Creative COW | Bill Davis | Activity

Bill Davis replied to the discussion Upgrade Mojave to Catalina for FCPX? in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 21:57:40 +0000

Reply to Upgrade Mojave to Catalina for FCPX?

I hesitated a week to finish up a project in progress. Then ran a fresh TimeMachime image of my prior system. Then I totally erased my machine and did a clean install of Catalina. Since I’d already taken a leasurely week to find all my legacy 32-bit apps and trash them, the install went extremely smoothly over two half days. The following m…

Bill Davis replied to the discussion Staying resilient and reinventing ourselves in the forum Creative Community Conversations

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 02:21:12 +0000

Reply to Staying resilient and reinventing ourselves

Definitely re-invention time.

I’ve been super lucky in that I’ve been “home based” for far more than a decade. But even with that, I had to buckle down and adapt a lot in March to May in order to keep competitive. One huge boon was finding and getting involved with Alex Lindsay’s Office Hours daily Zoom — joining the panel early. It was like a…

Bill Davis replied to the discussion Compress large video files for transfer in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 02:03:55 +0000

Reply to Compress large video files for transfer

I’ve been using Frame.io’s new Transfer service with excellent results. It’s basically bit torrenting for grown-ups, in that it breaks whole folder data streams into packets and securely sends them in parallel in order to max saturate whatever bandwidth you have available. The transfer has full encryption between disassembly and re-assembly, so…

Bill Davis replied to the discussion Is FCPX on iOS pointless? in the forum Creative Community Conversations

Sun, 19 Jul 2020 00:05:08 +0000

Reply to Is FCPX on iOS pointless?

Small thinking to my mind.

What makes editing in X, editing in X isn’t really just timeline behaviors. Because for me, the storyline is simply where the rest of the efficiency enabling technologies in X REPORT their data for assembly. It’s an important part of the assembly process, of course, but for me ONLY insofar as it give expression to the… Read more

Bill Davis started the discussion FMC “Apple Track” from Post Production World now online for free. in the forum Creative Community Conversations

Wed, 10 Jun 2020 21:53:01 +0000

FMC “Apple Track” from Post Production World now online for free.

Bravo to the gang at Future Media Concepts for making the Apple Track from the recent Post Production World available for free on-line! Huge value here!
https://vimeo.com/showcase/7214683

Creator of XinTwo – http://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.

Bill Davis started the discussion Frame.io's new Transfer pipeline experience. in the forum Creative Community Conversations

Thu, 07 May 2020 18:20:17 +0000

Frame.io's new Transfer pipeline experience.

I had a chance to help some of my friends at Frame with a pre-launch test of their new Transfer service.
Which is basically (at least as I understand it) a distributed download schemea that works a little like Bit Torrent. The idea is that when you initiate a download, the cloud server sends not one, but multiple streams of packets that the… Read more