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iPhone 4S new sensor can take 4K at 24p.FCPX can handle 4K.Imagine the possibilities.
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[Andy Neil] “As a former news man, I don’t really see a problem with cameras in the hands of more people. Sure quality of picture goes down, but also more news actually gets captured on video because eye witnesses now can record what’s happening.”
Exactly. Now with everyone having some sort of recording device, more of the real story gets presented. At the end of the day in journalism, its the content that matters, not pixel to pixel sharpness.
Quobetah
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“maybe the iPhone won’t be the very best camera but in 9 out 10 instances it will be more than adequate.”
Theodore Sturgeon was a great american science fiction writer of the post war period. More famous than any of his stories is what’s known as “Sturgeons Law” which was uttered when a journalist once asked him if it wasn’t true than 90% of all Science Fiction was crap. Sturgeon replied “young man, 90% of everything is crap.” So yes I’m sure that in 9 out of 10 instances in the work you do the Iphone, or most any little point and shoot camera, would be sufficient. In the work I do that number drops to zero.
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[Bill Davis] “This IS the change in the video industry these days. “
The real thing is that the video industry is a bit sick, and nor the iPhone, neither FCPX gonna help to improve his health.
Sorry, but your example about cooking doesn’t fit Escoffier, Bocuse or Adrian Ferra are to food what Griffith, Ford or Spielberg are to filming. Not much relation with what we are discussing hereYou talk about making great food, but that’s nothing to do with running restaurant.
Being a great chef at home, doesn’t qualify to open a restaurant, run a team and satisfy clients (nothing to do with expensive ingredients or kitchen gear neither).
For a good restaurant the service is as important as the food, and things turn different when you have 60 guests for lunch (If anybody doubt, I can post some first hand testimonies. If running a restaurant was easy, probably I would be posting in a “restaurateurs” forum instead of the COW).Keeping on the subject of restaurants an food, I would say the iPhone would be like a high end hot-dog trolley: Convenient if there is nothing better around, and wonderful if you love hot-dogs.
[kim krause] “imagine all your media stored in the cloud using just and iPad to access it…i’m seldom wrong about my future predictions but i sure have a way of pissing off the so called pros in our industry! hahahaha”
LOL!!!
Do you expect to edit 8 hours a day just with an iPad?
I’m very bad for predictions, but I see you changing your headphones by glasses.
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[Herb Sevush] “No, 35mm DOF adapters took a good lens, focused it on a large (comparatively) rotating screen to avoid introducing the screens granularity into the image and to keep the screen from gathering dust and hairs, and then shot it with another good lens. And still most people didn’t want to work with them. “
I know, we used them, now we don’t have to. I think you meant to say an OK lens. Most fixed lens cams were just ok (better than a camera phone, for sure). Also, most b4 cameras didn’t need another lens element as the DOF adapter attached direct.
I also think most people didn’t want to pay for them and didn’t get them. No electronic zoom control, no deal.
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Rafeal,
“The video industry is sick…” relates only to the historical view of the video industry based around large shops and a business model that revolves around selling high priced services to a small group of elite “re-sellers” who in turn gate-keep the content that the masses consume.
If you simply broaden your definition of the “video industry” you’ll see that not only is it “healthy” it’s astonishingly healthy.
YouTube is now the second most widely used “search engine” after Google. It’s “audience” dwarfs the aggregate of all the networks in the country.
And if you can simply see it in the light of it’s age, and understand that video over IP today is where broadcast was in the era of Dave Garroway and Bozo the Clown – eventually, the crap that clogs up YouTube will fade and the “keyboard cat” era will pass, like Howdy Doody did. In their wake will emerge a communications medium that will be something new and different.
And that’s a world where a tool like FCP-X will be more valuable than a tool like AVID.
That will happen, I believe because eventually the primary issue of driving people to video content won’t be about the nature of the content itself – it will be more about the ability to SEARCH it out.
So I’d rather bet on a tool that is foundationally structured on SEARCH capabilities – than one structured on ASSEMBLY capabilities.
ASSEMBLY is the inside game. SEARCH is the far more massive outside game. And you have to go play outside if you want to sell stuff.
That’s what I see. We’ll see if I’m right or missing the boat entirely.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Actually my observation about the iPhone’s ‘phoning’ appear to do with the GSM infrastructure in the US. I’ve had an iPhone 4 since a year now, and here in India it works just fine. No matter how I hold it. And it even works fine in some remote villages where roads, electricity, and drinking water are hard to come by.
But in the US, the iPhone 4 or any of my previous iPhones had trouble working fine. So, on a past visit, I bought a Samsung, and even that was as spotty in large cities like Boston, San Francisco and others. The same Samsung, works fine in India now.
EU, Singapore, Malaysia, my phones work great practically everywhere.
Anyone has a similar observation?
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neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
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[Neil Sadwelkar] “And it even works fine in some remote villages where roads, electricity, and drinking water are hard to come by.”
We were on a shoot in a very very remote location in China near Inner Mongolia.
We were working hard, shooting all day. All of a sudden I heard an “old phone” ring and sure enough, there I was miles from nowhere speaking to loved ones back home. After that, I paid more attention and we had full bars everywhere we went, from extremely small/remote villages to the metropolis of Beijing.
Yes, just like the rest of the crumbling US Infrastructure, it is a tenuous network, for sure.
With the release of the 4S, we now have a choice of a third carrier which seems to do well in my area. I might switch, but it’s really choosing the lesser of all evils. China Mobile was pretty incredible.
Jeremy
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my iPhone has the best reception of any cellphone i’ve owned. in south africa and the most i can get from my legend is 60% and it always reverts to the bloody stupid slow edge network. the iPhone on the other hand has never dropped a call and has consistently clear sound and never drops below 80% (4 out of 5 bars) everyone seems to forget that signal strength alone doesn’t determine the quality of the calls. network speeds play a large part in dropped calls. but what does all this have to do with the fcpx forum ?
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Ta Da
iPhone used to record parts of ‘The Avengers’
https://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/21/iphone_used_to_record_parts_of_emthe_avengers_em.htmlhttps://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4284370&tpl=archnews&force=1
I did a couple of shots on the iPhone and they are in the movie. In fact, they are in the trailer! I understand that sometimes there is no choice and you have to go for the cheapest option, but if you are limited for choice, you can still make poignant decisions that will effect the look of the film,” adds McGarvey.
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finally i have been acknowledged…..i made a mention about using the hd functions of an iPhone for shooting some basic things a while ago and i got the nasty mostly negative replies from people telling me it wasn’t professional..the same people that are threatened by change in the industry. why can’t people just accept that change is good and just adapt…the old ways are going out the door faster than you can think about it. check out the death of film newsletter from c.c. a few weeks back. i had been saying there same thing for 3 years already but nobody would agree with me. no maybe some of those old farts will start to think of fcpx on a mac mini as a real editing system with an iPad controlling everything ….it’s closer than you think, especially in light of the fact that apple is slowly moving away from towers and formerly high end computers…..the latest iPad i s way more powerful than the best laptop of 6 years ago and the latest laptops blow away any desktop from just 2 years back…….yeah!
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