iPhone 4S new sensor can take 4K at 24p.FCPX can handle 4K.Imagine the possibilities.

[Tim Wilson]

[Herb Sevush] “I’ll agree this whole thread is ridiculous.

If there were no ridiculousness, the COW would cease to exist.

I didn’t see anybody else mention this on the thread…but I confess I haven’t read every post on every thread yet. Hey, it’s the weekend. Now I can catch up.

Anyway, a pretty interesting video doing a side by side comparison of 5D and 4s. It’s a reminder that when it comes to video quality, size isn’t everything. It’s not NOTHING either, so don’t get me started there.

But take a look full screen. The 4s isn’t “as good,” but it’s pretty dang good. It won’t take long for somebody to use this in a major league venue, and nobody’s gonna blink.

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[Kim Krause]

herb, i hope you feel all cozy in your comfy studio with all that equipment but you are missing the whole point. in the past you needed the support of a complete post house (tape machines, cmx editing consoles, routing switcher, ado efx box of some kind…plus a few tape operators and a technician with a bunch of tools in case something went wrong…all costing hundreds of thousands of dollars….then all these nle (fcp.avid,premier,etc)systems popped up with the ability to edit on a laptop anywhere you happened to be. now you perform the same basic functions with next to no money in much higher quality sitting in your kitchen with your morning coffee…why can’t you see the advantage in this? it’s called evolution and you can embrace the change or sit back in your tower and wonder how that latest blockbuster film was done in someones kitchen using an iPhone and a macbook air or yes even an iPad….yes i’m aware of the memory limitations of an iPad but connect one wirelessly to a server holding all your media and off you go! i can still remember having to place physical strips of film shots in a bin using a moviola and the purists at that time believed that was the only way to really edit…where are they now…no look around and see where you can buy a film camera? bet you would have a hard time because in the next few years kodak won’t even be making film any more!. change, evolve and move ahead!

[Steve Connor]

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/21/some-scenes-in-the-avengers-filmed-on-an-iphone/

Apparently the story wasn’t true!

“My Name is Steve and I’m an FCPX user”

[Herb Sevush]

[Steve Connor] “Apparently the story wasn’t true!”

Making the silliness of this whole thread more apparent.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[kim krause] “now you perform the same basic functions with next to no money in much higher quality sitting in your kitchen with your morning coffee…why can’t you see the advantage in this?”

I prefer to edit in my studio and cook in my kitchen – I take it you like to edit in your kitchen, and then what, cook in your bathroom and take a dump in your closet?

Like you, I started out hanging film clips in bins. I appreciate the drop in cost of modern editing. I’ve cut on laptops when I had to, but it is not something I enjoy, nor is it an optimum way to work. The Ipad would be even worse – for 2 main reasons:

1) keypad
2) monitors

While miniaturization can change the size of the equipment needed to manage data it so far hasn’t effected the needs of the human body. Real springy keyboards are much better input devices then tapping on an ungiving Ipad screen and large viewing surfaces are necessary to see detail in the images I edit. I’m still required to deliver finished shows on tape and screening copies on DVD. Some producers send me stock footage on BetaCam tape. When these requirements, both physical and commercial, change then I will downsize my studio, although I doubt I will edit in my kitchen.

[kim krause] “change, evolve and move ahead!”

I plan to, I just don’t see FCPX or Ipad editing as part of the future for the work I do. Nor do I think that using a cell phone as a video camera holds much appeal to me. But you go right ahead if it fits the work you do.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Craig Seeman]

And look at this “promotional” video for iPhone4 Cinematography
iPhone Cinema – Exposed!
https://vimeo.com/31293386

[Herb Sevush]

Lovely. I especially like that they had to put a declaimer on the end.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf