OT Perhaps you all might be YouTubers one day?

[Bill Davis]

Large point to you for making me laugh, Franz!

(seriously, that was clever and I appreciate the wry tone very much.)

Yes, it sure would have been nice to have been able to open my FCP-7 files in X. But I trust that if the Apple folks building it could have seen an efficient way to do that, they would have devoted the time to coding that in. Nothing else makes any business sense at all.

That they didn’t indicates (to me at least) that they couldn’t and keep their larger goals of speed and agility intact.

Too bad. It would have been much nicer that way.

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor

[Andrew Kimery]

I think there are certainly growing opportunities for solo artists (be it musicians, on-camera talent or comic book artists) that have little to no overhead (ex. they are shooting against a blank wall in their home w/a web cam) but for what it takes to put together a TV show or movie it’s just not there yet. $100k/yr is great for an individual video blogger with almost no overhead but split that among even a small cast & crew and you end up w/peanuts pretty quick. Heck,

Although it’s a bit dated by internet standards the book Fans, Friends and Followers, which profiles many of the new media success stories, is still a great read. One of the things that I found interesting is for many of them their new media success is more or less a loss leader for another venture. For example, an artist might have a successful web-comic but they actually make all their money from merchandising or a filmmaker might have a ton of views on YouTube but they made their money by going on speaking engagements and writing a book about their new media success.

Sure, on some level 30 Rock and Keyboard Cats will have a level of parity but in reality 30 Rock has the marketing to let people know that it exists and where to find it (YouTube gets 35hrs of new content a minute) and it’s also ‘premium content’ that can be monetized through ads and/or subscriptions. For example, Hulu does a fraction of the traffic that YouTube does but Hulu actually makes money where as YouTube is a giant, money sucking black hole. That’s why Google is trying to court more premium content and wants to be more than just a dumping ground for flash-in-the-pan internet memes that generate a ton of traffic but little to no money.

For content producers I don’t think the medium (internet vs broadcast) is nearly as important as the type of content (premium vs non-premium). As an editor I really don’t care what medium my projects end up on as long as the projects can be properly monetized so the cast and crew can get paid a fair rate.

[Bill Davis] “But the broad editing market chose FCP over the competition even tho there was a stiff penalty imposed since it ONLY ran on Mac hardware, unlike the competition.”

Considering the prominence of Apple in creative fields I don’t think being Apple only is much of a penalty.

-Andrew

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

[Richard Cardonna]

The new content creation pardigram

The wannabe

1-Buy Robert Rodriguez 10 minutwe film school” book(or download free)
2-Buy a gopro camera
3-Warez an fcpx
4-Hackingtosh a dell
5-upload to youtube
6-Spread the word
7-wait
8-wait
9-wait
10-wait

The pro

1-develope an idea
2-spend ton of money (motgage your house)
3-use your pro equiupment
4-upload to youtube
5-wait
6-wait
7-wait
8=lose your home, maybe your wife and get stuck with a huge alimony

[Bill Davis]

I’m not sure if this is funny…

Or depressingly accurate.

(Nice post regardless.)

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor