Mike Jeffs
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depending on your price range you may look and see if Roland has anything, you may also look at Blackmagics new switcher line up the ATEM Television Studio might be something that would for for you as well.
If you have a bigger budget i would look at getting a Tricaster instead. it is a all in one switcher CG tape playback and streaming unit. for me this is the best bang for the buck for small productions
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
I did google it first for myself but thanks for the help 🙂 anyway i did install browswer but it doesn’t view edited exported MXFs (atleast as far as i can tell) i will look at calibrated
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
THATS IT it was the DOF setting on the Camera Layer. ARRRGGGGG thank you all for you help
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
I did make sure motion blur was turned off and also OpenGL is turned off
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
So do you think they used magisto to edit their own Promo Video ???
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
[Jeremy Garchow] “So, surely you must know from using it, that there’s an intangible quickness to X. .”
I would say that when I first intially started testing FCPX in june, yes I thought there was something there, but over time as I had started to test the other NLEs, thats when I notice they are all Fast just in different workflows, which is my whole complaint/question. What do people mean when they say “fast”? It seems that in your case I’m guessing that this is what you mean by fast? but to someone else this fast isn’t relevent
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
[tony west] “What will be interesting to me are students that come to your University in the future who have already learned X at home and never used Avid.”
In some ways I actually think that the radical departure that FCPX incorporates will end up being a better thing. Currently we have to take a majority of time “Unlearning” many bad habits, or less effect techniques that students have acquired by self-learning FCP classic. All of my current studetns are excited to start learning Avid and using it here in our facility.
[tony west] “A little off topic but how much does BYU cost a semester these days?”
current tution per semester is $1700, with the average cost of living (room and board, books, food ect.) is about $6000 a semester. Now this is the Idaho campus the other ones are different we have the same name but are different schools 🙂
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
are you wanting to capture it as a editble file to be used in a something like final cut? are you coming directly off a camera? are you SD or HD? How professional of quailty are you wanting? $120 won’t get you very much.
Also Firewire is a dying format when it come to capture, which is why i ask are you coming directly off of a camera.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
[Jeremy Garchow] “Mike-
Have you used FCPX much?”
Yes quite a bit we got it day one and started evaluating its strengthens and current weaknesses, using it on test projects and such. We determined that FCPx did not suit the universities needs (at this time). During that same time we evaluated Adobe and Avid. It was determined that Avid was best suited for us to sink are reasource into. This was due to current functionality, hardware compatibility, Price ($300 a seat for education), and Industry Prestige.
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho -
What i’m getting at is that really all current new NLEs are fast when it come to certain workflows. So when people try and sell that FCPX is faster I want to know excatly what faster are they talking about.
When you look at it they all have major points when it some to speed.
1)Get your footage in to the NLE quickly without transcoding. FCPX has background transcoding, Avid has AMA, and Adobe is codec agnostic.
2) Render Time is shorter. FCPX has background rendering (sorta of), Avid doesn’t need to render for most effects (even stacked ones) Adobe has Cuda accelaration.
3) Sift though footage to find what you want. FCPX has the keyword and database metadata searching. Avid has Phrasefind, Script Sync and search for keywords. Adobe I don’t know but I’m sure it has something.
6) Arange a sequence on a timeline quicker. FCPX has magnitic timeline (helps some I guess) and skimmer. Avid has its Trim mode and multicam. Adobe has a more traditional FCP-like editing.
Again not one of the Major NLEs corner the market when it comes to being “fast” some do better in one aspect while others shine in another. so i was curious as to when people us the term its fast what workflows do they mean.
Maybe this is all a jumble but it make sense in my head, if it doesn’t in anyone elses well just Ignore my ranting 🙂
Mike Jeffs
Video Coordinator
BYU-Idaho