Chris Harlan
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Wow! Break a leg!
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Hey David!
I find what you do very interesting, and would have no problem spending a few minutes bulling about on the phone discussing the details. My gut reaction, since legal enhancement is your main goal, is that CS6 (Premiere) with Photoshop and AE might be your best choice. It not only offers the largest variety of tools, but also gives you a workflow that should make you better able to document the steps that you’ve taken to enhance evidence. Friend me, and I’ll gladly have a further conversation with you. I’m intrigued by what you are doing.
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[Bill Davis] “Secretly, this is one of the things making me happiest right now – since that takes pressure off for Apple to try to bend X’s feature sets and capabilities in a direction that’s mostly oriented towards the specific needs of large shop users. I’ve come to believe this would be a mistake since trying to satisfy this group would mean that the small wonderful ideas in X that appeal to the general editor but don’t particularly satisfy the large scale industrial users would be shunted aside in priority. “
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.
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[Oliver Peters] “[Tim Wilson] “The workflow is ultimately more important than features or interface metaphors”
Yep. The reason “legacy” caught on was because users initially saw it as a “little Avid”. The $100K NLE as a $999 application for your personal use. The operational design fit into the known world. As advanced features were added, these were built to match the workflows of the existing world. In many cases, they were improved upon in ways that users asked for. Those paradigms are built and it will take a long time to rebuild something entirely different.
“I agree with both of you, but I would also add that the attraction of Legacy was that it was not just a “little Avid,” but a “little everything.” The beauty, for me, when I first started using it, was that it was flexible enough to be used like any number of editors. It could function a little like Avid, Montage, Speed Razor, Media 100, and D/Vision. I found that I could use most of my favorite approaches from any of these programs, which is not something I could say about any of the other programs individually. It was a very thorough adoption of the NLE market in general, which I’d guess was a big part of its success. It certainly is what enthused me.
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Ah! The Russian River Valley! My family is from there. Healdsburg and Geyser Peak.
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[Bill Davis] “How can you expect to find insight when you only talk to people who have been largely doing the same things in the same way for 50 years?”
You’re joking, right? FCP X is far closer in approach to all other NLEs than all NLEs are to electronic linear editing. And electronic linear editing is far closer in approach to all NLEs than it is to a Moviola. I would say a whole lot has changed in the last 50 years.
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You style-master!
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[Oliver Peters] “In my own workflows, I’ve found it to be a good tool for some types of projects, but I’ve come to the conclusion that it will never be the best tool for all of the work I do. I did have that feeling about FCP7. For me, the multi-NLE approach seems to be something I’m struck with from here on for a while.”
I’m in the same place. 7 seemed to solve all of my problems, and I’d hoped that it would eventually take over the world. Now I’m bouncing back and forth between Avid and Premiere (and 7), and see that as being the way it will be for some time to come. I don’t really mind, and have found the whole venture broadening, but yes–there was a simplicity to being settled on a single NLE. Of course, before FCP it wasn’t that way for me. I had to move around between all kinds of systems, and was fairly used to that. So maybe my complacency with FCP was actually a kind of trap.
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[Walter Soyka] “Sometimes the mouse is just faster (there, I said it!). “
You’ll burn for that.
But, yes, I agree.
[Walter Soyka] “Second, while the Legend of FCP was rising in the early 2000s, there was the Nightmare of Avid across the aisle. There were dark days where Avid stopped listening to their customers, where Media Composer stagnated, and where bugs just never got squashed. They came out with some truly dreadful hardware (ask any Adrenaline owner). They never seem to have understood DS and probably squandered a gigantic opportunity there.”
Yup. I think the nadir was around 2.8. There was a two year period around then, that MC–for single user, short form at least–just wasn’t as good a piece of software.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “So Final Cut Studio 1 or there abouts?
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No. The first version I ever used was 2. I don’t really remember if the 1st version I owned was 3 or 4. Probably 4. And that was in concert with a Blackmagic card. I definitely waited till broadcast i/o was solid before buying in.