Mitch Ives
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[TImothy Auld] “I will work with anyone without regard to their race, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other nonsense that people will use to marginalize some person or group they don’t happen to agree with. Jeez, I though we settled all this stuff in the late sixties”
That’s a perfectly fair choice Timothy. I think it’s one that a lot of us have made. Choice being the key word here. You’ve made yours and I think everyone will agree that it should be respected. My question is… should we allow others their right to choice as well… or should we have your choice or somebody else’s choice forced on them? That’s the issue here.
It’s the idea I’m supporting, not any particular legislation. I grew up seeing signs in every business that said “we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone”. That right is now effectively gone. It’s a misnomer to assume that those signs were there to keep minorities out. They were designed to allow the business owner to provide a positive environment for their customers. People that were violent, smelled bad, used bad language, etc. could all be asked to leave.
I’ve travelled extensively and I’ve been in places where it was made quite clear that I, as a white male, was not welcome there. Places like “little Korea” in San Diego… and in some black communities. While I didn’t agree with them, I respected their right to make those decisions with regard to their business. I simply voted with my dollars and went somewhere else. At no point in time did I ever consider filing a Civil Rights lawsuit.
People ar too thin skinned these days, and the country is worse off for it…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “Do you know where they are getting these numbers from?
I thought Avid hadn’t posted any financial statements since 2012.”
If they’re listed publicly on the exchange, they have to provide that information in their 10Q’s and 10K reports…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[David McLasty] “I’ve turned down jobs because I didn’t agree with the subject or it was because of my Morals. Just tread lightly and say “I’m booked” or “I don’t have the equipment/help/whatever for your job”
Telling people “I won’t shoot your wedding because you are gay” is just plain stupid IMO. When I was faced with this recently I just told them I had a shoot the day before and there was no guarantee I could be there in time.”
Very wise advice. It’s the only way to stay out of court.
Ever since the Colorado case, I’ve been getting emails asking me if I’ll perform videographer serves for gay weddings. I’m getting them on an almost bi-weekly basis. I’d like to think it’s a harmless search for someone with an open attitude, by given the frequency of these all over the country, I’m inclined to think it’s someone is trolling for a victim to finance their early retirement.
I never respond to those emails… not because I’m anti-gay, but because I’m anti wedding video jobs. Hardest way to make a living in video…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Richard Herd] “Here’s a quote:
The New Mexico Supreme Court thus determined that the First Amendment right to be free from compelled
speech does not protect those professionals from applications of the public-accommodations statute
that would require them to create expression”NM, like AZ has had a law on the books protecting businesses (Err, allowing them to run their business as they see fit). This NM ruling exposed a loophole that was successfully used to run her out of business. That’s why the AZ Law was proposed… to modify our 1999 law to cover that loophole that the state of NM in their infinite wisdom created.
[Bill Davis] “You’re still absolutely free to refuse to edit something, for example, that violates the law – or for the matter violates your personal standards.
What you can’t do is refuse your services to an entire CLASS of individuals specifically protected by federal statute. Individuals who share nothing other than a particular sexual orientation is one of the protected classes under the law.
So that does nothing to prevent you from serving, say, a criminal, or a drunk, or a person who smells bad. Whatever annoys you you can say NO to. You just can’t say NO to any and everyone who happens to fit into category X – if that’s a protected class. If it’s NOT a protected class, (for example, you choose not to work for, say, hunters or maybe break dancers, you’re fine.”
Those two statements are at odds with each other, which is where the problem lies. Do you really think you could refuse one gay ceremony without them alleging that it’s because they’re part of the entire class? Unless you can demonstrate that you refused them, but accepted others, you’re screwed (legal term).
[Bill Davis] “The AZ statute was designed to elevate the rights of “religious groups” ABOVE the rights of other protected classes, among them, those with a specific sexual orientation.”
That’s a rather subjective opinion. Having read the Law, I didn’t come to that conclusion.
