Chris Harlan
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[Jeremy Garchow] “punctuation is for the weak
good day”
ROTFL
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “[Chris Harlan] “… akin to saying anything shot with a wide angle lens is Kubrick-like.”
Chris,
The Kubrick shot is a wide angle lens pointed at a forehead.
Franz.
“Franz, I think its a regional thing, because here I’m almost certain that the Kubrick shot is a wide angle tracking shot of either the interior of a space station, a once futuristic milk bar, or WWI trenches.
Speaking of which, I’m going to get to go see both Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon on the big screen this weekend. They’re using this very old process by which they shoot a powerful light beam through a series of plasticish connected stills. It seems farfetched to me, but it will probably work.
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[Herb Sevush] “Jeremy –
As someone who spent some of his formative work years, (1974 -77) doing mostly animation on stills for a variety of animation and design houses, I too get highly annoyed at calling something the Ken Burns effect. the annoyance has nothing to do with Ken Burns, who’s work I like very much, nor does it reflect any degree of “professionalism” on someone who uses that effect; the anger is addressed to the lack of appreciation of the history of the medium. Most young filmmakers call it the KB effect, but when they do it in front of me they get a quick lesson in film history.
“I adamantly second this. No disrespect to Ken Burns at all, but its akin to saying anything shot with a wide angle lens is Kubrick-like.
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It was a good read.
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[Steve Connor] “[Chris Harlan] “Secretly? But yes, I actually agree with you. I think X should become great at what it is, and there are plenty of other programs that deliver what it is not.
”Great comment Chris.
Steve Connor
‘It’s just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure”“
Hey, Steve! How’s it going?
I’ve felt that way for a long time now. I’m comfortable enough with the other stuff that I’m not lacking for tools. Both MC 6 and CS 6 made that possible. And while I would have preferred something else once upon a time, I think Apple should really nourish X’s uniqueness. I also think that its change of direction has made it possible for the other NLEs to thrive/survive, which is also a very good thing.
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[Craig Seeman] “I’m finding that all the Time effects are only available in Motion as well as all the Textures. With many other effects good portions of them are only available in Motion. For example Art Looks Charcoal and Pencil Sketch are only available in Motion.
“Thanks for posting this and lab-ratting it. I’m curious how well the transitions work? And also, do you have the same level of granularity?
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[Bill Davis] ” I honestly thought it was going to be Harlen. But not this time! (maybe he’s finally tired of making the same comment over and over??)”
Ah, Bill. Maybe my calling you out on your egregious BS does get a little one note. Sorry about that. At least when I do that, I’m specifically responding to something you’ve written, and not defaming you as an aside to someone else. Lord knows, though; I’ve probably been guilty of that. Maybe even to you. If so, I apologize.
I would normally make some kind of comment here like: Me?! You’re the biggest tape loop on the whole forum! But, you’re right. What’s the point in repeating that over and over. It always sounds the same, and it never sinks in.
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[Craig Shields] “Yeah I know Sapphire is very pricey but to me they are worth it with the onscreen controls, the speed and beauty of their effects. To each his own as they say.
“For the record, I like Sapphire quite a bit. As to onscreen controls, I’m guessing you haven’t used Boris in a while. They’ve been in the last couple of versions of Continuum and Red.
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[Craig Shields] “Maybe it’s just me but I have never been a big Boris fan. They seem overpriced to me.
“I am a big Boris Fan. I use Continumm, Red and AvidFX all the time. If you think they’re overpriced, compare their price to Sapphire, an excellent but very expensive set of plugins. One thing I particularly like is that, using Red, I can bounce between MC, 7 and Pr with near impunity.
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Those are interesting plugins. I just took a cursory look, but all Avid, right? So, yeah, maybe Avid.