Michael Phillips
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Open the consoles and type:
alldrives
and hit return to see of MC can now see that drive.
Michael
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I’ve seen interesting ones in NY but center more around advertising, interactive, and video as a part of that landscape. Cine Gear does have a NY version and is in September this year:
https://www.cinegearexpo.com/287/DC has Government Expo, etc.
Michael
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Great to know, thanks! Would be nice to have that as a setting in the app itself.
Michael
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I could see that happening – they do love their hardware strategy in context of the free (and not free) software solutions and makes sense as an extension to their hardware I/O. They have color science already in house. Price wise it would compete with HP Dreamcolor whose color science was from X-Rite.
Another camera? Price drop on exiting cameras? Maybe. Another acquisition? Perhaps but a monitor company. Maybe buy an audio software company, but they don’t really do much in audio hardware unrelated to video, but would complement a suite of editing/color and VFX/graphics compositing. Maybe start adding GPU to their I/O?
Who knows. Always an interesting time of year.
Michael
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I spent a lot of time with editors and directors during the film editing to NLE editing back in the early 90’s. Lot so interesting reasons as to the reluctance, hesitation, as well as a whole lot of upside. I had a great one on one lunch with Walter Murch, and we talked about our editing styles – he mentioned cutting without sound and I mentioned cutting without picture (for initial assembly in the timeline) and it was because my films had to real budget for ADR whereas he did. So we approach the film with the challenges and freedom we have access to. We had a discussion about his dislike for clicking anywhere on a clip and being there, rather than “going” there where you saw every frame, albeit quite quickly. He said you might notice something better for the cut you’re trying to do, or for another part of the scene to use later. And I agree that there is a fundamental difference between search and discovery. I told him I could have the software not allow that and they he would have to scroll, or JKL quickly to any frame. He thought about it for about a minute and he said – “nah – don’t do that.” In the end, a lot of these things come down to self discipline. Spielberg did edit Tintin digitally (had to)… and he quite liked the experience.
Michael
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And one more thought on that. I always get them after I hit “send”. Here are Adam Wilt’s detailed notes for the 5 days of this year’s HPA Retreat. It will give you a very good sense of what goes on there:
https://www.provideocoalition.com/hpa-tech-retreat-2015-day-1
Michael
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Also. HPA is a pretty good one as well. It has it hit and miss years, but overall the quality of the panels, and technology room is very high. One of the rules of the tech demo room is that it can’t be anything that is already shipping. It has to have some new component to it. And seeing as it is in Feb, you sort of get a NAB preview in a much smaller environment where you have time to talk to vendors, not to mention the networking aspect of the attendees. I have done several of them, and they have been worth it. And who in Boston at the beginning of February does not want to spend a week in Palm Springs?
Michael
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I’ve had Cinegear on my list to attend, but have yet to go. Only for the reason that post is subject to what is happening in camera and audio technology and with some parts of post moving closer to production anyway, it’s an interesting one. At least in the world I play in.
Michael
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I wrote a blog last year that repurposed the ASC CDL fields since they can be added to an EDL to track things like stock footage:
https://24p.com/wordpress/?p=62
Michael
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There was a Macbook Air qualified a while back. Here is the latest compatibility guide:
https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/compatibility/en422411Michael