Matt Callac
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “you never did that?”
No, kinda jealous I didn’t grow up cutting in the 80’s.
-mattyc
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “For those who pay their bills with it, who have trained competitively for years to gain full proficiency at it, editing is their profession.”
Quick OT “competitive edit training”. I have images in my head of editors wearing sweat bands gearing up for awesome one on one editing competitions.
Lets say I worked in Hollywood for years cutting films. No doubt i’m a professional editor. I got sick of the hollywood system, so I quit and went into business for myself cutting commercials. Am I still a pro? Now I get tired of dealing with large corporations and editing by committee. Then I change my focus again and decide to only do Local advertising for mom and pop type shots? Am I still a pro? Then I realize mom and pop are just as nit-picky as hollywood producers and corporate bureaucracies. Now I decide to only do weddings. Am I still pro?
There are different subsets of the editing community and each one has different workflows and different needs. Wedding videography is not necessarily less “professional.” Is there less technical know-how and less need for knowlege of “professional video formats” than someone doing commercials, or documentaries…Absolutely. But the people doing that type of work still consider themselves professionals and are still pro by those with more liberal understandings of the word pro.
-mattyc
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[Gary Hazen] “Monty Python and the Holy FCPX
Inglorious Editors
2011: An Apple Odyssey
Back to the Future
Toy Story”
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
American History FCPX
3 Editors and a Baby
Tombstone
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “ah gimme a break. A professional is a professional and an amateur is an amateur. there are amateur actors, golfers, tennis players, photographers – I’m three of those four things myself, but for people who are amateur at many things, they will tend to be professional at one thing – the thing that puts bread on their table.”
Take this for example. I’m a skateboarder. I’m not a professional, so YOU might call me an amateur skateboarder, but I would not agree with that as a terminology because to me the term amateur means someone who is making a living skateboarding, but has not been deemed Pro by the company that pays him. So there are meanings for words but everyone has different meanings for those words.
Have a religious discussion with someone who has a faith different from your own and then tell me that words only have one meaning.
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Thanks, Tom.
I’ll most surely be purchasing that if/when i start doing real work in FCPX.
-mattyc
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[Aindreas Gallagher] ” there are exceptions – simon ubsdell for instance – he says a pretty wide variety of sane things.”
Very true. I’d put Walter Soyka and even Bill Davis in that category too, as well as some others.
-mattyc
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FCPX Echo Chamber. Seems like the same voices saying the same things over and over. And the people saying all the things seem unable to see the validity of any point but their own.
-mattyc
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[Aindreas Gallagher] ” oh would you ever stop – the word professional has meaning.”
All words do have a meaning. The meaning the user (of the words) has often is not the same as the meaning the receiver (listener/reader) has for those very same words.
-mattyc
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[Andrew Richards] “My chief concern is that a serious workstation will accumulate a lot of Events and Projects and having the system always showing them all the time seems like it could eventually overwhelm the application.”
I dont’ think it’ll overwhelm the the application itself. it seems to be just reading from a database. Think about the file browser in motion. it’s just a GUI display of your current drives/folder structures. The event’s library is not that much different, only it’s just everything that’s in the FCP events folders on your drives. It’s that plus the metadata database you create for each event. It’s not taking much power to drive that. What I more worry about is it overwhelming the user. Think about once you’ve have literally hundreds of events on it. It’s gonig to be cumbersome to navigate through that.
-mattyc
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[Jason Diebler] “hurry up and get your Gapple domain name rights now!”
I like Goopple a little better.
-mattyc