Andrew Kimery
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Have you seen “Diana: In Her Own Words”? It’s based on a series of audio recording from an interview with Princess Diana. There is obviously a lot of broll and pictures of her to help cover this, but it might give you some general ideas.
https://1895films.com/project/diana-in-her-own-words/
One thing my friend and fellow editor Shane Ross talks about a lot is telling a visual story that is separate, but thematically/emotionally related to the story the subject(s) is telling (what the audience is hearing). For example, if someone is talking about childhood memories of being poor, and how one time they had to walk three miles barefoot in a snow storm to the local store to spend their last cent on a can of soup, you don’t literally need to show images of a young person walking barefoot in a snowstorm, going into the local store, taking a can of soup off the shelf and paying for it.
You could tell a visual story of hardship and struggle, or resiliency and determination.
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FWIW I have a Vega 56 running in my Hack and I didn’t have to do anything special to get it working w/Mojave.
According to this subreddit you might run into power issues unless you mod the Mac:
https://www.reddit.com/r/macpro/comments/9z6epv/macpro_51_amd_gpu_recommendations/MacPro 5,1 - AMD GPU recommendations
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[Oliver Peters] “I think you missed the context. Eric was talking about getting the print folks to switch from iMacs to Mac Pros.”
I think he said the iMacs are being used by the social/web department and the graphics (print) department has 2013 MPs.
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[Oliver Peters] “But print requires a good display, which adds more cost to the Mac Pros even with non-Apple displays. OTOH, some of the photo bloggers seem pretty jazzed about how quickly the Mac Pros chew into raw photos. So it will likely depend on what type of print work is involved.”
Assuming they don’t already have a display *and* they like/want the built-in display that comes with the iMac Pro.
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[Oliver Peters] “I’m not so sure about that, considering that you still have to add a display to the Mac Pro. Plus many people will opt for the simplicity and lower power demands of the iMac Pro. I think there will continue to be room for both. If anything, there might not be a need for a high-end iMac. Or maybe the high-end iMac and iMac Pro get merged in the product line.”
The iMac Pro always felt like a stop-gap solution to me. If Apple could’ve had the Mac Pro ready in 2017 I don’t think there ever would’ve been an iMac Pro.
I know people also say, “It comes with a monitor” but not everyone needs a new monitor or necessarily wants the built-in monitor as opposed a 3rd party option. That’s been a common gripe in the lineup for as long as I can remember (people wanting a mid-sized tower that was basically a headless iMac). If the entry level Mac Pro was $4500-$5000 I think that it would cannibalize the iMac Pro sales to the point that, at best, Apple would have two ‘meh’ selling products that were too close to each other in terms of price and performance.
Moving the iMac Pro down to become the new high-end iMac would be more in line with the product matrix Apple has had for the ~25yrs. A maxed out iMac would usually be close to the price of an entry level MP, but now that price point has been filled by the iMac Pro.
[Oliver Peters] “OTOH, Apple can’t seem to figure out how to properly position the iPad Pro vs MacBook (now gone) vs MacBook Air vs 13″ MacBook Pro.”
Yeah, their mobile product matrix is a mess.
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[Oliver Peters] “There are already cracks, such as lack of support for the iMP and the XDR displays without an eGPU.”
Happy Trails, iMac Pro, you were a necessary patch in the lineup, and you filled that role admirably, but now it’s time to return to the four-quadrant lineup implemented by the all-mighty Steve Jobs. ????
I’m taking a complete stab in the dark here, but I’d guess most people that are looking to $5,000+ on a desktop system would rather buy a Mac Pro than an all-in-one iMac Pro.
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IMO the iMac Pro is the de facto entry level Mac Pro and I don’t think there is room for both the iMac Pro and a lower-tier, headless Mac Pro. The iMac Pro is an odd duck for Apple (who generally likes to keep clean lines between the ‘consumer’ and ‘pro’ hardware) so maybe in a few years the iMac Pro stops getting updates and, coincidentally, the Mac Pro lineup gets a refresh which includes a less expensive, entry level model?
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Thanks for sharing you experiences, Hendrik!
[Hendrik Martz] “I use a plugin called Izotope RX 6 Elements”
FWIW I had similar issues with Izotope and PPro a couple of years ago and when I contacted Izotope support they told me I was using the plugins incorrectly. Their supported workflow is to apply the plugin to the audio clip, export that audio clip, then import the new audio clip and cut it back into the timeline (or use Render and Replace in PPro).
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[Bill Davis] “It used to be so simple when your countries broadcast system HAD a specific technical standard.”
Didn’t NTSC stand for Never The Same Color? ???? Even with analog film there’s no guarantee that the projectionist would set the projector up with the proper brightness or aspect ratio.
Reference monitors are monitors that can reliably and accurately display an image that adheres to published technical standards when properly calibrated. If we send out a pure white video signal then the a ref monitor should show pure white (not beige, not blue-ish white, pink-ish white etc.,). If we send out a pure black video signal then the monitor should display pure black (not gray or green/black or blue/black).
Not only does this give content creators a clear and accurate depiction of the work they are doing but it also provides a level consistency for the viewer. Even if their viewing device displays the image incorrectly (too light, too dark, too blue, too yellow, etc.,) it will at least be consistently incorrect as long as the content creators adhered published standards. Things like the CALM Act (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation) wouldn’t be possible if we, as content creators, didn’t have an agreed up set of standards.
With that being said, not everyone needs (or can afford) reference gear that can easily get well into six figures, but I think people should at least aim for the best gear that suits their budget and their needs.
