Andrew Kimery
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[Morten Ranmar] “They should have link in the menu as before.”
It’s been years though since ProApps had a dedicated link in the menu at Apple.com
-Andrew
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FCP.co has list of all the features.
Solid focus on 360 tools it seems and you can bring import an iMovie iOS project into 10.4.
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[Shane Ross] “but will Adobe do what Andrew suggests?”
Or BM with Resolve. Some cameras and recorders also have ProRes and/or DNx have recording options which helps smooth out workflows. I think CineForm is going to be a great thing that few people will end up using.
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[David Mathis] “Is it available now?”
Official world is “later this year”.
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Also from Peter, No new audio features and no dupe detection. New VR tools too.
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[Oliver Peters] “Tough to now be a developer of color correction plug-ins.”
Yes, but that’s always been the case. Hopefully this means control panels will now work w/X’s native color tools.
[Oliver Peters] ” But at least ProApps is listening to its customers about the color board. Bill – eating your words yet? ☺
“First post and already bombs are being thrown. Thanks Oliver. 😉
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Do you think any NLEs will adopt it/optimize for it though? If performance is still better with ProRes or DNx then CineForm probably isn’t going to go anywhere fast unfortunately.
-Andrew
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[John Pale] “I’ve since found a pretty decent tutorial/intro/explanation video…and yes…it is just as powerful as the Avid version.”
I saw that video a while back and below is what my initial reaction was (https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/97852):
At first blush I’m skeptical of how smoothly this is going to work in the real world. The video skimps on the setup details, but it appears that users create multiple projects and then import those individual projects into a Master Shared Project. The individual projects and the individual folders can then be locked/unlocked so users don’t overwrite one another’s work. It seems like a kludgy attempt to mimic Avid where the PPro Master Shared Project is analogous to an Avid Project and the PPro projects that reside inside of the Master Shared Project are analogous to bins in Avid.
A couple of other things bugged me as well. Not being able to set In/Out points in a locked folder/project is a pretty notable limitation, and being able to create folders that aren’t sharable has a high probability of creating confusion/frustration.
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[Oliver Peters] “NAS storage is so darn cheap these days that shared storage is no longer a rarified situation.”
And everything else (computer, NLE, etc.,) is so darn cheap that having multiple people working on the same project(s) is also no longer a rarified situation. Death to Sneaker Net!
[Bill Davis] “There are rumors floating that Arctic Whiteness (The FCP X Library Manager, folk) have been working with Focus 1st AE Mike Matzdorff and Lumaforge on some type of “temporary collaborative library virtualizations” that help in the shared workflow arena.”
Is this what you are referring to, Bill?
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[Walter Soyka] ” Clients expect to see options because they’re putting money into the project and want to know they’re getting the best work they can afford.”
I think all clients like to see options, but how they get options can vary based on the type of project being done.
For example, I do almost exclusively unscripted work (from event coverage to documentaries) so pre-pro will get you in the ballpark, but options/versioning can’t really happen until you get into post.
This is where clients being unable to imagine/visualize means a lot of rough cuts look like nearly finished cuts. Jump cuts/frankenbites during interviews are distracting so you have to add broll. The pace and/or emotional level is too hard to discern so you have to add music. The levels between the different interviews and the music are all over the place so you have to do a rough audio pass. Static images are boring, thus distracting, so you have to do moves on everything. Cutting between mismatched cameras is distracting so you have to do a first color pass. Individual scenes are hard to assess out of context so you have edit an entire act (or acts) so clients aren’t going in cold.
That’s a lot of labor to see if you are headed in the right direction. I’ve worked on a number of new shows and the first episode of a season 1 show can easily take 2-3 times longer than the other episodes as the network and producers try to nail down the right look and feel.