Chi-ho Lee
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[Ben Holmes] “Sorry Walter – I wasn’t talking to you. I should have made it clearer.
“I don’t give two cents on whether you upgrade or not. LOL” is just basically rude. “
Well, I found your response to my post equally rude and dismissive – “Not convinced – sorry.”
But hey, it’s text and it’s easy to misinterpret. I wasn’t trying to be rude, hence the LOL.
Anyways, Ben, I apologize if you felt my words were attacking.
In closing, I feel if you have already have a quad g5, then there’s probably no need to replace it with the new Mac Pro (unless you want the internal raid which people are clocking 180mb/sec). But I do feel it’s a good buy if you have an aging machine that needs to be replaced.
Peace on the web,
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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[Ben Holmes] “Isn’t that the point of universal software? It’s our guarantee of backward compatability for older kit, isn’t it? You mean Mac will drop the support, like it did with classic, in a few years? That’s different surely, as all THAT did was force me to buy a new OS – by which time OS X was actually stable enough to use.”
Of course they’ll drop support in a few years! How long have you been using computers and software? Try getting support for a G3 tower or try to get support for FCP 2. OS X has been stable to use since 10.2 since many people, including many people on this forum has been running FCP since 10.2 . Not sure what your point is.
And NOBODY forces you to buy anything new. I know working Pro Tools mixers who uses OS9 on a G3 tower and they mix tons of broadcast shows here on those officially unsupported rigs. Apple agents don’t knock on your door and force you to upgrade or else they break your legs.
[Ben Holmes] “Not convinced – sorry.”
No one is trying to convince you. Just pointing out how your argument doesn’t hold up. I don’t give two cents on whether you upgrade or not. LOL.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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[Ben Holmes] “My point is that many people have held off purchasing new towers for a year, expecting something more than this. All we really have is rev 1 hardware with beta software. Doesn’t sound like the Pro choice to me yet.”
That’s always the case! No company ever release rev2 hardware right from the start. Same for software, when you make a dramatic architecture change like this software always lag behind. It’s just like the OS9 and OS X a few years ago and look where we’re at now – every software is OS X capable. I bet GenArts will have universal plugins within a fews months.
I think the new machines are a good buy if you’re in need of an upgrade. I wouldn’t buy a Quad G5 right now. Especially if you intend to keep the machine for 3 or 4 years. Will FCP and other software be universal 3 years from now? How about 4 years? Hard to say, but I would guess no. I bet universal support will die down after 2 more years.
So a G5 will be kinda stuck “in time” in 3 or 4 yrs since it won’t be able to run intel apps in the future. I’m guess but I don’t think I’m too far off.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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[walter biscardi] “MTV and VH1 really don’t care all that much about the quality of the video from what I can tell watching them. They just want reality and reality means low budget which mean cheap cameras and workflow.”
That’s true. LOL. If you have lots of graphics then an uncompressed timeline will look lots better. But if it’s just simple lower 3rds and relatively simple graphics then I would say DV is still fine.
My two cents.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
I disagree with Walter in this case. I know production companies that produce hundreds of reality show to major networks like MTV and VH1 and their entire workflow is DV from shoot to master is DV. They convert the DV to Beta for deliverables.
If that’s the budget you have then that’s what you have to work with.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Walter,
I can see the scale goes down to -10 (after I enlarge the scopes). But when I apply the CC 3way to brings my levels down, they are crushed flat at the 0 line. I can’t make it go into the negatives no matter how I manipulate the level sliders. So how do you get super blacks?
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
I wouldn’t blame the editors as much as the producers. There are inexperienced or BS people in every field of work. It’s the people who hire them that should be blamed. After all, it’s the producers who meet/interview/hire these editors. If they can’t sort out the experienced from the beginners or simply don’t want to pay the experienced editors – then they get what they pay for. From my experiences, indies as well as production companies will often skimp on paying the experienced editors and go with someone cheaper. Not all but enough. I’m also surprised by how many experienced directors and shooters who don’t shoot “properly” in terms of timecode and pre/post roll.
As for Kevin’s comments about a good editor must be technically adept. I usually agree but I don’t think you MUST be technically adept in every case. A good friend of mine is an feature film editor in Europe with her films nominated for Golden Globes, awards from Cannes and many other international film fest. She edits in Avid, Lightworks, and FCP. She’d be the first to tell you she’s not technical at all. She has assistants who do all the capturing and tech issues. She knows how to tell a great story. Nonetheless, i would say she’s a great editor : )
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
“No I mean negative black. When I delivered our first test episode, our blacks were dropping as low as -7. I used the Levels filter to ensure all blacks stayed at 0.”
I didn’t even know that was possible? Since the waveform bottoms out at 0 how are you supposed to tell if you have super black? And I’m almost sure even one of the Apple training manual says the blacks cannot be lowered past 0 thru the CC 3Way.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Walter,
Do you mean specifically when you say “Super black?” Do you mean 0 ire vs 7.5?
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
sounds like a redraw problem. Resize the browser and see if it helps.
_CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com