Craig Slattery
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OMG, someone call broadcasting house, tonights programme about Danny Boyle BBC Two at 10pm, was cut on dodgy database, its got to be stopped!!!!
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Thursday Last week, we set up our new 27″ iMac maxed out with RAM, 3TB Fusion Drive plus 27″ Thunderbolt display. We moved our 1.5 TB event from a MacPro which was also Maxed out. I was experiencing all the issues you mentioned on the MacPro. Sluggish performance, me having to wait for the computer to catch up. Im happy to say the performance on the iMac v the MacPro is like chalk and cheese.
Go out and get a new iMac now ….. I said Now!
I noticed that this has been uploaded to youtube. I cut this in FCPX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbS82klNGvU
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Thanks Mark, Yes I cut the film. We had 14 days scheduled for the edit. Amazingly we cut the film in just 9.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “one freelancer swallow does not a spring make”
Yes but from little things, big things grow.
[Aindreas Gallagher] “there is only so far you can leverage repeatedly posting about when the show you cut freelance for is going to broadcast its next episode.”
Ha ha, I’m trying to boost our viewing figures. That said, we do have a cumulative audience in the millions, Ok our numbers are nothing like ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ but perhaps repeated posting does have some leverage over youtube clips with a couple of 100 hits. Besides I want to share the love, and I’d hate to see a young guy like you get left behind.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “lets try it again Craig: outside of the editing facility you say you are about to open – what changes in London regarding FCPX are people supposed to “trust” you on?
what are you talking about?”
4 months ago, as far as I knew, nobody at the BBC was using FCPX. I’d been banging on about how good the software was, so I felt its was time to put my money where my mouth is, ie cut a proper paying job in the software or shut up about it. Now, I’m pretty experienced, I’ve been doing this for a while and frankly people know me and I’m in demand. I knock back work every week and not just at the BBC. I’m pointing this out, because experienced editors like myself can afford to take on a challenge and look a bit stupid if it all goes tits up. Younger freelance guys and girls just starting to build their careers don’t really have that opportunity.
As you are know, I have shared my experience with FCPX here on the Cow. We started with a short item for The Culture Show that went well and I continued to use X for the remainder of last year whenever we had the opportunity to use it. We’ve now taken it a step further for 2013, I’m cutting specials, and items and by March 27 we aim to be stitching and onlining the weekly program in X. That equates to about 8 hrs of proper telly between now and the end of March.
Ive been told there are now 7 other editors at the BBC also cutting in X, In both London and Bristol. The fact is, we are seeing the green shoots, folks that thought I was mad, and people that had said straight out that “this is not professional software” are now taking notice. Producers and directors are very keen, the brilliant guys at the village that were only too happy to set up my suite are delighted with the results. We post our audio at Halo and they have been extremely helpful making the transition, because I imagine they recognize this will continue to grow, I don’t think there is any doubt about that anymore.
For the past two years, It was right and appropriate that legacy users continued to use FCP7 because if ‘it aint broke’ there is no need to fix it. However, FCP7 is on life support and soon, very soon I suspect, Apple will finally flick the switch. Ie if you want to run the latest mac on the latest OS then you will not be able to install or run FCP7. So where are those legacy users going to go? Some folks will head back to AVID, not so much Adobe, because if you were going to go down that road my guess is you would be down there already. That opens the door for FCPX
The general consensus is that Apple botched the launch of FCPX, but I actually think they played a blinder. The early, higher profile figures that jumped ship in the first few days are starting to look a tad silly, and a bit old fashion. We work in an industry that is innovative and cool, I like to kid myself I’m a bit like that. Not someone set in my ways and peeved because my beloved Apple kicked my arse into learning something new. Proper serious television is being created in FCPX . Ok, Aindreas down at Smoke & Mirrors it’s a different story, this is not their thing, although I imagine making money is. For facilities like The Farm, Halo, Clear Cut, and every other shop around London, when the Beeb stop requesting FCP7 dry hires my guess is that more and more requests will be for FCPX. Within this thread, Kenny, whom I didn’t know, is cutting a special for our show in Scotland. He said he would have liked to cut in X had he known he could, hopefully because of a handful of experienced editors now using FCPX, others will feel confident to join in.
So when I say ‘trust me’. Im not saying ‘trust me there are loads of people here in London already using FCPX’, Im saying, Trust me there will be’. -
[Oliver Peters] “like the inability to zoom into the viewer filmstrip”
Oliver I had the same issue with the inability to zoom into the viewer filmstrip. I couldn’t understand why that feature was not available. But in actual fact you don’t need it. Again because I find trimming in the timeline a dream, I don’t ever do any detailed selection in the viewer, its a waist of time. Im sorry if this may sound patronising, but folks still hankering for features they loved in Legacy or Avid just aren’t there yet.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Please. trust is not an issue. I’m in London too”
We should catch up, you will only get Smoke and Mirrors down at Smoke and Mirrors.
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[Oliver Peters] “That’s not the case in the US. Not only does the show have to be to time (to the second), but so do show segments. Generally you can’t get there by trimming out 20 seconds. It’s more like 1/2 a second here or there in 40 places throughout the show.”
I still don’t see the problem.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “we are completely sure it is going to be a world beater mate.”
Ive got plenty of clients, but Ill admit its hard to find good editors
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Can I just start by saying, Nice one Aindreas, but honestly I don’t know what the hell you are talking about.
Im looking at that clip and Im afraid that’s exactly the same sort of stuff Im cutting together. In fact Im looking at that and its a no brainer.
As for FCPX dead in London, are you in London? The tide has turned, trust me.