[Brett Sherman]

[Oliver Peters] “While one-man bands are not the ONLY future for video. They are certainly a growing part of it and not going away anytime soon.”

I agree with a lot of this; however, these two sentences seem to be in direct contradiction to each other. Hence, I don’t see it as the future anymore now then in the past.”

It’s not really contradictory at all. Maybe you misread it. And I would say on balance because of technological advancements such as usable auto-focus, automated color correction, easy audio noise fixes, more nimble editing programs, the quality level of one-man bands goes up. It’s not like it happens overnight, but that is the general progression. And you add to that a changing aesthetic where things don’t need to be perfect – really a desire for something “real” with a lack of pretense. Large teams can get in the way of that.

I look back at my biggest social media “hits” and two at the top were filmed and edited in a day. One I didn’t even know I would be making the morning I came into work. But I was at the right place at the right time, saw the potential and framed it right. When you require a team, you just can’t be that nimble.

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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.

[Brett Sherman]

[Oliver Peters] “I don’t see one-man bands as the future of video. I see a lot of reformulation, though. Large facilities failing, but also smaller shops growing. It’s very different from market to market, making it hard to generalize.”

Of course given my signature you might know I would disagree with this assessment. I think it completely depends on the market you’re talking about. Will one-man bands take over production for episodic television – of course not. Quality demands are too high. High-dollar advertising – nope. Risk of failure is too high. But there is a whole bunch of things that one-man bands can deliver at a much, much, much more affordable rate than the typical producer, videographer, editor, facility can manage. Especially for social media, where there is a calculation between quantity and quality.

I personally stack up my work against things that have 10X the budget I do things for. As much as any task though it takes talent. And not everyone has the right mix of talents to do one-man band production. I would argue it’s actually a VERY rare combination to do it well.

While one-man bands are not the ONLY future for video. They are certainly a growing part of it and not going away anytime soon.

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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.

[Brett Sherman]

[Bill Davis] “Perhaps I’m mistaken, but if one just dumps everything on a Timeline and then goes all sculptural – EVERYTIME you make a removal choice, you can’t really easily reconsider. You have to go out and get the whole chunk you’ve sculpted from – and start all over with it. “

But sculpting sounds so much superior to bricklaying. I must be so. ☺

I’m sure that this method works well for Simon and others. I’m also sure it doesn’t work well for me – because I apparently have a lot less time to put edits together than they do. What troubles me about this discussion is the superiority posturing.

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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.

[Brett Sherman]

[Walter Soyka] “Collections and bins hold clips. A string-out, being a sequence, is fundamentally different; it holds edits, or sets of clips that are juxtaposed linearly in time. That juxtaposition in time, the choices that Simon continuously iterates over in his method, is the “value” over a mere set of clips.”

This is one area where FCP X is different from other programs. The browser can be a “set of clips that are juxtaposed linearly in time” in the filmstrip view. Now you can’t reorder clips within it, but usually that defeats the purpose of the string out anyways. I would argue it provides MORE temporal information with Favorites, Keyword indicators, and Used Clip Indicators.

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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.

[Brett Sherman]

[Oliver Peters] “So you spend 90% of your time messing around with browser organization instead of actually editing.

[Robin S. Kurz] “Certainly no “pancaking””

Too bad. It would make X better, just like 7 used to be ☺”

Maybe I’m missing something here. But one reason I don’t do string outs anymore is that the filmstrip view in the Browser is basically a string out. Is it tangibly different having a whole bunch of named sequence string outs versus having a bunch of keyworded selections? And given the way the skimmer works in the browser I’d say it’s more efficient than a string out. Not to mention FCP X’s weird timeline history makes string outs even less efficient. Plus it’s easier to go from browser to timeline than timeline to timeline.

And to those that argue there is no spatial information in the browser, well that’s just wrong and uninformed. Yes it has a horizontal and vertical orientation versus only a horizontal one, but one might argue that’s a MORE efficient use of space.

I also find throwing a lot into a timeline really slows down the editing process. Maybe my brain’s channel capacity is more limited than others. ☺ If you have the luxury of time, it’s not a bad way to work. But, you essentially have to make decisions twice about whether a clip belongs in the edit. In my editing process I work with what I think belongs in there. Cut what’s not working. When I don’t quite have what I need, I go back to the browser. I just find it faster that way.

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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.

[Brett Sherman]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Bricklaying suits certain types of projects better than sculpting. And vice versa.

Certain editing modalities are better suited to one type of process than another.

All editors know that bricklaying has its place. However, I’m not entirely convinced that all bricklayers are aware of the rich potential of sculpting and how deeply it can inform the whole process.

Our organization has two video shooter/editors. I work via bricklaying, my partner works via sculpting. I would say that I’m about 3X faster editing. Not necessarily only because of our methods, but I think he gets bogged down in material. Whereas I do more thinking about what I want before I even start throwing things in the timeline.

I think a lot depends on how much time is a factor. I would say I only cut out about 20% of what I put in the timeline. I’d like to be more at about 50%, but that would take more editing time which I don’t have the luxury of having. I think time is more of a factor than “awareness” at least for me.

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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.

[Brett Sherman]

[John Pale] “I think an opportunity was missed by not having alcohol soaked rantings from Aindreas in this trailer.”

That might make me actually want to watch it! That’s not to say it’s not a well done piece, I just find it a bit myopic to spend my time watching a documentary about an editing application.

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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.

[Brett Sherman]

What about trying SMB protocol instead? 10.3 lets you store Library files on a SMB volume.

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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.

[Brett Sherman]

Dashwood plug-ins are free now. Here is a smooth skin one: https://www.dashwood3d.com/smoothskin.php

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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.

[Brett Sherman]

The white balance plug-in in the Editors Essentials is the best I’ve found. Many introduce weird color shifts. This one looks like you white balanced the footage right in the first place. 🙂

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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
I work for an institution that probably does not want to be associated with my babblings here.