Darren Roark
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I myself really dislike overly involved DVD and BD menus. I really just want to watch the film. If I want the extras, I can deal with a simple boring menu. It’s the same as when I see a big loud flash website open up.
It was novel when making the switch from VHS tapes but now it’s just another reason for the skip and mute buttons.
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I think why Apple didn’t put that feature in is because Skype works so much better for that. Mostly because IT departments have been forced to allow it behind their firewalls.
I tried to use iChat Theater many times. When it worked, the client thought it was the best thing ever. When it didn’t (the IT dept usually had everything on full lockdown) it was a mistake I ever told them about it.
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Brett, I must say I am a big fan of your posts, you have a great open mind for the changes we are all facing.
And as a note of respect to you, my wife tells me constantly that I can’t explain things for crap. Except she didn’t say crap.
It’s funny how Apple has for the past ten years been the tech version of Richard Simmon’s Deal a Meal. “You can have this, or give up that in your portable edit system…”
I’d watch that ad.
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This is the same sage advice I give to all those dying breeds of portable mac users who can do such things. On a 2011 MB Air, you are stuck with what the Apple guardians gave you at purchase.
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I have on an i5 13″ with 4GB RAM. It works really well if you have fast storage. I was using a Seagate 4TB thunderbolt drive. It gets about 120 MBs.
I do turn rendering off and use proxy media when I can. I now have a retina MBP now.
The new Haswell chip’s GPU is supposed to compare with many a curent discrete one.
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I have the Lacie sata to thunderbolt hub. It comes in very handy with the much cheaper G-Raid sata drives. If it didn’t have thunderbolt pass through it would be a bust.
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Yes, this is annoying. I have monoprice powered monitors for audio that have an aux input. So I have to feed both the blackmagic and my computer to the same speakers.
Still a PITA.
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I’m running into this right now. The camera guy was told 23.98 and shot 30p because it should be “NTSC” in his mind. Ugh.
Question, was it interlaced or progressive? If it’s interlaced you can do a pretty good 23.98 conversion with magic bullet frames. Otherwise After Effects has a great pixel motion conversion.
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Exactly! I never heard that story, but it makes total sense. I do think that in the end that X will become a standard of sorts for this reason.
A director friend of mine who’s only editing experience was vhs deck to deck and also not tech savvy started to learn iMovie. He was making a no budget feature, having trouble getting free time with his editor. I suggested to him to try FCPX, he was able to cut whole scenes within a day. Sadly, he also grew quickly frustrated with how many layers he had, so he did what he did deck to deck, rendered out a timeline, and started cutting that up.
Urgh.
I guess this brings this full circle to the original point. I don’t think directors will have less need for editors in the future as things become more accessible. The same way in literary publishing authors need their editors even though word processing has had auto spell for a long time.
As a director myself, I always prefer to work with an editor. Having someone who doesn’t care how long a crappy shot took to set up and poorly execute will be what will matter.
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The other thing to consider is that Apple only sold FCP to sell more Macs. They also made it really easy for people to loan their installers to other people. Avid and Adobe make their money from software, and make it pretty tough to share software.
So many people I know learned Final Cut that way over the years. And if they became professional, they either eventually bought it, or worked for a company that owned it.
I think piracy is wrong, but I suspect that Apple used that as a strategy.