Jim Giberti
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[Oliver Peters] “?? Someone who mumbles while doing auto body work? 😉
“Sorry, it’s a code expression at my shop for excuse making – it’s a quote from the film “Idiocracy”.
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[Oliver Peters] ” It far too easily gets sluggish when faced with the need for responsiveness, precision or complexity.”
Yeah, but who needs those things when Brondo has electrolytes (sorry if that was totally obscure.)
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[Oliver Peters] “Damn, you must like dentistry without novocaine as well. 😉
“If nothing else, I am persistent Oliver.
I’m really hoping that our baptism by fire has helped us to work sanely and stably in X going forward.
I’m spending a lot of time experimenting with what makes this thing spin as few balls and respond as well as possible until they deliver a “performance update”.This will be a meticulously maintained process…not that we were drunk and sloppy the last time around.
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[Jason Brown] “Link? I’m interested…
“Around 2:50 -3:30 here – https://library.creativecow.net/articles/neil_andy/FCPX-Storylines-1/video-tutorial
Nothing earth shattering, but I do a lot of audio work from multiple actor takes and long clip, doc interviews.
Trying to cut that stuff in the X timeline is awkward but this little technique is great for VO tracks and long synched audio/video clips. Nice, fast way to assemble a quick selex and edit of either.
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[Steve Connor] “A lower cost C300 would be good, Canon are promising an announcement about something at the show.”
I’m still betting on a DSLR form factor with an XF, 50mbps codec, full sensor and EF mount.
I’ll take two.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I’d like to see what’s going on in the world of LED lighting. Not necessarily frenels, but color temp adjustable panels for key/fill. “
Likewise Jeremy.
Aside from Kinos, we’ve evolved to a mostly LED setup for location work.
I’ve invested a bunch in panels and am most interested in fresnels at this point. I’m about to try a couple of Solas but I’d like to see what’s shown at NAB. -
[Simon Ubsdell] “I don’t imagine that many people need to round-trip with AAF but for those who do it’s worth being aware of this issue.”
Yeah, this hardly a make or break PP issue.
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[Bob Woodhead] “My fingers are SO crossed hoping for an Adobe CS6 PPro home run….
“Man, there are a lot of crossed fingers out there.
Adobe finds itself in a rare moment in an industry like this – and it was a virtual gift from the visionaries at Apple.
I really hope they get all Latin and carpe diem.
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[Dennis Radeke] “Anyway, I think the real point is what Simon said here – that Adobe is talking with customers and acknowledging where there can be a problem. You will not get that typically from most other vendors and certainly that hasn’t been the case with Cupertino in quite a while.”
OK, this is the point where I have to tell you what I didn’t want to get into re my Apple conversation.
It went something like this:
Apple – We need a $99.99 to open a case file…you should leave feedback.
Me – “look I’m not saying I’m important and certainly not more important than anyone else, but I have been one of the professional and vocal advocates of FCPX online…no I’m not going to pay you $100 dollars to share my bad experiences with your program…I’m not some kid asking how to plug in my iPad…really, I’m not going to pay you to help you beta your software…does Apple really want experienced users turning their backs on software they previously supported and writing about it ?…
In fairness, the guy was nice to talk to and simply following Apple protocol, and during a very long conversation did share a good deal, in a sort of “okay I know you’re not going to pay us anything out of principle, and I do understand your plight and position”, way.
I did point out the huge gap between the way Adobe dealt with the professional community and how Apple, well didn’t. In this era, not communicating simply leaves that messaging up to others on the interwebs – that’s stupid and counter-intuitive and counter-productive.
Unless you’re Apple who, while redefining editing, have also redefined professional communication.
They’ve even assigned it a value – 0
All I can say is thank you to Adobe for actually treating us like we try and treat each other – with professional respect.
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[Carsten Orlt] “Tom was only trying to point out that we have been here before.
Jim I don’t know with what version of Final Cut legacy you started using it, but I started with version 1 and I remember corrupted sequences or project and lots of problems.
We as a community are eternally grateful that you post your experiences because it tells the rest of us where the pitfalls are and how to possible avoid a similar disaster you went through. It is also understandable that you are still p***** of and say things like horrible code etc. Fair enough.”
Tom is great and I certainly didn’t mean to suggest otherwise.
We started at the beginning with FCP1.0 and moved from our Media 100 systems pretty much immediately.
I never remember losing a project to corruption like this.
That said, I do think I’m understanding the underlying problems with the model and how to work within them while waiting for Apple to address them (and hopefully expanding it’s editing capabilities with a simple track grid and audio mixing).This could be a great program, but the fact that it operates worse in it’s newest release shows that they’ve got some real work to do.