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iMac bump
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“Adobe Premiere Pro Editors on Facebook” is one of the best forums for technical advice. Other interesting forums, “ASK AN EDITOR”, “Edit Suite Stories” and to a lesser extent, “Moving to Adobe Premiere Pro.”
tallmanproductions.net
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Well, if you’re primarily interested in Premiere, that makes perfect sense.
But there are plenty of FCP X specific groups that don’t necessarily cater to beginners.
Professional Final Cut Pro Editors comes immediately to mind.The only downside is that occasionally the threads are in foreign languages, as befits perhaps how slowly US editors took X seriously compared to the wider global editing community.
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[Bill Davis] “This is probably just me, but the days of “longing” for a system that works both reliably and as fast as I need it to — are simply a thing of the past.”
That really boils down to each personal situation. I do think the post industry is split between the minimalist approach and the full-blown – sports car versus truck, if you will. If you mainly edit and do some color correction, mixing, and mograph in service of that edit, then nearly any decent machine you buy today – workstation, all-in-one, or laptop – will be more than adequate. That’s true for Media Composer, Resolve, Premiere Pro, and FCPX.
However, if your primary assignments are extensive and elaborate After Effects work, 3D animation, Flame or Fusion compositing, or full-time color correction, then you are interested in eeking every last bit of performance out of the machine. And not just the machine, but ancillary hardware for proper monitoring, etc.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Oliver Peters] “Aside from the issue of monetizing your data – Facebook is a horrible format to try and follow any sort of threaded discussion.”
Exactly! And aside from that aside, there’s the whole issue of social experimentation via feed manipulation, the corporate-level cavalier attitude regarding account security, the intentional misuse of their Apple dev account certs… Stack on top of that the inability to follow an actual discussion, and Facebook is a complete non-starter for me.
I deleted my account a year and a half ago, and have no intention of going back.
Love me some COW, but it has been a bit quiet of late.
Doug Metz
Anode
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Greg Janza: I’ll add too that the now ancient and thoroughly boring debate of FCPX vs Premiere or Apple vs. The World has taken a back seat to practical advice.
+1
– Ronny
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[Bill Davis] “I spent the last two weeks designing and building out one of the most complex storylines of my past few years. It’s the video equivalent of a “brand book” for a large financial client with many divisions, all of which their many agencies need to keep the “look and feel” of all their public facing communications consistent.”
I’d be interested in a write up of that project if you had the time.
[Oliver Peters] “Aside from the issue of monetizing your data – Facebook is a horrible format to try and follow any sort of threaded discussion.”
Add to that the ‘minor’ issue of Facebook owning and controlling access to your audience. ???? FB is a very risky place to build a community, IMO, because you are 100% beholden on FB to not screw you over for their monetary gain.
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[Andrew Kimery] “I’d be interested in a write up of that project if you had the time.”
Nothing I would like more, but as is typical, all the content is client branded stuff, so getting permission to publish all their proprietary brand design property would be a nightmare even if it turned out to be possible at all.
I’ve actually already had a conversation with the Agency owner because I thought promoting what we were doing for this client could be an EXCELLENT case study for them getting more work of this type – and we kicked around some ideas about creating parallel content using a fictitious brand so as to avoid the IP issues — but that’s a good bit of work for the art directors to revise all the pallets, typography and designs and for the copywriters to change the target industry copy all “on spec.”
Sigh.
Since you’re interested, I’m sure it’s OK to post this screen grab since it reveals nothing proprietary. It’s a CU of a chunk out of the involved storyline. Blocks of white representing paper. Key luma-keyed knockout templates in grey to contrast the ad size in play with the desktop. Photos and copy that build over time to demonstrate how each part of the communications piece needs to maintain the brand guidelines and what are acceptable deviations. All running over a descriptive narrative. It’s been really interesting to break down the brand designers standards, while still allowing sub-agencies and market managers some flexibility to meet their needs to create short term messaging that has the “look and feel” of the brand without needing to go to “home base” for EVERY little decision and approval. Some of my connected clip stacks go up 30-40 levels if I have multiple ads in play on a page with multiple elements each. I’ll eventually compound them into groupings, but during the design/assembly phase, I can need to switch-out anything, so discrete units feel currently best. In this situation, Magnetism is totally AWESOME – as the corporate stakeholders change their mind about the order of topics that they need.
It’s been a very engaging and interesting project. overall.
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Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
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[Bill Davis] “Nothing I would like more, but as is typical, all the content is client branded stuff, so getting permission to publish all their proprietary brand design property would be a nightmare even if it turned out to be possible at all.
“I figured that would be the case, but I felt compelled to ask anyway. It sounds like a very cool project. Thank you for the timeline teaser/snippet. 🙂
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