James Ewart
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Just don’t quite understand why in this digital age you are not shooting everything at 30. I guess it’s still to do with the NTSC colour system.
I confess to being grateful for living in 50hz land sometimes. I think we have life a bit simpler.
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I hate your funny frame rates 🙂 Create so many problems for what benefit?
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Thanks it’s an interesting article.
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What we were taught in history about Luddites here in the UK more closely resembles the Wikipedia definition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
My Shorter Oxford Dictional definition which reads thus for Luddism
“Intense dislike of or opposition to increased industrialisation or the introduction of new technology especially in the place of work”.
Or Meriam Webster online
“One of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest; broadly : one who is opposed to especially technological change”.
I think what is unquestionably good is choice. l hope my scripts are not judged on the basis of the software or typewriter I use. My ability as a writer is all that matters. In my case that is undeniably a limiting factor by the way.
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Hi Franz I coud not disagree with you at all there which is why I prefaced it with:
“For sure if you have a tool and workflow that is tried and tested then why, unless there is a very good reason, change it? I get that”.
I resisted even looking at X for quite a while before I made the decision to criticise it from an informed point of view. Having informed myself I changed my mind! But I am not a broadcast or mainstream editor so of course my needs are different to many.
There are though a fair smattering of Luddites out there.
I agree it’s a slightly tired debate and apologise for taking it that route.
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For sure if you have a tool and workflow that is tried and tested then why, unless there is a very good reason, change it? I get that.
But then there are others who resist change because they don’t like change.
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The thought occasionally enters my head that many editors and post houses do not like what they do looking too easy. The FCPX interface is so approachable maybe it just makes the job look too damn simple?
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“Viacom won’t let you edit spots with anything else as of recently. They’ve still got 7, but they’re enforcing PPro. THere’s also Hogarth, CNN, Associated Press, and a ton of other places. It’s definitely a bit of a comer…. ”
Why do they care so much what kind of typewriter the script is written in out of interest?
Oh well I played with Premiere and found it much easier to adapt to than Avid MC from FCP7. So if that’s the winner so be it. I stuck with X out of curiosity an respect to Apple apart from anything else. Adobe do seem to care a lot about their users with free tutorials and making it easy to use whatever keyboard shortcuts you are used to. Helpful people at Adobe it seems. I do get that vibe and sense that Apple feel more distance from their users.
Ho hum.
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Yup. In fact I know some people who don’t admit to using FCPX for fear of it damaging their reputations such is the antipathy that prevails in the UK. It needs its ‘Cold Mountain’ moment over here as us Brits are a conservative bunch resistant to and suspicious of change. And the majority of our editors and facilities houses have a vested interest in maintaining Avid as the market leader. So shall it remain I would imagine. I will probably have retired by the time people catch on to the fact that especially for features and long form docs, the logging and organisational tools in FCPX are second to none. Plus there are plenty of production personnel in the UK who don’t actually know very much about the ins and outs of editing tools. They have nobody to ask but the editors. I’m all for FCPX. Their view is “why change”? I’ve had conversations with people telling them how good FCPX is and I get strange looks and I can see them thinking “does he know what he is talking about?” because everything else they have ever heard is negative and that FCPX is not a “professional tool”.