Bill Davis
Forum Replies Created
-
[Oliver Peters] “If by that you mean an iPhone as a camera or an audio recorder, then BS!!!!!
“We will disagree on this then.
Anecdotally, my wife has been doing a bit of VO work lately for a client who wanted easy female narration scratch tracks for work we’re producing for some of our west coast clients.
So I did her initial recordings using my typical expensive VO chain. While I was at NAB, they called her for a pickup line. Problem was I had my VO mic and interface with me in case my clients needed work while I was gone. So in a pinch, I had her just stand in our coat closet and use her iPhone with the Voice Record App for the pickup.
She emailed the file directly to the producer, they cut it in, and — nobody ever remarked on any difference.
I thought it might be just their unschooled ears – but I listened to her recording when I got back. Clear as a bell, close to zero noise floor. Excellent recording quality. Once again, I got a long held expectation shattered.
THIS is partly why my Neumann has been resting in it’s case for months. It’s inarguably superior to the relatively inexpensive Rode shotgun I have hanging over my desktop for quick web video vlogging stuff – but in typical use, literally nobody can tell any difference.
There MORE of that coming, IMO not less.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery. -
[greg janza] “I think it bears mentioning that the end goal of technology as it relates to video production isn’t to create an all-in-one product that allows one individual to direct, shoot, light, record field sound, produce, edit, color, sound mix and deliver.”
Music is instructive in this.
Absolutely, collaborative work is great. Symphony orchestras are WONDERFUL!
You can’t field an orchestra and play that type of music without LOTS of collaboration.But on the other hand, society has equally benefited from the solo artist. The musician toiling either solo or within a very small supportive collective to advance the state of the art.
Once upon a time, you COULD NOT create video without a big team behind you. Today, it’s trivial.
It will not mean the demise of either method of work. It will simply ADD to the ability of both camps to produce quality work, IMO.
Heck, I want both and can’t see any reason why I can’t have both.
Wwe’ve had the big Hollywood studio/network TV system for nearly 80 years now. And it’s record is pretty mixed. Some wonderfully shining examples of art – mixed in with a metric boatload of crap.
Even if this new era of the digital auteur produces EXACTLY the same mix, we still probably get more quality creative output overall.
And what’s wrong with that?
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery. -
[Oliver Peters] “Well, no one is/was talking about the consumer/retail side of this at all. But if you what to position FCPX as a “prosumer” product, go right ahead ☺”
Happy to.
The R&D clout of being able to leverage sales in the millions is what changes industries in the current climate – not exclusively what serves the enterprise class.
Just ask the corporate business types who bet on Blackberries and whatched the tide of iPhones and iPads roll over them.
That rumor from a couple of years ago that Apple had something like 600 folks working exclusively on the iPhone camera section – is surely a part of why we now have phones that can shoot 4k and why they are moving so heavily and rapidly into news gathering and other traditional ENG camera spaces.
Heck, the last few months, I successfully managed to get XLR wireless audio direct into my iPhone X via the lightening port. I can set manual white balance and focus. The images are commensurate with what I had the first 20 years I spent as a shooter – and it’s always with me.
And there is surely nothing more “consumer” nor “retail” than a smart phone.
Basically when the “consumer” level devices – at mass “consumer” level price points – start to functionally out-perform the “professional” devices well, that that’s when things start to really shift.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery. -
[Oliver Peters] “True. However, in the context of R15 – if someone has no prior allegiances to any given NLE, then R15 for free is pretty hard to beat.”
Not so sure about this.
The editorial engine is a traditional stacked track setup, but the minute you go to color stuff, you’re in node land – which may not be the most obvious neighborhood to move into. Don’t know Fairlight, but the whole Resolve suite seems designed like a very big house with a LOT of complicated rooms for a first time homebuyer.
If you’re Designing to make traditional pros in TV stations and production facilities happy – will you get the youngsters coming up to buy into that concept in large numbers?
Time will tell.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery. -
[Oliver Peters] “Or at least I don’t think they have the same interest in going there as others do.”
Not sure about this.
Only Apple and Adobe currently have the monetization back end in place to make SaaS a widespread global process. And by that I mean they have the retail hooks in place to scale globally – Adobe via a continuation of the rental model – Apple, if past is prologue, possibly keeping to the buy in once and let hardware sales handle the rest.
