Douglas K. dempsey
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I agree, it’s stupid and annoying … and fuel for the “It’s not ‘Pro'” argument.
Doug D
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LOL. I was helping my son shoot some pick-up shots for his high-school noir type short film, and we came up with several shots that we did this way. Like all good ideas, someone has finally run with it, full-on! Very funny “Making of” comments: “Hitchcock, Kubrick, Welles … none of these guys tried to shoot with a Prius back-up cam.” 🙂
Doug D
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Haha, reminds me of the old William Goldman story from “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” comparing the unlikelihood of anyone messing with the cinematographer … “Nobody knows optics, physics, lighting” to the all-too-familiar contributions to the screenplay … “EVERYBODY knows the alphabet!”
Doug D
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Haha, looks like a Self-Dental-Care Chair. This is truly the Anti-Walter Murch Editing Solution.
Doug D
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OT for our FCPX talk, but the new phone feature of 3D Touch is welcome; contextual menus and shortcuts on the phone will become the equivalent of key-commands vs mousing & pointing on a desktop all. IMHO.
Doug D
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Only thing I know of is OSX accumulating “Backup” which supposedly remains on drive until you run Time Machine (if you have been doing so). But in practice it sometimes remains even after a backup, trash, restart etc … Then mysteriously the space becomes available again.
Doug D
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The method for creating subtitles might work as well. In Timeline place a marker. When you park cursor over your markers, hit “M” again to see the text field (for your notes). If you make it a “Chapter Marker” a little “bat” or balloon appears, which you then drag out to the intended duration.
Doug D
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James, I have posted about this many times and most people think it is no big deal. To me it is significant, in demonstrating Apple’s goofy consumer mentality. I have adjusted to “Library-Events-Projects” but to a client or friend I can only apologize. It should be “Projects-Clips-Timelines (Or Sequences, or Edits).
Doug D
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[Mark Suszko] “The bike analogy was less impressive to those of us that fly model airplanes, because making it turn the right direction is a problem that changes from moment to moment”
Mark, I will now compare this to the “learning fresh” vs “re-learning” from another format.
My Dad flew free-flight models as a kid. No controls, just set the control surfaces and launch it. Then go find it where it lands.
He became a fixed-wing pilot as an adult, Cessnas, Pipers etc.
THEN when he retired, he took up R/C (radio control) models. It was the hardest thing to learn to use the joysticks, because as you note, when the plane turns and comes back toward you, right becomes left, left becomes right. In an instant. The skill is similar to using a geared Worrell tripod head on a big studio camera. (You practice the constant reversing of directions by doing figure eights or following the second hand of a big clock.)
The other guys in the model club, who had never flown, had a much easier time learning the skill. He had to “unlearn” he actual piloting to master this odd earth-bound skill. He crashed a few models doing so!
Doug D
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Yes, this history was discussed by David back when FCPX was released and this forum began.
But the actual video he released here is priceless; we haven’t see Randy Ubilos or others presenting the evolution of NLEs like this, AFAIK.
I grew up visiting Walter Murch at Zoetrope, post “The Conversation,” to discuss editing “old school.” I ran an upright Moviola, a flatbed Moviola, a Steenbeck, a KEM. I began seeing still images of EditDroid. Then seemingly out of nowhere I was plunked down in front of an Avid.
So this connection to David’s pioneering work is super-groovy! This is the kind of behind-the-scenes history I treasure!
Doug D