Bill Davis
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Interested in how you train your talent to write in reverse in real time?
Any tips on that? ; )
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[Oliver Peters] “For example, do you need to write and record v/o and/or or on-camera pieces and edit those into the package to tie the rest together?”
This was a HUGE piece of my progression as an editor years ago.
As a long time narrator and voiceover guy in my early days, looking back I can see how I “over-relied” on being able to shape the narrative via writing custom narrative scripts and doing my own VOs.
I can clearly remember the project in my early 30s where a major lightbulb went off after I realized that I could jettison ALL of my pre-planned voiceover work – and just tell the whole story using ONLY edited interviews.
Big growth moment for me.
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[greg janza] “It’s now been 21 years since I began as an editor and my approach to the process remains the same. I always create as strong of an a-roll as possible before moving onto the fun parts of b-roll and finesse.”
Pretty efficiently describes the “Primary Storyline” and “Connected clips” paradigm of FCP X – doesn’t it?
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And there are certainly more than a few useful training programs out there designed to help ease their pathway to figuring out the new stuff!
; )
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I’ll just note that in Thomas Grove Carters NAB Supermeet presentation (the later commercial edit, not so much the music video) – looks like he had the equivalent of 24 track in play too (or far more if you count the subroles hidden inside the roles he had revealed) – and didn’t seem to have the slightest issue with mixing anything.
But I completely understand that it doesn’t fit into the way you conceive your editing today. So I understand that it wouldn’t make you as comfortable.
That was actually my point. I too was quite uncomfortable when I first started transitioning from my 30″ Cinema Display to a 15″ laptop screen – in my mind, it was just supposed to be a trial while I learned the software and before I switched back to a bigger desktop system.
Then, somehow, a few weeks later, I literally just stopped thinking about it.
And it’s been YEARS now, and I haven’t felt the loss of a bigger RIG even a little.
I think part of it is how much better screens now are in general. Resolution, response, dependability, colorimetry – etc, etc. All of them are a VERY long way from the low-res, expensive, and super expensive CRTs of my youth.
The industry marches on.
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[James Sullivan] “I like that the new Mac Pro laptop is freaking tiny and light weight, but if that were my only system it would be too clunky to work at for 12 hours straight without building it out with a monitor, full keyboard, tablet etc. “
Would it?
I would have “imagined” so as well, during all those years when I sat at a Cinema Display all day long.
Today I have a nice 15 inch external display suspended directly above my laptop that I can turn on anytime I want, yet I very rarely do.
What I “thought” I’d need to create my content effectively, turned out NOT to be what I actually needed. It just took me a surprising amount of time for me to realize that.
Oh well.
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In my opinion, Mr. Suszko wins. this round.
No good editor will survive over time being exclusively one of the other.
And every good editor must balance both – regardless of the tool.
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Two observations.
First, the entire Chromebook thing is this generations version of the Poleroid camera or the ink-jet printer.
In NONE of these cases do the manufacturers care particularly about profits on the hardware. They are enabling devices kept as financially accessible as possible in order to achieve a very different objective.
The poleroid camera was a stalking horse for film pack sales.
The ink jet printer – one for its ink.
A Chromebook only gains power when it’s put in a classroom and drives “accounts” for all the kids using it. I suspect it will become the starter device not just for learning how to deal with the global data system, but also the gateway service for storing their communications history, their schoolwork, writings, test results, pictures, mail, etc, etc.
These things are flooding into kindergarten through 4th grade in US Schools. Have been for a few years now. And GOOGLE did that brilliantly under the banner of making hugely underpaid teachers lives easier. Sometimes, bypassing the administration totally by pitching so many perks to the teachers directly (think of the time you’ll save with on-line homework, grading anywhere, 24 hour contact with your students, apps and products JUST for teachers like you!!!) that putting 30 Chromebook into a class complete with locking storage stations with charging, wireless access etc simply became the tech path of least resistance.
Those kids account will migrate as the kid changes schools. And who stores and manages that data? Google. Who has your notes, files and photos? Google. The video you shot for that report? Again, Google. Where do you link your friends to watch your starter music video? Guess.
A final note.
I’ve started seriously assessing the quality and believability of web links I visit, not always by just the content itself – but by the nature of the ads linked to that content. If I see junk ads (You won’t believe what (famous cute actress of my youth) looks like today!) or ED drugs, I write off the whole thing, ESPECIALLY if it agrees with my prior opinions. It signals Click bait ahead. With this Chromebook story, I got ONE big ad, starring the Pawn Stars guys.
I don’t think I’m going to be trusting it much as a single source since it was served to me with that type of remora ad attached
My 2 cents.
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With the possible exception of Gutzan Borglund, no bricklayer or sculptor can begin to practice until they source, organize and understand the nature of their raw materials.
That’s universal.
The amount of time the creator spends in either mode is dependent on their skills and preferances and is ONLY relevant if they lack access to a required tools for their work.
A jeweler using a chainsaw will fail.
But a fine jeweler requiring a small hole in a silver band can likely get that done with hand drills, power drills or for all I know lasers.
Imagining that one of these tools is deficient in some fundamental editing capability is just foolish.
Sure they were built at different times and with different design orientations, but to imply that users of one might be “sculptor” types and users of another are “bricklayer” types isjust really, really dumb.
IMO.
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[Brett Sherman] “I just find it a bit myopic to spend my time watching a documentary about an editing application”
Sure. But I might have thought watching a documentary about a musician that released one quite un-successful album in the 1960s then sank into obscurity for nearly the rest of his life, would be dull too.
Turned out “Searching for Sugarman” was positively brilliant. IMO Oscar brilliant in the end.
So it’s kinda hard to pre-judge this stuff until the work actually sees the light of day.
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