Brian Mulligan
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If I go PRO… will it hurt my Olympic status?
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Lightworks is a good editor. I used it for years in the late 90’s. I am not sure where it is right now with codec support, or stability since it too is being “rewritten” for Open souce.
But as far as a creative editorial editor, it is a great one. Having the controller for it makes it really fast and fluid.
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Just looking at the Metadata aspect of FCPX, I can see that there is a lot there. It will be some time before 3rd parties decided that it’s worth it to invest in developing something that the target audience for FCPX might not care about. But all of that metadata can be very powerful.
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I agree that Thunderbolt (LightPeak from Intel) will greatly increase the speed of high bitrate data. Maybe soon we can stop using so much compression like h.264 and prores and get back to uncompressed.
And as far as DVD going away… that’s fine, but should be replaced by Blu-ray. After all Flash Drives are more efficient.
But this all as little to do with FCPX and art and craft of editing.
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If FCPX had BITC then it would make eye matching that offline easier. 🙂
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[Herb Sevush] “it would be like Discreet saying – yeah we screwed you on edit*, say you wanna buy a Smoke?”
“I will never touch a Discreet and/or Autodesk product again”You might want to rethink that. You would be missing out on a well developed & well supported piece of software.
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Metadata is nothing new to NLE editing. Apple has pushed it further by allowing you to metadata everything. But others have and are uisng metadata. But unless you are working with 1000 hours of video, and have had time to metadata it all, it’s not essential to the art of editing.
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[Walter Soyka] “The difference is simple.
RED had no customers prior to RED ONE. Apple is the NLE market leader, with two million of users.
RED introduced a brand new product where none existed before. Apple replaced an existing product with a newer, arguably less functional one.
No one had any vested interest in RED before RED ONE. Everyone on this forum is touched by the EOL of FCP7, the release of FCPX, or both.”
DING! DING! DING! – we have a winner!
If you are going to innovate then you have to do better than FCPX. To say that FCPX is really innovation is a bit of a stretch.
They improved a lot of timeline issues that hinder editors, that’s good. But really it is still a track or layer based workflow where you butt clips up one after another for linear storytelling and can layer clips vertically for composting. Nothing new here.
Anyone who says any differently, has obviously never used a NLE other than FCP. CMX editing to NLE…. that was innovation. -
And they aren’t “timelines” anymore.. they are “storylines” ohhhh.
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SD DVD’s are encoded with the mpeg2 format. The video is 720×480. It can be 4×3 or 16×9 (annamorphic). The bit rate is about 9 mb/sec.
SD DVD’s as video is also measured in time not file size. You can get about 60 mins of 720×480 video on a 4.3Gig DVD.
You will never get a 2.5 min video to “FILL” the entire disc. Some programs might allow you to raise the bit rate of the mpeg encode, but it more than likely won’t play in a standard DVD player.