[Michael Gissing]

[Bob Zellin] “Well – this is your interpretation, and it’s kind of silly. The business model always changes.”

Not silly at all. It explains why it took 50 years, not 20 years, after Toffler’s prediction to finally start happening. Of course business changes and new billionaires make it to the top and push things along but for decades there was incredible resistance. Rupert Murdoch is a classic example of old media fighting to slow the change while he learnt how to catch up to the new tech billionaires. Electric cars should have happened in the 90s. That was set back 20 years by old money and old industrial thinking.

I see nothing silly about bemoaning history. The delays in getting a viable internet and changing work place practices has cost the planet. And it was deliberate so obscenely rich people could make a bit more money.

[Michael Gissing]

I read Alvin Toffler’s book Future Shock back in the 1970’s and the follow up The Third Wave in the 1980s. Both books were touting the idea of technology enabling work from home or nearby work share centers. The big trouble with this vision is the social problem of not having the human contact and camaraderie that is missing in the WFH reality. But it’s not the only thing that stopped this utopian image from becoming reality.

Although the expectations were that technology would deliver the promise of high speed reliable communications long before present day, Toffler didn’t factor in that under our system of capitalist economy, technology that reduces travel, prevents commercial buildings being built and leased and reduced infrastructure spending is not favored by the rich billionaires. Seems like they preferred newspapers on paper delivered to the door and poor internet to reduce the erosion of their profitable subscription TV services. They wanted cars and roads and use of fossil fuels. Not as easy to make money with such tech as digging stuff up they didn’t own and selling it for a handsome profit.

So much as we may think working from home is great, the dual problem of shitty internet and lack of real human contact means that even with a temporary push due to a global pandemic, most people want to get back to the old unsustainable, profitable for the few ‘normal’.

[Michael Gissing]

You can setup Resolve to keep backups of your previous saves. You can find them by going to the project load page, right click on the project in your database list and the auto backups box pop up. You can load any of them. I have mine set to 5 backups.

[Michael Gissing]

Have you tried the export AAF to ProTools option in Resolve?

I both grade and do sound post but prefer the stand alone Fairlight. I have used the built in Fairlight but find it better using the original standalone as I have the controller and fader panel for that.

I’m not offering to take on your sound post as I’m fully committed to projects for months but there is a way to export your audio from Resolve. Go to the delivery page and use the ProTools preset. What system are you trying to export to?

[Michael Gissing]

[Brad Hurley] “….Final Cut Pro X xml v. 1.9 files. But there is no version 1.9 in the wild yet: if you look at the most current version of FCPX the xml version is 1.8.”

Annoying. The thing about interchange formats is constant changing just makes it complicated for all software developers to be able to cope with all the variants. Pr manages to use the old FCP7 XML. AAF keeps changing too which is why I usually prefer OMF for audio, because it now always works. Constant change of these formats undermines them. No doubt Resolve will cope but I feel for developers who have to write software to convert all the different interchange formats.

[Michael Gissing]

When you crop on the edit page it has feathering control just below the edge adjustments. The feathering is a global adjustment.

If you wish to do the crop/ feather on the color page, do not crop on the edit page. Just use the power window to crop and blur edges as the forum response indicates.

[Michael Gissing]

[Mark Raudonis] “Michael: You need to change “your internet world”.

Oh I wish I could. The problem is they can’t just splice me into the fibre and connect the house until the authorities decide I can connect that way.

[Michael Gissing]

[Jeremy Garchow] “The frame.io transfer app is about 25% faster than Dropbox without doing anything.”

I find WeTransfer similarly faster than Dropbox. One of the reasons I discourage people using Dropbox is that it is slow and more likely to interupt a download and not recover. Also unlike ftp you can’t resume a download.

[Michael Gissing]

I’d love to have better than 50 down & 20 up. The past week workers have been putting fibre into a pit in my front yard but I can’t connect to it. It’s only for new housing developments.

Multiple packet streams dates back to ftp. I used to run my own ftp server and it was the quickest way to do peer to peer between the editors drive and my drive. No waiting for up then down. I would still prefer that but so many editors complained they couldn’t use drag & drop at their end and they didn’t want to install open source freeware software to do ftp. The lazy easy approach now takes twice as long and uploads often have expiry dates. Backward step.

[Michael Gissing]

[Oliver Peters] “The idea with the camera files in the cloud is it assumes that the colorist doesn’t have the high-res files in the first place. His presentation assumes that’s at the editor’s site in a different location.”

Yes. That is usually the case. However the effort to upload to the cloud compared with cloning a disk and posting it is still a major issue. I just don’t have the internet bandwidth to upload or download camera originals. I get that you only uploaded/download selects. But it still is a race that a courier or postal system is likely to beat in my internet world. Over time, sure that equation will change.