Greg Janza
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“I’d predict that 8K tv’s that currently retail for around £3700 in the UK will be as low as £2400 by the start of the Olympics next year”
If 8k tv’s take off it’ll be one of the greatest marketing scams of all-time.
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I misread your original post. Have you attempted to open them in Audition and then export to Premiere?
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What codec are the files?
Have you attempted to re-encode the files in AME or Resolve?
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“Seems to me the forum is a shadow of its former self.”
That’s mainly a result of people moving to the facebook professional forums.
“I post something the slightest bit provocative and the same guys respond that I might have expected to in 2012, and with the same responses!”
The question you might want to ask is why you’re posting something provocative about FCPX in 2019. The video industry overall has incorporated it into the mix along with the Adobe suite of programs, Avid and Resolve and they all seem to co-exist just fine.
This argument about tools of the craft was once sleep inducing and at this stage, it’s coma inducing.
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[Bernard Newnham] “but of course, not being on a Mac, I don’t need much in the way of external high speed connections .
“Not sure what that means. The need for fast external connections is ubiquitous.
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[Oliver Peters] “What do you do for Thunderbolt ports?”
With the introduction of Intel’s Z390 chipset, TB3 is readily available on PC motherboards.
For the record, TB3 has been available on PC motherboards for quite some time. I’ve had a gigabyte TB3 board for nearly two years.
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[Tony West] “In Greg’s own story he mentioned that they are giving that young person a chance because he has talent. Talent built on his early use of X.”
Both my wife and I try to give access to folks just starting out in the business because we both remember how hard it was to break into the business when we were beginning our careers.
I think what was notable about my wife’s interview was how this young professional didn’t focus his approach on how he could possibly contribute to the company’s needs and adapt his skills to those needs. Instead, he put forth his preferences for working.
This is directly opposite of how I approached the business when I was starting out and how I continue to approach the business 25 years later. When I was starting out, I learned linear editing consoles because that’s what post companies used and that’s how I could get hired. I later learned Avid when I wanted to get into television production because that’s what TV production companies used. And then I learned Premiere when I segued into corporate production because that’s what virtually every corporate in-house communications department and outside post facility used and continues to use.
So yes, my wife is going to give him a shot but hopefully, other folks who are attempting to get into this very competitive business will approach job opportunities with an attitude of “how can I help contribute to a project and the overall future success of the company” instead of “this is how I prefer to work.”
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A recent anecdote involving my wife illustrates a problem with the “FCPX is so awesome” approach to our business.
We recently attended a wedding in which we met a very nice gentleman who told us that his son is just starting out in his career as a video editor/shooter but that he doesn’t have a lot of connections yet. My wife is a staff video producer and she hires freelance editors and shooters and so she asked for the son’s contact info.
My wife had a phone interview with the son and during the interview, he informed my wife that he prefers working in FCPX. That’s all well and good but all of the video work done in-house at her company is within the Adobe environment and so FCPX simply isn’t an option for editors. My wife’s company operates like many other media companies in that all video work needs to be done within the ecosystem of the company. The work can certainly be done remotely but it makes no sense to have it done in FCPX since the project will eventually go back to the company and a staff editor may revisit the project down the road.
My wife is still going to give this young professional a chance because his portfolio does indicate that he has talent but it’ll be his responsibility to put his personal preferences aside and do his best to work in an environment that may not be what he prefers but which is a paid professional gig.
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I’d avoid the ‘background’ selection and instead use a shape layer. You can import a prebuilt mogrt that will automatically adjust the width of a shape layer to the size of the text or you can find a simple after effects project online that does the same thing.
You also could use an srt file to create open captions.
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Is there any way possible to bring this now completely meaningless debate to an end?
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