Andrew Kimery
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[Bret Williams] “I don’t think you can compare dynamic linking to the motion publishing. With dynamic linking, yes you can open in AE and make changes. But that requires AE and a knowledge of how to operate AE. Hardly comparable to making an adjustment in the inspector. Their new motion graphics Templates would be a better comparison, but they’re still a bit behind in that.
“If we are just talking about using Dynamic Link for templates you can have editable parameters inside of PPro. Ex. at my current gig we import an AE template into PPro for lower thirds and change the name, and title inside PPro using the Effects Control panel. At a previous job (maybe 2 or 3 years ago) the GFX department made us an AE template for creating opening titles for our videos and in that one the text, text size and color were all editable inside of PPro.
That was the first time I’d used Dynamic Link that way, and needless to say the editors loved noting having to go into AE just to make L3 changes.
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Considering the number of night scenes GoT has done, and the number of times people have complained about things being too dark I don’t think the ‘extra darkness’ in this episode was due to an improper setting during the grading session.
I think they wanted to make this episode visually dark (it is the Night King after all) than other night scenes and they
underestimated the difference between how they were viewing and how most people at home were viewing it (marginal LCD screens with jacked up factory settings, the living room lights all the way up, and a very compressed cable feed or Internet stream).I watched it on a sorta-properly set up plasma screen w/the lights dimmed and a surprisingly clean stream and I never thought it looked too dark. It certainly was dark, but it never obscured what was going on. Last year though the HBO streams were all very compressed (much more so than Amazon or Netflix) and if I had had the same streaming quality this year it probably would’ve made this episode unwatchable in parts.
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Looks like you might need to start working in portrait mode! 😉
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I thought it looked fine. BUT, I had good stream from HBO (sometimes their streaming quality can be really blocky) and I was watching on a plasma screen at night w/the lights down. I can totally see where people watching it on suboptimal TV settings and/or in a suboptimal environment wouldn’t have had a good a viewing experience.
Visually this episode was really pushing the boundary of what the creators want the audience to experience and what the typical viewer is capable of experiencing with their home setup.
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[greg janza] “The Facebook professional forums are quickly evolving into the primary location for dialogue and one primary reason for that is the user interface. It’s tailor made for quick question and answers and easy notifications. “
I think a very large part of FB’s appeal is that it’s a one stop shop. You can connect with work, family and friends all in one spot. It’s kinda like shopping at the mall because it’s easier than going to a number of different shops all over town.
Personally I think FB is horrible for trying to find information. Their algorithm decide what you see and how you see it. If I pull up FB on my phone and FB on my laptop the posts in the feeds won’t even be ordered the same way. If someone is posting a problem the response on FB or Twitter will probably be faster than on dedicated sites like the COW or FCP.co, but trying to go back and find already existing information can be a real PITA. It can be an information black hole at times.
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Post NAB recovery plus Passover and Easter?
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I’ll lead into this by saying I like getting notes in person because it allows for an opportunity to discuss them (as opposed to in an email where it’s much harder to have a good back and fourth). If there is a note I disagree with we’ll talk about it and if they still want to try the note I’ll give it a shot. If we do the note and I still don’t think it works I’ll say so, but if the other people still like then it stays (I’ve said my piece so it’s time to move on).
As an editor I view my role as to ultimately tell the story that the producer, director, agency, etc., wants told. I’m there to execute their vision and to that end I want them to be happy with the final product even if I think it might be if some things were done differently.
Getting back to talking about notes, one thing that I always keep in mind is that the notes might be addressing the symptom not the problem. So by just doing the note (w/o digging into what the note means) you are just spinning your wheels. It’s like if you have a pain in your foot and the cause is a pinched nerve in your back. If the doctor only looks at where the pain is then the source of the pain will never be rooted out.
One time I was working on an edit and the producer asked me to cut down a certain scene because it dragged on too long. I made it shorter and the producer still didn’t like it. I made it shorter again and the producer still didn’t like. I went back to first cut, watched it over and over again trying to figure out what wasn’t working. I ended up making the scene longer and the producer loved it. I loved it.
The scene wasn’t working because it was too long, the scene wasn’t working because my original pacing was off, which meant it wasn’t resonating with the audience, which meant they got bored, which meant they felt like the scene dragged on forever and was too long. By just addressing the note (“make it shorter”) I couldn’t make it better, but by digging deeper I realized what the underlying problem was and was able to fix it.
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[Michael Gissing] “I’m not sure why you might assume development at Blackmagic will slow down soon and updates get less in the future”
Isn’t that an inevitability as all software titles mature?
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[Mark Raudonis] “What keeps large post facilities from jumping is NOT so much inertia, but what I call the “10 X Rule”. In order to overcome inertia, the proposed change has to be at least ten times better than the status quo.”
Agreed. And not just large post facilities, but I think it also applies to anyone that has aa vested interest (i.e. spent years learning) in a certain workflow. The competition can’t be ‘just as good’ or ‘a little better’ because we all know that switching will fix some problems, but also create new ones that your old workflow didn’t suffer from. No one wants to take the time/effort switch when it’s just going to be a net gain of near zero. I might as well stick with the devils I know at that point as opposed to killing them only to introduce an equal amount of new devils.
No to belabor a point, but thats why Apple’s killing of FCP Legend and launching of X was such a huge deal. Apple removed that inertial barrier by forcing people to choose. Legend users had to make a conscious choice to move to another NLE. Apple created a very rare situation and that’s why it’s still so talked about.
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[Oliver Peters] “Yes, new apps were shown tied to Media Central. These allow for admin control to assign, lock, copy, mode, create bins in a web based format. Also log clips. This was outside of MC, but running on Nexis.”
Sounds cool. I wasn’t aware of those apps.