Charlie Austin
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[Andrew Kimery] “I’ve handled turnovers for Avid, FCP Legend and PPro and been complimented regardless of what system I used”
Me too. ☺ And, at least for audio, FCP X is leaps and bounds simpler, easier and faster than the others. Nothing else comes close.
[Andrew Kimery] “that person probably knew of a lot of third party apps/plugins that most X users probably don’t know about.”
Anyone who uses FCP X professionally knows about the 3 or 4 third party apps you need. I mean, anyone who’s using *any* NLE professionally should know what’s required to have it do it’s thing right? And no matter what you’re using, at this level everyone hires a “workflow specialist” aka: Really Good AE. 😉
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[Don Scioli] “I do not see the big deal…I’ve cut 4 future length docs and 1 theatrical horror film on FCPX and never had a problem, worked smooth, quickly and output quality was superb.”
It’s not a big deal, except in certain areas of the internet and in the “hollywood” (** generic term) hive mind. 😉
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[Michael Hancock] “LOL. I’m not looking to argue – I’m just looking for actual details about what workflows saved time and money. They cite “specific workflows and tools”, but never get specific. Hopefully he’ll pop over with more info.”
I’m speaking in.. generalities. ☺
I agree the article is short on detail, and sadly, my memory isn’t good enough to recount anything I was told about this… It came up in conversation while the production was ongoing and I’d get it wrong if I tried to post it. I do know that it ran the gamut from software cost to ingest to edit to color/mix etc. I’ll bug him for some bullet points…
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[Michael Hancock] “I guess we’ll never know.”
The savings were real, significant, and realized by leveraging FCP X specific workflows and tools. I’ll see if Darren wants to pop in and add some details, but he’s probably not up for the arguments that would erupt. ????
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[Andrew Kimery] “Crazy paranoid.”
Yeah, that is the real situation, and it’s not like they haven’t got reasons to be that way. Some smaller clients will use “consumer grade” sites, but the biggies… no way. We get audited regularly, and some have former feds on their security teams. It’s… serious. 🙂
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[Walter Soyka] “A rather broad question, but how do you present your WIPs to clients or stakeholders?
“mini DV Tapes via messenger… Oh, wait, we stopped doing that a just few years ago. Hollywood baby!
Currently we use studio-security approved things like WireDrive, Aspera etc. Or, we use a fiber network to the studios for live playback/editing and they can capture if needed. If it’s live it’s 1080, uploaded stuff is 1080 or 720 mp4’s. Regardless of the source NLE it’s mixed well and has no crappy temp GFX. As we do mostly offline, the pix are watermarked anyway, but when we are “finishing” it all needs to look… final.
Would love to use Frame I/O but… Hollywood. It’s hard to turn the Titanic
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[Bill Davis] “And as such, High Sierra 1.0 will be a bit like a FCP X 1.0. Get the concepts out there so users can start learning them.”
Uh no… not with something as fundamental as the filesystem.
Thing is, there is a ton of documentation out there, and APFS has been on iOS for quite some time. I’m sure more documentation will appear, but there’s clearly enough to enable Bombich to get CCC ready for HS, and they deal with some seriously low level stuff.
https://bombich.com/blog/2017/09/14/preparing-upgrade-macos-high-sierra
https://bombich.com/kb/ccc5/everything-you-need-know-about-carbon-copy-cloner-and-apfs
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[Michael Gissing] “But is it progress? One article Oliver pointed to said there was no speed improvement with this formatting other than referencing not copying which as he pointed out has potential pitfalls. Is is just change, control or actual improvement? Hard to know with so little documentation out there.”
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[Michael Gissing] “Just like blind optimism :)”
Of course. I think if you did a survey of all the users of any OS, NLE, whatever… you’d find that the blind optimists are in a minuscule minority. I think doom and gloomers are a larger subset. Both are very vocal. 🙂
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[Andrew Kimery] “Crisis averted… for now. ;)”
Yep, hold off on panicking. Doom and gloom is timeless though… ????
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