Bill Davis
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I’m henceforth adopting the phrase “legacy dragging.”
It’s beyond brilliant.
This post Is a searchable record for future generations that I got it from Jeremy Garchow.
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I think I’m firmly with Tim on this one.
Dismissing this area of new language and change is potentially dismissing EXTERMELY important new thinking in a rediculously fast moving digital landscape.
Master is Master
Share is Share
Final… is gasping and near death (beyond it’s use as a working editors joke in the sense of a file on your desktop labeled: Final Final – Rev C.)It’s s new world, like it or not.
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Not commenting beyond the well discussed notes that the IRS’s SIC (occupation) stats had a mere 60,000 or so US folks reporting in the Professional Motion Picture or Television Editors or Camera Operators classification. (or whatever it’s technically called.)
So our “industry” is actually pretty darn small in the relative scope of things.
So ALL these sales numbers have to include huge chunks of two (all too easy to ignore!) classes. Those NOT self describing as full time dedicated editors – and a lot of folks outside the US (since those IRS figures obviously wouldn’t cover anyone else.)
FWIW.
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[Mark Suszko] “”Share” Semantically, for me, means an export customized to a particular deliverable.
“Export”, – unless you opt for a different transcoding in the export dialogue – sends a flattened copy of the work product on the timeline, in whatever codec it currently is using.”
That makes great sense to me.
The only issue I can see is is it a “share” or an “export” if you’re taking, for example – a ProRez 422 export from a laptop timeline where you’ve been working in proxy (so you might not be working in the delivery format at all) and creating a higher resolution “sorta mezzanine” file via pointer swapping – that you THEN want to host on a service that will take that “sorta mezzanine” file and transcode it further into versions for end user delivery.
There’s a LOT of complexity in the modern workflow – and yet only a few words we use to describe the types of files (and the states of those files) that we are creating.
What is a “Master?” That’s becoming about as soft and fuzzy a term now as is “Final”.
Maybe we don’t have quite enough discrete terms to distinguish things in order to keep our communications as clear as we’d like.
OTOH, perhaps we’re in a space where the language we have will just have to do – and we’ll rely on users undersigning in the specific contexts to get the jobs done.
Like I said originally, all this extremely rapid change is making things very interesting!
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[Martin Curtis] “For the record, I hate the word “share” used in this context. It’s an export, Apple, an export.”
This is interesting to me.
I see it differently.
Export, at least the way I had been conditioned to think of it prior to FCP X – was largely creating a new, fixed asset on a desktop.
The word itself could be either, obviously. But it’s how I was trained to consider it back when the concept I was learning was to create your MASTER as a unique stand-alone file on the root level of your system.
So when Apple elected to go with “share” – it put me “conceptionally” in mind of sending someone an email or, perhaps making a photocopy and handing it to them.
Seemed more to me like what I was doing when I uploaded a copy of my project to an on-line service.
Export and share are BOTH perfectly suitable linguistically. But for me, “export” was already in use by the software of the time – so using a newer term was signaling internal changes in the process. New thinking, so to speak.
Not sure this is a “right or wrong” thing – more just a “how communications happens” thing.
Like I said – interesting.
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[Michael Gissing] “The whole philosophy of listening on bad speakers to mimic the real world is totally flawed thinking.”
Said someone who likely didn’t grow up where the ONLY content you could consume outside your living room was via AM radio broadcast.
It was it’s own VERY unique thing. Mono, Severely bandwidth limited. Ruthlessly compressed. Delivered typically to an OVAL speaker mounted to a car dashboard and firing onto a curved sheet of glass set at an angle above it.
And that’s how millions and millions and millions of people listened to their music, got their news, and consumed the advertising spots that supported it all.
NOT to have a limited bandwidth crappy paper coned speaker solution on your monitor bridge that was similar to the end user experience would have been content creation malpractice. Auratone basic cubes fed THAT need. Perfect? Heck NO. But way, way, way better than monitoring a radio spot on the ALTEC broad spectrum monitors with giant woofers and powerful folded horns that were often the “main monitors” in the recording facilities of the day.
Auratone cubes WORKED. If on them, the VO was buried – it was far more likely it would ALSO be in your car..
It was a different time. And the smartest and best people working IN THAT SYSTEM were figuring out what worked – not just in theory – but in practice.
Just how it was.
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[Oliver Peters] “”Awful-tones” and Yamaha NS-10. Like ice picks through your ear drums.
“If considered by the someone ignorant of what’s actually going on…
The entire POINT of Auratones (in virtually every studio where I did my first 150 professional radio voiceovers) was to mimic the acoustic profile of an AM Car Radio so you could make sure the mix you had previously only heard via the big studio monitors would translate acceptably.
To win the game – you’ve got to AT LEAST know what game is actually being played.
FWIW.
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[Bob Zelin] “would you both agree to fly with me (my treat) to Bill Davis’ location and just kill him, so we don’t have to hear this anymore – would you agree with me and go ? Lifetime in prison would be a vacation. “
I shall be here, on my veranda, most days, sipping a Pina Colada – awaiting your arrival. (As my X use these days affords me significant free time)
Please be mindful that in Arizona, gunfire is often rapidly met by dozens of responding neighbors (and unknown random passers by) drawing their own arms and opening fire indiscriminately in the hopes they make it on the screens of the local affiliate of Fox News as citizen/vigilantes – so you may wish to pre-prepare local ID cards in advanced which you can wave furiously to establish that you are not out of state “immigrants.”
Or perhaps you may opt for edged weapons to help insure your own personal safety whilst in our fair state?
Also, write me if you’d like references to the best local Mexican restaurants in my neighborhood – so you may refresh yourselves before you “come a-killin'”
Yours,
Bill.
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[Shane Ross] “So yeah, it might take a while to build up the capital to afford to do that. It’s easier when you are a sole operator, or have a handful of machines.
“Unquestionably.
But my point is if that investment yields a 10% or 15% increase in efficiency it’s one thing.
But if it boosts it by 50% that’s entirely another.
My point is that I sincerely feel that the combination of FCP X “and” new hardware has easily done that for me.
Of COURSE this presumes a lot of things and isn’t a universal perscription. Type of work, experience and/or training of staff, network infrastructure, management interest, availability of capital, etc, etc, etc will all factor in.
ALL I’m saying is that looking back for this ONE user (doing only my type of work) that combo (software, hardware AND user experience upgrades all together) is what I see as the key to what I’ve experienced.
If an editor has to face a deficit in ANY of those areas, it’s going to be more difficult for them to experience what we all desire – tools that help us thrive.
That’s why I was expressing sympathy for Neil.
Sitting down to 8 year old hardware – facing today’s production pace – sounds like a difficult place to be.
That’s all.
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Their business model is doing 2018 work on 2010 hardware?
That just seems kinda nuts.
The hardware advances in speed and efficiency I’ve seen in the last 8 years have been nothing short of immense. I remember how my own FCP X work took a huge efficiency leap when I revved my hardware in late 2015.
You have my sympathy, Neil.
That’s got to be terribly frustrating day to day.
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