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Mark Sanger (Oscar Winner for Editing – Gravity) Avid vs FCPX
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If we are talking about FCP legacy, you need to add the Sony VX1000. That pretty much was the game changer in terms of Prosumerism.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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I think it was all this and more.
DV-25 pushing aside Hi-8 on the bottom and 3/4SP at the industrial level – and being a fully digital alternative to BetaSP at the broadcast level. Increasingly fast computer processing.. Yes, FCP V1 being able to use Firewire in and out to Sony camcorders and the relatively cheap DSR series digital decks.
It was honestly the digitization of everything. For a little while, it was the guys using scopes verses the guys who didn’t. And I remember being resistant to giving them up in the field – until a shooter I was working with was showing me switchable zebra settings – and it dawned on me that I didn’t actually always need “scopes” – what I needed instead was just some form of reliable way to judge exposure values. And when the Marshall monitors came out with False colors mapped to exposure levels, the “value” of having scopes in the field shifted.
Basically, I had to evolve from thinking there was one RIGHT way to check things anymore. And instead, consider that there might be various “right” ways – and that it was up to me to learn about and understand the choices and not get stuck on thinking that the way I’d done it up to then would always necessarily be the best way.
And so it goes.
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Bill,
I totally agree with you but in one thing: I don’t think editing hollywood features are the top-professional goal of an editor. It may be if you are cutting features.Every single kind of video has it’s own amateur and pro editors. You can be the Oscar winning editor for a film but you may fail cutting a TV show or even a wedding. Again, every single video category has its own particularities and thus needs experience in that particular field. One may need the most poetic narrative sense from you, but other may need more speed, or more compositing knowledge, or more documentary experience, etc.
So, I do think that hearing about every success story is good, but big budget films are not the only one source of that.
Leo Hans
Editor AVID – Final Cut Pro (7+X)
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[Leo Hans] “Bill,
I totally agree with you but in one thing: I don’t think editing hollywood features are the top-professional goal of an editor. It may be if you are cutting features.Every single kind of video has it’s own amateur and pro editors. You can be the Oscar winning editor for a film but you may fail cutting a TV show or even a wedding. Again, every single video category has its own particularities and thus needs experience in that particular field. One may need the most poetic narrative sense from you, but other may need more speed, or more compositing knowledge, or more documentary experience, etc.
So, I do think that hearing about every success story is good, but big budget films are not the only one source of that.
Leo Hans”
On reflection, Leo. I agree with everything you wrote here. ; )
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Bill, I think I must still be missing part of what you see here. I don’t really see how the web is anything but another deliverable in this context (or really how what Apple is doing here in terms of format support is special). A lot of what you are talking about seems to fall under the democratization umbrella, which may or may not overlap with the web.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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