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Interview with Thomas Grove Carter
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[David Lawrence] “[Bill Davis] “But it’s also true that “finishing” is changing. And worse, becoming less and less relevant in the modern era.”
Have to disagree. Finishing is changing, but it’s certainly not becoming less relevant, and won’t long as people continue to pay to see movies in a theater. Try grading a stereoscopic DCP for stereo projection on your laptop and you’ll quickly see what I mean. ???? That’s just one example.”
Not realizing that this would catch on, I realize that I didn’t post a link to the original YouTube video that caused me to mentally make that point.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmRXMZPDiQk
Based on the content – Justin does NOT employ any “traditional finishing” for his work, merely doing some “inside X” fundamental auto correcting and matching.
But if you WATCH his content, it looks functionally very close to the work produced by major operations.
THAT was my point. Not the “finishing” per se is obsolete. That’s silly. But that what kids like him (He does say his channel production is interrupted by his need to GO TO SCHOOL!) are doing, is aggregating massive audiences (does 100,000 plus subscribers not qualify?) without the need for any traditional outside “finishing” stages.
THAT is the change. The video quality and ” look” he can achieve (even without “finishing” TOTALLY BLOWS AWAY was I was able to achieve in terms of image quality for the entire first 20 YEARS of my career, at least in my self-produced work. And arguably, even in my professional studio and TV Station produced stuff, since that was all NTSC SD stuff for a LONG time.
FWIW.
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[Tim Wilson] “This story is absolutely astounding to me. That Grant Petty managed to update and mainstream a true alternative to Pro Tools and release it for $299….or zero, if you think of it as being thrown in for free with Resolve….I’m speechless….”
Me, too. However, let’s not forget that Adobe has also been doing essentially the same with Premiere Pro. Audio is largely from Audition, color correction (Lumetri) is totally SpeedGrade, and now the new title tool is using elements of Photoshop.
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[David Lawrence] “Try grading a stereoscopic DCP for stereo projection on your laptop and you’ll quickly see what I mean.”
I interviewed an editor working on a Hulu series. They require UHD (4K) masters in HDR, although they are only streaming SDR so far.
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[Bill Davis] “But if you WATCH his content, it looks functionally very close to the work produced by major operations”
I’m not sure I see that. I don’t mean to take away from him. Ultimately it’s an issue of talent and he is clearly talented. But I still don’t see the comparison you are trying to draw. It’s essentially the same as saying you don’t need a small army of a crew to get good content. Well, that’s really a big “maybe”. Most productions, even corporate videos for the web, do take a lot of production effort and expertise, more so than most one-man-bands can offer.
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[Bill Davis] “THAT is the change. The video quality and ” look” he can achieve (even without “finishing” TOTALLY BLOWS AWAY was I was able to achieve in terms of image quality for the entire first 20 YEARS of my career…”
[Oliver Peters] “I’m not sure I see that. I don’t mean to take away from him. Ultimately it’s an issue of talent and he is clearly talented. But I still don’t see the comparison you are trying to draw. It’s essentially the same as saying you don’t need a small army of a crew to get good content. Well, that’s really a big “maybe”. Most productions, even corporate videos for the web, do take a lot of production effort and expertise, more so than most one-man-bands can offer.”
Yep. and today millions of people carry a 4K video camera in their pockets they can also make phone calls with. Tools always improve, better quality is always becoming more accessible, but talent always wins the day. Filmmaking is a team sport and for big shows, I don’t see that ever changing, no matter how much the tools evolve.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “in my world the standard of finishing expected by our clients keeps going up year on year.”
I don’t see that, at least in TV news. Note the major color problems on this CNN piece from 00:38 to 01:17 and 03:50 to 04:00. This wasn’t a failure to use Quantel Pablo Rio, or a failure to use Resolve, or a failure to use a white balance plugin — it was a failure to do *anything*: https://money.cnn.com/2015/10/16/technology/sniper-power-grid/index.html
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As a one man band, who has a Youtube channel focused on West Coast College lacrosse (truly an niche subject) I used to wonder why the best films always had large teams. I think the point is that even with the great cameras, editing software that a one man band can utilize, a team approach where each member has expertise will win. It is that deeper expertise in each area that can produce higher quality.
If I have a second shooter, I get different angles of the sport and more choices in editing. If I have a sound person, I can get higher quality and unique audio.
My modest goal is to reach a million views on Youtube, 815 k at the moment and I find quality translates to views. -
[Claude Lyneis] “My modest goal is to reach a million views on Youtube, 815 k at the moment and I find quality translates to views.”
Sometimes, but one of the Channels I have got nearly 4.5 million views with this simple clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ti9GwnlVs
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[Joe Marler] “I don’t see that, at least in TV news.”
Indeed, there are many areas where standards have plummeted to a pitiful low. (And despite what one sometimes hears to the contrary, there is quite a lot of truly appalling video and audio on YouTube, not just on TV news.)
But there are also many other areas where quality is even more in demand than it ever was and where the quality benchmark keeps getting higher.
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Yeah, one good cat video equals a million views. More cat lovers than lacrosse lovers.
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