Mark Raudonis
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Andrew,
What a great video! Thanks for sharing.
This video has to be the absolute best explanation of why we’ve all been arguing about FCP-X since it’s debut years ago. The “backwards steering” bicycle experiment proves that when we’re hardwired to perform something it’s VERY difficult to change that. I’d take it a step further and ask the question, is a “backwards steering bike” a BETTER bicycle? I don’t see any proof of that. Different, yes. Better… the experimenter never says. THAT’S what counts for most people. If you can show me that it’s worth relearning all of my motor skills, then I’ll do it. If at the end of the day,. all I’m doing is batting left handed instead of righty, then what’s the point.
Oh, and as for Bill… he doesn’t ride a bike. That’s so ’80’s (1880!) He rides a hover skateboard like Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future!
Mark
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“empty milk bottle”…. how about a “cow pie”?
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David,
Thanks for sharing! It’s great to see such a historical “snapshot” of NLE development.
Couple of observations: TRACKS! You had tracks! Thereby proving a track based system is how God meant an NLE to be!
I laughed at the concerted effort to try to explain how different this “MPS” was from traditional editing systems. We really have come a long, long way.
This video belongs in the NLE museum of history … right up there with the Wright bros first airplane.
Mark
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Aindreas,
I can’t speak for my colleagues on the panel that night, but I believe that there will NOT be ONE NLE to rule them all. Rather, I see a segmented market future with MANY different NLE’s tuned to a particular kind of workflow or project. Here on the COW, and in this forum particularly, the tendency is to claim victory for one flag or the other. In my opinion, that’s a bit myopic. After attending this year’s NAB, I’m further convinced that the notion of “One NLE is best” will NOT be the case. As one NLE rises, so falls another. And so on. And so on. You’re going to see even more of that in the coming years. As evidence I point to the fact that Resolve (as an editor) wasn’t really in the discussion last year. This year… everyone’s talking about it.
Mark
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Another vote for HPA.
All the news from NAB with out all the noise!
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My favorite line of the day from Mr. Cioni: “Don’t settle for a “default future”!
That’s good advice for everything in life… not just post production.
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[Bret Williams] “Just found it funny that my wife did it as old school as possible and was done editing before I was done logging!”
Bret,
You just made a very important observation: “Logging metadata” is NOT editing!
I work with a lot of young assistant editors that seem OVERLY focused on project organization, logging, and metadata. I get it. Their job is to organize the project (AVID term here… sorry!). But, I always point out to them NOT to lose sight of the end goal… which is to EDIT the show.
I say the same thing to my friends in the finance department when talking about budgets. Sure, budgets are important, but people don’t WATCH budgets… they watch TV shows, movies, videos.
So, while it’s fun to compare metadata capabilities between NLEs, keep in mind that organizing your media is NOT editing. I’d suggest “just enough” organization to help find stuff, and then focus on the show.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Maybe whatever ‘under the hood’ codec differences there are between Sony’s XDCAM HD and Canon’s 50Mbps codec was the source of the problem?
“Andrew,
It’s NOT the resolution that makes project size balloon up, but the number of sequences, edits, FX, etc.
Resolution may affect playback if you have insufficient bandwidth (slow drives), but size of project has more to do with number of bins, multicam, size of sequence etc. By the time FCP 7 arrived, the project size issues were pretty much under control. We would regularly edit 60-90 minute shows referencing thousands of hours of shared storage. We DID work at off-line resolution for bandwidth reasons, but those same shows eventually were conformed, at played out to tape (remember tape?) at full HD resolution (typically proves 422).
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[Andrew Kimery] “editing large amounts XDCAM HD footage natively (about 250 shoot hours, almost all of it 2 camera)”
Andrew, we used to edit ENORMOUS amounts of XDCAM footage (Like THOUSANDS of hours) with multiple cameras on FCP 7 with NO stability issues. No sure what your problem is, but it is entirely possible to
have a stable workflow with FCP 7.Of course when FCP-X came out we totally bailed on FCP and moved to Avid… but that’s another story for another time and place.
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If you can wait a few years, looks like Elon Musk might have a plan: