Bill Davis
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[Herb Sevush] “Bill, it’s a brave new world out there and your looking backwards”
I’ll ape the old “the past is prolog” thing – and trust that my machine won’t auto-correct that into ProRes.
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Well…
According to the metric of actually growing an enterprise into a global behemoth and still retaining a sense of being a leading edge creative enterprise, the penchant for secrecy along the way hasn’t seemed to damage them all that much, has it? I kinda think they’ve done all right, actually.
FWIW
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[Michael Gissing] “No its a nuisance because unlike DNx codecs it is proprietary and can’t be easily used on all platforms and NLE software. And not everyone wants it as a deliverable. I have noticed recently that broadcasters are asking first for AVC Intra codecs wrapped as .mxf. ProRes is down the list so I guess they are shifting away from Mac hardware and software too which is pertinent to this thread.
So I agree that it became a defacto standard but I am seeing a trend away from ProRes and QT wrapping.”
Seems to me the era of whoever’s doing the content delivery having to set the delivery codec is kinda ending.
The rise of the pubic facing CDNs like Vimeo and YouTube already take a variety of input types – then do their own transcoding and create “tiered deliverables” to satisfy the devices that will attach to the streams.
THAT’s where this is going, I think.
Even for a high end movie deliverable, if what Michael Cioni referred to as your “digital O-neg” is parsable, and stores adequate resolution and color descriptives, then from that point on, the files – including the metadata described “master” should be able to be transcoded as needed for any target deliverable.
Much easier than making a million producers figure out just WHICH deliverable standard works best for all the downstream folks.
This seems like something that just won’t be a very big deal as time goes on.
FWIW.
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Tim Cook sent a crystal clear message a bit ago with the world and Wall Street all watching.
A) Pro users matter to Apple
B) Creatives particularly.Good enough for me.
I make my living communicating via video – and I’m having absolutely no issues doing so via the current Apple hardware and software.
I’ll be DELIGHTED if something faster and newer arrives someday.
But I’m just not living in gear or capabilities “frustration” at present, so that “commitment message” is plenty for me. If others are struggling and pining for faster boxes or renders or struggling against huge noise reduction requirements, I’m sorry. But I’m just not. My work is getting to the screens it needs to get up to reliably and smoothly.
I get that there are those who need or want to pass 8k uncompressed 20 camera streams around. But it’s not most of us. Most of us face communication challenges that are more modest. And certainly no more complex than what the folks doing multi-million dollar budget commercials and traditional movies are doing just fine day in and day out on the same software, so I just don’t feel bereft of capability.
Maybe I’m just funny that way. But it was an enjoyable 2016 on my system. All work and no payments!
So I’m good for now.
That’s all.
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[Steve Connor] “Lucky you, for many of us (there are more than a “few”) more power is very useful.”
Didn’t say that it wasn’t.
Only suggesting that there MIGHT be a time in the not too distant future, where trading dollars for grunt for a noticeable improvement in performance stops making the same sense that it used to.
Isn’t that kinda what’s being discussed on the QNAP oriented threads?
And what the LumaForge guys figured out two years ago retrofitting those broadcast operations in Europe?Technology evolving past where it’s SENSIBLE to start playing a different game, judged by different metrics?
That’s all I’m saying.
My MacBook Pro experience over the past few years has SHOCKED me. It’s changed my orientation. When I go to NAB in two weeks. I’ll take my laptop and one or two 4TB USB 2 drives in my lightweight briefcase – and the experience I’ll have working in my hotel room will be EXACTLY equivalent to working at my desk. The ONLY limitation is I won’t have my Fiber line for upload and download. But my hardware array and system performance will be identical. I define that as ” proven to allow me to work at the top end of my skills without impediment.”
And I do NOT think that type of change is going to slow down.
That’s all.
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[Bob Zelin] “And remember, I am discussing shared storage, not storage for a “one man band” unless you occationally hire a drummer to come in and help you with his laptop running FCP X. “
But…
What if it’s Stewart Copeland?
Is that OK?
; )
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They helped Cro-Magnon evolve from that cave wall to actual language….
so until they replace STOP signs with a snippet of explanatory text on a white background – I guess I’m all in!????
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My lord I do NOT miss those days when I had to split my brain between editing and system integration issues.
Decades ago when I was starting in digital editing, I remember having to buy my systems from ProMax because they were among the few who understand the special “Granite Digital” Firewire busses that made DV (DV!) deck editing fluid in and out of a Mac.
(Yes, youngsters, there was actually a time when 3.5Mbps content streams were a CHALLENGE to edit with!!
Today, I bought a laptop via mail order. Downloaded my software of choice. And was editing everything I needed to edit in less than an hour – with fluidity and ease.
To me, THAT is the delivered promise of the modern editing era.
I don’t have to waste my time trying to benchmark everything to eek out enough grunt to get my day to day jobs done and delivered, quickly and efficiently.
I understand that there are a few who must live on the edge of performance to get what THEY do done efficiently. And if you’re 3d modeling, Or chasing billions of polygons – bless you and I hope you get what you need.
I’m just a content creator.
Where my work used to be mostly for broadcast, today it’s mostly for on-line distribution. I work in 4k or lower masters, because I’m typically NOT delivering to motion picture theaters – tho I’m aware that even the higher end filmmakers I know are often delivering 2k anamorphic and doing just fine.
For me, the old “chasing hardware” days are gone.
No time for it. Not when my “off the shelf” gear runs rings around anything I’ve ever had on my desktop before.
YMMV.
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Icons, glyphs, emojis
I know there are different technical generation issues and capabilities behind each – but at some level, a rose is a rose, perhaps.
I stopped laughing at emojis the moment they started making my work easier.
Big fan now.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Oh please, no emojis…..
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter”Wait a minute.
We’re actually USING emojis to exceptional business effect these days.
We use Emoji’s in my XinTwo production system to visually designate which lessons are in progress, which are pending review and which are finalized.
To wit:
???? VO Recorded
???? Video Captured
????File sent to the team member.
♦️Do not distribute without OK
????Minor notes need addressing
✅ OK to distribute
It’s been a MAJOR improvement in our team communication and I can scan a list of titles and instantly know exactly which need attention and which are ready to export.
Once again, things aren’t good or bad by nature, they are what you make of them.
Just a FYI.
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