Bill Davis
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[Oliver Peters] “If a large market, then I guess, yes. But if minuscule, then plug-ins should have sufficed. Thoughts?”
Seems to me we have about 20 years now in conditioning a generation of gamers to “think” in 360 space.
Now all people have to do is find something as entertaining as killing each other endlessly – and the next big thing will maybe have arrived.
Pokémon GO was just a big virtual scavenger hunt. Geotriggered bespoke videos mapped to VR places and a bunch of other similar stuff for a million info/business purposes seem more likely to me than watching a 360 movie via headgear. But who knows?
(Sorry I can’t play more but I’ve got 4 big projects underway for my usual Early January “start off the year strong” corporate videos and I’m putting in some serious hours.)
Have fun.
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What Jeremy said.
If you are going to do a lot of these – it would probably be worth it to learn how to design the “info callouts” as a Motion generator and Publish it into X. That way you could just import instances as required and change the text and text attributes more easily – while not Creating too many Compound Clips to manage in your Browser.
The X-Motion linkage is ideal for this type of task.
YMMV.
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Overall you’re doing really well.
But now you are at the “devil in the details” zone. And if you want to push farther up the quality curve, you can’t let the small things go by.
Two examples that caught my eye:
First video at :10 seconds in the car looks nice but YOU are a murky blob relative to the backlit scene. That’s unacceptable. The audience looks to people first – even before the car. You need to make sure humans are exposed properly. Today’s cheap LEDs can be ganged and run off batteries and flagged to keep spill off the car – so practical lighting to get your face a couple of stops brighter would be one solution. Another would be to soft matt your face and push it brighter IF your shot has the latitude.
What’s not acceptable is to let an on-camera presenter be under-exposed relative to the image in the frame.The other is easy to fix inside X, but it’s the kind of thing you need to train yourself to see and address. 2nd video at :20 when you drift on the car logo – the horizon line is skewed. It’s a tiny step to push a bit and rotate the shot a couple of degrees to create a more pleasing frame – but that’s the type of small detail you need to learn to see and fix.
Again, overall you are doing very, very well. Now quality improvements get tougher because like the stuff I noted they aren’t “obvious” until you train yourself to see them.
Keep up the good work!
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I think you’re on the right track.
Decently strong light from both stage right and stage left.
Try to keep the contrast between lit and unlit on the subject as high as you can.
In post, desaturate and crank up the contrast.
Good luck.
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[Neil Goodman] “Im talking about your neighbors kids making skateing videos, the youtube v logger with 20 subscribers, etc. People wanting to make a picture slideshow for their friends wedding. Will a handfull of them eventually get into editing…maybe?”
Curious as to why folks in those “not for profit” operations decided to part with $300-400 bucks when there are plenty of capable cheap or free alternatives – but let’s imagine, say a full third (600,000) of the X base just wanted to toss their money at Apple with no expectation of a monetary return, it would probably be equally interesting to determine the percentage of the Adobe Subscribers base who pay their monthly $XX and never edit a frame of video for money.
Wonder which system harbors the most “have it but don’t generate a penny from it” practioners – folks who, as you say – someday might decide to try to make a buck at it?
We’ll likely never know.
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[Neil Goodman] “Id have to imagine a good portion of those reported seats of any NLE come from one man band bedroom type editors..lots of people not particularly making money off editing. With the cost of entry these days I dont think its too far fetched t think a good chunk of sales goes to hobbyists.”
Well, technically *I* am a one-man-band editor working out of a bedroom.
I’m currently working on 5 videos for 4 clients with operations stretched from the east coast to the west coast as well as my own small personal global initiatives.
And I AM very particularly making money doing it.
I can (and greatly enjoy) doing it from my spare bedroom. Or a hotel room, a cafe, an airplane, or wherever else I choose.
And sorry, but for the clients that rely on me for my understanding of their particular operations, project needs and preferences could care less where my editorial “seat” is located.
That is increasingly going to be the new “normal” IMO.
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[Andy Field] “We must do it the Apple way…..and no other!”
When “The Apple Way” is significantly less stupid. Then yes.
The goal is to get the work done.
Knowing how the software actually functions is traditionally a pretty good way to improve the chance of that happening.
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[Oliver Peters] “So let’s look at this objectively.”
Absolutely.
We’re roughly kinda comparing the public facing performance upgrades from…
the past 4 years of Black Magic
against the past 6 years of X
and the past 10 years of Premiere.I’ll give AVID a pass unless someone wants to include it – since the conventional wisdom appears to be the AVID folk aren’t really seeking innovative change – just improvements in the status quo. If I’m wrong, somebody will correct me, I’m sure.
So over the past 4 years, (when they’ve all been competing head to head)
Which tool do you feel has made the most progress? Is there a clear leader?
Or are they all evolving at about the same pace?I’d be interested in others opinions.
Features, innovations, stability, speed, – pick your preference and make your case for where your tool outshines the others. I’ll just observe.
What stands out in each?
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How about putting it on one of the distribution VIEWER sites like Vimeo or Frame.io – behind a password – and with the download option disabled?
Wouldn’t be perfect, because as others have said, you can point a smart phone at the iPad and rip anything it can display. But restricting it to web playback and keeping the file small so an iPad with cellular service could access it would preclude the need for even WiFi access and might be an option.
Just spitballing here.
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[Erik Lindahl] “them even have compounds with-in compounds and you want to send clips to VFX… iiiiish!”
That just makes me shake my head.
Reference clips buried within reference clips is a sign to me that an editor doesn’t really understand X very well – and are maybe trying to re-capture “nesting” behaviors they relied on in other software approaches.
“Let me just compound the compound that holds my Sync clips!” – what could go wrong with that?
Getting layers and layers away from the actual clip data pool via “over referencing” is a recipe for angst later in on your workflow, IME.
YMMV.Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
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