Chris Harlan
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[David Lawrence] “Even though my primary work involves video post-production services, I have a background in music and sound design and sound is the foundation for everything I post, whether a music video or documentary style interview. In effect, I use the NLE as both an NLE and a DAW in a fluid, back and forth process to create rhythm, pacing and beats with both picture and sound interchangeably. For me, it’s all the same during the editorial phase.
“My experience as well! David, you could be describing my work exactly.
[David Lawrence] “On the project I just finished, I posted a four and a half minute segment cut from a ~1 hour interview with a single subject. The speaker is interesting and engaging, but his speaking style is full of pauses and tangential thoughts. His final ~4 minute actuality has close to 300 edits. I craft the pauses, add or pull breaths and even construct entirely new sentences to make him succinct and editorially on point. It sounds perfect. You accept it as his actual speech without question. This is pretty typical of the work I do.
“Wow. Me, too. I do a whole lot of sentence restructure and rhythm work. On every piece.
[David Lawrence] “For me, it’s a very musical process, like scoring a symphony. That’s why when I look at something like Shawn Federline’s timeline, I don’t see clutter, I see a musical score built on a common language that can easily be read, understood and shared across a range of applications and disciplines. And with audio especially, track arrangements, waveforms and clip patterns often make it possible to identify audio type instantly, just by looking. This at-a-glance feedback is a huge timesaver when sharing projects.
“Again, constructing a trailer or promo is, for me, very much like scoring. Not just music and SFX, but speech patterns and rhythms, VO breaks and bridges. All very musical. David, we definitely think alike in our editorial approaches.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Notice, the Kool-Aid is still consumed.
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Indeed.
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[Christian Schumacher] “Good, in order to drink the cool-aid we must wham our macs first!
I’m starting to like the idea of having it now…Very good!
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And by whamming our Macs, we make room for newer, faster, smaller macs. Repeat: 1 infinite loop
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Hey, we’re all in showbiz. If the title fills the seats, it should stay what it is.
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[Andrew Richards] “How many months till NAB?”
I don’t know if I’m going yet, but I’m very interested in what word will be around the SMPTE tech conference next month.
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Oh yeah, I know, But if you have an older dongle–which I do–I’ve been told I can have it re-programed, and, if not, $300 is still much cheeper than 3 separate installations. I do hope, however, in v6 that they will have a scheme more like Adobe’s that will recognize the laptop/work station relationship a bit better. Watching the recent changes in Avid, I’d imagine such innovation is now possible.
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[Andrew Richards] “The roles in 10.0 aren’t buried in the code or referenced in some obscure framework. They are metadata dropdowns in the Inspector, same as in 10.0.1. As I understand it, they drove the OMF export capability in Automatic Duck. Now they do more.”
THAT is interesting. I didn’t know that. Okay, I just moved 3.7% in your direction.
[Andrew Richards] “I don’t think they are flailing in the dark with their new metaphor. I think they are iterating like they always do, except now they are under a microscope. But I guess either of us could be right. We’ll never know for sure.
“I don’t either. I think they are very knowledgeable folk. I just think that opposing design theories/goals created a bit of chaos in the design. As I’ve said, I do believe good or interesting things can out of that. In fact, it might be argued that such a state is often required to inspire real innovation. I don’t think anyone is stumbling around in the dark, but I think there are some sizable ambiguities in the development plans.
[Andrew Richards] “The skepticism you’re defending is skepticism that the Pro Apps team has any idea or plan at all for what they are doing. My unforgivable optimism supposes they are not incompetents and that they might be onto something.
“No, my skepticism–and really it is skepticism, nat gussied-up fatalism–is based on the notion that internal politics related to commercial forces were so powerful that the pressure from them created over-riding design flaws in the project that it might or might not be able to recover from.
Your tenacious optimism, which I really quite enjoy, as well as your thoughtful arguments are one of the many terrific reason to visit this forum. Calling you an unforgivable optimist, was simply a needlessly grumpy retort on my part. It is, after all, Thin-skinned Wednesday.
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[Andrew Richards] “Chris Harlan] “That’s quite a statement. And a cheep shot”
I’ve managed to inadvertently insult you again. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean you are a casual observer, I took your reference to “the skepticism” not to be self-referential. I’m not trying to belittle you. “
Oh, you know. It is thin-skined Wednesday here at the hacienda. Sorry about getting sparky.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Guys, can we not ruin another perfectly good discourse? Please?
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Seconded.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Bill Davis] “The truth is that we’re OUTSIDE. So we will likely never get an INSIDE view unless someone on the team writes a book – and then we’ll only get their view. ”
I would kill to read that book.
I would quietly kill a cat to read that book – humanly – but, for the pages, I think.. I would kill that cat.
“NO CATS WERE HARMED IN THE PROCESS OF THIS DRAMATIC EXHALTATION