James Ewart
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Has anybody ever talked about more than the software making inroads?
Sounds to me like to and Aindreas Gallagher should get to know each other Timothy, I think you’d get along pretty well.
Incidentally where is Aindreas these days?
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I’m a great believer in the Oxford (I think over there it’s the ‘Harvard’) comma Jeremy,
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I’m not up there with you guys.
Isn’t Pro Res a Quicktime codec. What does it mean when you sayMXF wrapped Pro Res please?
Thanks.
James
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Do snapshots use much more storage space?
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BAM indeed. Where has that been hiding? Thanks Bret.
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Yes really nicely cut I really enjoy the experience of toggling between the two. Don’t even try and explain how it actually works I would never understand. But it’s great work all round. Beautifully shot too.
I can see the advantage of using the CCs as you did not have the high rez available.
The fact that one can create auditions in the browser had me thinking though … I have never had cause to create and Audition in the browser myself and thought for a minute it could have worked if you had both available.
Anybody here use Auditions in the Browser?
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[James Ewart] “Owning a word processing software and a computer does not turn you into a great writer”
Rpbin Kurz “No, of course not. But if you’re a great and/or talented writer to begin with, then that word processor can offer you options and possibilities to make your work a LOT easier, more flexible and give you more room for experimentation and creativity. Making you at minimum a more efficient if not also a better writer than just with pen and paper, yes. Which is why I don’t in fact buy into the whole notion of “the tool (i.e. app) is irrelevant”. It sounds so romantic. Too bad it’s delusional in today’s reality. ”
I don’t think you quite got my point. I was not being literal. I was kind of agreeing with you in fact. That just because the technology is within everybody’s grasp that does not take away form the skills of the person writing the script or editing the movie. Now that many people can read and write it doesn’t mean many people can “write”.
And speaking of reading skills every time you write the word solipsistic I have to look it up.
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Just wondering whether I might elect to use Auditions for replacing lo rez with high rez shots rather than Compound Clips.
I suppose it’s easier to trim and match the hi rez clip to the lo rez in a CC timeline.
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Actually £900 is wrong.
Because back them two 27 inch moonitors which were too heavy to carry cost about £1,000 each. The Power Mac (was it an 8100 back then?) must have been £3,000. The external Lacie scsi drives (50GB each?), the deck…the whole shebang set me back about 10 grand. But that was still cheap by comparison.
So there was still quite a barrier to entry compared to now.
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“So we are all afraid of losing our livelihoods and that’s a natural enough fear to have.”
“Sorry, but I find that rather ridiculous. If you’re “losing your livelihood” to some hack that just graduated from a three day course, then your problem is clearly something completely different than just the NLE you or they are using. If you can’t compete with them, then you’re simply using them as a scapegoat for being a BAD EDITOR and not staying up to speed on your profession.”
I understand why you think that but change is scary for a lot of people. Look at the way nations (yours and mine included) react to large scale immigration – it’s the same vibe don’t you think? The way the Avid community has consistently rallied against FCP in both iterations has been hard to fathom at times but job protection (albeit misguided) is a reasonable explanation. And the more they can perpetuate the negative publicity the better for them (they think).
I also agree about the democratisation. After all FCP1 at £900 was pretty radical at the time and allowed me, a producer/director, to secretly learn the craft myself – something I had always been itching to do. FCPX at £200 is a similar kind of leap. At that price of course people will look into it and, as I think I put in my previous post, I also like the idea that the tool no longer matters. Never did really much. Nobody (apart from people here of course) ever said “I must go and watch that show I hear it was cut in Adobe/FCPX/AVID/Quantel or a Steenbeck.
Owning a word processing software and a computer does not turn you into a great writer any more than being able to operate edit software makes you a great film maker.
I agree with you but I also understand that when you have been earning a living a certain way, for many years and you are freelance with a mortgage to pay and kids to feed, you can feel a bit threatened by some of these developments. I don’t think that’s ridiculous but I do think it would be better to embrace the change. But that is human nature.
We must also be careful not to disrespect the many fine editors who have been happily working with Avid for twenty or more years successfully who think “why change?”. I kind of get that too. These guys have not been earning a living purely on the strength of knowing which buttons to push.