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MacBreak Studio discussion on Avid and FCPX
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[David Roth Weiss] “informed decisions.”
[Chris Harlan] “What’s them things?”
It’s all them silly questions I’ve been answering on all those other forums for the last twenty years. 🙂
The perfect example is” “What’s a codec?”
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comDon’t miss my new Creative Cow Podcast: Bringing “The Whale” to the Big Screen:
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/Podcast-Series-2-MikeParfitandSuzanneChisholm/1POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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[David Roth Weiss] “[David Roth Weiss] “informed decisions.”
[Chris Harlan] “What’s them things?”
It’s all them silly questions I’ve been answering on all those other forums for the last twenty years. 🙂
The perfect example is” “What’s a codec?””
You don’t need to know that! All you got to do is poor the videos in, churn ’em up, then spray ’em out.
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[Thomas Frank] “True that but again allot of your suggestion are techno talk, wouldnt you rather use a app that is made for stereoscopic…”
I don’t understand what you mean by that. MC is made for stereoscopic editing, out of the box, that’s one of the big things that sets it appart from almost everything else on the market (if you need that feature of course).
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[David Roth Weiss] “That’s not a universal rule that applies to all editors Tony”
I hear you David, I don’t know if anything applies to all editors though. For me I wouldn’t even be on here if X had not come out. I have learned a lot by reading the insights of people who are very bright and talented.
Folks talk about a certain software, I get it and now my work is better for it.
I never heard of you David before X came out and now we are conversing.
[David Roth Weiss] “”Jack of all trades, master of none,””
I’m old enough to have seen Bo Jackson play.
How does a person get good enough to be a Pro in 2 sports when most people couldn’t get to the minors in one?
Hard Work.
A lot of people don’t want to work hard at one thing let alone 2. That comes down to each person.
How hard you are willing to work is how good you are.
[David Roth Weiss] “The democratization of video is not universally accepted by all as a positive. More is not always better…”
Agreed.
I go back and forth on this. As much as my ego likes working on the Olympics, if they say don’t come back………..in my back pocket is “I don’t need you”
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Oh you mean editing the footage, isnt that possible in FCPX?
I thought you mean converting standard to stereo…. -
I have been Mac person for a long time so you may have something there.
This is how I remember it and feel free to correct me,
There were other NLE’s out there but I don’t remember them being “free”
When apple tossed in Imovie for “free” I think that put pressure on Avid. It was just a consumer product but you could cut a wedding or something simple on it.
I remember Avid putting out Avid “free” DV (I had that) I think Avid didn’t want you to get your editing feet wet on that Imovie. If you wanted to get started, I think they wanted you on their product.
Chris, what was the price of Avid (roughly) before FCP came out?
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[Thomas Frank] “Oh you mean editing the footage, isnt that possible in FCPX?
I thought you mean converting standard to stereo….”Out of the box in X? No.
And even with Dashwood plug-in that is currently only runs in legacy not as in-depth (no pun intended) as in MC6. -
[tony west] “I never heard of you David before X came out and now we are conversing.”
Credit The Cow Tony… I’ve been here since the very beginning, though it often seems like the beginning of time.
Just to give you a little perspective, a 1-gigabyte hard drive was $2000 when I first began using NLEs.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comDon’t miss my new Creative Cow Podcast: Bringing “The Whale” to the Big Screen:
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/Podcast-Series-2-MikeParfitandSuzanneChisholm/1POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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[David Roth Weiss] “However guys, don’t forget that loads of editors were, and still are, actually forced to think, and to learn, at least a modicum of video engineering, because many without that knowledge and expertise suddenly discovered that editing without hardware meant the human being at the controls had to make informed decisions.
“Having spent 5 years as a linear online editor, I’m with you on that one.
Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
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[tony west] “what was the price of Avid (roughly) before FCP came out?”
Remember Tony, until very recently there was no such thing as Avid software “out of the box,” because Avid systems required hardware.
For the record, when I initially contemplated buying my first NLE system, in the early 1990s, an Avid 8000 system, without any storage, was speced-out for me at $160K. Keep in mind, that was offline quality, with the final work product being an online-ready EDL.
The computers of the day couldn’t handle anything close to online quality video, and storage at that time was so expensive you couldn’t even think about online quality even had the computer been powerful enough to do the job.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comDon’t miss my new Creative Cow Podcast: Bringing “The Whale” to the Big Screen:
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/Podcast-Series-2-MikeParfitandSuzanneChisholm/1POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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