Neither Quantel or AVID (Let alone the Foundry) have the RETAIL brand experience. – as a company asking the wider retail market to buy into their platform.
Basically, they are all BtoB players except Adobe and Apple.
And as well as Adobe has done, the number of credit cards they have on file – and the general consumer reputation they enjoy, pales in comparison to the infrastructure Apple can wield.
As cloud editorial expands, Apple virtualizing FCP X (maybe starting with it’s iMovie subset?) seems to me like it would be a super easy lift.
Adobe virtualizing its dozens of CC products and keeping their full cabilities – seems a MUCH bigger stretch to me.
Who knows, maybe the 2011 re-conception of X was a bit about cleaning out the codebase cruft to make an on-line eventuality more possible?
Fun to speculate.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery. -
[Ricardo Marty] “I dont know. But all I see in that image are tracks.”
I see the land of the “track-nod.”
The video is way up here……..but I’m pretty sure it’s matching audio is … down……………….here.
Did that for a decade plus.
Seems kinda weird now.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery. -
[Shawn Miller] “What I really appreciate about BMD is their singular and unique vision to empower creators with the most powerful tools at the lowest price”
I believe this – but it’s also useful to understand that to achieve this BM pretty much sees the entire video industry from a largely IP perspective.
And that’s a HUGE shift in thinking.
There are huge, huge benefits to the new IP production approach. But many of us trained in the older video traditions have to re-think everything we know about how even some of the simplest video plumbing stuff works in order to advance into the new era heading towards us.
For instance, it used to be knowing how to setup and white balance a production camera was a mission critical live shoot skill. Now knowing how to manage IP addresses on a network is WAY more critical.
Just food for thought.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery. -
[greg janza] “If Resolve becomes an NLE that serves post production needs in a more cost efficient and effective manner than the competition, then most likely it’ll be adopted by the marketplace and post professionals will start using it en masse.”
Well, using marketplace adoption as the metric of choice, FCP X wins globally for individual editing and AVID wins in the professional sphere.
Premiere Pro has certainly surged in the middle, but that’s EXACTLY where BlackMagic seems to have set their sights.
I have to say that after working with the largely IP based BlackMagic system in Las Vegas, where every device (cameras, switchers, storage, etc, etc.) kinda looks like just another network node – I have a new appreciation of the change still happening out there in the video creation space.
If this keep evolving toward IP and the web, the real question is whether older style track based editing UI preservers in the eventual SaaS cloud era, or X’s more database and exposed metadata centric model surges. After all, X with it’s robust SQLite database bolted inside already, seems like it might be a better fit in the long run than software largely designed around 20 plus year old editorial concepts. But who knows.
Maybe AVID or Adobe or BlackMagic will take a big leap and crack the code of web based editing. Or maybe that’s why Apple limited their X proposed life span to just 10 years – far shorter than the other two A’s have already been out there – and saw another huge wave of changes on the horizon.
Hard to say.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery. -
[Neil Goodman] “It seems like FCPX is developing at the slowest rate at the moment “
Huh?
How is adding a massive new grading facility, RAW support and an entire ADA compliant captioning system into an app in one year the “slowest” development?
Just look at the UI over the past couple of years.
X got lanes, re-organized the UI streamlining the central menu bar, and added powerful and unique functions like caption control inside the timeline index.
I look at the other NLEs and they look largely the same as they did a few years ago.
X doesn’t.
But maybe that’s just because I know it better?
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery. -
[Walter Soyka] “There’s also Adobe’s CinemaDNG from 2009 (which Blackmagic adopted for their cameras). Both CineForm and CinemaDNG are open standards.”
But Walter, I know you are very well used to working with what are basically animation bred still frame sequences – but most of us video folk are not.
Those basically animation formats aren’t native to most video thinkers exoectations, so if ProResRAW provides enough grading latitude in a packetized format that simply works the way we’ve always worked – it stands poised to be a huge winner, IMHO.
Because they’ve got the data rate and compression into the range we are working with right now – nothing changes except we get new abilities to push color and luma to new heights.
No need to spend more on new hardware, software or … anything.
That’s pretty compelling.
Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.