Neil Goodman
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[Shane Ross] “[Neil Goodman] “In MC you just share the bins which are essentially the project. Share all the bins and you have succesfully shared the project. Of course the media the bins point to needs to be on both machines.”
He’s talking about sharing projects between different applications. So converting a full Avid project to Premiere, for example.
“aha…got it.
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[keith mann] “With due respect, I think you are all wrong, the bottom is dropping out in the low and mid range. The problem is that the democratization of technology inevitably results in clients accepting lower quality to get it low cost or even free. And we are all guilty. Remember production up the 2000’s? How many of you are are booking audio sweetening or color correction facilities? Or hiring a writer? Or a transcriber? Or an on-set still photographer? Or a lighting truck for even the small projects? Been hiring that steadycam guy recently? We dumped the expensive outsiders to do it ourselves with generic tools because its cheaper. Our clients are going to do it to us.
“Every spot i work on gets a dedicated audio guy, a dedicated GFX team, dedicated colorist if the higher ups deem what I did in the Avid can be better, and a dedicated writer/producer attached to the spot.
People still pay money for quality and they always will.
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[Shane Ross] “[Ievgenii Larin] “Avid Media Composer exports sequences as AAF. I’m not aware in what format MC exports entire project, and if it is possible at all.”
It isn’t possible. Sequences only.
“In MC you just share the bins which are essentially the project. Share all the bins and you have succesfully shared the project. Of course the media the bins point to needs to be on both machines.
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Trailer was done out of house. Few different vendors worked on it as per usual with most Hollywood studio flicks.
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Just link the files again.
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my biggest slow down is..
review times..aka waiting on notes or approval.
This can sometimes take hours or even a full day. Im left sitting doing nothing (not complaining about that!)
then hours later after sitting and losing all momentum – Im asked to kick back into gear to deliver these notes before 6 and its 5:45.
Other than that – my creative mind or lack thereof somedays is the only thing getting in my way. I like to try so many versions of one thing, that its sometimes killing my flow. I know Avid and FCP 7 so well, the software is pretty much in the background. Were on stable builds so no crashes in forever etc.
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[Oliver Peters] “[Neil Goodman] “I want to hear from the actual editor(s) who cut Focus, the people actually working on a timeline and being creative. – no diss on AE’ing, its an essential part of the process.”
https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/focus/
– Oliver”
Thanks for the link!
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[Bill Davis] “As an editor with ZERO AVID experience, I’m just curious.”
As an Editor with zero avid experience, as well PPro from what I’ve picked up –
Is it possible your not qualified to make the assumptions FCPX is way faster than all the rest since you havent used the rest ?
Is it possible your not aware that other NLE’;s can do the very same things that FCPX can do?
How do you know Avid isnt the workflow enhancer youve always been looking for if youve never tried it.
You always slag people for writing off X because “they dont know it well enough”.. “there holding it wrong”
I was always under the impression you were an avid editor at some point which is how you formed your conclusion it wasn’t for you.
Honest question.
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[Joe Marler] “His first attempt to use FCPX was editing a little video interview for his wife. He figured it would be a piece of cake for him — a professional Hollywood film editor. He struggled for a long time, gave up and had to finish the video in FCP 7. He was so angry he asked for a refund from Apple.
“Wasn’t he the AE?
I can see how FCPX is great for pre pro and can make the life of an AE better.
I want to hear from the actual editor(s) who cut Focus, the people actually working on a timeline and being creative. – no diss on AE’ing, its an essential part of the process.
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[Andrew Kimery] “In the current version of Avid MC (8.x) markers are searchable using the Find tool so you don’t even need to pull up the Marker window. A while back I worked on a doc and all the important info was generally in the file name, comment field, or marker so I would just type in the name of what I was looking for in the Find tool (i.e. “Bob Smith 1963” or “feet walking”) and get my clips that way. It got to the point where I didn’t need to venture into the bins themselves very often, I just did a keyword search for what I was looking for.
What Avid lacks though (unless this feature was just added) is being able to save your search results to a bin. PPro has this feature called “Search Bins” (you can set search parameters and all results will be copied into the bin) but the search tool needs to be much more robust to really make this feature shine.”
You can search in bins now and even in the timeline, and yea knew about the find tool.
Just wanted to point out Keywording and rating has been around in Avid for 20 years. Just not called Keywording.