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New FCPX confirmed for December
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I didn’t miss Herb’s point, I was agreeing in my after-the-pub way. 4k can wait a few years – but enough of that super fast internal storage to hold an hour or two RAW timeline would make it interesting to me..
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[Walter Soyka] “Somewhere out there, a DP just shed a silent tear.”
This is so true. Last three series of spots I cut (and the next one coming up) were all shot on Epic and at 5k (I cut on Premiere which barely kept up with me, crashed several times). We created the CU’s and such by simply resizing. And of course, the post side made money by replicating depth of field changes for the re-po’ed shots.
I like the idea of iMovie looking more like FCPX. Apple is playing for the future (where the puck will be) and this is one way to hook the newbies. Of course, they need to not repeat the mistake of Avid when they had Xpress, MC and Symphony that were all so close in features that it just confused the marketplace.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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[Scott Witthaus] “We created the CU’s and such by simply resizing. And of course, the post side made money by replicating depth of field changes for the re-po’ed shots”
Which is why it’s a really bad idea. The optics are wrong. On top of that, you are enlarging the compression artifacts inherent in the image. It’s OK in a pinch, but no director or DP should plan on that as a viable alternative to getting the shot in-camera.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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A related piece. Obviously Apple loaned him the machine.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Scott Witthaus] “I like the idea of iMovie looking more like FCPX. Apple is playing for the future “
Or one might say iMovie moves closer to Ubillos’ “First Cut” where clients can do selects or roughs which can be more easily imported into FCPX for finishing. Of course that could be done before with iMovie import but the closer they are as tools (from basic iMovie to advanced FCPX) the easier it is for clients to grasp the workfow (pre-organization).
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[Oliver Peters] “Which is why it’s a really bad idea.”
Or a good idea when you have a really bad budget. This will help with some lower budget corporate videos. It’ll also help digging out of some holes as a lesser evil.
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[Craig Seeman] “Or a good idea when you have a really bad budget. This will help with some lower budget corporate videos. It’ll also help digging out of some holes as a lesser evil.
“Agreed, we are doing this already with our Sony F55 footage, I know it’s not as good as doing it in camera, but it is certainly a big help on some of our jobs.
Steve Connor
There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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[Dan Stewart] “I didn’t miss Herb’s point, I was agreeing in my after-the-pub way. 4k can wait a few years – but enough of that super fast internal storage to hold an hour or two RAW timeline would make it interesting to me..”
I get the “pub” thing. Was there myself yesterday. With regard to a fast machine and lots of fast storage, I think we’d all like that. Even when NOT working in 4K. The question is, “is it a good use of resources”? Here in the “colonies” the economy has had a downward effect on rates, so buying things one wants rather than needs won’t keep you around long.
I’m going to watch 4K with some interest. My clients won’t be asking for it, but there are markets that can use it. The question is, how big is that slice of the pie? It seems to me that more and more it’s the manufacturers pushing each new technology, rather than actual demand.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Mitch Ives] “more and more it’s the manufacturers pushing each new technology, rather than actual demand.”
Which gave us quadrophonic sound in the 70’s, 3D, and now 4K. The difference being there is actual technological improvement with shooting in 4K and many applications where it is both useful and cost effective. However I don’t see 4K as a viable distribution or viewing medium for many many years. At the consumer level it is all pure hype – witness the idea of 4K on a smart phone. On the pro production side 4k cameras are cost effective today, but until storage and i/o speed costs drop down to where HD currently is for post I don’t see myself cutting with it. Over sampling is always nice, but nobody wants to pay for it.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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Looks nice, I personally can’t stand the rounded edges of the clips – I get it from an aesthetics point of view, but I hate how it’s harder to see how if clips on separate layers line up properly on the timeline. And it just looks wrong to me.
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