Kim Krause
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i have to throw in my 2 cents. when color was free with FCP, it didn’t kill the color correction industry. it simply made the tools for grading more affordable and more accessible. in fact in some cases it created new venues of income. i was able to break away from the big old bloated post houses and actually carve myself a nice little niche in the industry offering grading services to a group of clients who were maybe not able to afford the luxury of grading at the more expensive post houses. of course there is always a down side and as anyone has seen in the last few years, more and more people have now hung out the “colorist services” sign on their front door. this has caused a huge drop in the price of services and forced many people out of business. in my case it had the added effect of having to work twice as hard for half as much as i now compete with the film students who ran color on a laptop and called themselves colorists. as the old adage states “you can give 100 monkeys typewriters and maybe one will come up with a brilliant novel” or something like that. yes new technology does open up the door to more users and that makes for more competition but in the end it is the talent that wins out. now that davinci resolve lite is free i will probably see an even bigger decline in customers walking through my door, but that’s life. i for one am grateful not be at the mercy of the big boys post houses. one of the advantages of using color was that all my clients had it installed on their system. this made for an amazing workflow. clients would drop off the drive, i would grade then just give them back the color project. they would then render themselves and i could get on with doing other jobs. and if a change need to be done it was also very easy to update files and send changes or even in some cases go to that client and make any changes because we were all running the same software. no with davinci resolve lite being free, i am sure every editor will download it and it just makes the whole process even easier. in fact for me i can now easily do avid and premiere and fcp jobs on the equipment i already own. the old days of huge budgets are long gone and i have had to adapt. in the end talent wins over all else. it’s called evolution and it happens in every aspect of our lives. the magic has been exposed….
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actually i always render at night. and when i think about time it’s not much different than the old days of tape to tape. i would always have to wait for a record machine anyway and by the time the tape op has everything ready and patched in it would still take 15 minutes then you would have to play it out. in that case a 5 minute clip would take 20 minutes anyway so idont see any time advantage. even in your example if you could render in real time you still have to export it to fcp or avid then make a quicktime master then output that to tape if needed….how long do you think that takes?
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not editing. i’m grading a series for nat geo…using iPad as a controller for color….
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just waiting to finish off this series next month so i can sell the old system and the mini will be on the way with lots of memory ..i can live without the dvd so i’m gonna pack in 2 hard drives instead. along with the new thunderbolt display and i’ll be off and running. already using the iPad as a controller for color and with splash top it can even become a remote for other apps.
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but i’m only talking about your average joe or jane editor who is working on series and conforming and not the 3d super high res 4k file pushers. a very large percentage of what is done in the industry as far as editing is concerned can be done on fairly modest systems. most boutique shops that provide offline services (and are now forced into online as well, but thats a different story) and almost all television news stations and video amateurs downloading stuff on you tube don’t need a huge powerful tower with cards for this and that. they just need to get video into their machine, make it all look good and spit it out. obviously i would never even consider trying to cut a feature film or do 3d compositing on an imac or mini just now. there will always be a market for high end machines that perform amazingly fast. thats a small percentage of the actual people using computers for editing. but just wait a few more years. most people i know are still using machines that are 2 years old or more…myself included. but when it comes time to trade in my old mac pro, it won’t be with another one. i already know that my next machine will be a mac mini server connected to a hi end iMac with a second display and an iPad for a controller. and i’ll be doing it by 2012. best part is it will cost me less than my current system and be way more powerful….
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thats for sure…i can say with great certainty that the mac pro in its current form will no longer exist. some of its technology is already being pushed into other machines and it will become obsolete in the next 18 months. don’t believe me? save this email and wait! my crystal ball is seldom wrong…
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i have that effect on people…i always get into arguments with most of them. funny thing is, i am usually proven right and your comments serve to confirm what i’m saying…thanks for being open minded enough to see the point!
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pointless? the whole point is to make people think and get them out of their lazy ass comfort zones. and i’d love to know what words i’ve twisted around…maybe i read things differently and respond in the manner i do because of that but it is no way meant to twist as you imply. i simply read the words, interpret the meaning then respond. in fact quite often i am the one being interpreted incorrectly or misquoted…thats where superior logic comes in…hmmm maybe i should be spock and craig can be kirk! fascinating! burp, fart…oops sorry i was just releasing some gas form this forum!
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i prefer to think of the starship enterprise…to boldly go……he can be spock and i’ll be kirk!
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so what you’re really saying is their greed and poor management are the real problem. they tried to take advantage of a situation and karma is now biting them in the ass…it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if you sell your product for too cheap then you won’t make any money no matter how many units you ship. i believe the same thing happened in the us automotive market years ago and forced the top 3 into the brink of foreclosure.