[Gary Huff]

[Andy Field] “It cost them twice as much than if they’d just let a professional do it once.”

And? Did they fire that person or simply take your edit and go back to him and say, “Make it look more like this next time?”

[Gary Huff]

[Steve Connor] “I agree with Bill it’s very fast for smaller projects”

Otherwise, if you want something that is similar in speed, you can check out the Lacie Little Big Disk. It’s pricey, but small and will get you similar throughput. To get close to the speed of the internal SSD with spinning drives, you need at least a 6 bay RAID if you want RAID 5. With RAID 0 you could get away with 4.

[Gary Huff]

[Andrew Kimery] “So does pretty much every job/profession though.”

Can you build a house from blueprints? Design a car? Lay pipeline? Improve the mixture for asphalt? Write a musical score?

There are plenty of jobs that not just anyone can do.

[Andrew Kimery] “If I had the time, inclination, and/or desire to do my own taxes I would but I don’t so I pay a pro to do them for me.”

Your personal taxes, yes. Could you be the accountant for a large corporation? Probably not. Plus, I could do my own taxes, but an accountant looks more official since I am 1099 and take a load of deductions. It’s more of a consideration as to whether I can do it or not. Plus, I want someone who lives and breathes the tax code like I do for production gear. Life’s too short to do that for more than 1-2 things.

[Andrew Kimery] “The Chicken Little Work Theory of Doom™ seems to be that once both the basic skills and the basic tools to do a job become ‘common’ then the opportunities to get paid to do that kind of work just go *poof* overnight but that’s just not the case.”

They won’t go “poof”. They will be severely constricted to the point where you almost will literally have to have a career handed off to you from the person before who is retiring.

[Andrew Kimery] “Change will happen and disruption will happen but that’s just the nature of the beast.”

On this I agree…it will happen regardless, but it pays to be aware and have a backup plan.

[Andrew Kimery] ” Some revenue avenues will dry up, others will still exist but maybe not in the same way and new ones will spring up places they didn’t used to be.”

I don’t think new ones will spring up. Think about VR. That’s really a dead end because, well, what exactly can you do? In VR, there are no angles, hardly any lighting (because you can turn around and see it), and what’s the point of setting up a VR shot where there is a “stage” in a certain angle, and if you turn around you break the spell because, well, that’s how they’re doing it! And the same goes for the production of it. It requires skill not, but not for long. Hell, there’s an app that will automatically stitch all the angles together for you. And when you’re in VR there’s no cutting involved, maybe motion graphics but that remains to be seen.

There is already too much content and we’re gearing up for a crash, just like the video game industry in 1983. Only difference is that we’ve not quite had this before because the barrier was too high and so content could survive. And I don’t foresee a rebound because that industry was just getting started and ours its on its way to a long plateau.

[Andrew Kimery] “With regards to talented young people… I’m not really worried about them for a few reasons. First, it’s motivation to not get complacent.”

Agreed.

[Andrew Kimery] “Second, if a 20yr old can one up me for a gig then I’m in the working the wrong gigs and/or I’ve become complacent.”

On this I would say, it’s only as soon as clients realize they can live with “good enough” over higher costs.

[Andrew Kimery] “They’ll either find a cushy 9-5 job, leave industry or leave LA. Every one that does that is one less competitor I have to worry about.”

But there are more coming. That’s the sound of thousands of stampeding feet you hear, each with a MacBook and a copy of X. Even Leonidas eventually was overwhelmed.

[Andrew Kimery] “more than the “we’re all gonna die!” Bob Zelin. ;)”

I think it’s better to know when it’s over than to spend your time adapting until the last penny is gone.

[Gary Huff]

[Bill Davis] “The SEN content is being re-purposes as we speak into something new and vaguely FCP X related.”

SENoFCPX.

[Gary Huff]

[Andrew Kimery] “I’m still waiting for the restaurant industry to cease to exist since individuals have been cooking for the past few million years…”

Poor analogy because restaurants provide “convenience”, and also because eating has a nearly perfect “audience” as it were, versus editing. Something tells me the difference in numbers between people who need video and people who need to eat is quite astounding.

[Gary Huff]

[David Parker] “In any rational software, aka not Premiere, it will copy anything it can’t losslessly trim.”

Then it’s not actually trimming those files, now, is it?

[Gary Huff]

[David Parker] “(psst. trimming files is not a generation”

Well, that really depends on your source files…how do you think trimming works to begin with?

[Gary Huff]

[Bryce Moose] ” One video tutorial has pink at 75 or 80. Which is it?”

It’s whatever you monitor chooses to use. There’s no actual standard, although there are the usual colors to denote certain IRE levels.

[Gary Huff]

[Todd Terry] “l respectfully disagree that, while that is a factor, it is a minor one compared to the quality of the glass… at least that is my personal opinion/experience.”

It’s not about personal experience, it’s about the laws of physics. Take a look at table four in this link.

A ten thousand dollar Cooke 18mm at f/22 on, say, a GH4 isn’t going to be much different than that Canon because diffraction will eliminate the difference between the two.

[Gary Huff]

[Todd Terry] “Ehh… depends on your glass.”

Actually, it depends on your sensor size. It takes longer to hit diffraction on, say, a photographic full frame sensor than it does on a m43 or 16mm sensor.