Jim Giberti
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[Chris Harlan] “[Craig Seeman] “Only tainted if you’re looking for objectivity. ”
I think this is my single favorite quote of the year so far.”
Yeah that objectivity thing is so overrated Chris.
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[Frank Gothmann] “Not with 10.0.4. Don’t have it. The last version I tried was the 10.0.3 trial and it couldn’t handle it. There is also no way to play those files back under OSX apart from some under-the-rader open source tools that rely on ffmpeg.
Let me know if it works. I’d be pleasantly surprised if it does.”It does Frank, in 1.0.3. I just finished a pretty detailed short using all h.264 directly in the timeline and it edited flawlessly.
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[Michael Gissing] ” Apple have their reasons and methodologies which we can argue about but hardly influence.”
Never doubt the power to influence.
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[David Lawrence] “Jim, I think the Cliffs notes summary would be:
From the the editor’s POV, (and I would extend this to *all* pro editors, not just Hollywood pros), any potential upside to trusting Apple right now is far outweighed by the risk. On the other hand, distrusting Apple has only upside, at least until Apple *demonstrates* they can be truste”
Thanks David, see I just needed a speed reader .
I am more than happy to give Apple my distrust.
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[Bret Williams] “I’d really really really like to know how it is fast.”
My post was specifically about the limited but fast secondaries in the color board. It was hardly a ringing endorsement kind of a post .
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “my thing is: I basically agree that, having drifted out of telly into any old thing, this kind of broader creative interflow is, I think, likely to be rather big going forward: am I mad in thinking that, for a large sector, if PPro proves an easy stable swallow, a lot of us are quite likely to find ourselves walking into Adobe Premiere town?”
When the dust settles and we look back in retrospect, I think we’ll see that Apple did (inadvertently) a really good thing for this part of creative world.
They gave “David” a chance to get a slingshot and rock. Whether Apple responds/recalibrates in a way that makes FCP the real deal or Adobe comes to the rescue of the professional community, Apple has set up some genuinely high drama in a usually stable, geeky corner of the world.
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I think most of this comes down to the simple differentiation – Is yours a dedicated editing/finishing company or a creative firm that has edit suites.
Mine is the latter, and as the creative director that moves between TV spots, narrative and doc work, I’m not interested in multiple tools. I just need the platform I can continue to build our creative around as we did with FCP for 10 years and Media100 before that.
As I meet and talk with other pros outside the editing metros it seems that I’m hardly unique as a writer director who also knows how to design and finish film and audio. We have enough tools that we need to maintain our skills with already. This demographic is definitely interested in one platform going forward…it is a crossroads thing for a lot of us.
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Is there a cliff notes version of this post?
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Game over?
This is a rudimentary implementation of a good idea.
When Apple allows keyframing, bezier masks, independent presets, and grade comparison within the window then it will begin catch up to professional grading.
It’s nice, it’s fast, I use it all the time, it’s very limited compared to what it should be in 2012.
It’s been there since the program was introduced.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Precisely! Unlike some of our other debaters here, you exhibit true empathy and understanding Jim, and that’s a beautiful thing. Some of the others simply refuse to acknowledge anyone’s else’s feelings, which clearly run deep for many users.”
I have my moments David.
I was just thinking of you, as a Vermontophile…just finished a short piece on the region.