Herb Sevush
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Gotcha, thanks. All my work is still HD, haven’t used Red or Alexa yet, so that didn’t occur to me.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Jeremy Garchow] “PPro, at least with CS5.5, makes some sort of cache files that you have zero control over, and sometimes don’t really help (they seem to be audio related). And if you want to make proxy files, how do you do it?”
In PPro why would you want to make proxy files? (not being argumentative, just trying to understand.) What’s the advantage of Proxies if you can edit natively?
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Two key quotes
“Let’s assume that it’s only twice as fast as Final Cut Pro 7. Some of that is simply because of a modern foundation that drops any requirement for transcoding or rendering effects, and that’s shared with other modern NLEs like Premiere Pro, Vegas, Media Composer and Edius. But some is because of the way the interface has been redesigned.”
Much of this whole concept about faster compares FCPX to Legacy and that is a straw man analogy. The comparison needs to be to either something like Avid 6 or FCP8, the 64 bti version that could have, and in many opinions, should have been written.
Any time saving due to ability to natively edit with tapeless codecs is moot, since ALL modern NLE’s can do that. By all accounts FCPX lags behind PPro in that capacity still.
What’s up for discussion is how the new interface speeds editing, and on that I see no consensus. Since I have never touched FCPX I have no opinion in that area, but I have yet to see a compelling explanation as to how the FCPX timeline speeds up work in “most instances.”
Statements like “it speeds up my work by half” is interesting, but not compelling without the how; and the work done needs to represent reasonably complex work or it won’t apply to many here; obviously the theory being if it can do complex work, it can do simple work but the reverse is not necessarily true.
“The thing is, if we have one NLE that’s noticeably faster in use, that word will get out to producers and, guess what? Producers and executives like things done faster because that’s the direction they’ve been pushing. (Oh, and faster is usually cheaper.) If a two week job can be done in one, if a one week job can be done in three days, then whoever is doing it will adopt the tool that lets it be done in three days, or they’ll be looking for other work.”
This of course will be the final evidence. If it’s faster in complex workflows, then everyone here will shut up and use it.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Bill Davis] ” I was reminded of once when I did precisely the same thing, carelessly describing a young persons behavior as “psychotic” only to be pulled aside by a very upset 14-year old schoolmate of my sons who was upset because his father had, in fact, just been diagnosed as precisely that — and it was tearing their family to shreds.)”
Fortunately there are not too many 14 year olds on this forum, at least not chronologically. Just how PC do we have to be here? Can we no longer say something is “sick” because someone might have a family member with an illness, I can’t call something “idiotic” because someone’s dead Dad was an idiot and it brings up bad feelings – wait I can’t mention dead Dads then either, can I?
Bill, your post is crazier than Andreas’s and at least he had the advantage of being drunk when he wrote it. As for your situation with your son’s friend – the problem wasn’t that you used the word “psychotic,” the problem is that the kid’s dad was ill. Nothing you said caused it, nothing you don’t say will make him feel better. Sometimes the world just sucks.
Herb Sevush
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[John Joyce] “Where are the mavens going to come from for FCPX?”
Doesn’t Bill Davis qualify?
Herb Sevush
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[Bill Davis] “(ignoring the awful tense problem)”
For someone who was quoting Justice O’Conner for the longest time, I don’t know that I would go there.
[Bill Davis] ” the presumptive attachment of “skills is no longer needed” (ignoring the awful tense problem) – to me – when in fact I’ve never once knowingly argued anything even remotely like that (and, in fact disbelieve that assertion rigorously)”
Over and over again you’ve maintained that the future belongs to dentists and auto mechanics making their own videos using FCPX. The future irrelevance of proper monitoring is another recurrent message. Calling broadcast editors “the priest class” and “the elites” peppers a lot of your posting gumbo.
Taken together they seem to comprise an argument that mastering the technical side of our craft will no longer be important. If that was not your intent, it gave every appearance of being so.
[Bill Davis] ” the presumptive attachment of “skills is no longer needed” … to me …makes you look clever. “
Yeah, I thought it was a pretty funny retort to your tennis posting, grammatical error or not.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “hey c’mon – play acting here. “
Oh no, you’ve destroyed all my illusions, I always took all your posts literally, sort of like the dead sea scrolls of frustration – it’s like now there is no Santa.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I AM NOT BRINGING MY WHISKEY.”
It sounds like you’ve already imbibed the entire bottle.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Craig Seeman] “FCPX is just the trigger for a much broader discussion”
FCPX is more like the house that just burnt down, and as long as we’re out here and warmed by the embers we might as well talk about other stuff, but every once in a while people go back to trying to figure out what caused the fire, and then tempers flare and fingers get pointed.
Sort of.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Jeremy Garchow] “First bun is in the oven (a huge and new development).”
Congratulations. Well, at least we won’t have to guess why you’ve stopped posting in a few months. The triviality of all we’ve been discussing will soon become apparent.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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