Neil Goodman
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clearly a miscommunication going on.. all good cheers.
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nope definitely not saying all that.
Im not privy to whats happening in other markets and I know LA isnt the world but it is a major center of media, where people from all over the world come to work and production houses and agencies are popping up all over. Since you provided the status of the industry where you live – I figured Id give a glimpse into where I live. Not sure where you’re getting the rest from?
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no not comparing.
you provided an example of what its like where you are – this is what its like here. Not making comparisons but region by region you will see different trends. So when you say individuals may have an advantage where you are – Im saying they dont here.
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come out to LA, ill take you on a tour of brand new post houses and agencies. A new one pops up seemingly every day.
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I think this forum has come along way in 8 years.
We have all accepted FCPX for what is. Seems like you are still searching for some sort of validation.
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[Tony West] “at what point do companies like your wife’s start to adjust to field all that young talent”
If its true talent – like Greg’s wife company they will fold them into their existing workflow. How many kids do you think will turn down a job because of the software? coming out of school, not many I suppose as well as they wouldnt be in any position to make demands about the software they use yet.
The people who have been able to implement change with X at certain companies seem to come from really pedigreed backgrounds and have proven themselves and gained a certain level of trust to do so.
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[Herb Sevush] “apparently he’s never heard of organizing footage on timelines “
When I watch alot of these videos – the common theme is my life is changed when actually – most of these solutions already exist in other apps. They just didnt know where to look or how to be creative with the tool set
For example.
Keywords in FCPX – They are awesome indeed. No ones arguing that.
But in Avid I can simply drop a marker with the word “b-roll” or “close-up” or a whole sentence of dialougue, and that is now searchable and immediately called up with a click.
dont even need to use markers to achieve this but its one way to do it.
Another example:
Background Transcoding/ Rendering.
In FCPX nothing actually happens until you STOP working. Therefore nothing is really happening in the background.
In Avid – you have the option to let it actual do the transcode/render while you work – or it’ll pause like FCPX when you work, and do the computing when the user is idle.
Somehow a 30 year old program implemented a better solution to background processing than FCPX that gives the user more options.
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For all the things he can say about FCPX that make’s it better FOR HIM – I can make 5 cool videos about stuff thats only in Avid that makes it better FOR ME. Then some other guy is going to make a video about PPRO and Davinci and why those are better for him.
Whats more apparent to me now more than ever – with 4 badass NLE’s on the market that are all fully capable, is that its coming back around to the focus on the “artist” and not the “paintbrush”. Who cares what so and so is cutting on – is the work good?
Editors now have to put up or shut up because there are no excuses within either of the NLE’s, and theres an insane amount of talent thats ambidextrous when it comes to the software available.
Not to mention – most of us Bill – still don’t get a choice. To be blind to any of the offerings is just dumb at this point in the game. I could talk up FCPX until Im am blue in the face – no ones listening,.. I use PPRO daily at my job for the last 2 years – I don’t like it at all and personally think its the weakest of the 4 at this point – no ones listening. I just gotta show up and cut better than the next guy.
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to me rendering = letting the comp do its thing so you can playback an edit or portion of there-of.
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in this day and age – not sure what you even need to render? A couple audio effects in Avid like D-verb and Time Expansion still require a hard render which happens in the background for me, but other than that – nothing I do requires rendering.
Exporting sure – but has been years since Ive waited for something to render before I could play something back.