Is Apple About to Lose Turner Studios?

[Christian Schumacher]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I would also venture to say that Turner wouldn’t come out and call FCPX, iMovie Pro like article states. They’d make an announcement and say something like “Starting next week, we’re moving to this NLE”. Or whatever.”

Duh!
This isn’t Ted Turner himself, dude. That’s Ken Brady, VP of Systems Technology and Digital Media.
He works at Turner Studios.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Christian Schumacher] “Duh!
This isn’t Ted Turner himself, dude. That’s Ken Brady, VP of Systems Technology and Digital Media.
He works at Turner Studios.”

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[David Lawrence]

[Jeremy Garchow] “PS David Lawrence left a comment, maybe he’ll get an answer.”

Yep, never hurts to ask. Either we’ll get a quote or we won’t. It’ll be telling either way.

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[Thomas Frank]

Why would they go to Adobe? Light Works is the way! 😉

[Bill Davis]

[Franz Bieberkopf] “That is quite beside the issue of what tools broadcast outfits will use.”

But Franz, that IS my point. You are thinking at the “what tools will broadcast outlets use” point in time. Lots and lots and LOTS of people are looking beyond, or maybe next door to, or even totally aside from “what tools broadcast outfits will use.

In fact that’s the primary argument I keep making here. Broadcast is one, singular important but not critical outlet for a person with media skills.

I’ll also freely acknowledge that in the old model, if you achieved the skills to output “broadcast quality” you could also do ANY other type of video work, since there was a single, reasonably monolithic target as to what “pro” video consisted of, that required significant mastery of a very specialized skill set that was both rare and demanding.

In the world of NOW, this is less and less the case. Great work is still great work, but increasingly, diversity of viewpoint, visuals that are as much computer generated as “camera generated” and access to skills (maybe mountain climbing, eco tourism, or hell, mathematics for all I know!) are going to be as much drivers of content as was being a part of an old style “media production company” in the past.

It’s not the only change, it might not be the most important change, but it is a change worthy of consideration.

Simple as that.

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[Franz Bieberkopf]

Bill,

I’m sure it is possible that magisto will “drive content” to some extent, somewhere on the internet (and I’m being quite sincere about that). I don’t think I’ve made any claim anywhere against that idea.

But nothing in your post above challenges the fact that at some point Turner’s broadcasting facilities are going to need to buy new systems – it may or may not be of interest to see what their decision is.

I don’t see these two things as connected.

You can look to writing, photography, and more recently music production as good examples of specialized technologies becoming widely adopted (I think the trendy word is “commoditized”, isn’t it?).

Anyway, specialists need tools. I’m interested in a certain set of tools that specialists use.

Franz.

[Aindreas Gallagher]

I was not here. Until I actually shagging learn Avid – and gentlepeople – this is free and rather good –

https://www.promax.com/s-130-edit-to-the-future.aspx

Until I do that and, say, properly take in FCPX, I am bidden by God to shut up –

Still… one thing, and Bill I am begging you on this.

Stop, please jesus I beg you, stop saying simple as that.

your overall judicial end quote is, I realise, your own mount rushmore.
but you actually do need to stop saying ‘simple as that.’

that genuinely has to happen.

I am willing to take this as far as the UN.

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Bill Davis] “This whole think looks to me that it happened in a “shop” of talented people – not in a “station” or in a MGM or Turner style “Studio” “

Um, as someone who visits Turner Studios on a regular basis, I can tell you that those studios are FULL of very talented and very creative people. They work in an absolutely gorgeous and fun facility that happens to be a large studio complex.

So you can go ahead and paint a “studio” with a broad brush as something that’s bad and un-creative. But in the case of Turner Studios, they are not only creative, they’re a hell of a lot of fun to hang out with.

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[Tony West]

[Jeremy Garchow] “We all know that FCPX isn’t ready for Turner. “

I don’t know about that Jeremy, kind of depends on which part your talking about. I don’t do their studio stuff but I work their live sports and I can tell you first hand that fcp X was very much a part of the MLB post season broadcast.

All their live sports are freelance guys from around the country (with some staff mixed in). So if you want to bring in X on your laptop and cut the highlights that’s on you, which is what happened.

[Jeremy Garchow]

True enough, Tony. Happy to be wrong.

I’m sure Turner has a bunch of NLEs, but I’d imagine their localized machine rooms might not be standardizing around X at the moment. That doesn’t mean X might not have its place for certain situations today.