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What happened to the APIs Apple was going to release in the next “few weeks”?
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[Sean Cole] “I am concentrating on porting FCP6/7 XMLs into FCPX and vice versa and also to Soundtrack-pro/Logic (huh, good luck I hear you cry), Color (even though these may be upgraded soon, or abandoned) and After Effects.”
Go for it Sean. Maybe you can single-handedly make this pig fly.
[Sean Cole] “But what else would you like to see it talk to?”
You’re certainly on the right path Sean… Now, if you could just design an app that gets Apple talking to “us,” you’d really have something.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.
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My wife works as on-air talent at a large local television station
At the lunch for the departing crop of interns, the “best of the bunch” young female was asked if she would now apply for a full time job at the station…
“No. TV is yesterday. I’ve got a job with a major web developer…”
Intern at a major market TV station with all the big toys and a huge audience was once the ULTIMATE score for the top 1% smart, bright, beautiful teens. Now in modern text speak, it’s “meh.”
Depressing, huh?
What the heck does anyone do if yesterday’s “large post house” becomes the hardware in someone’s briefcase – and the “staff” is now a bunch of connected people on laptops living anyplace they find pretty or interesting or just plain cheap?
“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
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[Bill Davis] “What the heck does anyone do if yesterday’s “large post house” becomes the hardware in someone’s briefcase – and the “staff” is now a bunch of connected people on laptops living anyplace they find pretty or interesting or just plain cheap?
“Join them, or even better, be there first.
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[Chris Harlan] “Bill Davis] “What the heck does anyone do if yesterday’s “large post house” becomes the hardware in someone’s briefcase – and the “staff” is now a bunch of connected people on laptops living anyplace they find pretty or interesting or just plain cheap?
”Join them, or even better, be there first.
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That’s my plan!
Steve Connor
Adrenalin TelevisionHave you tried “Search Posts”? Enlightenment may be there.
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[Oliver Peters] “CMX 3600 or GVG lists”
Yes. I can’t remember the last time I needed a Sony list. GVG is my most common delivery spec.
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You want scary? In 2009, I was Art Director at a broadcast station in NH, having been there for fourteen years. One morning the “human resources” person walked into my office, the Production Manager’s office, and several other key people’s offices, and laid us all off. Nothing personal – the bean counters (the owners had 28 broadcast properties) felt they needed to save some money. From a staff in the Production/Promotion department of seven or eight, and some freelancers now and then, they now have a staff of two, and those two are expected to do the same workload, AND manage all of the projects as well.
Scary, yes! But it was the best thing that could have happened to me. Two years later, I own my own company, doing exactly the same job (plus a lot more)that I was doing in broadcast, but I name my hours (way too long most of the time, but that’s fine – I own the biz), take in everything I bill, and I have more of a say in what gets done and how it gets done. The only thing different, is that none of my work goes to broadcast – it all goes to the web, or DVD, or smart devices (iPhones, iPads, Blackberrys). Don’t be scared – it’s only the distribution system that’s changing. The broadcast model is dead – they just haven’t figured out how to kick dirt over it yet.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Skip off is the broadcast model dead. Maybe where you live. Here it’s very much alive – and kicking me to death :P. Most of the work I do is for Broadcast in one form or another. I work freelance for them but most of the production teams I’m working with are staff – especially the BBC. I’m like you, glad to have my own company where I can do my own projects in my own time and others for others. Wonderful!
I still dream of the day, however, when all the broadcasters ONLY broadcast in HD widescreen so we can do away with all this 14:9 and 4:3 rubbish.Back on track though, Joseph. As a digital only distributor what uses would you have with XML from FCPX? Do you use EDLs or need interchange with other software – If so, which?
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Dont forget to get davinci in your list. It seems that it is quickly becoming the new Apple color. Oh and if you could make something like AAF with linked files export (from avid) it would be a godsend for the Sound designers out there.
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Sorry Sean –
I didn’t realize you were in charge of this forum. I use XMP personally, in the Adobe CS, and it makes my life a lot easier in terms of tracking massive numbers of assets. I jumped in to put my own personal point on the pencil when Bill Davis diverted slightly from the main thread. Sorry to offend you, sir.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
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He he he. I wasn’t offended at all. It’s all too easy to find offence in something we read cause you can read it with an angry voice or a funny one. Imagine me with a Peewee Herman voice and it won’t be nearly as offensive – just annoying. Which is how most people find me. Nevertheless useful when they need a difficult job done. They can lock me away in a dark room somewhere and just know it’s getting done without having to bear my sarcasm and twisted humour.
Now, XMP is metadata, whereas XML is for data transfer through a packaged markup language. So two completely different things, but I can see where it might be confused. XMP is VERY useful when storing extra info about a clip and FCPX, while it creates info about a clip like Shot angle, faces, etc, you can’t export that data with a clip. So perhaps what you would like is a way to get clips from FCPX to export with XMP data. That would be cool, eh!
Pi
BTW, thanks for acknowledging my true identity as owner of this entire forum 😛
Sean
Pi Digital
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