Andrew Kimery
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[Rich Rubasch] “It’s PETA….they want people to think that animals are just like humans so we stop eating them. This film will accomplish exactly that….a new generation of young children growing up thinking animals actually talk in the wild and have the same emotions and conversations just like we do.”
It’s early, so my sarcasm radar might not be working yet, but over the decades there have already have been truckloads of media to do this. Call of the Wild, Mr. Ed, Homeward Bound, etc.,.,
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Hate to break it to you Bill and Bob… but you both can be right as the topic is pretty multifaceted. ????
For example, Flex got f’ed by delays related to a bespoke screw used in the Mac Pro.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/28/a-custom-screw-was-the-bottleneck-in-us-mac-pro-productionI remember a number of years ago when Corning announced it was building a Gorilla Glass factory in China (Corning’s first overseas) and said the reason wasn’t wage related, but convenience. Their glass factory would literally be located a few blocks away from the factories cutting the glass into phone screens and the other factories assembling the final phones. Logistically it made more sense to have a factory in China vs building another one in the US and shipping the large glass panes by sea to China.
It’s not that the US doesn’t have engineers or doesn’t have factories, it’s that the ecosystem for robust, competitive manufacturing in the US has waned while it has risen in China. And unfortunately the solution isn’t as simple as more STEM grads or more factories because, like any ecosystem, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. To Bill’s point, America, as a country, has de-prioritized blue collar work over the years and this is a repercussion of that. When I was in high school they cancelled our vocational ed classes because, to paraphrase the administration at the time, “our students don’t go to trade schools”.
Some thoughts on Tim Cook, he was instrumental in streamlining Apple’s manufacturing pipeline when he came to Apple in the late 90’s (which undoubtedly saved Apple a TON of money), but he’s was also on the forefront of pushing Apple towards green energy at a time when it was much more expensive compared to fossil fuels. Also, Apple is more philanthropic under Cook than under Jobs (at least publicly). Cook certainly runs Apple as a business and not a charity, but I don’t think he’s a ‘bottom line above all else’ type of guy either.
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It’s been a common complaint of mine for years. Yeah, I get why companies want to keep users in ecosystems, but it’s just such a PITA as an end user at times.
[Oliver Peters] “That being said, BMD seems to have done a better job than the others in embracing the various exchange formats.”
I presume this is do to Resolve’s history with finishing and DIT work. Resolve has users via the hardware lock down angle though, so it’s not all kittens and rainbows. 😉
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[Oliver Peters] “Yes, but for many others, they are the primary editing tool. “
Exactly, which is why I said I know many people missed the 17″ after Apple EOL’d them, just not me personally. 😉
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[Bob Zelin] “If you are in post production, you have your computer, but you also have your monitors, speakers, dock, AJA or Blackmagic or AVID IO boxes, scopes, drives, etc, etc. “
Yeah, I don’t lug those around either. I keep them on a desk. Or the company I work for keeps them on one of their desks. Weird, I know. ????
Laptops for me are primarily personal/secondary computers, not editing computers.
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Unfortunately they’ll make it thinner than the 15″ so even though it’s bigger, the total volume inside the laptop will be smaller thus necessitating even greater thermal throttling. ????
On a more serious note, I know a lot of people miss the 17″s. I personally never had one because I didn’t want to lug something around that big.
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[Bryan Roberts] “Ah, this is an interesting angle. So, full disclosure, I keep a very messy timeline. I always have since FCP days almost 2 decades ago. I cut almost 20 features, some that went theatrical, in my FCP days and never had any performance issues with messy timelines. I use clip enable / disable all over the place to give myself easy option choices so when I go back to a scene, I can see my alt shots I had in my head etc.”
Yeah, in FCP Legend the big thing to worry about was the overall project size, I haven’t run into a similar issue w/PPro. PPro’s hangup, at least in my experience, has been the number of edits in a sequence as well as the number highly-edited sequences in a project. I dupe my edit timelines a lot (a whole lot) and that didn’t sit w/PPro well either (maybe it’s been fixed now, I don’t know). Every day I’ll create a new project by duping my previous one and then clear out all but the most recent couple of timelines from my “old cuts” bin.
[greg janza] “Do you use audio plugins at all in your timeline? Audio effects can bring any system to a grinding halt due to the real time processing required to play back.”
That’s a good point too. One project I worked on got completely brought to it’s knees by the iZotope filters I was using (just basic denoisers) and when I contacted iZotope they basically said, “Yeah… we really, really, *really* recommend you export those clips and bring them back in.”
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[Brett Sherman] “Many cameras these days shoot on a high bandwidth variation of H.264. H.265 is coming soon.”
I was thinking more along the lines of ingesting tape-based media or film.
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So you are using 1280×720 ProRes Proxies in a 4K timeline and when you added in a couple of A7s shots (which are also 1280×720 ProRes Proxies) things ground to a halt. So you rendered the entire timeline in 4K ProRes 422 and that did’t help at all. It sounds like something is corrupt somewhere (the project, the timelines, a piece of media, etc.,) because I can’t imagine another reason why the machine would be having trouble playing back 1280×720 ProRes Proxy files.
It my experience w/PPro it’s not the the size of the project that slows things down, or even the length of the timeline, but the complexity/number of cuts ing the timeline. I’ve had broll selects timelines that are 12 or 13 hours long and playback fine (1080p, camera native media), but an edited timeline that’s 2-3 hours long will start to lag. Maybe your performance would improve if you stripped out extraneous footage from V2, V3, V4, V5 and V6?
Currently I’m working on a historical doc that’s about an hour long and all the interviews were shot 4K (I’m using 1080p ProRes Proxy proxies) and everything is hunky dory, but my timeline is pretty clean. I’m using a pretty stock 2009 Mac Pro (USB 3.0 card, GTX 660Ti and boot SSD are the only major upgrades).
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[Oliver Peters] “Correct. That’s my concern. It appears that the intention is to mount drives into an MPX module, like Promise is planning to release. Therefore, I would presume that if you wanted to add your own raw drive(s), you would have to purchase the MPX chassis from Apple. Potentially there will be third-party MPX modules available. And, would you even be able to add a 3.5″ spinning hard drive or will you be limited to 2.5″ SSDs or only NVMe drives?”
This is something I’m confused about. Can you just put cards into the slots or do you always have to use an MPX chassis?