Andrew Kimery
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[John Heagy] “Correct, at $7.99 instead of ten times that for Sat or Cable. The scale required is trending down.”
$7.99… on top of whatever you currently pay your ISP, presumably a cable, satellite or phone company, for high speed internet. And who knows what state Netflix will be in a couple of years from now.
Netflix seemed poised last year to spin off it’s DVD business to raise capital and when that failed they had to hold a private stock sale and announce to investors not to expect any profits in 2012. Not to mention that the sweetheart deals they used to have for streaming rights are expiring and their licensing costs might jump from $180 million in 2010 to an estimated $2 billion this year.
-Andrew
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[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. If someone isn’t willing to provide perfectly professional EVERYTHING – as close to FREE as possible (dude, work on my project with all your expensive gear and I’ll give you a credit at the end where nobody will ever see it. Deal?) then I have the right to bitch incessently on-line about it.”
The great thing about the internet is that everyone has a voice. The bad thing about the internet is that everyone has a voice. 😉
Was a main complaint about FCP 10 that it was too cheap? From my experience the most vocal segment that’s not pleased w/FCP 10 are the exact opposite of the “I want everything for $50” crowd. They are people that want a good steak, are willing to pay to get a good steak, and were disappointed when they were served a cheese burger instead. That’s much different than the crowd that wants a good steak but expects it to cost the same as a cheese burger.
On a more broad note, I think the excuse of not having access to good enough gear is tired and played out. DV gave people access to ‘good enough’ gear at accessible prices a decade ago. I think a lot of people want to say they are filmmakers but they don’t actually have any desire to make a film.
-Andrew
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[James Culbertson] ”
Those who have truly moved on wouldn’t be here to read my question would they?”
Another incorrect assumption, IMO.Look beyond the still lingering “FCP 10 sucks / No it doesn’t” posts and you’ll find some very interesting discussions about the philosophy and mechanics of editing and how the NLE as we know it has been shaped. I have no desire to use FCP 10 in it’s current form and made the decision months ago to learn Premiere Pro and knock the rust off my Avid skills, but I still come here because there is almost always something interesting going on. At times I feel like this is the new Art of the Edit.
Feel free to add to the discussion. If you want you can even use your own words instead of Marshall McLuhan’s. 😉
-Andrew
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[James Culbertson] “I have no issue with those who do not embrace “this new paradigm.” I’m curious why after 6 months they don’t move on and embrace some other paradigm of their choice. A friend has commented that I am being too rational; and that is probably true. But if we are in this business to be creative and make a profit, of what benefit is it to not just move on and use another tool that works for your creative endeavors?”
The cornerstone of your position seems to be based on this false assumption. Many people that don’t see FCP 10 as a good fit are moving on, or back, to Avid and Premiere Pro.
-Andrew
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Have you tried placing your footage in a full raster timeline (such as ProRes 1920×1080) and exporting via that timeline.
-Andrew
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[Michael Gissing] ” Because many of us need a box in a machine room that can take PCIe cards and grunty graphics cards. The MacPro ideally shpuld have more than 4 PCIe slots or at least had esata on the motherboard like most manufacturers have had for five years.”
External device connected by ThunderBolt can help solve those problems. Heck, MAXX Digital already sells a Red Rocket card in an external case that connects to a laptop via the ExpressCard slot.
I like the idea of gear becoming more modular. I’d rather have the same ThunderBolot I/O box from Blackmagic work on my desktop and laptop than have to buy an I/O card for the desktop and a separate, external I/O device for the laptop. GPU support for Macs typically sucks because the market for it so small (only MP users) but imagine how it might open up if you could upgrade the video card of any Mac by using an external PCI box connected via ThunderBolt?
There’s certainly a way to leave the tower form factor w/o sacrificing ‘tower power’ but the question is whether or not Apple will do it? Always advancing technology let off the shelf towers largely push out ‘big iron’ like SGI and maybe it
-Andrew
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I’ve read similar speculation that Apple might create a modular system based around a Mac Mini Pro that would act as a ‘brain’ and the user would upgrade externally instead of internally with Thunderbolt acting as the connective tissue. It’s not a bad idea, IMO, as long as the Mac Mini Pro still had the big CPUs, space for lots of RAM, and 4-6 discreet Thunderbolt ports. Local RAIDs, Fibre, broadcast I/O devices and even video cards could all be added externally via Thunderbolt. I’m not married to the typical desktop form factor so as long as the performance and expandability is there I’d be keen on seeing something different.
[Robert Bracken] “damn, damn, damn. I love me some Mac Pro. We use AJA cards for our MiniDV tapes. (We’re moving away from using them.)
This would make us change from Apple to PC for video editing. Whatever.”
There are a number of I/O options that don’t require PCI slots these days so why would Apple killing the Mac Pro line be a deal breaker?Andrew
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I think there are certainly growing opportunities for solo artists (be it musicians, on-camera talent or comic book artists) that have little to no overhead (ex. they are shooting against a blank wall in their home w/a web cam) but for what it takes to put together a TV show or movie it’s just not there yet. $100k/yr is great for an individual video blogger with almost no overhead but split that among even a small cast & crew and you end up w/peanuts pretty quick. Heck,
Although it’s a bit dated by internet standards the book Fans, Friends and Followers, which profiles many of the new media success stories, is still a great read. One of the things that I found interesting is for many of them their new media success is more or less a loss leader for another venture. For example, an artist might have a successful web-comic but they actually make all their money from merchandising or a filmmaker might have a ton of views on YouTube but they made their money by going on speaking engagements and writing a book about their new media success.
Sure, on some level 30 Rock and Keyboard Cats will have a level of parity but in reality 30 Rock has the marketing to let people know that it exists and where to find it (YouTube gets 35hrs of new content a minute) and it’s also ‘premium content’ that can be monetized through ads and/or subscriptions. For example, Hulu does a fraction of the traffic that YouTube does but Hulu actually makes money where as YouTube is a giant, money sucking black hole. That’s why Google is trying to court more premium content and wants to be more than just a dumping ground for flash-in-the-pan internet memes that generate a ton of traffic but little to no money.
For content producers I don’t think the medium (internet vs broadcast) is nearly as important as the type of content (premium vs non-premium). As an editor I really don’t care what medium my projects end up on as long as the projects can be properly monetized so the cast and crew can get paid a fair rate.
[Bill Davis] “But the broad editing market chose FCP over the competition even tho there was a stiff penalty imposed since it ONLY ran on Mac hardware, unlike the competition.”
Considering the prominence of Apple in creative fields I don’t think being Apple only is much of a penalty.
-Andrew
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FCP 10 has been in development for years and I’m sure Jobs put his finger prints on it as he did everything at Apple. Randy Ubillos was working on a companion app to FCP years ago (basically a capturing and logging App that could be useful for project organization and string-outs) and when Jobs saw it he basically said, that’s what I want iMovie to look like. Which then lead to the infamous iMovie 08 that was almost universally hated. Apple ended up giving away from downloads of iMovie 6 HD (the version prior to 08) for two years to help smooth ruffled feathers.
There is one story about Jobs calling a VP at Google on a Sunday to let him know that there is a problem w/the Google iPhone app but that a team at Apple will have in fixed w/in 24hrs. The problem? Jobs noticed that the yellow in the Google app’s icon was the wrong shade.
While no one is perfect, Steve Jobs is one of the rare exceptions where the head of the company have his fingers in everything is not a detriment.
-Andrew
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That is a very convoluted sounding workflow.
[John Pale] ” You do know that HDV does not use square pixels.”
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