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Less a showdown, more a decision – Phillip Bloom outlines his reasoning for choosing PPro 6.
https://philipbloom.net/2012/09/30/cs6/
more than anything – there are two things I agree with fundamentally:
Adobe are visibly, and completely, focused on attempting to correctly perceive and enhance editing workflow to the absolute best of their abilities.
PPro 6 literally screams that it is not messing around.Adobe are financially rock solid, and highly highly dependable as a partner over the medium term. that part can’t be overstated.
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I am also down with the moments of delight described – cracking open prelude and audition – and realising that they are tasty software. Its actual real and good new stuff. Soundtrack pro, for me at first sight, was real stuff – not direct to my limited skill set, but approachable, and reeking of usefulness.
Adobe exist to service the sometimes insanely detailed and changing needs of difficult, peripheral and choosy people – that would be the lot of us.
Adobe iterate like an attentive hammer, and in comparative terms, you could call PPro 6 a very early cycle product in terms of ambition – near to photoshop 4 almost with actions and history – early product, with heavy investment. PPro 6 = early stage Photoshop.
You can take a three decade design professional partner throwing all their editing cards on the table in terms of investment, time, development and PR, or you can plump for what is essentially a hardware sales company transitioning heavily into telecommunications, media and portable computing.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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If he’s going to tell us what editing app he’s going to use and endorse…let me figure out what camera I think is the best option and endorse it.
Shane
Little Frog Post
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Although a camera man, Phillip says he has been editing for a long time. Perhaps more time editing than most editors spend behind a camera.
That said, I would be happy to hear any editors views on cameras. As someone who has done telecine, news sound & camera, sound post and grade/ online, I appreciate the viewpoint of any users who share the tools.
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LOL! Exactly – he’s a professional camera tester – not an EDITOR!
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In his initial postings about FCPX and CS6 it seemed like he had deadlines and no time to learn anything new on that side of the production.
In the long term he might regret it, because in particular in his field FCPX would prove itself extremely fast and helpful. -
Bloom started as a news videographer. Generally folks in that role cut their own pieces, with reporters and/or producers sitting over their shoulder. As such, I would say he’s as much an “editor” as most of the folks here.
His views are interesting in regards to X, because as we all seem to agree, X is precisely optimized for the news and narrative style of editing. I’m sure it’s a view held by most other new videographer/editors, as I see steady adoption of PPro – over X – in these types of enterprises. Adobe Anywhere is likely to seal the deal for many.
That being said, there’s very little in the video that couldn’t have just as easily been said about X. The big exception is native camera codecs on the timeline (something I’m not a fan of BTW).
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “The big exception is native camera codecs on the timeline (something I’m not a fan of BTW).”
Yes. I just love telling a client, “Sorry, but I have to spend a few hours transcoding all this footage before I can start working on it.”
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[alban egger] “In his initial postings about FCPX and CS6 it seemed like he had deadlines and no time to learn anything new on that side of the production.”
Or maybe he just doesn’t want to fight the timeline in order to edit the way he wants?
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[Shane Ross] “If he’s going to tell us what editing app he’s going to use and endorse…let me figure out what camera I think is the best option and endorse it.”
[Shane Ross]“LOL! Exactly – he’s a professional camera tester – not an EDITOR!”
FYI
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2423275/
Shawn
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Personally I don’t care what Philip Bloom – or for that matter Walter Murch – has to say. I don’t think he (that is PB) is much more than an ardent (and very good) self publicist.
I’ve been editing 25 years since news was cut on machine to machine Betacam suites, I know what works for me and I know how I work. So I’ll make my own decisions about what I’ll use – and I suggest the rest of you do the same.
Like everyone else I’m not sure about Apple’s direction but I do think there’s a lot more to FCP X than a lot of people believe.
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[Michael Sanders] “Personally I don’t care what Philip Bloom – or for that matter Walter Murch – has to say. I don’t think he (that is PB) is much more than an ardent (and very good) self publicist. “
I like hearing what other people have to say because it may provide a perspective or a nugget of information that I hadn’t experienced and/or thought of. Ultimately how I choose to operate depends on my needs but I do enjoy reading up and/or talking with other people to see what their experiences are like compared to my own.
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