[Gary Huff]

[Jeff Markgraf] “Can’t wait for the inevitable “Lightworks or Not: The Debate” forum”

I predict it will have just as much action as the current one.

[Gary Huff]

[Lance Bachelder] “You just said that “no one” uses it.”

I was totally being hyperbolic, but the underlying meaning was that “no one here” uses it.

Besides, film editing is pure editing, not like elsewhere. All they do is edit the picture, and then it gets handed off for color, sound, ect. That’s not really the case outside of the system.

This talk just smacks of the “this is the year of Linux on the desktop” in computing circles, which is an annual claim.

[Gary Huff]

[Andrew Kimery] ” Some people fixate on high-end gear because they see it as a mark of status and success”

And, to be fair, some people fixate on high-end gear because they’ve been hampered by low-end gear or the cheap end of the spectrum that ends up being more trouble than it’s worth.

[Gary Huff]

[Lance Bachelder] “More Oscar and BAFTA winning shows than any NLE next to Avid.”

Lovely. Was hoping for a link to the last project you edited in Lightworks.

[Gary Huff]

[David Mathis] “Wait until Resolve 11 comes out. Should be very interesting.”

Resolve 11 and Lightworks…two NLEs(-ish for Resolve at least) that everyone brings up but no one uses.

Lovely.

[Gary Huff]

[Darren Roark] “Since when is cooking as steak on a stove without a good thermometer OK?”

A clumsy analogy based on the image problems with the 7D: low resolution, aliasing, moire, etc.

[Darren Roark] “t just seems like people are afraid to use anything that isn’t what most people use.”

On the flip-side of that, is the kind of gear that is requested by clients. Right now, I am getting a lot of two requests: either a Cinema EOS series camera explicitly, or at least the ability to have the background out of focus. The latter throws out all the perfectly good cameras that a lot of people were shooting on just a few years ago (the HVX200 and HPX170 series). And is there really any reason why most people aren’t still editing on a Power Mac G5 with Final Cut Pro 6/7? Still more than enough for 1080 ProRes editing, isn’t it?

So I find the whole, “I’ve been wondering lately if i’m one of the few people left that takes pride in producing quality work without buying every piece of high end gear possible?” a curious statement, because we’re talking about a relative new camera and a relatively new MacBook. Just because you’re not buying a HP Z series workstation and a Red Dragon doesn’t mean you’re not chasing gear. If someone were still on an HVX200 editing DVCPRO HD in Final Cut Pro 6 on a Power Mac, then I think the statement would hold more weight.

[Gary Huff]

[Darren Roark] ”
After all, this is a business, and nobody goes to a restaurant and cares what stove their food was cooked on.”

Unless it was on the cheaper stove that isn’t accurate temperature-wise and the steak was burned because of it.

On a similar note, my GH2 with the Apocalypse hack vs a second shooter with a 7D. None of the 7D footage was used in the edit because it was strikingly poor next to the GH2 footage. Granted, cameras of the same price-level, but it would also hold true stacked up against a C100/300.

[Gary Huff]

[Eric Santiago] “Whatever happened to the days when we used to say…it just works ;)”

You came to the realization that it was a statement full of hot air? 😉

[Gary Huff]

[Per Argentine] “Sony FS700 seems like the ideal choice at present, with something like the Zacuta shooter kit to shoulder mount it.”

Is it really going to be “ENG-style” with the Odyssey 7Q hanging off of it, or were you planning to go 4K for on a strickly Sony route?

[Gary Huff]

[Phil Hoppes] “Having worked in the corporate engineering world for close to 30 years, this practice of pulling people off project A and dumping them on Project B so B can ship earlier is so asinine it is not to be believed.”

And then:

[Phil Hoppes] ” I use to have this practice shoved down my throat all of the time.”

So on the one hand this idea is so asanine that it can’t be believed that Apple actually does it, and yet in 30 years of corporate engineering, you had that exact scenario “shoved down your throat” all the time?

Am I missing something here?