Franz Bieberkopf
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[Oliver Peters] “the MT is very fast for a “first cut””
Oliver,
This does depend on your methodology for arriving at, and definition of “first cut”.
Franz.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “… but there are aspects of it that are actually better in my opinion.”
I’ve heard that with X, editing is no longer boring and tedious!
Franz.
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[Walter Soyka] “Franz… are you baiting car analogies?”
I was hoping for natural law and land rights debate.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marquis
… a rank next below that of duke, but above a count.Franz.
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[David Lawrence] “So that leaves the one big gaping hole in the Mercury line-up…”
The Grand Marquis?
https://www.mercuryvehicles.com/
Franz.
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… from the fxguide article:
Coleman says that the system renders everything at full resolution in realtime on the server side. “That includes all the effects and format conversion, just like normal Mercury playback on your machine. We then have a proprietary codec that we stream from the server to your machine.
Did I just hear something about the possible underpinnings of an Adobe “native-codec” for editing in there, … or is it wishful thinking? … or am I stuck in outmoded thinking?
Franz.
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Joseph,
I just finished re-reading that last month.
Murch is very focussed and articulate about his particular take on editing, but he pretty much exclusively discusses scripted work (and very little about the writing process, though Ondaatje chimes in with a few parallels.
“In writing, especially poetry, you are always trying to find ways to forge alliances between unlikely things, striking juxtapositions, finding the right shorthand for ideas, metaphors.” p.34 OndaatjeHowever, the issue that interested me (touched on in the NYT article) is unscripted films with writing credits.
It isn’t articulated in the article, but a writing credit is broadly interpreted by an audience to mean the film was written, ie scripted. Broadly people understand the script as the story or plot or dialog, and those who are more sophisticated understand it as plan for the various crafts. A writing credit suggests that a script was written, and it has been my contention that it undervalues the role of the editor in such projects – as the editor is significant in “structuring, framing, and building” the piece.
By way of clarification, I am not referring to credits for Development Writing, nor Narration Writing.
Franz.
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Some relevant developments:
https://www.dailytech.com/Google+Seeks+to+Ban+Almost+Apples+Entire+US+Product+Line/article25467.htm
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From the link:
The timeline of some embodiments includes a primary lane called a spine as well as one or more anchor lanes. The spine represents a primary sequence of media, which, in some embodiments, does not have any gaps.
I think they’re misusing the word “spine” here. Herb?
Franz.
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This is the thread about medal rankings for competitive NLEs isn’t it?
Franz.
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[Walter Soyka] “Let’s go back to the original scenario: you have 3 hours to make a highlight reel of 10 hours of footage. What’s your approach?”
Walter,
My consistent strategy here has been not to get hired to make highlight reels. I leave that for professionals. So far, I have found this the fastest approach.
[Walter Soyka] “I say this to highlight the importance of non-realtime interaction — jog/shuttle or timeline scrub. FCPX has all of these, and it improves on them by adding the skimmer. With the skimmer, FCPX does everything that FCP7 did, but it does it with greater responsiveness and less penalty for context switch.
I concede that different editors doing different work may value this feature more or less highly, but are you arguing that non-realtime interaction is flat out worthless in some cases?”
Understood. I’m not at all suggesting non-realtime interaction is useless. I don’t really think of it as “review” though (at least not most of the time). Again I would make a distinction between search-type interactions (which are a kind of review) and screening (which I suppose is also a kind of review) – though you can call them both “review” they are quite different.
Also I think most of the discussion has been about skimmer use outside the timeline.
You can count my vote for greater responsiveness.
Franz.