Brett Sherman
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Is it possible you did a trial with a previous version? It might cause it to think your 10-day window is already over.
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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
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[Andrew Kimery] “SpeedScriber is a new (still in beta I think) cloud-based transcription service that is looking to eventually have ScriptSync-like features inside of PPro (among many other features).”
Regardless of how good it is, it’s functionality will be limited until text recognition is completely ingrained in the editing software. That’s not saying there won’t be good reason to use something like SpeedScriber until that happens.
[Andrew Kimery] ” I wonder how much metadata current video codecs can handle? “
I’m thinking it would be some sort of text document (like an SRT file) that is married to the video clip within the software. Since I like open source, I’d say put it in the same folder as the media and give it the same name so it lives there with or without the editing application. It wouldn’t actually be in the media file itself.
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Brett Sherman
One Man Band (If it\’s video related I\’ll do it!)
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That is what I’m doing. Sigh. It’s just crazy there is a non-undoable action.
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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. -
[Oliver Peters] “You mean like Avid’s Script Integration?”
Which doesn’t exist anymore. But that is an extremely limited application of what I’m talking about. It seems like those who work primarily on scripted pieces have trouble imagining anything outside of that.
I’m talking about text data integrated into the clip itself. So no matter where you are in the clip, it knows what is being said. Here is some the potential it could unleash. You can export a transcript as a Word doc. You could highlight that word doc, reimport and have keyword collections created from that. You can search for words and phrases with boolean parameters. You can spit out an SRT file automatically with control of the timing of subtitle changes, all done within the timeline – having it quantize to video cuts. You can find all takes where the same sentence is said and have them automatically placed in an audition clip. You can see the text of what’s being said in the timeline as you are editing. You could get a quick and dirty translation into other languages.
Before anyone responds with the obvious. Yes, accuracy is an issue. You’d have the opportunity to correct the automatic transcription or send it off to a third party to correct. The going rate for human-assisted, automatic transcription is about $1/minute. And accuracy is increasing monthly for automatic word recognition. By the time this kind of thing gets integrated into an editing program, it would not surprise me if it would be 95%+
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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. -
I think using it for changing keyboard shortcuts is okay but not particularly revolutionary.
I can imagine dividing the touchbar into thirds to adjust highlight, midtones and shadows. Or turn it into a big audio fader. Gradient adjustment that keys don’t work well for.
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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. -
[Oliver Peters] “In the context of this question, my fear is that Apple will get to a 10 year mark with X and it either stays there in that state (whatever that will be) or it will be killed off. That’s been Apple’s track record with nearly everything”
As far as video editing, the sample size for this study is 2. Not nearly enough to draw a conclusion from. I don’t think Apple will kill off FCP X just for the heck of it. The reason why they discontinued FCP 7 is pretty clear. It simply didn’t have the architecture to do what Apple wanted to do with trackless editing. There essentially was no way forward with it.
I don’t see a similar problem with FCP X. I think the architecture is a lot more flexible. And as such it may last a lot longer. But, ultimately I only commit to a particular editing program for 6 years or so. I’m happy to get more than that out of it. But, my needs change.
I believe the next landmark change in editing will be integration of video clips with text of what is said in the video. The productivity advances this will create are massive – and almost unimaginable at this point. I’m not sure any video editing program has the architecture to deal with this. The first one there will probably be my editing system for the next 6 years or more.
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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. -
It’s the way it is unfortunately. Get this free plug-in and you’ll be good to go.
https://blog.alex4d.com/2011/08/04/smooth-move-fpx-effect/
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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. -
It requires Sierra though doesn’t it?
Bob, how is Sierra with a NAS server. I know you haven’t recommended some of the latest OS’s because they didn’t play nice with NAS.
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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. -
[Simon Ubsdell] “From a lot of the editing that I see and indeed from the statements about editing made by some working editors, I sense that these considerations very often don’t factor into the process in any way whatsoever. Editing is treated as little more than the process of butting one piece of preselected media up against another, and it’s difficult to know what to say about that without being rude”
I think your perspective is coming from a very specific type of editing. Editing for social media is an entirely different animal. Yes, rhythm matters there but so does brevity. I would guess that brevity is not something you consider a lot in your editing. More power to you. I wish I didn’t have to either. But I don’t know how many arguments I’ve gotten into about whether the video should be 4 minutes or 3 minutes or 2 minutes. I’m always pushing for longer. But, in the face of the demands for brevity I try to retain as much artistry as possible.
I’d be careful about assuming that all editors work on the same type of projects you work on. The fact is we all have different demands. And because someone doesn’t make the same choices you do does not make them any less skilled. Their parameters are just different.
The other thing is that over the 20+ years I’ve been an editor, the “language” of editing and visual communication is constantly changing. Editing technique is not something that stays constant. Things we do now would have been verboten even 10 years ago. That’s just sort of the nature of communication evolution. Are certain techniques going to be sort of artistically sucky along the way? Yes. But some will also be incredibly effective, even some I don’t really like.
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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. -
[Steve Connor] “Only if you’re not a very good Editor! rearranging clips in other NLE’s, despite the musings of some, ISN’T difficult if you know how to use that NLE properly.”
Point taken. But, my point is more along the lines path of least resistance affecting judgement. Not a conscious decision. Admittedly it’s just a musing and a little out there. But when has that stopped anyone on this board before. 🙂
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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.