Bill Davis
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BRaw is BlackMagic Design’s intellectual property.
They control who can use it. Period.
Exactly like ProRes RAW is Apples intellectual property.
In both cases, the way copyright law works, if you don’t defend your IP – you risk losing it.
While there’s an open source SDK and Grant Petty is on record as saying any other company can implement BRaw without royalty, I’m not sure that’s the same as Apple enabling BRaw in FCP X without BlackMagic reciprocating and enabling, say, ProRes RAW on BlackMagic cameras.Heck, why not BRAW recording on iPhones and ProRes RAW pipelines in Resolve?
We all can hold out hope that this type of cum-by-yah cooperation will happen someday – but I suspect it will be a while.
Hope I’m wrong, tho,
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Sorry for the delay. Two field video shoots and a corporate event coverage photo gig in the last 10 days.
On the gig mentioned in my original post, I was using an Atomos Inferno w/7″ screen to do the ProResRAW capture..
So the rig was a C-300 tethered to that via 3/6/12GHDI
I went with a top mount wooden camera plate rig since that was less weight than all the cages I looked at.The Atomos has a very well designed sunshade system that lets you truly see your picture, even in very bright sunlight (which we have a lot of in California.) but it was still as heavy as a Betacam and far less ergonomic IMO.
So basically, until we get camera that record AND monitors ProRes RAW internally (hopefully with full Rec2020 HDR monitoring so you can see what you’re actually shooting) the rigs are pretty unwieldy.
Even the new BlackMagic PocketCamera 6k is bigger than I expected in form-factor.
I suppose “Pocket” in this case must refers to 90’s cargo shorts?
Anyway, shooting it was NOT a comfortable “run and gun” experience for me. Not if you want to be able to judge what you’re shooting as you record it.
Just my initial impressions.
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Sounds like a great show, Michael.
I will say that I’ve shot an URSA 4.6k on my last two projects – and easy to handle… well, that’s NOT how I would describe it.
Unless you really rig it out, I found it pretty terrible to operate other than on sticks.
It’s heavy, boxy, and not ergonomic at all, IMO. Sane as the DSLR form factors..
It’s weird the camera engineers outside of JVC and Sony with SOME models aren’t even trying to do better. Maybe they think it’s all going to the smart phones all too soon to make those longer term research investments. It’s weird.
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Sorry, I didn’t feel it was right to attribute it since it was met pretty negatively.
It was a comment in response to Michael Yanovich’s article to which I referenced originally, but on a sub-reddit for pro editors.It was clearly suggesting nobody does (or should) take FCP X seriously even today.
Sorry the context wasn’t clear.
It was nice to see the comment gather pretty negative feedback from those who commented. But someone still felt comfortable publicly posting that, so there is clearly a good bit of that sentiment still being articulated.
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[Shane Ross] “You might see some of the future right, but man, are you off the mark here.
“Perhaps.
But I do a fair bit of work with professional media buyers.
If you listen to the big radio advertisers for those “populist” radio shows you’ll start to notice something.Overall the advertisers fall on a VERY narrow spectrum.
It’s not generally the big companies looking to reach wide bands of the population and most CERTAINLY not those marketing to young buyers seeking to establish brand loyalty for the long run.
Those ad dollars look elsewhere.
Talk radio is also awash in “anxiety brands” like gold and silver investments, etc, etc. products that appeal to older, more conservative buyers.
Nothing wrong with that, but when those ears age out and die off – what will replace them?
Said another way, is ANYONE speaking to the under 60 set via radio these days? Where’s the new Prairie Home Companion for the hip? I know mandolin genius Chris Thile is trying to help NPR move forward in that space – but that’s Public Radio. And maybe Brandi Carlile and the Highwomen, can help – but that landscape is pretty sparse when it comes to mining dollars via JUST radio.
We’ll see.
Just a
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Because of stuff like this crap, posted a couple of days ago in a Reddit “professional editing” forum…
“from the titanic to noahs ark. a tour of editors that the industry as a whole has left behind. An article that almost no-one will need.”
Happily, nowadays a post like that finally draws more negative feedback then positive —but it was posted just the same.
There are still wide, deep pockets of editors out there with their thinking ossified at the state where X should only be seen as a useless little toy.
Why let that continue without challenge?
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[Neil Goodman] “I think this forum has come along way in 8 years.
We have all accepted FCPX for what is. Seems like you are still searching for some sort of validation.”
Really?
Seems to me the forum is a shadow of its former self.
I post something the slightest bit provocative and the same guys respond that I might have expected to in 2012, and with the same responses!
Meanwhile the other X hangouts are beehives of discussion with hundreds of threads and tens of thousands of active members worldwide.
Considering the head start we had here, this might have been closer to that by now, but alas. That ship sailed long ago.
And I have all the “validation” I ever needed.
My editorial tools are super fast and super reliable, just as I predicted over and over. My clients are happy. I have editing friends all over the world now. And get to live on top of a ridge in Southern California and get to enjoy an ocean breeze every afternoon coming through my windows while I work.
If I knew I would have ended up here, doing this, I wouldn’t have changed a thing.
And I hope everyone else can say exactly the same.
I hope the AVID and Premiere Pro folk are all every bit as happy with their choices, and situations as I am with mine.
Life is way too short for anything else, really. .
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Smile.
8 years on nearly.
And everyone here still saying exactly what we’re we were posting 8 years ago.
It’s like baptist call and response.
Stasis.
It would almost be comforting, if the entire rest of the world hadn’t gone through so much change in the same period. .
The cameras are shrunk and shooting 4-6k, even the cheap ones..
My lights are all run cool now.
Nobody I know invests in $4,000 wireless VHF lavs any more.
TV transmitters are nearly obsolete
Radio is functionally a dead business walking.
I have a VO booth in my garage where I teleport into video chats most weeks, watched in real time globally.
My cel phone has more raw video, audio and computing reach and connectivity than any TV station I ever worked with.
I have gigabit down AND up internet at a 10th the cost I used to pay for an audio only ISDN line.And this forum is still is at the EXACT same place it was before all that happened. .
The Cheers bar of the internet, frozen in the Hi, Norm! era.
Not sure if that’s comforting or depressing.
It was just a story link. Not a poke in the eye. But these are apparently sensitive times.
Oh well.
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[Oliver Peters] “There is a caveat to that if you work in Premiere, FCPX, or Resolve. If you render as you go (or cache in Resolve) and set your settings to the output codec (such as ProRes), then the export effectively becomes a file copy. You typically have to enable using this media in the export dialogue, but it can make the exports – especially in FCPX and Resolve – lightning fast, IF you are exporting to the same codec and settings.
– Oliver
“This.
But also, even if you’ve got background rendering turned off, if you’re working with decent hardware, when you go to export a master, X is happy to grab all the computing resources it can in order to do the export as fast as possible. So “render the master during my coffee break while my machine is otherwise idle” is often a sterling strategy.
That’s largely why I work nearly exclusively with background rendering turned OFF – at least unless I”m doing higher raster projects.
YMMV.
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“Well gosh, Seymore, if you’ve just GOT to have RS232 compatibility, then I suppose we could try to figure something out…”
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