Brett Sherman
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[Neil Goodman] “Do you think television is going to disappear in ten years? 20 years? I dont. I havent seen any sort of down trend in the field of work I do.”
It depends on what you mean by “television”. Will local television in mid to small markets be a viable business model in 20 years? Quite frankly they can probably make more money selling their spectrum.
Will cable television exist in it’s current structure in 20 years? Maybe not. I think currently we’re at a transition period where both traditional cable television and streaming television coexist. I don’t think it’s going to last long like this. I think Cable TV will have a day of reckoning before too long. They won’t be able to flood the channels with crap to catch channel flippers. And they won’t be able to rely on that monthly fee they get regardless of whether anyone wants it or not.
When it comes down to it, will anyone pay for Honey Boo Boo?
Of course there will be jobs in post production. But will there be as many traditional TV jobs? I wouldn’t count on it.
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Am I right that this only works with rendered Motion projects and not with FCP X templates? I’ve never been able to get motion blur in an FCP X template to work.
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Sometimes USB 3 drives will connect as USB 2 drives. Check your System Report to see if this is happening.
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[Michael Phillips] “1. Nuance (Dragon, Siri, Cortana, etc.) These are dictionary based systems in order to provide the text. They can only be as good as the dictionary that powers them and typically dictionaries are not that up to date with people names and places. Combine that with training for voice, accent, microphone type, and the effect of the environment, not to mention any emotion or volume changes you might find in your footage. Your mileage may vary. “
No doubt Dragon for Mac is better when trained, but you don’t have to train it. It now has a transcription mode where you can give it an .aiff file, select a profile and have it transcribe away. I just have a profile I call “generic female” and “generic male”. Of course it will never replace human transcription for 100% accuracy, but that’s not what I’m after. A 90% accurate transcript can easily help me find the needle in a haystack that I’m looking for in an interview. I can find interviews where they talk about a particular subject area. I can zero in on the part of the interview where they talk about that.
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[John Davidson] “I wonder what the people who came up with those horrible deck menu systems are doing now?”
Designing menus for Sony cameras no doubt.
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Unbeknownst to most users, Youtube is actually analyzing the audio, creating it’s own SRT file, separate and apart from whatever the user uploads or creates. This is not intended for captioning and the can be accessed only with the Youtube API. At this point Youtube searches do not search these files. No doubt Google has intentions of mining this trove of textual data at some point.
I’m not sure how long it takes for Youtube to generate their transcript. We hired a company to catalogue our Youtube video library this way. For that they actually edit the automated transcript to get 100% accuracy. But it is all timecoded for them by Youtube.
But what we’re thinking about is setting up a workflow to upload interviews to Youtube as a private video. Grab their SRT file (unedited and thus about 80% accurate) and use it for text searches that would at least point to how many minutes and seconds into the clip to find it. Seems kind of crazy as it would be much easier if such capabilities were just built into the video editing program.
As far as Siri requiring the cloud. I think that has more to do with limited storage space and processing power of phones. Apple has speech to text built into the OS. I think it requires a couple GB of data to download for that capability. Not sure how it compares to Siri exactly, but it is reasonably capable.
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[Andy Field] “I think he meant what Premiere used to do (but they killed it recently) Voice recognition that would log and transcribe interviews”
That’s it.
[Andy Field] “What i don’t get is that Dragon’s Voice Recognition app (free on IPhone) works great and is about 90 percent accurate for most speakers — why can’t they incorporate that in some of the NLE’s and take away hours of logging headaches for documentaries and news?”
Yep. That’s my point. I have to limit my use of transcription services for cost reasons. If I had textual access to every single clip in my library, it would be a game changer.
As far as patents. I have no doubt there are B.S. patents. But if Oliver is suggesting it would be against a patent to tie specific speech via text to a specific time, then all closed captioning would run afoul of the same patent. That is in fact what an .SRT file is. Which is what Youtube’s ASR creates.
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[Mark Smith] “My concern is that there is going to be a big hole our collective archive of video material when it comes programming that was recorded on tape now that tape machines are dying out or being used up without a possibility of repair.”
I’m archiving our organizations tape-based material. I’ve been through about 5 Betacam decks. When one breaks I just buy another one on eBay. But let’s be honest if you’re not capturing it to digital right now or soon, you are playing with fire. Tapes do fail after a few decades. I think there will always be some old working decks. Quite frankly the problem now is that there is an over abundance of old decks, the price they get is so low as to make it not worth people’s time to sell them. I’m sure a lot are thrown in the landfill.
At some point it may reach a tipping point, where there is such scarcity it drives the prices up.
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[Oliver Peters] “What improvements should be made to it? What about split edits (L & J-cuts) with the PE?”
I never thought about that. I might actually use it if I could do L & J cuts without expanding and collapsing the audio.
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You don’t have to go through Motion anymore when they added the Save Preset capabilities. I named my folder “1 Favorites.” That way it is on the top of the categories
In many ways, this is more powerful than the old way, in that you can save a series of effects rather than a single one. For example I have a color correction set that includes White Balance adjustment, Color Finale, and Film Convert. One double-click and I’m good to go.
Also, honestly if you’re saving that many Favorites so that a couple extra clicks really slows you down to create it. How in the world do you sort through them all?