James Culbertson
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[David Mathis] “Have you tried the Resolve forum on here?”
Yes, every once in awhile. I find myself getting annoyed by discussion boards generally as compared to FB groups and email listervs. This particular discussion board is one exception.
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Can anyone recommend a good FB Resolve group?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “but Synchronized clips are harder to do that in the timeline.”
For this short film, breaking them apart will work OK.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Are they synchronized clips or compound clips?”
Synchronized. Aren’t those also compound clips? They are all dialogue; up to seven separate audio files with each video clip. I ended up breaking apart clip items and using roles to organize them in a usable way.
Also fun is the audio guy did not provide notes for what was what.
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[James Culbertson] “The point being that I have never been adverse to trying new NLEs”
Though thinking about it. I was adverse to using D/Vision Pro… painfully buggy.
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[Shawn Miller] “Nope, I’m just thinking that as a FPCX user you can look for FCPX jobs, advertise your skills and influence others (producers/directors) to try it out.”
As a (freelance) editor I can look for editing jobs using whatever NLE I am asked to use (and sometimes what I choose to use). I have not asked others to try FCP 10 out. But because I am open to whatever NLE is out there, others have asked me to come edit for them on FCP 10 and Premiere (and in the past, AVID, Media 100, tape to tape, flatbed, etc.). The point being that I have never been adverse to trying new NLEs even if the majority of other editors at the time are resistant to that new NLE (which in the past also included Premiere and FCP Legacy, etc.). Same as it ever was.
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[Shawn Miller] “As a freelancer, I imagine you can look for FCPX projects or do jobs in FCPX without needing to worry as much about compatibility with other post folks or agencies.”
Yes, I just have to be compatible with whatever workflow the company, agency, team, or individual producer/director I am working for at the time is using. But that is as true of using Premiere or AVID as it is FCP 10. Has it ever been different?
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[Shawn Miller] “so I haven’t really seen an uptake of FCPX or Resolve… it could just be the circles that I run in though.”
Yes, I would say that it being known that I am fluent in FCP 10 (and actually like using it) has opened doors to work that others who are centered only on Premiere can’t access.
Originally, when I learned the earlier Premiere/Radius/Targa systems in the 90s (in addition to tape to tape, and AVID) I got work on high budget multimedia projects that a lot of other editors ignored. Same when FCP Legacy first came out, a lot of AVID editors thought it was a joke. Same for mid/late 90s After Effects work when Flame operators thought it was a toy. At one point in the late 90s, part of my income was as a multimedia palette creation specialist, and video compression specialist. I’m learning Resolve now. Don’t get stuck in the past… I’ll keep doing this until I retire.
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[Shawn Miller] “I thought Microsoft Studios and Amazon Studios were partly AVID and partly Premiere Pro these days… did they switch AVID for FCPX?”
Not completely sure about internally at Amazon Studios, but among outside contractors I have never heard mention of Media Composer. I don’t think they tell outside contractors what to use for the most part so some use Premiere and some use FCP 10. Microsoft Studios has been all Premiere for a couple of years. However, there are a number of groups at Microsoft that work outside of the studios, and make their own choices. I spent over 2 years as an outside contractor at one large group at Microsoft which used FCP 10 exclusively. There are other FAANG satellites in Seattle that also use a mixture of FCP 10 and Premiere (and no AVID). Seattle Public Schools media operations center is FCP 10 exclusively. It’s popping up more and more these days.
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[Neil Goodman] “It a great tool and I suggest everyone learns it to have in the back pocket – but to make a viable career off it in the major markets, is still but a pipe dream.”
In the Seattle area, I’ve actually had more work requesting FCP 10 over the last 3-4 years. It is corporate work primarily. I put off learning FCP 10 at first, but the high pay was a great motivator. Now I prefer using FCP whenever possible. I definitely agree with Mark Toia that it is the fastest editor available at this time.
No AVID here, its all Premiere and FCP 10. Definitely a lot of interest in Davinci Resolve, but not sure it is quite trusted for prime time work yet.