Bill Davis
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[Neil Goodman] “Good write up but something new? Not really. Same thing people have been writing about X for the last couple years.
“You might be astonished at just how many working editors have absolutely no clue about any of this stuff.
They stopped thinking about X during the big kerfuffle in 2011 – and that’s where their thinking and education STOPPED.
So is it “new” for THIS group? Nope.
What it IS is a reasoned call to the class of editors who have not explored the IDEA of X to possibly give it their own shot to see if it provides something they might find value in exploring.
That’s ALL it is.
Not that big a deal really. ????
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[Shane Ross] ““This audio queue should happen when that boat comes around the corner.”
“First I want to see the wide, then the medium, then the tight.”Yup…which is what we do, even when you have tracks.”
Yes, but your PROGRAM doesn’t honor and preserve that decision across any possible future changes you might make. X does.
[Shane Ross] “And there are many valid arguments for tracks…but just because someone doesn’t like them or see the point to them doesn’t mean they are useless, or a hinderance.”
Shane, calm down.
NOBODY is saying there aren’t valid arguments for tracks. (Nobody is coming to take your tracks from your cold dead hands ???? – Really. NOBODY. You will ALWAYS have the option of tracks.
But right now, there are a lot of OTHER editors who don’t want to keep using them the way you will always be able too.
That’s ALL Ruben is saying.
That there was a REASON for this ALTERNATIVE.
Alternative, not replacement.
One you can elect to explore – or not.
Period.
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There’s a whole new category of “endoscopic inspection cams” with flexible shafts on places like Amazon.
The best have really decent images.
That might fit the bill for you depending on the image quality and field of view you need.
Just a thought.
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Well that certainly made for some fun Sunday viewing!
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Checking back in the midst of work and took a moment to ping Patrick Southern in case he has time to weigh in with his experience. I’m still swamped. Sorry.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Speaking of the global media landscape, most Hollywood films seem to earn 1/2-2/3 of their total revenue overseas. Even a crap-fest like Suicide Squad brought in nearly $750 mil worldwide (43% of that from the US).
“Was going to make a point about FCP X adoption and the globalization of the market… but won’t.
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[Shane Ross] “FCX captures from a capture card now? if so, this is new. i’m not trying to sound snippish at this, I’m truly curious. Because one of the BIG issues I had with FCX is the inability to capture from tape via a capture device…unless it was HDV or DV. So this isn’t trivial, this is a major thing.”
Now I understand the problem. You’re still thinking that “a capture card” in the old context of something that sits in a desktop computer.
THIS is also a capture card.
The PCB board is simply in the body of the unit. Like everything about computers, the functions have miniaturized and it’s no longer REQUIRED that a card sit inside the computer.
Not for a long time now.
(I’d love to discuss this more, but I’ve got a boatload of deadline work heading my way this afternoon. I’ll try to pop in as things ease up.)
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[Oliver Peters] “Completely untrue.”
Then enlighten me.
Is there a white paper or properly curated test somewhere you can reference where SD off tape captured on one of these systems is compared to SD captured through a Terenex or something similar and can be objectively demonstrated to be visually distinct at a level a viewer can see?
I’d be happy to change my opinion if that info is out there somewhere.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Of course even then other companies still rolled out features, such as biometric security, way before Apple did. It’s just that when you have the brightest spotlight people tend to pay the most attention to you (both your successes and your failures).”
That’s totally true.
But biometric security on a pad in front of a corporate lab managed by security professionals is one thing.
Biometric security that 100 million people can learn to use in one minute for access to a device that they have never touched before – but will go on to live in their pockets and purses and become part of their daily lives –
those are two VASTLY different games, IMO.
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[Shane Ross] “There is no way to do DIRECT into FCP X via either S-Video or even Composite cables. Connected to the computer how? You can’t plug those directly into the computer Via a capture card? FCX doesn’t work with capture cards for input….only output. The only way to capture directly into FCX would be to convert the signal to DV.
“That’s trivial Shane. I’ve done it VERY successfully with a $250 BlackMagic Video Recorder Dongle (my target was H-264 archiving and it had real-time encoding on-board – so it was just play and capture. BlackMagic and AJA have lots of inexpensive boxes that do Composite capture and transcode to USB etc.
As I understand it, the 3.5 Mbps DV stream is MORE than enough to totally capture every detail of an analog SD NTSC signal without breaking a sweat with complete fidelity. (at least the fidelity allowed by the reading unit – which is likely to be the limiting factor.) That was why I came to see the idea of hauling out a Terrenex as significant overkill for these transfers.
You put a garden hose stream into a bucket, the amount of water remains the same whether that bucket is emptying into a sink or a storm drain.
FWIW.
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