Herb Sevush
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[Steve Connor] ”
After the demo I was quite excited to see what FCPX could do”I wasn’t at the demo, but my recollection of the weeks after was that there was both positive and negative spin from the meet, with a lot of people speculating about changes that would be made to the product between NAB and the release a few months later, and that it wasn’t until the release that the colossal negative response began.
But memory is fleeting.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Bill Davis] “[Oliver Peters] “It’s my recollection that the internet-wide negative comments started at the SuperMeet reveal”
Exactly.
And the Supermeet reveal was months before the product was ACTUALLY put on sale so anyone could assess – hands on – how It might function.
“And who was responsible for deciding to reveal FCPX at the supermeet? Did somebody come in and hold a gun to someone’s head, or was it Apple’s decision? According to you Apple’s role-out was great and the blame for the bad PR should be put on some secret conspiracy to do damage to X that was beyond anyone’s control.
How about acknowledging that Apple had some negative feedback from editors before the meet, they decided to do a public reveal anyhow, when some negative buzz was generated by the supermeet reveal they chose to do absolutely nothing to contain it except announce on day 1 of FCPX’s availability that legacy was DOA and no longer available for sale (a decision they rescinded, on the down low, a few weeks later.)
Everything that happened to X was the result of Apple’s marketing and, in 20-20 hindsight, it was all predictable. There’s nothing “curious” about stupidity, it is the ready explanation for the world we live in.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Bill Davis] ”
That “bad rap” proceeded by months and months FCP X’s actual public release. Before anyone outside Apple had ever actually touched the software.It was REALLY curious that way.
“Pre-release there was much buzz and as much pro as con. The stuff hit the fan On The Release Date, and trying to re-write history into a conspiracy theory ain’t gonna fly. It was a terribly handled release, Apple’s actions in the weeks after the release confirmed this, and no amount of “re-thinking” will change that. They shot themselves in the foot and no one else is to blame for it. Just like Apple’s “admission” that the nMacPro was a disaster, Apple’s publishing of their ‘white paper” of FCPX’s future, which came weeks after the release and is totally unmatched in Apple’s history, was an “admission” that they screwed the pooch. The only thing curious about it is how they could not see it coming.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Walter Soyka] “Do you find this leads to a lot of re-work? Is there any work you actually save for that mythical state of Picture Lock?”
For the most part I save final color grading and sound repair till I’m sure the sequence I’m working on will be in the final cut. However I often won’t know what works without doing some work on a shot – if I need the content from a badly shot clip I won’t know if I can use it till i do the work of trying to make it look right. More so with sound – I need a line from someone but there was a crash in the background – if I don’t try to eliminate the crash from the track I won’t know if the resulting sound is usable.
As far as re-work goes, pretty much anything you do is a step in the right direction, and taking it further, based on feedback, is still quicker than not doing anything at all. You start with a rough mix for the rough cut and then keep improving the mix as you improve the cut.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[greg janza] “If I’ve learned anything in 20 plus years of editing it’s that 99% of clients have absolutely no ability to envision what the final product will look like. “
The 4th law of thermodynamics.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Bill Davis] “In my FCP X workflow, my Browser footage universally gets a fast “base grade” for a pleasing, viewable watching experience. And that flows into every subsequent project.
“This is a digression but I find this statement to be an interesting result of the, fairly recent, push for shooting log and raw. The idea that you needed to apply color correction to video footage to get a “pleasing, viewable watching experience” is fairly recent, and I’m not all that sure the benefits outweigh the effort. I hire a DP precisely because they know how to get a “pleasing” image in 709, no grading necessary. If I want to add some post color pizzaz I can, but for the most part the only thing all this LUTing around is getting me is some extra details in my highlights, which is what a DP is paid to control in the first place. I understand going to this extreme for a feature or a commercial, where post expense and effort are a minor part of the picture, but for most broadcast or corporate work, I don’t get it.
OK, the grumpy old man has said his piece, move on.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Walter Soyka] ” how do you present your WIPs to clients or stakeholders? “
I’ve been using Kollaborate for the last few years and find it fits my needs, for all level of clients, in terms of quality of image, ease of use for clients, and notating & exporting notes in a useful manor.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[danny mason] “I have scratch audio from all the cameras and I am trying to use the built in auto sync feature in Premiere”
I would suggest you select one of your audio sources and all of your video sources and then use the “make multiclip” feature. When you get the multiclip setup dialogue chose “audio” for syncing and then “Camera 1” in the audio portion of the setup box. When your multiclip is made, right click and then choose “open in timeline.”
When the multiclip timeline opens you will see the video for the DSLR (lets call it DSLR#2) that was shooting stop and go spread out over many video tracks and your audio source should be on Audio track 1. Lock Audio 1 to protect it then manually move all the DSLR video to a single track, making sure you are keeping their position in the timeline constant so you don’t loose sync.Leave your master camera and DSLR 1 alone. You should now have only 3 tracks of video with clips.
Close the multiclip and you’re now ready to edit.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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You might want to look at “Andy’s Safe Guides,” a free plug-in from FX Factory.
https://fxfactory.com/info/safeguides/
It doesn’t have anything for FB, but it does have an easy ability to customize whatever safe guides you might want.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[danny mason] ” I have footage from a dslr that was running magic lantern so there are no gaps between clips: a 4k master shot from a sony pxw-x70 video camera : footage from a second shooter on a dslr where there appears to be some space between clips where the camera timed out and he pressed record again. Then I have audio from two different dars that were receiving multiple feeds. What i would like, is to have the three cameras synced to a mixed audiotrack mixed from all the sources in a multiam sequence.”
What are you using to sync your sources – I’m assuming you don’t have TC on your dslr’s, but do you have audio reference on all your camera’s or are you using slates or what?
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf