John Heagy
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[Charles Haine] “Yes, please, audio pass through!”
I second that!!
It kind of defeats the whole handles setting, that facilitates small changes after the grade, if the renders don’t include audio. Any change would have to be meticulously made to the audio separately.
Please do no harm when it comes to rendering files!!
John Heagy
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Windows supports Thunderbolt better than OSX… priceless!
The fact that graphics cards are a no go in OSX via Thunderbolt gives me hope that a proper MacPro will be released.
John Heagy
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[Shane Ross] “If you need to keep things in sync, then 30fps to 24fps would be the better option. Conforming 25 to 24 would throw things off.”
I would suggest the opposite. 25 to 24 is such a slight slow down that you can do the same to the audio and not notice the pitch change. I can recommend Episode 6 for this but Compressor may do it as well.
John
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[Herb Sevush] “The fact that I am a Netflix subscriber and watch their streaming videos regularly and had never heard of this show says all you need to about the difficulties in reaching a large audience when going outside the regular distribution channels. “
I expect you will just prior to it’s first “airing”.
The fact that I knew about it and don’t subscribe would refute that. I heard about on an entertainment news site. Doing something for the first time is never easy. I not saying any of this stuff will happen tomorrow. The trend seems clear tho. Clearly there are powerful forces that will oppose it. Let the games begin!
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[Walter Soyka] “Netflix collects subscription revenue just like the cable providers do”
Correct, at $7.99 instead of ten times that for Sat or Cable. The scale required is trending down.
[Walter Soyka] “Understood — but my point was that content is still being produced to meet some technical standard.”
Agreed, what I should have said is one will no longer needs to meet all standards for universal delivery. One can shoot 30p or 25p or 24p and make it available universally. It means the eventual end of the 24p universal master. Another thing I can’t wait to happen. The slow aerial pan of Prague in the latest Mission Impossible movie made me ill, and 3D 24p action movies are unwatchable. Go Jackson and Cameron shooting 48fps!
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[Herb Sevush] “The demise of TV as we now know it is still many years away.”
True
I read that internet media is most popular as a replacement to traditional “TV broadcast” in Europe. I’d guess that has a lot to do with the fact that HD is not nearly as prevalent there as here in the US. In Europe, watching 720p on one’s computer trumps the quality of their widescreen SD.
[Walter Soyka] “If the original production studios (a.k.a. cable networks) can no longer collect subscription fees from cable providers, how will they finance production?”
Ask Netflix how they are paying for Lilyhammer.
Also, networks pay production companies, and then cable companies pay the networks. Netflix pays the production company… done. In the future the production company may not need Netfix. Distribution will become very granular. It will be much like how thousands of websites are killing the hundreds of magazines and newspapers.
Of course Comcast buying NBC/Universal is a hedge against this trend.
[Walter Soyka] “HDMI wraps a few video standards into a single wire protocol. It doesn’t obviate the need to correctly target one of those standards in the first place.”
In the case of one’s cable box yes, but not a MacMini or Laptop. I can play 30.00p out of my WDTV and probably 25 and 24p via HDMI to my 6 year old JVC. This is also why interlaced content will die out eventually. It looks like crap on a computer monitor. That can’t happen fast enough for me.
John Heagy
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[Oliver Peters] “I’m curious what you are doing.”
Just talked to my colleague… delete the original uid. I suspect that changing the path and leaving the uid means that FCPX will simply look for the uid in the event folder media and link to it. Without the uid FCPX has no choice but to respect the path.
I’m going to play around with this today and also try multiple FCPX seats accessing media on our Xsan.
John Heagy
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[Herb Sevush] “As for Broadcast, get back to me when a broadcaster goes under. There are more cable channels than ever producing more shows than ever for a growing audience. Doesn’t seem like a funeral to me.”
Depends on the definition of “Broadcaster”, If it’s over the air broadcast they are currently a drop in the bucket compared to cable and sat. Is Netflix a broadcaster, especially now with their own exclusive series coming out?
Content will always be created by “networks” or “studios” etc, the delivery is what will change. If the giant bundling deals are bypassed by this new delivery paradigm you will see cable networks die and the individual studios replace them delivering content ad hoc.
This new type of delivery will eventually make broadcast standards a thing of the past. People will be able to view PAL, NTSC, 24p etc… on standard agnostic devices. Any flat panel TV with an HDMI input is such a device today.
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[Scott Roberts] “What was their reason for dropping Shake?”
Shake is a 2D compositor. With Nuke and the 3D compositing trend, Shake would have needed a complete overhaul to compete and support 3D geometry. Apple just didn’t want to put in the effort. They did offer up the source code for $50,000. Too bad they didn’t do the same for FCP7.
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I’m hopeful as well, and see FCPX as a challenge. We are used to playing the Apple chess game. At the same time I am communicating with Apple and telling them what we need. It is hard to trust Apple after all the bone head decisions they made.
If they respond and show some commitment to professionals, then it may work out. They do need to step up and eat a bit of crow in my opinion.
John Heagy