Kim Krause
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craig, why are you and i the only visionaries on these forums. i really think most people are so thick they can’t see the writing on the wall. by the sound of it they all want to continue working on clunky old towers loaded with cards for this and that, working with software that hasn’t changed in years except for small upgrades in suites that only get rebuilt once every 5 years. i really don’t understand the resistance to change. it’s like that all want to keep on driving old gas guzzling hot rods from the 60’s in the middle of a fuel shortage. new machines make the need for all that extra hardware obsolete. if software is optimized to use the hardware that exist in iMacs and mac minis and aware i say it “iPads”, then we won’t need all that extra crap. already the latest top end mini runs circles around the towers of just 3 years ago…the same old towers that most of the old guard are still using, filled up and maxed out with all new guts to get them up to speed! maybe its a left brain/right brain thing but i cant help but think the dinosaurs used the same type of logic! i can see the hate mail…denial is the first symptom of unwillingness to adapt!
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you are just thick…you won’t need those cards in a computer with advanced internal architecture. if everything is built in it makes all the extra crap irrelevant. you can link thunderbolt drives together and have tons of storage. 3 meters is quite far away for most of us. that would easily be in another room at my place…much like your current drives are except just not as far away. and i would love to know how you gonna get a bunch of pcs for free. last time i checked hp were charging money for their machines….then you gotta stuff all that old crap into them to make them work….are you not listening to yourself?
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i think you missing the point….by simplifying we can get of all that crap and those stupid cards and extra shit you have to buy…which by the way you still gonna need on a p.c. so whats the point of changing to p.c. ? you’re gonna end up with exactly the same crap. streamlining is the future and a mac mini or 2 and thunderbolt displays are an awesome combo. unlimited hi speed storage (unless you prefer to access media off the cloud) toss in an iPad 3 for controlling the whole thing and you are looking at the suite of the future. i was reading in a newspaper article today about all the traditional jobs being lost in hollywood, especially the film side….. the writing is on the wall and it says ” get ready for the future”
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yup…and about time to…i’ve been saying for awhile that a mac mini server with an iPad is pointing the way to how we are gonna be working in the not too distant future and i for one can’t wait. who needs the big old towers and damn fans and graphics cards and all the other crap when a simpler way is available. good riddance to the expense and hello new streamlined workflow!
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most post houses aren’t keen to upgrade in this day and age. if they have something that works they continue with it till the wheels drop off. it’s all about keeping costs down. what you will see however is newer boutique facilitates buy into resolve because it is cost effective and they don’t have to “sell” (convince clients) that the old stuff is still fine for most work. i once had a client tell me that a post house told him he couldn’t get professional results on color and that it was just a toy. then he got a quote for a job from them and it didn’t really matter how un-professional color was or not, he only had so much money for grading. in the end he got a very professional product which passed q.c. for a very low price by using color. now the same thing is happening with resolve. if you have an older suite you have to keep charging the same rate as you have been and then you have to justify why you can offer the resolve for so much cheaper and soon you’ll find that the old suite will sit empty….it’s happening everywhere!
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my machine is the mid 2010 with the 5670…i only found out by checking the specs. it wasn’t a deliberate decision as i just walked into the shop and said i wanted an iMac with 4gigs of ram and the fastest cpu at the time. lucky indeed! glad to here that 8.1 works for you. i’m still sitting on the fence with resolve. there are so many things that i think still need work. i keep join back to color for speed and compatibility. its just so quick and easy for me. send to color, grade, render, send back to fcp..super simple.
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people here always misunderstand me. i think there is too much sensitivity and political correctness. often i just speak from the heart and not the head so it may come out sounding rude or unrefined but thats just me. i always look for the essence of what is being said as opposed to what is written. but definitely i think most folks here judge a little too quickly. did i say that right .hope i haven’t offended anyone…oh crap of course i hope i’ve offended someone. how else would i cause a reaction….hahaha
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herb, i hope you feel all cozy in your comfy studio with all that equipment but you are missing the whole point. in the past you needed the support of a complete post house (tape machines, cmx editing consoles, routing switcher, ado efx box of some kind…plus a few tape operators and a technician with a bunch of tools in case something went wrong…all costing hundreds of thousands of dollars….then all these nle (fcp.avid,premier,etc)systems popped up with the ability to edit on a laptop anywhere you happened to be. now you perform the same basic functions with next to no money in much higher quality sitting in your kitchen with your morning coffee…why can’t you see the advantage in this? it’s called evolution and you can embrace the change or sit back in your tower and wonder how that latest blockbuster film was done in someones kitchen using an iPhone and a macbook air or yes even an iPad….yes i’m aware of the memory limitations of an iPad but connect one wirelessly to a server holding all your media and off you go! i can still remember having to place physical strips of film shots in a bin using a moviola and the purists at that time believed that was the only way to really edit…where are they now…no look around and see where you can buy a film camera? bet you would have a hard time because in the next few years kodak won’t even be making film any more!. change, evolve and move ahead!
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finally i have been acknowledged…..i made a mention about using the hd functions of an iPhone for shooting some basic things a while ago and i got the nasty mostly negative replies from people telling me it wasn’t professional..the same people that are threatened by change in the industry. why can’t people just accept that change is good and just adapt…the old ways are going out the door faster than you can think about it. check out the death of film newsletter from c.c. a few weeks back. i had been saying there same thing for 3 years already but nobody would agree with me. no maybe some of those old farts will start to think of fcpx on a mac mini as a real editing system with an iPad controlling everything ….it’s closer than you think, especially in light of the fact that apple is slowly moving away from towers and formerly high end computers…..the latest iPad i s way more powerful than the best laptop of 6 years ago and the latest laptops blow away any desktop from just 2 years back…….yeah!
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brilliant…just by thinking about a different way to do something you have come up with such a simple solution…would be cool to see you import and avid project and send it to fcp or take a final cut project, send to resolve and export an avid project! that would be very neat!