Andrew Kimery
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Spacey’s character breaking the fourth wall took some getting used to for me as well. I eventually accept it as part of the show but at times it still felt jarring to me.
[Jeremy Garchow] “But isn’t that what makes Walking Dead so interesting? As much as it is frustrating, splitting up the season in to two parts somehow makes the wait more bearable. Maybe Netflix will take a cue?”
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The first few episodes I thought were interesting but felt a little been there/done that. About mid season though I feel like the show found its stride and just kept getting stronger. I watched all 13 episodes over a 4 or 5 day stretch and I can’t wait for season 2.
One downside to being able to binge on a show like this is that it makes the wait for the next season that much longer. Sure, it’s awesome to be able to keep hitting ‘next episode’ and get your fix but season 2 hasn’t even started shooting yet so it’s probably going to be a year before it becomes available. It also loses that water cooler/tweeting aspect that a scheduled event has and I think House of Cards is certainly the type of show that could get people talking the day after just like Breaking Bad or The Walking Dead can.
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It sounds like Shane is gunning for that #1 spot and trying to convince Jeremy he shouldn’t post as much to eliminate the competition. Or maybe I’ve been watching too much house of cards.
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[Ian Bailey] “People have been saying that we should teach students what the industry uses now. I believe we should teach them what the industry will be using in 3-5 years time. I also think that graduates entering the industry will influence what technology will be used. Film students embraced legacy FCP several years before it was taken seriously by the media industry.”
Who can predict the future though? How many students learned FCP Legend only to have it EOL’d around the time they hit the job market? Speaking of hitting the job market, how many students actually graduate and walk into a job in the cutting room? I’d wager not many (especially in larger markets). We all obviously agree that teaching students how to edit is ultimately more important than teaching them how to use an NLE, but in the real world knowing how to use certain software is a requirement more often then not. I think students interested in post production today would be getting the short end of the stick if they weren’t exposed to multiple NLEs (and in the U.S. at least Avid MC should be one of them).
I’d say low budget filmmakers (especially docs) embraced FCP Legend well before it was widely accepted and that started the trickle down to universities and students. If FCPX starts getting traction in the same areas that FCP Legend did then we could very well see a repeat scenario but so far that hasn’t happend. In part because the landscape is much different now than it was at the turn of the century. Lots of people still use FCP Legend, Avid is more affordable than ever, Premiere is getting serious looks from areas of the industry that typically wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole…
As a final thought (for this post at least) since Avid MC does have the steepest learning curve why not spend class time teaching it as opposed to FCPX which would be easier for students to pickup on their own time?
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[David Roth Weiss] “The true answer to your question really cannot, and should not, be dictated by sales or popularity, but instead by the aspirations of your students, and by the aspirations of your school for its students, in terms of which segment of the industry they will most likely be able to work in, gainfully, after graduation. Is their employment most likely to be in corporate video, broadcast, film, or some other arena? “
If the students aspire to work in b’cast & film and NLE X is most often used in b’cast & film in their region doesn’t that mean that they should learn NLE X due to it’s popularity?
Of course we shouldn’t over think the issue as what they learn in school is going to be merely the starting point of their education (which is why I like Daniel’s idea of switching NLEs in the final year).
BTW, nice to see you again, David. I feel like I haven’t seen you around in ages.
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What NLE(s) are most prevalent in Ireland and Europe? My pragmatic suggestion would be to teach what your students are most likel to encounter when the graduate. Also, with FCPX only being $299 that puts it much more in the range of personal affordability than Media Composer. With that being said the student discount for MC, at least here in the States, is $295 + 4 (5?) years of free upgrades. Teaching a different NLE to third year editing students is an interesting approach and would help hammer home the idea that they will be required to know how to use multiple NLEs if they wish to stay employed
Of course I can’t skip over the required advice saying that teaching them how to edit is more important than what software they edit with. 😉
-Andrew
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No, there is not a way to relink the sequence that came from Color to your original, uncolored media. Color creates all new media that is different in duration and filename from your original source media. Like Shane said, you need to find an older version of the project that has a pre-Color timeline in it.
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DNxHD is not a codec supported by FCP’s RT Extreme engine though which means any change to the footage outside of a straight cut will result in a red render bar.
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“Our Pro customers like you are really important to us,” reads part of Cook’s e-mail. “Although we didn’t have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today’s event, don’t worry as we’re working on something really great for later next year.”
“Something really great…” might be a tower with revamped internals or it might be Apple’s take on what they think pro customers need (or more importantly don’t need). I mean, after FCP Legend languished for a few years Steve Jobs tried to placate the rumbling masses that the next FCP was going to be “awesome”. For some people it is, for some people it isn’t but I’m pretty sure it caught everyone off guard.
There will always be a need for speed but Apple doesn’t want to play that game anymore (if they did the MacPros wouldn’t be so pitiful, IMO). Off-the-shelf desktops are the new ‘big iron’ rigs, laptops are the new desktop and tablets are the new laptops. I mean, 10yrs ago or so if you wanted to run Smoke, for example, you needed a beefy SGI rig to go with it. Now Smoke will run on laptops. It will run faster on towers (and even faster on tricked out towers) but a beefy tower is no longer a requirement. Users have more freedom to pick hardware that suits there needs and the majority of users don’t need/can’t afford monster towers.
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This goes to my point that the weeding out process starts off with something relatively superficial (be it a resume or a reel) as it’s just not practical to do ‘in depth’ research on every applicant. Overall I think it is better to have a reel and not need one than to need a reel and not have one as there certainly are people that want a reel as part of the hiring process.
-Andrew