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Quick Poll. So what’s your decision?
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Montage! Yikes. Wasn’t that the one that operated off a ton of u-matic decks rolling together?
bigpine
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[TImothy Auld] “Montage! Yikes. Wasn’t that the one that operated off a ton of u-matic decks rolling together?
bigpine”
That was the first Montage. And I believe it was VHS decks with tape loops. I saw one in action once. It was a beast.
The Montage I had was the Montage3, which was disk based NLE. It ran off of a PC with an Intel Action Media II card. It was a wild thing. Instead of the television’s Source/Record model borrowed by most NLEs of the time, it used a rotating timeline model, where you basically treated the nine available timelines as both bins and timelines. It was funky, but in the day it was a revelation! That was back, of course, when all NLE’s were offline. I think Sidney Lumet used to use it all the time, and I know that Star Trek: Next Generation used to use it. In fact, I was just having a conversation last week with the post super from that show–our kids go to the same school–and we were laughing about the weird bin-less wonder of the thing.
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[Dominic Deacon] “So what’s your decision?”
FCPX so far. If it keeps getting better as I expect than FCPS so farther.
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I’ve got FCP7, and Premiere 5.5 on my laptop, but I keep going back to X. I imagine I’d jump back to FCP7 if I had a multicamera project, but I’ve actually edited a number of simple 2 camera interviews quite easily using the synchronize function. It worked quite well.
I haven’t missed the second monitor.
If I have more than one clip stacked in the timeline, I can easily find the right frame by scrubbing with the T tool, or the B tool. This lets me quite easily see what’s going on in each camera with the skimmer. Try it. It works quite well.
I still have a large list of things I want to see, but I’ve been seduced by it’s power, and early next year we’ll have multicam and external monitor support. I can still edit on FCP7 anytime I need, but haven’t needed to for several months.
Life is good.
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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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How about an Immix Video Cube?
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Thanks, Chris. That just sounds so convoluted and confusing. But when I think back to offline workflows that included the Convergence 90 and its like then Montage must’ve seemed like a gift from heaven.
bigpine
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[Scott Thomas] “How about an Immix Video Cube?
“Found a demo video for the Cube!
https://www.archive.org/details/videocube
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moviescope, rewinds and a guillotine splicer.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
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And let me add that running a P2 card through a moviescope ain’t easy.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf
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