Bill Davis
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My god, he’s SO right.
We need to change everything.
For Gods sake No more of THESE –
We need more of THESE!!!!
MUCH easier to build, repair, and shouldl last a lot longer without anywhere near the constant maintenance.
Argument won.
There’s NO WAY Apple should ever have become the most successful company on the planet by thinking any differently.
We’re all just stupid sheep.
I’ll start immediately trying to change.
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[Herb Sevush] “Time is an aspect of “availability.” “
I’d argue you have that backwards.
Availability is an aspect of time.
Time is the FIXED constant. We all have the exact same supply and are losing it at the exact same pace.
Availability is a variable you have at least SOME control over.
FWIW.
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It requires an investment, but the industry is generally moving to on-line stored notes systems for stuff like this. The class of the pack is Frame.io
It gives you the ability to attach notes directly to frames in a shared cloud experience and works within both FCP X and Premiere.If you don’t want something that sophisticated, you can also just do the traditional thing and pop a timecode generator atop your timeline as a kinda/sorta adjustment layer – then take notes in a word processor linked to those.
It’s the only way I know of to exchange notes linked to video between two editors working on totally different software platforms.
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[greg janza] “But TV being the tramp that it is, I’m sure a lot of programming today is consciously being made with the thought of how to attract those young eyeballs.”
It strikes me a little bit like the “wide verses tall” thing.
Taken JUST in the context of content viewing – most all of us go for for wide every time. Even to the point of ridiculing people who shoot “vertical videos.”
Yet I look at the splash page of Netflix today – and what do I see?
Poster frames set as BOTH vertical and horizontal. They want more options to attract eyeballs to the promoted content above – and then are happy to switch to a horizontal layout when the choice is made to dive deeper. Some of those will undoubtedly be the “smartphone” poster frames – others will be served to laptops and other wide screen modes.
I think there’s a design aesthetic at work here that’s increasingly common. Catch first – extrapolate later.
Interesting to think about.
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[Herb Sevush] “Good enough is for when you don’t have any other options – due to money, size, availability. If you can afford better options, then “good enough” ain’t good enough.”
But the most common scarcity in this is the one you conveniently left out… time.
Good enough hedges THAT better than anything else.
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Dang, I missed this discussion the first time around and I’m REALLY late to this AND kinda bummed I missed it at the time.
Because, of course, I have a bit of a contrarian observation.
(But at least one built around a real life experience!)
I consume media in the same way most of you guys do. I watch the presentation hoping to be engrossed with it such that my disbelief is suspended and I become immersed in the narrative. I FOCUS on it from the first frame. It’s how I was trained with DECADES of sitting in darkened theaters or living rooms with single choice content delivery modes at one time.
That’s my default expectation.
But a few years back, I watched my then teenage son watch content in our living room – and realized his entire experience of consuming media was massively different from mine.
He had the Television, his Laptop, an iPad and his phone engaged all at once and he was scanning and interacting with each. He essentially had a “curation state” in play – assessing which feed he would access at any given time.
Movement, change, visual richness – THOSE aspects would draw his attention to one of the other, in turn.
Is this good or bad? That’s WAY too big a topic for me to address. But it’s how his attention was being engaged.
It’s VERY possible, I suspect, that Letterman’s show is edited to POP from this type of modern scanning feed. To present more variety, more visual change, more INTEREST to someone scanning across content looking for something to watch.
It MIMICS his viewing consumption style much more closely than traditional style editorial. Constantly searching, scanning, seeking – for good or ill.
Just an observation – and certainly one that I could be entirely wrong about. But that Letterman interview style might have way more opportunity to appeal to someone of Mike’s conditioning – than it does for someone of my conditioning.
Just food for thought.
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Christie,
Make sure you’re not confusing your Multiclip with your Angle Editor.
The Multiclip (a clip showing 4 tiny boxes in it’s ID bar) is a container that contains your angles.
Double click on it and it should open the multi-clip in the Angle Editor – which displays the content that FEEDS the multi clip.
Good luck.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Sometimes I get the feeling that people in our business try to make things as complex and hard as they can for no apparent gain or reason…mho”
That’s a great point, Scott.
And a corollary maybe is that once a practitioner settles on a workflow that satisfies them – there’s a powerful pull to depend on that workflow for everything they do.
It’s “I’m an AVID editor – so I see production in AVID terms.” Or, “I’m an FCP X editor – so I see problems in terms that X best solves them.” That’s all perfectly natural.
Hopping around between production processes puts extra stress on the practitioner, whether that’s learning the keystroke muscle memory for two or more NLEs – or becoming as comfortable shooting a six ounce iPhone X for someone conditioned to wielding a 15 lb shoulder mount broadcast camera.
It’s extra skills development, either way. And you have to be able to see the benefits in order to want to spend the time learning how to do any of it well.
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[greg janza] “I think that’s a great idea and I have the same reaction to some of the posts here.
“Yeah, but the REASON this specific forum has the traffic that it does, arose from the conflict in the early days of FCP X that was hashed out here.
Argument over concepts is the SOUL of this forum.
If this forum was simply users agreeing that the way professionals have traditionally approached their equipment and production processes is fine and should just keep on keeping on – the whole forum would be just another website among many.
We tend to remain relevant BECAUSE we challenge the accepted way of doing things.
That’s the fun.
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[greg janza] “Does the use of this type of disruptive technology actually help the end product? Will an audience become equally engaged in the storytelling with this imagery as opposed to more established formats?”
It’s an excellent question. And one we can’t answer – unless and until someone is out there USING the new techniques in real-world tests. Which is where Soderbergh appears headed.
I can iterate and improve ONLY after I create and distribute.
That’s the biggest change I’ve seen over the past 20 years.
I used to try to be as perfect as possible. And sometimes, I still do. But just as often, I find myself saying “just put it out – – listen to the critique – and make sure to improve for next time.”
That new normal is working in software. It’s working in life. – basically, It’s working.
FWIW.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.
