[Herb Sevush]

[Bill Davis] “I’ve spent as much time over the past four months, for example, considering taxonomy (the field of intelligent naming and labeling) and export modes (versioning and persistent connection verses “save as” and “orphan document” creation.) as I have concentrating on the traditional skills of scene pacing or titling. My use of X on a near daily basis has literally changed much of my thinking about what it means to be an “editor” in the modern sense. “

It’s nice to see you’ve gotten religion over the importance of naming and labeling Bill, but this stuff has been at the center of proper editing workflows since before there was such a term. When it was all film clips in bins the naming and labeling was kept in a notebook, but it was still the only way to deal with the retrieval and identification of 100,000 feat of film. From hand written notebooks to flat file databases to the kind of work you can do today with CatDV and FCPX, the essential nature of preliminary organization in any editorial process cannot be overstated.

It’s nice that your experience with X has impressed this on you, but since you can’t export any of this information outside of X, it seems, to an outsider like me, rather limited compared to something like CatDV where you can create a browsing library linking your metadata and files for all the world to see and use.

But that’s just a Ludite’s point of view.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Mark Suszko] “, that’s a very. bad. deal. for anything better than home movie junk”

Even for home movies, your allowing them to sell your family shots as stock footage. Does not sound like a wise move.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Don Walker] “But in one careless moment it could all be gone……. Unless of course you backed up your layers! “

That’s what made the good ones so good – they didn’t have careless moments. Besides which, when done properly, everything was in the EDL and could be re-created fairly quickly.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Steve Connor] “I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread!”

Because it was the best thing since sliced bread. I was never an on-line editor, but I loved working with some really good ones, and watching them figure out how to build complicated effects with a single channel of ADO and pre-read was a downright thrill.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Don Walker] “D2 was the king of post and playback, until DigiBeta took it’s place. I think it was a very successful format, which just became obsolete. “

That’s the point. A lot of things were popular for a few years and then became a sidebar in the evolution of post. If you invested all your money in D2 gear, you weren’t happy when NLE’s became capable of outputting broadcast quality signals, anymore than you would be if you had placed your bet on a Montage.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Aindreas Gallagher] ” it, is a goldfish in the sahara.”

Nice line.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Craig Seeman] “CMX and the CMX6000 maybe.”

or the Montage, of the Edit Droid, or D2 or … the list goes on and on. And many of these DeLoreans and Tucker Torpedos of the past contributed good ideas and technology that was adopted by the rest of the industry. So who knows, the demise of X might lead to the eventual adaptation of one click Vimeo buttons.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Tim Wilson] “what’s on your list to see from companies who’ll actually be at the show?”

PPro CS6.
Lightworks.
Archiving solutions.
Ki-Pro and HyperDeck and all other SSD video recorders.
Speech recognition software like Boris Soundbite.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Don Walker] “Of the people who frequent this forum, how much TV do you watch?”

I spend over 40 hours a week watching shows that will end up on TV, does that count?

Other than that I watch about 3 sporting events a week, more during baseball season, plus about 2 hours of HBO stuff on the weekends, and the Daily Show and Steven Colbert whenever they’re not on re-runs. Throw in the occasional TCM movie, Law & Order re-run or HBO special and I guess that makes me the philistine of the group.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Richard Herd] ” The workarounds have been discussed in the FCPX Techniques forum.”

I have often found the best “workaround” to be to use another program. This isn’t specific to X, but as a general bit of workflow advice.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf