[Aindreas Gallagher]

would you look at the sad state of me – cap doff to soyka.

off on a post production rant and had badly neglecting an inspired cultural allusion there.

also a cracking tune!

let us all crank el speakers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ&ob=av3n

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

there’s way too much much OS X under soho’s nails for video – it’s a real problem.

There’s no skipping off to Win7, that isn’t actually a solution – you’re talking masses of storage, assets, file systems, everything – i have met a dozen flavours of common set file directory systems under OS X in post – job number folder at top, render folders, script folders, FCP and AE project folders – if the box driving the IO systems, the OS and the media management and storage is removed by the vendor – that is likely to be a very broad problem in the short to medium term.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

quite.

I trust the mac the way I trust a volvo or something. I just can’t quite bear the notion of a windows rig purchase..

but say – if the macpro goes, and the hints have become heavy…
so then say its laptops, the mac mini, and the iMac, (worst case scenario where apple do not do what seeman is outlining with a beefed up mini of some kind becoming a red style modular OS X core for post)

sort of, what happens in post then? Apple have long eyes for sure, but where is video post production absorbed in the line up? They really mean it for video to some degree – whatever we think, FCPX did take some time – but where does video post production past the home office fit in?

Facilities, say, can’t realistically all buy iMacs, or laptops – does the whole thing hinge on a radical big mac empowerment of the mac mini? I’m a moron on the hardcore facility stuff Jeremy – this is an honest question type thing –

basically – I’m selfishly thinking about my own wee ecosystem of clients – they are entirely populated with macpros, some of them are large and all – its a reasonably serious question in a way – there are acres of macpros tied via fibre to storage in london – what happens if the mac pro tower goes?

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

I always thought (said class leery Irishman), that soho was running something of a class exclusion, because the only people who could afford to be totally unpaid interns, in central London, tended to be from a certain background that afforded them the ability to float on no money for an indefinite period of time.

there’s almost a thing said freelance where you shouldn’t really have go at an intern if you’re in a place (if you for some reason were driven to) because you wouldn’t quite know who’s family or connections were involved?

Soho interns are, god knows, unfailingly nice, polite and professional peeps, but the background is a tad uniform..

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

Wrong. This isn’t mud slinging, this is fundamental debate.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Bill Davis] “on the screens of millions of iPads there are other games being played. And out there, there are probably 20 MILLION opportunities to craft a reputation and a decent life.

The real disaster, IMO is propagating the idea that the ONLY game that makes sense to play is the shiny one being shown at the Movies or on Network TV in an era where new communications patterns and new income streams are cropping up literally every day. IMO the big problem isn’t helping the new kids see the real trees in this forest. It’s allowing ourselves the freedom to ask if we’re even IN the right forest at all.

“

ah god Bill, you’re funny, and a little depressing, and I pray that no spunky young entrant reads a one of your posts. ever.

of course. There are no trees, there is no skills attainment, there is no previous generation, the kids aren’t obsessively watching and internalising the craft of film makers they admire, films they adore, and beginning to wonder at the role of the editor in the creation of said films.

Scorsese’s smugglers craft doc I always found fascinating – i wrote my wee design thesis on it. Its a gorgeous piece. His debt to Minnelli, Ray et al.

Scorsese is a product of observation. He is utterly himself now, but he grew out of internalising observation.

And so what are we to observe? A cheaply made corporate film, or the best of film? the best of documentary? realising that in fog of war Macnamara was addressing a carefully placed monitor screen? don’t you love the placement of the cameras?

It is your horrific push against a respect for the top end, as if it is some closed pyramid scam, to be ignored, that i find truly and crassly irritating Bill – and let me stop you here – I’m not angry with you, indeed I’m not venting any anger: I am simply, on a personal level, irritated by the inanity of your arguments.

People in the creative arts, by definition, every day, to the best of their abilities, aspire to the best of the craft. they aspire to matchlessly express the art, (and after a fashion, themselves), building on, and informed by the best of their peers, and the best of those that have gone before.

In order to do this at the highest level, in order to express their skill at the highest pitch, they will strive to rise through the profession.

NOT EVERYONE DOES. (to borrow your caps)

My father was a good documentary maker, my mother is a good actress.

Neither have received oscars or nobels.

Your deathless idiotic argument that the finest expressions of editing “one of the 2,000 rarified slots at the top of that Hollywood pyrimid – or even one of the 20,000 “noted professionals” slots at the level down from that”… god almighty Bill. the notion that it is, in effect, a static mute lottery that needs to be ignored, because of its rarified number, that we should wade out in reverse into the mass of some proposed twenty million, is, I find, one of the most truly anti-intellectual, depressing, death of craft arguments one could ever encounter.

I find your proposed argument and boxing of attainment into a false rarified cabal both contemptibly false, and indescribably annoying.

For shame, frankly.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

that’s not shabby. i wonder will they end up having to dynamically re-pitch audio too?

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

yeah – thats the thing – once its installed, if you’ve specced the hardware components correctly, its installed.
It updates directly as a native machine.

you man has been applying the software updates transparently.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

are we allowed to say the words hackintosh?

I’d never buy one, and one person I don’t know doesn’t have a Hackintosh working rock solid for a year as a Smoke Nuke Adobe FCP station at home.

Rock Solid. You do have to know what you’re doing at the outset apparently.

The bang for buck is mind bending though.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

[Bill Davis] “So here in the X forum, Maybe part of the angst of these past few months just reflects the general Craig’s Listification” of all expectations everywhere. “

No.

Wrong.

Jog on.

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