even Bernie would crush him in the general election.

[James Ewart]

[Jeff Markgraf] “Or so one hopes. And yet, the idea of his winning the Republican nomination has a certain charm, because as the general electorate always moves away from the extremes of the primaries, I suspect Hilary or even Bernie would crush him in the general election.”

But just for fun can you imagine. Donald Trump president of the United States of America?