[Herb Sevush]

David –

Do you use the standard settings or presets with x264 or do you have your own tunings, and if so would you care to share?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

This conversation reminds me of the story of the Old bull and the Young bull standing at the top of the hill. Looking at the heard of cows below the Young bull says “hey Pops, lets run down and screw one of them cows.” to which the Old bull replies “No, lets walk down and screw them all.”

I’m sure that Kim does look great in her dress and that David is truly an old fart, so let’s hear it for both of them.

This from an older fart, who thinks an Ipad’s screen and keypad way too small for cutting video that is going to be looked at on 42″ plasmas. Plus I think Starbucks has the most overrated coffee in the world and I’d rather work in a Dunkin’ Donuts than drink their overpriced swill.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

David –

Thanks for the tip on X264. Beyond that I couldn’t agree with you more on all counts.

As for Ichat, I use it all the time. I have editors working on my shows from NY to CA and we collaborate and review with Ichat. I have also used Skype for this purpose and while not as good, can get the job done. I figure that will be my method when I migrate.

AS for the Cloud – bandwidth is outside the realm of Moore’s law. I expect local storage for HD will last for at least another 5 years, if not more; long enough to plan on increasing my raid capacity for my next business cycle. Beyond that B. Davis can speculate all he wants.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

“I’d say the raw hardware on the HP station is a little more bang for your buck due to the Quadro videocard”

If your running PPro this is quite the understatement. The HP is an order of magnitude faster because of the Quadro. The 2 systems are not equivalent.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

If your using FCP7 and Snow Leopard you can use Ichat to have a remote viewer watch what you are doing, as you do it. No posting or encoding, they can either watch the output of your timeline as you play it, or actually watch your whole editing screen. It’s possible to do something like this using Skype as well.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

I have tried the AF100, it’s a real video camera with all the positives you mentioned, however the image is not as good as the 5D, in my opinion.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

“The OS9 Media100i system I used to work could mix audio and do more stacked rt effects than FCP7 ever will be able to. FCP7 is not a fast NLE. It is crazy how fast FCP7 is achieving mythological status.”

I have been a harsh critic of FCP’s many flaws since I started using it about 7 years ago – no mythologizing here. It was never my favorite NLE, that would have been *edit, it was simply the best option for me currently available. It’s greatest strength and it’s greatest weakness was it’s plasticity – it could be most things for most people, but only if you could waddle thru the confusion off it’s design.

“FCPX simply does not have multicam availability yet, so it’s hard to say how it will react in that regard.”

Every other NLE marketed to professionals has this feature, it is as ubiquitous as audio tracks. The mutli-cam in FCP7 was, along with Avid, the best in the market. You might think that multi-cam is a natural place for FCPX’s use of metadata to shine. On the other hand the single viewer nature of FCPX is anathema to multi-cam editing where 2 screens have to be visible at all times.

I am actually quite pissed off by the inappropriateness of the current FCPX for my workflow as it looks like it would be a lot of fun poking under the hood. For now, for me, it’s moot.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

You got me there Jeremy – I was being hyperbolic (or full of s**t) – EMC2 couldn’t actually import anything other than NTSC and it really couldn’t handle SD fully, it was strictly an off-line editor. But if you could convert the files I could definitely cut a 6 camera show on it faster than you could on FCPX and that’s not exactly a big step forward.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

“If I remember correctly, you don’t own FCPX, right?”

Because I edit primarily multi-cam, FCPX suits me like the proverbial mammary on a pig (I leave you to decide which is which.)

As far as speed goes I can definitely tell you that for my workflow FCPX is slower than my 20 year old EMC2.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

What’s stopping a DP from using film lenses on the 5D, isn’t that what the PL adapter is for?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions