[Craig Seeman]

Today’s “one week only” offer from Vimeo is interesting.
Sign up for Vimeo Pro and get a $200 B&H gift card.
Especially if you expect to spend $200 or more at B&H then this makes the first year of Vimeo Pro free (and you can always cancel after the first year if you’re so inclined).

[Craig Seeman]

My hunch, we might see a “preview” at NAB with maybe a public beta target date announced.

[Craig Seeman]

[Michael Gissing] “I am also waiting for the 30% discount touted for Red Giant Universe to buy a perpetual license, again as they have ported to Resolve. “

Interesting as I just spotted this. RedGiant year end sale. It’s one day only for December 9th.

https://www.redgiant.com/blog/2014/11/26/sale-our-40-off-sale-is-coming-dec-9/

Folks – Don’t fall victim to Black Friday or Cyber Monday! Save your money… for just a little while longer.
On December 9, 2014, we are having our Red Giant Year-End Sale. Here’s what you need to know:
40% off everything in the redgiant.com store.
24 Hours Only!
Sale Starts: 12/9/14 – starting at 08:00 AM PST.
Sales ends: 12/10/14 at 08:00 AM PST
The sale discount is for everything in the Red Giant store: Full licenses, upgrades, and academic store (which is already 50% off)
Includes suites and individual products. 40% off EVERYTHING. Really. We mean it.
How to Get 40% off: There will be a coupon code – it will be all over our site. You won’t be able to miss it.

[Craig Seeman]

[David Mathis] “Looking at purchasing an LED light kit from B&H Photo”

Anything in particular? I was thinking of iKan ID508 v2 but I’m also looking at DigitalJuice MiniBurst 504. Light weight counts for my portable kit and so far nothing seems liter than the DJ MiniBurst 504 but, alas, it’s not one of today’s Black Friday options. I’m hoping they’ll have it on sale before end of year though. iKan is not on sale either.

Genaray and Bescor are on sale but I have issues with them.

Genaray
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1031518-REG/genaray_spectroled_outfit_500_bi_color.html

Bescor
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1006923-REG/bescor_led_700k_beled_700_2_light_ac_kit.html

[Craig Seeman]

Toolfarm has a big list of plugins. Some FCPX compatible.

https://www.toolfarm.com/blog/entry/the_black_friday_cyber_monday_2014_sales_list

[Craig Seeman]

BTW Telestream MacCaption has specific info for FCPX workflow in their KBase. It mentions both file based and tape based workflows.

https://telestream.force.com/kb/articles/Knowledge_Article/Closed-Captioning-with-Final-Cut-Pro-X/?q=AJA&l=en_US&fs=Search&pn=1

[Craig Seeman]

[Walter Soyka] “If you want to get your show on HBO Online or Hulu — don’t you have to get it on HBO or TV first?”

Hulu has original programming.
Arguable so does HBO but of course they’re going to be using both avenues.

[Walter Soyka] “Sure, and you could have done small-run, mail-order VHS duplication for your film 25 years ago, too. (No offense to Vimeo. I do think that Vimeo On Demand is really cool.)

I’d argue that even if distribution becomes trivial, marketing does not.”

I don’t expect that to ever change. It’s just that the “gate” is open with Vimeo and one can focus on marketing rather than getting past a gatekeeper.

It looks like we’re just beginning to hit an expansion period for high quality original web only content. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see expansion in some niche markets.

Mass audience always involves mass marketing, It’s just that the “in between” is getting a lot bigger and I think we may hit an acceleration period in the next year or two.

[Craig Seeman]

HBO soon to offer online option only.
Hulu but I do wonder how they’re doing financially lately.
Vimeo is very indie friendly with their pay per view option.

[Craig Seeman]

There’s MacCaption.
https://www.telestream.net/captioning/overview.htm

[Craig Seeman]

I understand well where Sanger is coming from. I was an Avid editor myself for about 12 years. My work was TV and higher end corporate though.

The current Feature Film (and only slightly lesser extent) Broadcast is a conservative and relatively small compared to the entire market for NLEs.

When you have a market that is not inclined to update, even for good reason, it’s not a great market for software developers looking to make income on new sales and upgrades.

The very thing that makes Avid attractive in that market, limits its growth in the other, larger, markets. That NLE market was much more profitable when a turnkey Avid system was north of $100k. Fortunately Avid makes much of its revenue in infrastructure hardware and support and service which still has a high cost of entry and profitable maintenance contracts.,

While FCPX certainly wasn’t even remotely capable of doing what that industry needed at the time he started post on Gravity, it was smart of Apple to pursue a broader and more profitable market. That market was NOT specifically “consumer.”

He even states Avid went into “strange new territory.” Making critical comments on Avid’s attempts to broaden their product appeal does not do service to Avid, which is already hampered by a conservative customer base with regards to NLE development.