Bill Davis
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[Bob Zelin] “Why wait for NAB – how relevant is NAB, when you can present live on the web, pre trade show. “
Pretty much exactly why Apple stopped spending their money on formal trade shows a decade+ ago, I suspect.
NAB is now just a place to cement relationships and let down some of your normal social barriers.
A room full of people who share your interests and that you can interact with IRL is still valuable, because it’s the only place you can fully participate with others in the same way humans have since the dawn of time.
ALL the non-verbal cues that humankind has come to depend on are still in play. I can fudge a thousand things on a video presentation. I can make myself taller wth a judicious angle, thinner with good lighting, AND I can switch the feed off if I espouse lame arguments and get into difficult territory in the judgement of my conversation group. As we all know, with the anonymity of cyber discussions, we often go farther and are less civil than we otherwise might be.
When you’re standing in a group 3 feet from others, less of that works.
My 2 cents.
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Yeah, I think we agree on much of this Oliver.
X was designed with many capabilities that might make help it grow into an excellent collaborative editing environment over time – but anyone thinking it’s totally “there” right now is mistaken.
AVID wins that ballgame completely, fairly, since it’s had so many years to develop EXACTLY those capabilities for it’s core facilities constituency.
ADOBE may crack the code with it’s Anywhere approach. X may crack it in a different way with it’s “metadata about stored ranges” capabilities. The only thing certain, is that few are mothballing their big AVID systems because anything is clearly superior to that.
Nobody does collaborative as well as AVID right now. That’s still currently a given from everything I hear.
For me, it sounds like what is even “possible” using today’s network communications topologies might be changing fast as data speeds continue to increasing rapidly, and overall data pipe capacity (at an affordable price point) continues to expand.
Now it’s up to how each of these software approaches wants to fit into the new era with so many barriers apparently falling.
Interesting times.
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My concern would be the long slim form factor of the instruments – mounted in a collapsable soft box that has little front to back depth – might yield a very bright strip of light on the front panel – and therefore would be putting out a very different projected light pattern than a square soft box that’s filled evenly.
Basically, it becomes a strip-light.
That doesn’t mean you can’t work with it. Just that it’s NOT going to be as efficient or as apparently broad a source on the subject on both axis, evenly.
Might be workable. Might be one of those things where on the medium wide 2 shot – it works fine horizontally mounted, but you need to stop and swing it vertically if you go closer for the single shot so you don’t get a major fall-off in light between the face and body of a seated single subject.
If there was only one light that did everything well, our craft would be so much easier!
Good luck.
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My 2 cents:
Given the same exact project…
I’ll have something tangible done for a client who has agreed to a decent plan in advance of shooting, who understands the production process and lets me do my job- probably in a half-day.
If the client does NOT have a clue – but is generally so busy they they ONLY interrupt me at regularly scheduled meetings – that would expand to about 2 days.
And if that same client wishes to actively participate in the production process on a daily basis – expand the schedule to at least a week.
For the SAME client wishes to actively participate on a daily basis – and thinks it’s TOTALLY COOL to re-think decisions and start over because they just saw something cool on TV or at the movies they’d like to try on THEIR project – expect the post schedule to expand to a month.
My 2 cents.
; )
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[Anna Wong] “Hi Dave,
Thanks for your advices! Yes, I don’t have much good memory with FCP7 too.
You mentioned to use Premiere Pro CC 2015.4 or 2015.3. But how to reinstall the previous versions?
Thank you!Best regards,
Anna”Unfortunate you asked about this in a Premiere Pro forum.
If you not wedded to the idea of tracked timelines, you could be flying through things in FCP X with some half-decent training.
It has NO issues with iPhone footage or any other mixed media. Generally, everything you need for normal transcoding is already built into X.
It RARELY crashes at all on decent hardware – and when it does you typically lost NOTHING of your work to that point, as it gracefully re-launches to exactly where you left off.
This is a Premiere Pro forum. So that’s a consideration. Basically if you ask how it’s best to prepare fish in a steakhouse, the answer is typically going to be “grill it”. It’s a perfectly fine response. But it’s conditioned on what the restaurant has the MOST experience with. It’s not the full range of possibilities – just what most of the cooks in THAT restaurant are used to doing.
Just sayin’
Good luck with your project.
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Also let me guess…
Are you one of those guys who decide to start “running” – so they go directly to sign up for a marathon?
I ask because even if you’re EXTREMELY healthy and have lots and lots of other great strength and conditioning habits – it’s just a REALLY bad idea to dive into a HUGE specialized undertaking – as your very first foray into a new form.
For most of us, it’s what we learned in dozens or even hundreds of smaller jobs – that we bring to the table when we finally tackle something really big with hundreds of hours of source content.
Sure it can be done.
But starting with little to no basic knowledge of the landscape of a typical marathon – is NOT a good strategy to make it to the finish line unscathed your first time out.
Just my 2 cents.
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Oliver,
Unless I misunderstand it, it’s the SyncFolders part of the workflow that I’ve heard the most commentary about.
Currently, the chatter I’ve heard is about latest changes to X as of 10.2.3 and how those interact with storage protocols. I don’t see nearly as much chatter about a synchronized folders approach. But again, I’m largely ignorant about that stuff.
There are indicators are from guys I know who tend to consult on the largest X workflows – in the biggest shops around the world – and who say they have quite a bit of news about shared storage for NAB.
This is coming from people I trust, and who I know work with many of the largest X networked systems globally.
They just are NOT talking about sync folders (note lower case: not any particular product) much anymore.
Unless they are and I’m just not hearing about it.
FWIW.
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Glad it was of interest to you.
X has always been about exposing more of the metadata flow to end users so they could find ways to leverage it into unique efficiencies.
When Phil and Greg formed Lumberjack systems to leverage that exposure, they worked with both FCP X and Premiere Pro implementations.
I obviously can’t speak for them, but it has always seemed to me as an observer, that the level of exposure available in FCP X – particularly the way it’s purpose built to track not just “whole clips” but agiley described ranges within clips -gave it real advantages for the type of prep work this article highlights.
It’s taken quite a bit of time for the advantages some of us felt it would enable – to percolate down into real-world workflows.
But I think this is more evidence that it’s now happening and will continue to accellerate.
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I’m largely ignorant of most shared storage topics, but I suspect that the workflow featured in this AVID demo is now considered both deeply flawed and kinda lame by those working at the leading edge of this stuff.
The pace of development in high speed video shared storage space is EXTREMELY rapid.
So a shared storage workflow that was “bleeding edge” a year ago can almost be functionally obsolete today – the pace is kinda ruthless.
That’s how I understand it from talking to people who live and breath this stuff.
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Stan,
That’s NOT a very good way to rig a backlight.
On the circular part of the grip head, you see those different sized holes/slots? Those are designed to grip the circular grip arm itself. That way the pole is attached to the grip head and the whole arm is adjustable. With the part of the arm hanging over, you can slide the arm along to make it shorter or longer – and even MORE important the overhang of the arm can take a small sandbag or other weight to counterbalance the load and make the whole rig MUCH safer and more stable.
It’s also CRITICAL to orient the grip head on the correct side of the stand/arm combination so that the load puts its weight on the side of the grip head that TIGHTENS on rotation, rather than an orientation where the weight can naturally LOOSEN the grip head.
BTW, you’re making good progress. Keep working it. Good job.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.