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In LA Tomorrow…(Wed 1/24) at LACPUG
Visiting a friend in LA tomorrow so decided to drop by the Apple LACPUG meeting.
Apple is presenting in the first part of the show.
After the break, the theme is about saving money while making personal films and is centered around what students have done with FCP X and the new affordable AppleStore/Red combo. There will be an iMac Pro on display to lust over. Should be cool, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what the student teams have created.
Meeting is sold out – but the tradition is that people sign up but sometimes don’t show up – so if you want to come even if you don’t have a formal seat reserved, I hear that’s cool.
Hope to see lots of friends and LA FCP X community folk there!
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Any live webcast or later after the fact?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Typically, yes. But with Apple there, who knows? They might be cool with it. I know one time early on they weren’t. But Michael (who runs it) posts a cast on the meeting a couple weeks later.
Now debating if I should go at least to mingle at half-time break….
Shane
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[Shane Ross] “Now debating if I should go at least to mingle at half-time break….”
You’re on the perfect forum for that….
Scott Witthaus
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Can’t make it, but should be a show. Sorry I’ll miss you this time around, Bill.
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For those who went – how was it?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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Kinda cool.
I know the main thing this group wants to know about is the Color thing. But honestly, it was barely a passing topic at the meeting. During the Stump the Gurus session, the question WAS asked. I kept my yap shut as the LEAST qualified guy on the panel regarding grading issues.
Sam Mestman (who spent part of his career doing color work) – pretty much noted that it’s a thing, but he really didn’t seem to think it was a big thing. Mike Matzdorff appeared to be at about the same place.
Apple wasn’t on stage, but obviously WAS in the front row, and nope, nobody from ProApps jumped up to deal with it like it was an active fire. It’s OBVIOUSLY on their radar. The whole thing took maybe 4 minutes – then the crowd was on to other things and it never came up again..
I’m sure people who live and breath traditional grading processes still vehemently disagree and have their concerns – but for this crowd and in this room – it was just NOT a big focus – at all.
The apple folks (there were a bunch in the house) including a wide variety of product folk mingled. Were obvious at the breaks behind or beside the iMacPros setup in the lobby area. Individuals who are dedicated colorists had ample opportunity to directly discuss any issues they had directly with the product and/or engineering folk there.
But again, I’m a color idiot and was talking to others about other things.
Overall, the night was half a modified version of what we saw at NAB – along with the fun of the “student films”- the teams Apple sponsored with loaner equipment and mentorship to enable them to make passion projects.
ALL three of the films had young women directors and they were a treat to watch.
The one that personally moved me most was the first entry – La Buena Muerte: Directed by Jean Balest, Cinematography by Elle Schneider, Produced by Manon Banta & The Mobile Film Classroom. it was based around a “dia de los muertos” theme with a daughter and her mother coming to terms with the mothers terminal cancer diagnosis. The imagery as captured by the Red loaner cameras by Ms Schneider, graded in 10.4. and shown up on the big screen – was tack sharp, properly “focus managed” via depth of field – believable and beautiful. Particularly considering there were so many black and white super high contrast face images mixed in with the super colorful stuff of the parade footage.
Sam said the theme, was basically. If you have a passion to tell a story – it’s an amazing time – with amazing tools – that can let you do that. At a pretty astonishing price considering what you used to have to spend to pull off anything remotely like these projects.
Overall a really fun evening and it was awesome to get to see so many old and new friends.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
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Thanks for a nice recap. Sounds like a good evening.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Bill Davis] “Particularly considering there were so many black and white super high contrast face images mixed in with the super colorful stuff of the parade footage”
Any mention of whether or not this was edited and/or projected in one of the HDR modes?
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Bill Davis] “The imagery as captured by the Red loaner cameras by Ms Schneider, graded in 10.4. and shown up on the big screen – was tack sharp, properly “focus managed” via depth of field – believable and beautiful”
As an aside, Elle Schneider was also involved in the Digital Bolex endeavor. I’m not sure they are even around anymore, but the website lingers on.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Bill Davis] “I’m sure people who live and breath traditional grading processes still vehemently disagree and have their concerns – but for this crowd and in this room – it was just NOT a big focus – at all.”
If that is the reaction then Apple may have wasted a lot of development time on giving X editors a tool that they don’t really need. I’m looking forward to the reaction when Apple fix it because I am confident they will. If there is barely a ripple then Apple did waste time. If the reviews are gushing post fix then it says editors are less than honest with Apple about fixing problems.
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