[Dave Gage]

[Fabrizio D'Agnano] “By the way, if I were to trade the ability to export used portions of the clips only but in ProRes, or original AVCHD, I’d go for the latter, since I work with AVCHD source media and I need to archive huge amounts of media.”

I agree, but what I’ve been doing is first taking my .mts AVCHD files into ClipWrap, wrapping them into a .mov and then previewing and tossing the ones I really don’t need and even occasionally taking them into QuickTime 7 and editing out the portions I only need from a long clip before I edit in FCPX. This way is easier for me and ends up saving me a lot of storage space. (I can’t believe how fast I filled up a 2 TB drive and this is just my own stuff, no clients.) I also save/backup the original card structure, but at some point, I may go back and dump those to free up drive space.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Oliver Peters] ”
Absolutely not. The FxF Pro filters are programmed using Core Image, which is different than a Motion template.”

Okay, but still pretty cool that they can be used within Pixelmator also.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Craig Seeman] “I also talked to Bayes about the lack of High Profile CABAC encoding in Compressor despite the fact that current iPhone, iPad and, I believe, AppleTV now support. He seemed both curious and questioned the necessity. I pointed out that to mach the quality of other encoders such as Squeeze or Episode (both of which not only have MainConcept but support x264 as well) or even Media Encoder (MainConcept), I had to up the bitrate in Compressor.”

Craig,

I don’t go real deep into the CODEC stuff, but I’ve been using x264 for years and I’m a big fan of it. I use it from within Compressor 3.5.3. I take it you mean that you’re looking for the x264 codec capability built into Compressor 5? If so, that would be nice. Hasn’t the development for the x264 plugin stopped at this point?

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Oliver Peters] “Therefore many of the plug-ins work in FCP 7, FCP X, Motion, AE and PPro. Interestingly enough, since the FxF Pro filters use Core Image, many of these filters also work with Pixelmator, if you have that installed.”

Like Gary, I also think that’s very cool. Do you have any specific examples of plugins that you use with Pixelmator? Does this imply that something you create in Motion would also work in Pixelmator?

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Bill Davis] “”We cover the scene in wide shot, medium shot, close up character 1, close up character 2, over the shoulder 1 and over the shoulder 2.”

I figured it was something like that. Every industry has their set of acronyms and abbreviations, I’ve never been a been fan of them in general (and of course with mobile devices, there’s more and more of them). I started off before music as a photographer, so there’s a lot about lighting and cameras that I already knew, but some of the pure film/movie terms I still can get tripped up on. When I first started with FCP 4.5, I had no idea what a “bin” was.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

Richard,

Sorry to be the dunce in the room but what does this mean…

[Richard Herd] “We cover the scene in WS, MS, CU-1, CU-2, OTS-1, OTS-2.”
Cool story.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

Nicholas,

[Nicholas Zimmerman] “As a subscriber I haven’t been super happy with Lynda’s courses lately, as they’ve been really busy updating all of their Adobe training to CC.”
[Nicholas Zimmerman] “With RippleTraining, I can take or leave what I want. Without the subscription fees I don’t mind if their courses aren’t in my zone of interests. Their training also feels more in depth, with Lynda courses I feel like I’m watching a bare bones demonstration of techniques, with Ripple it seems to be more like a proper in-depth tutorial on every function they cover.”
Thanks, that’s the kind of feed back I was looking for.

[Nicholas Zimmerman] ” Checked out your website, pretty cool. I’ve always wanted to learn harmonica, might have to subscribe at some point.”
If you want to email me from the website with a username and password, I’ll be happy to set you up with a month membership to check it out. While you’re in there, I’d love to get some feedback about what you like and think could be improved with my instructional videos. They were of course edited in FCPX.

Thanks,
Dave

P.S. Any Cow regulars that would like a similar free membership to take a look, I’ll be happy to set it up for you also

[Dave Gage]

[Nicholas Zimmerman] “I really like them both.”

My interest is more in your user experience with these two businesses and not so much the content. It doesn’t involve video, but I also have a subscription website and have mostly heard good things about both as a business models. Any negatives to your user experience with either?

Thanks again,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Jeremy Garchow] “It makes me think that once 4k does in fact become some sort of every day post production reality, all of our hard HD work is going to look like SD does in HD.”

Couldn’t disagree on that one. On the bright side, the few times I’ve used SD in a 720p Project, it came out better than I expected just using FCPX.

Good luck with this project,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

[Nicholas Zimmerman] “but instead started on Lynda.com, then RippleTraining.com”

OT, but how do you compare the two in terms of quality of instruction and ease of use for learning?

Thanks,
Dave