Don Scioli
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Mark- thank you very much for your insights. I will give them a try.
Don
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I’ve had a home studio since 1998, strange people in my house, no commuting, no paying $500 an hour for CMX, then Avid suites, any distraction were a welcome break. And I own my own equip which I can write off. Not too shabby.
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To be the fair, the XA20 is not as good a camera as say my XF300 which I find has a superior picture quality to just about every DSLR and compares quite favorably to the Alexa in ungraded image quality. You just have to adjust the in camera pictures right for a great image. I assume the 705 will have the same quality and flexibility. Also, the zoom lens on the XF300 is quite good, similarly as crisp as a comparatively priced prime , certainly not a Cook or Arri.
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Bob, as you said between amateurs using FCPX and the Damn iPhone being a shooting tool for everyone with a film idea, the bottom and midlevels of film/video work have vanished. That includes public agencies such as fire and police, govt. institutions, small companies who have a kid shoot with the phone or DLSR, even some of our previous bread and butter, political commercials, are being done for free by a supporter with a phone and placed on Facebook. That leaves the high end corporate where the completion is fierce and you have to know someone on the inside or doing docs and hoping for a pick up.
The new tech is great for pros but it is also great for everyone else. Maybe I long for the days of shooting on an ARRI 2C and editing on a Steenbeck or Kem.
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Though not realistically related, but I believe Apple will build another Mac Pro with high end specs because it can and doesn’t need to but wants the cred…just like Ferrari builds the crazy 700 horsepower La Ferrari, Porsche builds the 918, Lamborghini makes the Urus and Nike makes the $200 Air vapor Max. These are ridiculous products that nobody needs but continues to establish the makers core vision.
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Not with Closed Captions, I’ve tried this in FCPX and Compressor, unless you know of another way. (Avid does)
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For Shane Ross-
Shane in your latest post you said ” Lately I’ve been delivering OP-1A MXF”. Are you doing this via FCPX or Avid?
Since we have been delivering shows for PBS thru West link satellite, they want OP-1A MXF with closed captions, which FCPX won’t do. So I have to master in FCPX, get the CC into an AAF file, place the Pro Res file and AAF file into Avid and output to OP-1A MXF. It’s clunky but that seems to be the only way to do this. Do you know of an easier way?many thanks
Don
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I do not see the big deal…I’ve cut 4 future length docs and 1 theatrical horror film on FCPX and never had a problem, worked smooth, quickly and output quality was superb. The last 2 aired on PBS, which is a stickler for standards.
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Many thanks, I probably had an older version. Will try tomorrow.
Don
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I’m using a Raid drive. 2 drives in there, Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Never had this problem until 10.3 the previous versions of FCPX were fine with this drive