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One Year Later, redux: Apple, FCPX and The Perfect Roll-out
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[Tim Wilson] “but Blackmagic’s secret suite demo showed their visually lossless 4K codec at about 35mb/s off a Thunderbolt thumb drive.
KIDDING, but you know it’s coming.”
You *&^%er! My jaw actually dropped reading that line. And now I’m angry to know its not true. I want my 35MB/s 4K! I want it now!
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Higher compression 4k Redcode is not far from 35 MB/sec
35 mb/sec though, is far away. Big difference in mb vs MB.
The more long GOP compression, the more CPU you need, though, at reduced overall bandwidth.
Less compressed or uncompressed footage is easier to playback computationally, but at a higher bandwidth.
This has been your 15 second conversation interrupter. We now return you to your regularly scheduled speculation symposium.
Jeremy
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Higher compression 4k Redcode is not far from 35 MB/sec
35 mb/sec though, is far away. Big difference in mb vs MB.
“Jeremy, you tweaker! Yes, I know. Which is why I typed “MB” instead of “Mb.” Since “mb” is neither “MB” or “Mb,” and really nothing, I took “visually lossless 4K at 35mb/s” as an uncapitalized “visually lossless 4K at 35MB/s” because it would be terrific, and I can conceive of it. Since I cannot conceive of “visually lossless 4K at 35Mb/s,” I just didn’t think that that was what he was writing. But your assessment of me, friend Jeremy, is that I don’t know the difference between my bits and bytes. I must leave a sorry impression.
[Jeremy Garchow] “This has been your 15 second conversation interrupter. We now return you to your regularly scheduled speculation symposium.
“This had me laughing for a good minute, but to be fair, its late, I’m still working and waiting on another Aspera feed, so I think I’m just about punchy enough to laugh at anything. Since its a Sizzle I’m working on, I currently also have the mother of all ear worms.
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And for the record, since I was making sh^t up, I figured I might as well go for mb rather than MB…since as Jeremy points out, MB is perilously close to NOT making sh^t up.
[Note to Grant: Let me know if my “correction” – heh heh heh – needs more work. And again, sorry for letting the cat out of the bag.]
Tim Wilson
Associate Publisher, Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW Magazine
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[Tim Wilson] “And for the record, since I was making sh^t up, I figured I might as well go for mb rather than MB…since as Jeremy points out, MB is perilously close to NOT making sh^t up.
[Note to Grant: Let me know if my “correction” – heh heh heh – needs more work. And again, sorry for letting the cat out of the bag.]
“Yes but MB, still would have been cool, and was convincing. Mb wouldn’t have got my goat at all. And, mb still isn’t anything.
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[Jules bowman] “And maybe a save as. “
Just to be Mr. Obvious, you can duplicate a project, which is the same thing as “Save as…”
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What is that small mac tower thing behind his screen?
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[Chris Kenny] “Take, say, a high school student who wants to try to break into shooting and editing by trying to book wedding jobs. This kid isn’t a ‘dedicated professional editor’, but it’s not too hard to see him buying FCP X. (And if he’s really interested in editing, who knows what kind of projects he’ll be booking five years later?)”
Nailed it exactly, for me. I’m a Digital Media Arts teacher. I just won a grant and bought iMacs and FCPX along with Adobe Creative Suite. I still need Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. But I decided not to teach After Effects because of the price barrier.
Two of my students just won scholarships. They shot short films and documentaries. They are so eager to learn it’s amazing. They are 16.
What kind of projects will they be booking when they are 21?
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[Richard Herd] “What is that small mac tower…”
A model of the then new Power Mac G5 – Isaacson’s book tells of innumerable models and prototypes.
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