Tim Wilson
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Dang! Got my hopes up high, only to have them dashed once again. So post in that other forum and cheer me up.
As for the other, as far as I can tell this is one of the first mentions of it. It’ll take a lot more than that. 🙂
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We have one! It also covers film history, the best of TV (which can exceed anything on the big screen), and everything from commercials to Star Wars pancakes….and lots and lots of hit film stuff.
In fact, it started life as a film history nerd forum, but there’s too much else to talk about. This business of ours is fun to work in, even fun to argue about, but our work is also fun to WATCH. I’ve always wanted to have much more talk about THAT here in the COW.
The forum is kind of quiet because not many people know about it — just over a half-dozen regular contributors — but I’d LOVE to see you there!
Creative COW’s TV & Movie Appreciation forum.
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There’s something off topic now?
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Frank, you said on another thread that Miraizon was working for you flawlessly. Is that still the case?
If so, not bad for $50.
Telestream has been doing it since 2011, btw. So has Rhozet. Sure, your mileage will vary, but those options have been working fine for years, and I’ve seen only positive comments about both of them.
Those are admittedly multi-codec transcoding solutions that aren’t meant to be “the” answer for ProRes on Windows, but for anyone doing it regularly on a large-ish scale, they’re affordable and very simple.
It’s a codec, ppl. Just a codec. People manage codecs every day. People manage QC every day. This isn’t rocket science. It’s barely even science at all. The solutions are more numerous, easy, affordable and high-quality than most web or DVD solutions just a couple of years ago.
So for another tack at Brooks’ question, yes, the BELIEF that this isn’t possible may be keeping people on Macs. 🙂
But for another tack at my answer, what’s keeping people on Macs is that they prefer Macs and/or FCP/X — and preference is the only reason to do anything. Once you do what you prefer, you can make the rest work, and it’s almost never all that hard.
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “Change The Forum Name or Not: The Debate”
Post of the year! Your check is in the mail.
And not entirely out of the running for the forum’s new name….
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I don’t mean to say that there’s NO FCPX there by any means. But there’s a lot of wide-ranging discussion about what an NLE should be, what professional software means, what you want from a company whose products you buy, and so on.
For example, there’s a lot of great conversation there right now about what it means for DaVinci Resolve to evolve into an NLE…or is it a finishing system with advanced editorial finishing features a la Symphony…or is it a suite of tools for both editorial and finishing a la Smoke….or…you get the idea.
That’s also the forum where people are most likely to talk informally about cool stuff they saw at NAB. Definitely not in the NAB forum here, which is mostly about official stuff and registration codes.
In fact, the longest threads in the FCPX Debate forum right now are all NAB threads that don’t include much about X because there’s just not much of that at NAB anymore. 🙂 There’s a really long thread about Avid continuing to open up for example.
So, I’m not saying you’ll find something interesting every time, but I’ve never met anyone as negative about Apple as me (ironically enough, OTHER than re: X — otherwise, I really am very aggressively negative), and I still find stuff worth talking about there quite regularly.
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[Lance Bachelder] ” there may be need for a Resolve DaVinci or Not: The Debate forum very soon.”
I thought that’s what this forum was. LOL
For the record, the Resolve forum has been in the top 3 the most-viewed forums in the COW since pretty much the day it was released. I have a feeling that traffic there will be going up soon.
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[Bob Cole] “I would really like to see more of those insights from Tim. Where should I look?
Oh, that’s right — the FCPX forum!”
Ha! You’re right, without intending to at ALL, I post quite a bit there. I can’t imagine a scenario where Apple gets another penny from me — after starting with Apple in 1979, I haven’t owned a Mac in years, and don’t care for iDevices, iTunes and such — but it’s a really engaging forum. And as much as I’ll never be a customer again, I admire what Apple did with X.
The place I post most, though, is the TV & Movie Appreciation Forum. I’d love to see more of you there! There’s so much great stuff being made right now, especially on TV, and I really enjoy talking about it. I’ve also written a number of articles about it for the COW Library (including this one on Citizen Kane cinematographer Gregg Toland, and another on one night of the best TV title sequences, ABC Friday nights, 1971-72 (rather than just theme songs).
This one definitely used to be the forum I posted most in, no doubt about it. Let’s think of some ways to fire it up again for all of us.
Thanks for thinking of me, Bob. 🙂
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[Brooks Tomlinson] “So if you are PC land, you have to jump thru hoops to get good prores. “
Please please please look through the COW archives. This is simply not true, as has been reported every time it comes up. There have been multiple ways to handle this for years, including solutions that are free. If all you need is a ProRes deliverable, render final output and be done — no different or more difficult a process than has been undertaken from the first days of this industry, or every day in this era.
If you need something more, there are server-based applications that blast through whatever quantity you need.
The bottom line is that it can be done affordably, at whatever degree of complexity you need. This has been true for years.
[Brooks Tomlinson] “First, I prefer OSX. I edited on DS for 8 years, and now I’m all mac, I’m happier. But lets take personal preferences out of the equation. “
I don’t think it’s possible to take personal feelings out of it. I also don’t think it’s prudent.
Using yourself as an example, why SHOULD you consider going back to something less pleasant? There’s certainly no technological or business reason. Do what makes you happy.
That’s my bottom line for an awful lot of life. I don’t think it’s easy to figure out what makes ourselves happy, but I think a lot of misery comes after you DO know what makes you happy, and you don’t actually do it. Be happy!
So yeah, you absolutely can get a PC that’s faster than a Mac, more powerful, more extensible. But how much faster, etc. would it have to be to make you HAPPY? How much time would you have to save on a faster PC in order to make up the time you’d lose by setting up a new workflow?
(My own experience is that learning curve is a non-issue. You’re smart people. You can figure it out.)
But I also think, far more than ProRes, maybe even moreso than preferring Macs, the preference for FCP/FCPX is titanium-laced cement. ProRes on a PC is a piece of cake. FCP/X on a PC is impossible. There’s really not anything I can think of that would budge somebody off that position….
….but it’s easy to observe that all over the COW, once people untether themselves from their commitment to FCP/X, their commitment to Mac is up for grabs too, as they sometimes find themselves happier than they could have imagined using another NLE on a PC.
Or, depending on personal preference, not. 🙂
I dunno, I could be wrong about any of this, but it’s past my bedtime on a Saturday night, and this is fun to think about. 🙂
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[James Culbertson] “Is FCPX becoming the center of the universe?”
No, but the Debate is. 🙂
Speedy reply from my phone: as open asze I am to suggestions for a new name, the forum already IS what people hope it WOULD be if only we changed the name. My concern remains that a new name would make the forum LESS of what it is.
And as long as some of you ppl insist on talking about FCPX sometimes, it should probably stay in the forum name. LOL
Herb, Macca and Mary still seem to be speaking the words of wisdom on this….
Tim
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