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Pernaps the two most important questions for you are:

1) What’s the bitrate of the 4K video, as in mb/sec?

2) What is the throughput of your media storage array as measured by Read/Write speeds on either the AJA or Blacknagic disk speed test?

***BTW, is it direct attached storage, or is it being shared over a network?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

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[Mike Warmels] “Honestly, I don’t care very much about all that. Apple decided to create a new paradigm and with that comes a different jargon. Silly? Yes, but hey, it’s what it is.
“

You’re missing the point Mike, the issue is not about the new paradigm, it’s about the needless and unnecessary renaming of terms in the lexicon that have are the universal standards of the industry.

As I’ve said before, the terminology most everyone uses in the industry has been standardized for a reason, it’s done so that the vast majority of people can understand precisely what you’re talking about without explanation – taking time to explain things unnecessarily is inefficient. Think Merriam Webster Dictionary – they don’t make sudden changes or replace words with new terms willy nilly, they wait until they become established in the lexicon.

Think of it this way, if Apple suddenly began calling audio by another name, such as ear-candy, how many times do you think that term would stop all progress just for you while you explain that to your clients? Then extrapolate over the entire population of editors using X and figure out how great the inefficiency would be.

And, for the record, one of the primary reasons the learning curve for X is longer than most other NLEs is because, not only did Apple change the paradigm, they also changed the lexicon, making the learning curve exponentially longer and more complicated, especially for those with the most experience.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

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[James Ewart] ”
For sure they must have thought about it a lot and decided it would rock the boat. But it’s needless and a bit silly in my view.”

Bingo! You nailed it James…

Hey, let’s just rename a bunch of well known shite, it’ll distract from all the missing stuff, and maybe they won’t notice.

And, it seems to have worked, at least it did for some.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

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[James Culbertson] “This has nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with personal linguistic stuckness. Time to take personal responsibility and move on, or accept that you personally cannot or do not want to change”

Sorry, but that’s pure BS James. Nomenclature in this business, like standards, was designed so that individuals all over the world can communicate accurately, period, end of story.

When you start to make the kinds of changes to long-standing universal terms as Apple has chosen to do in X, all you get is confussion, misunderstanding, and inaccuracy, which are antithetical to good communication.

Even the most ardent Apple fanboys acknowledge that the initial rollout of X was a huge mistake, the decision to change the universally accepted and understood terminology of film and video was Apple’s second biggest screwup per X – if neither of those mistakes were made I seriously doubt there would be any of the controversy surrounding X, and it would probably have been much more widely accepted than it was initially or than it is today, four years later.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

I stumbled upon Bob’s article before you touted it Tim, and indeed it is a cool and interesting new look at Blackmagic’s inexpensive solutions for building out a TV studio that would have been prohibitively expensive in days past.

The fact that one can now outfit a studio with (4) 4K studio cameras for about $10K total, each with a built-in 10″ monitor, is mind-blowing. And, the rest of the BM gear Bob discusses is equally inexpensive and powerful too.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

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Mark,

I think you are referring to a product Marco Solario developed and sold a few years back. I’m pretty sure that product has been abandoned, but I could be wrong.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Gotcha Tim! Frankly, though I’ve sold these solutions a zillion times, I was not implementing them myself.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

I agree with Mark, before discussing alternatives, why the heck are you unable to color correct in FCP? Is it “pilot error” on your part, or is there a technical issue?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

Tim,

One of the coolest things I ever learned about LTO, which I’m sure you know and appreciate, is that they are perfect for storing databases such as those generated by a DAM or MAM. So, not only do you archive the media to LTO, but the underlying metadata and the database in which in which it’s stored, all of which is good to go for 20 to 30 years (hopefully).

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[David Roth weiss]

The most secure and the lowest cost is LTO tape backup/archive. LTO 6, the latest version, holds 2.5Tb per tape.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.