[Josiah Graves]

Hey, I’ve been looking to do a similar sort of thing but I want to be able to highlight individual countries. I found an after effects project that has exactly what I’d like and I was wondering if anyone knew of a similar element for motion?

https://videohive.net/item/real-world-map-country-highlighter/3924359?sso?WT.ac=search_item&WT.seg_1=search_item&WT.z_author=caneration

[Josiah Graves]

Bill, do you operate under an LLC or some other entity? Since you said you’ve been doing this about 30 years I was just wondering which route you took and why.

[Josiah Graves]

Good advice, to be honest I’ve found myself looking less and less at cameras altogether and thinking of saving that wad of cash and putting it into a miller, or a sachtler. Thinking there is that a solid tripod will outlast any camera on the market and even lots of the glass, plus it doesn’t matter what camera I”m using, i’ll always need a tripod.

[Josiah Graves]

I have considered the GH2/GH3 route and to be honest I would prefer the GH3 over an NEX 7 for example, but the thing that unnerves me is that panasonic seems to top out with the AF100 using the 4/3 mount. Sony’s E-mount on the other hand is used all the way through the nex, vg, and fs lines making it really easy to work at just about any price level with the same set of glass.

[Josiah Graves]

Thanks, you guys have hit on a lot of things I’ve considered too, I think if I can narrow down the question it would be which lens mount would you recommend starting from scratch? New cameras are showing up faster than popcorn and are making it hard to decide on a route based on camera specs. I’m specifically looking for which systems you think would be most effective to start with long term? For example the point was made, don’t get EF-S glass because it won’t work later down the road.

[Josiah Graves]

Thanks for the article. This is what I gather from everything you guys and the articles have said:

1. Avid is rock solid provided you are prepared to follow the very specific (and traditional) Avid workflow without deviation.
2. Premiere has the most open front end workflow but needs to work on media management and back end finishing issues.
3. FCPX is somewhat revolutionary with a high priority on metadata and ease of use but is lacking in many of the powerful and detailed tools that are present in other NLE’s.

Sound like a good summary?

[Josiah Graves]

Thanks, I’ll take a look at it.

[Craig Seeman] “Although I hear the rendering on output can be hell.
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I guess you pay for it on one side or the other. I’m downloading the trial for FCPX right now. I’ll try it out, see how it goes. Hopefully I can get my hands on some adobe stuff and compare. I think the integration within the Adobe suite is the best thing going for it.

[Josiah Graves]

At the moment, things seem to be moving towards corporate, or going into business myself. The work I have done is mostly for non-profit organizations doing work internationally. So mostly promo/doc kind of stuff. I really enjoy it and would love to take it further but of course in today’s job market you have to be prepared for anything.

[Josiah Graves]

Thanks for all the quick responses. And yes, that was the theory behind purchasing Avid. I really don’t enjoy working with it but it is the standard in many places and I figured it would be worth my time to learn how to use it. As far as FC taking a step backwards, that was another big incentive for me to go with Avid. X actually debuted right before I made my purchase and it was a significant factor. I really want to see how CS6 stands up, Adobe seems to have made some huge steps in the latest release, and the idea of editing native just sounds heavenly.

Those sites you mentioned about the lack of features, could post some of those links?

[Josiah Graves]

Thanks for the note. On a larger scale, do you think Apple will fundamentally influence the way media is handled? Working with Avid I get the impression that is an archaic beast of the past which still has its head buried in a pile of film reals. For those who work with audio I think its the equivalent of Pro Tools, which is essentially a digital version of an analog mixer based recording system. It just completely counterintuitive in an all digital environment.