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What would really make you excited …
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[Oliver Peters] “While one-man bands are not the ONLY future for video. They are certainly a growing part of it and not going away anytime soon.”
I agree with a lot of this; however, these two sentences seem to be in direct contradiction to each other. Hence, I don’t see it as the future anymore now then in the past.”
It’s not really contradictory at all. Maybe you misread it. And I would say on balance because of technological advancements such as usable auto-focus, automated color correction, easy audio noise fixes, more nimble editing programs, the quality level of one-man bands goes up. It’s not like it happens overnight, but that is the general progression. And you add to that a changing aesthetic where things don’t need to be perfect – really a desire for something “real” with a lack of pretense. Large teams can get in the way of that.
I look back at my biggest social media “hits” and two at the top were filmed and edited in a day. One I didn’t even know I would be making the morning I came into work. But I was at the right place at the right time, saw the potential and framed it right. When you require a team, you just can’t be that nimble.
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One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
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[Bill Davis] ”
Nothing I say is ever going to preclude the CHANCE of anyone dreaming small, big or in-between.It’s a shift in the PRIORITY of dreaming big that I fear..
“But how is that tied to adding features that people want and need?
Are you saying Apple shouldn’t have added multicam or wrote a new XML language because it stifled development?
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[Jeramy Garchow] – A way to mute/disable video in a clip without turning the opacity down.
The “v” key will disable a clip.
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[Brian Seegmiller] “The “v” key will disable a clip.”
Yes the whole clip. I want to disable video only.
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Not at all. I’m simply saying that there are likely between 20,000 and a million users who can reasonably conceive that it would be cool for an new NLE to have stuff like “a mixer” or “multicam” or “match frames” they’ve had a decades to become accustomed to – and that focusing on THOSE types of things should be a priority.
There are just a rediculously small number of people in a position to conceive and implement something like in-NLE range based tagging, vertically magnetic timelines, or Roles.
One lots of companies can pull off.
The others? Extremely few.
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[Mark Suszko] “That night you’ll get a minute thirty composed of b-roll with voice-over and one, fifteen-second quote pulled from that three minutes of interview. “
The producer will rewrite the story to make it longer and fill more time. The editor will then take the 15 seconds of VO used earlier that day, and loop it seven or eight times.
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[Bill Davis] “Not at all. I’m simply saying that there are likely between 20,000 and a million users who can reasonably conceive that it would be cool for an new NLE to have stuff like “a mixer” or “multicam” or “match frames” they’ve had a decades to become accustomed to – and that focusing on THOSE types of things should be a priority.
There are just a rediculously small number of people in a position to conceive and implement something like in-NLE range based tagging, vertically magnetic timelines, or Roles.
One lots of companies can pull off.
The others? Extremely few.”
I know you used FCPX since day. Having said that what good is ranged based tagging, magnetic timelines and roles if you do work for broadcast with closed captioning? Some things that have been around for 20 years are still needed for some people’s workflow. What is the Apple counterpart for Adobe Story and how well does the metadata integrate with FCPX? How well does FCPX’s counterpart for Adobe’s Anywhere work for you? You may consider things like multi-cam or closed captioning small and trivial but for people that need those features for their work flow they might consider them more important than a magnetic timeline. For some Adobe’s integration with AE is more important and perhaps more practical than the magnetic timeline. For others VR might be more important than a magnetic timeline. Apple should want to add as many features to help streamline all of the user’s workflows (within reason). You should want and expect that from Apple as well.
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