Bill Davis
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Decades ago, when I was working with the National Speakers Association more than one “think outside the box” speaker featured this famous story so it seems appropriate to go all “ODE MODE” to celebrate it in this thread!
I”m guessing the hero probably spoke appropriately to his culture, personal milieu and times as well.Nietzsche is peachy and Kant can rant.
but regarding your thesis
the evidence’s scant.Those architects eyeing the building
in lore
would just think that janitor
being a boreTheir focus on stresses
disruptions and such
A new ELEVTOR?
the cost is TOO MUCH!But he muttered so softly
their chat to deride…
just put the dam elevator
on the OUTSIDE…(fun break – back to work now!)
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[Jason Watson] “I do often wonder how much (if at all) the subscription oriented approach of other industries has eased Adobe’s move? Have services like Netflix and Spotify made the idea of having access to more content but not owning it had an easier one to get on board with in respect for software”
Not the same at all.
You stop paying Netflix or Spotify, you don’t get separated from your ability to use or adapt the Intellectual Property you’ve created and should therefore own.
You just lose access to somebody else’s IP.
Again, not the same at all.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “let us aim to use the language of Swift and Wilde rather than the debased currency of Facebook and 4Chan”
FIFU
“let us aim to use the language of cummings (ee) and carroll..,”yo jabberwoks. so tired of editing bestly. goatopulous?
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[Oliver Peters] “In the end, the journey is really just a personal one.”
Yep.
Two people drive through the desert.
One grumbles the entire time because they expect “beautiful scenery” to be green and lush full of trees.
The other finds exquisite beauty in the desert vistas and appreciates a different type of Majesty.
The landscape remains the same.
All that changes is the ability of the person viewing it to appreciate it.
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THIS (from Brett above) nails it.
It’s never just a single command or action in X that removes so much friction in editing, it’s how the system cohesively acts to drive efficiency across the entire process.
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[Simon Ubsdell] ”
I’m not talking about insert editing. Overlay is quite different – see above.”Oops. Forgot the other NLEs don’t really have connected storylines they can use to execute inserts that also overlay.
I’m also on another board right now with some traditionally oriented editors re-litigating the the Hory old debate about X naming conventions “why the “@&$ do they call a Project a Library!!!”
I keep forgetting that most experienced editors often have the hardest time with the mental shifts in this stuff. Not always, of course. But more often than I ever expected!
Oh well.
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One half-second action to move the connection point pre insert is hardly a burden Oliver.
And nobody has ever claimed that ANY NLE is useful if the operator isn’t reasonably familiar with how to operate it.
; )
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I do wonder whether perhaps the “uniqueness” of the FCP X timeline doesn’t sometimes get a little oversold. That’s not a criticism of it – I love working with it! – just an attempt to get some perspective on the subject.”
I actually don’t care much about “uniqueness” per se.
What I care about is efficiency. Particularly when I have work to do.
This forum has spent tens of thousands of words debating how to save repetitive keystrokes and whether it’s possible to reduce three actions to two.
Here’s a shining example of that.
If AVID derserves praise for the efficiency of its trimming approach (and it appears to well deserve that from all accounts) X perhaps to deserve similar praise for inventing a system that reduces so much friction in Clip relationship-building in a set and forget fashion.
Your original post in this thread seemed to be implying that Premiere Pro has a function similar to “command Q” in its functions.
My suggestion is that without the rest of the vertical and horizontal magnetic environment in play – I can’t easily see how it can be more than a pale similarity.
Every NLE “inserts” – only X inserts into a magnetic environment.
But if I’m mis-informed about this and Premiere is, in fact, just as capable – making both horizontal and vertical magnetic behavior “no better” than a tracked system that doesn’t have it, I’d be happy to hear how Premiere removes editing friction in its fashion.
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3 clips in your primary.
On the second you connect two cutaway interview segments. Each of those gets embellished with four connected elements like graphic, titles, bugs or logo, etc.
That second primary clip is an assembly of 10 user-fixed content timing relationships – by virtue of the vertical magnetic nature of X.
Drag and drop clip 2 behind clip 3 is basically moving all 10 things with one simple action.
Horizontal Magnetism in the timeline” leverages” the efficiency of the vertical magnetic assemblies by auto connecting them without gaps or issues.
I’d call that a system where the practical efficiency of the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
FWIW.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Grab any clip from the browser and drag it to the upper centre of the Program Monitor, at which point the Overlay option becomes available, which will automatically ensure that the added material, both video and audio, does not overwrite anything in the timeline.
The video and audio will be edited into the lowest/highest tracks available respectively. If there is no room available on existing tracks, then new tracks will be created.
Conceptually there is no difference between this and hitting the Q key in FCP X. The only practical difference thereafter is that the clips are not “connected” to the timeline in the FCP X sense, but otherwise it is the same function.
“Uh…
Reading that kinda does NOT seem like the “conceptual” equivalent of …
“Tap Q.”
“Tap Q” creates (or adds to) a magnetic assembly that’s cohesive, persistent, and (as a unit) often WAY more useful than merely the sum of it’s magnetically connected parts.
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