[Chris Kenny] “This is basically just saying that the same way a restaurant open to the general public can’t refuse to serve gay people (or whatever other protected group) as a class, a wedding photographer who offers her services to the general public can’t refuse to provide her services to gay people as a class. The basic principle here has been settled law for decades (although gays in particular weren’t recognized as a protected class until more recently). This decision simply clarifies that no loophole exists for business that happen to sell products that have some ‘expressive’ element to them. A business can’t, in other words, hang a “Whites Only” sign just because it happens to sell photography services rather than hamburgers.”
The fallacy of that logic is this: Having Gays or a minority or an extra-terrestrial walk into restaurant doesn’t hurt anyone. Even if you have some kind of problem with it (which you shouldn’t) you have minimum involvement. Being a wedding photographer, videographer, caterer, florist, etc. doesn’t allow you to hand them the flowers and be done with it. You are involved in the actual event and for the entire day. In the case of photos and video, for an even longer time. There is no comparison to be made here, and that’s why you’ve only seen gays suing wedding related businesses thus far.
[Chris Kenny] “Businesses are, of course, free to turn away individual customers for essentially any reason other than them being a member of a protected class. Including other reasons stemming from the politics, religious convictions, or even entirely irrational whims of their proprietors. Don’t want to cut a video for an oil company? Want to create a web-based campaign donation platform and not let a particular political party use it? Just think someone is a jerk? Customer is wearing a hat with the logo of a sports team you hate? Those are all entirely legal reasons to refuse customers.”
That’s because those other groups having gotten militant yet. I’d like to see someone test that, because while it was once true, all of these court cases make it clear that it no longer is. I pity the poor bastard who ends up being the test case on this, because they’ll lose everything they own…
So much for my long standing position of never doing business with attorney’s. That’s an entire class now and I’m open to suit for even saying that now.
For the record, I didn’t support the AZ Law, not because it was how it’s been portrayed. It wasn’t. This was a victory of yellow journalism over facts. No, I didn’t support the law because it doesn’t go far enough. I’d like to see a simple reaffirmation that says: “it’s my business… I conceived it… I paid for it… I run it… and yes Mr. president I did create that… and I have a right to run it however I damn well please. If I’m doing something truly egregious the market will punish me and I’ll go out of business. I don’t need society telling me how to run it. Society isn’t doing very well running themselves at the moment.
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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I’ll be using my 30″ Cinema Display with the Apple adapter… at least until there are some TB2 displays available…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I still find it to be much less beach ball prone than earlier versions. Sometimes things seem to lag a bit, but not beachball.”
I’d agree with that. I do have slowness in some areas and it’s quicker in others. I haven’t bothered to track it scientifically, but it’s definitely experiencing some slow downs here and there…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Fix the edges in the keyer.
The edge of the frame should not be part of the light wrap (edge crop), and the edges of the resulting matte after the key need to be more natural and less processed, especially on more difficult keys with subjects that have hair. Some of us have to key more than bald men.”
Amen… and while you’re at it, make sure it’s fixed in FCPX
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Bob Woodhead] “[John Davidson] “And of course, ‘Send to motion’.”
This.”
Yep!
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Mark Dobson] ” I’ve also read that whilst this is a Thunderbolt 2 I won’t actually see any speed increase for the type of work I do, 2K single file based editing.”
You don’t mention what machine you’re using? If it’s a machine that only has TB1 ports, then no you won’t see the full speed. Even if you have a single TB2 port like a Retina MBP, once you plug in a TB1 device in the chain, such as a monitor, additional HD, etc. everything gets pulled down to TB1 speeds.
With the new Mac Pros, you have 6 TB2 ports, but only three controllers, so you need to be careful how you plug things in. Plug all TB2 devices into two of the ports on a dedicated controller. Then plug the TB1 devices into a different set of ports assigned to a separate controller… leaving the last set that are tied to the HDMI port alone as long as possible.
Google “MacPro TB2 port layout” to see which ones to use IF you are on a new MacPro…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Seems to back up the prevailing theory that the 8-core with the 700’s is the sweet spot…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill