[Paul Dickin]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “…in straightforward terms the transformative importance of the database…”
Hi
My most straightforward ‘need’ is for different captures (tape) or transfers (card) of the same material – A/V + timecode + Reel Name – to be seen by the NLE as linkable with no issues, regardless of clip in/outs etc. So for example if a whole tape had been captured overall, then fragmentary clip sections subsequently recaptured would work in the edited project without any relink fiddling and fooling around.

A label based spreadsheet like FCP Legacy couldn’t do this as it can’t see beyond the original capture/ingest labeling of the video. All that Shift-F matchback malarky if you’ve brought clips into the browser from another project.

A proper database would see clips from identical assets as being the same thing even if brought to the project by different ingest methods.

That’s where my puck has been – awaiting an NLE to catch up with it… 😉

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
“Real artists shi*” 😉

[Paul Dickin]

“[Bill Davis] “…towards a new world where video is just another form of data. And organizing it, searching for it, and manipulating it, may actually become as important as “editing it””
[Herb Sevush]
“… what else is there?”
Hi
GPS data, date/time data, copyright data, sticky production metadata. etc etc
YouTube type online video libraries would be far more effective resources with that type of ‘something else’ inherent in the data – to facilitate the edit, and using ‘combined/linked clips’ timeline methods to identify groups of clips and assets to keep track of any particular batch of the uncut assets.
It would certainly help Ridley Scott with his 80,000 clip/4,500hr projects, with another ongoing… 😉

In the past film/video libraries required droves of librarians trained in bespoke databases (and superhuman memory feats) to service the old school ‘editing’ fraternity.

FCPX isn’t there yet, but its likely streets ahead of MC and PP in this respect.

[Paul Dickin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “…my cableTV isn’t delivered over displayport. There is no solid definition, but I think we can connect a few dots, no?”

[Steve Jobs] “…you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

[Steve Jobs] “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use… with iCloud… I finally cracked it.”

Hi
Apple knows something about your TV that maybe you haven’t realised yet. No?
That’s where the (so far undiscernable) dots are headed?

Congratualations (also to your good lady) 🙂
My daughter’s similarly expectant. 🙂

[Paul Dickin]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I think people would start to take X more seriously if it had broadcast out, yes. To me, broadcast out is baseband video, not a Thunderbolt display. So far, Apple has set told us what’s coming with FCPX, and delivered on those prmoises. They wouldn’t say broadcast out if they meant a thunderbolt display setup to “broadcast colors”. I know that Apple has created a huge swath of uncertainty, but they haven’t lied quite yet.”
Hi
Has there been a more recent definition as to what’s coming than this?

“The professional [editor] is critical to Apple, and it’s a customer we don’t want to lose,” said Richard Townhill, Apple’s director of pro video product marketing, in a conversation with Macworld…. called the June 10.0 release “the first foundation stone in a building that’s going to be assembled over the next ten years,” with Tuesday’s updates providing the next brick…

And, in an unorthodox move for Apple, he revealed a glimpse of future features to come: Townhill noted that while there are still things professionals desire that have yet to make it into FCPX—like multicam editing and support for broadcast video monitoring—Apple is “fully committed” to delivering these in an update in 2012.

That’s why I query whether he meant ‘baseband video out’.

[Paul Dickin]

[Ben Scott] ” I can see how much easier things could become once the broadcast monitoring out arrives…”
Hi
Why do I keep getting this sinking feeling that what Apple means by ‘broadcast monitoring’ may not be at all what people in this forum mean by the words…?

…that what they mean is that OSX 10.7 will be upgraded to 10-bit API capability – so we’ll be able to connect 10-bit Colorsync LCD computer monitors to our Radeon graphics cards to get 10-bit monitoring capability with Colorsync accuracy (= broadcast)!

Please tell me I’m wrong ;-(

[Paul Dickin]

[Bret Williams] “Not to be morbid here, but after Steve died I felt like the whole year made sense. He had to know, or have a good idea, that time was short and what may have been a 18-24mo plan to get a number of pieces in place became a 10 mo plan. None of it was really ready, but it got put in place nonetheless.”
Hi
I think that totally sums it up – the ultimate deadline… 🙁 RIP
Only rather than ‘the whole year’ I would put it since the start of Steve’s medical absence in January 2009, when Tim Cook effectively took over running Apple (adding $1000 to the retail price of the low end Mac Pro for starters).
When he came back later in 2009 Steve’s intuitive self knew the writing was on the wall for him, so he got on with inventing the future – mid to long-term as much as the here and now.

Once Steve saw to it that the old FCP editing industry experienced ‘support’ team had been ‘let go’ he moved on.
So what we’ve been seeing is the ongoing Apple in action. FWIW.

[Paul Dickin]

[Craig Seeman] ” the assumption that all User Generated Content is done…by people with poor skills is questionable. XXX will cherry pick the best stories amongst a very wide “talent” pool”
Hi
Replace XXX with Ridley Scott (and his team) and you’ve got what went on with YouTube in 2010, and is being repeated with the BBC’s participation once again. Some of the participants who got their clips selected seem to be those who, whilst having considerable skills in an unrelated ‘day job’ also have a degree of video story-telling literacy that is highly entertaining to watch (if you enjoy cinema/programme watching).

With ‘80,000 submissions, 4500 hours of footage’ (according to IMDB) FCP Legacy would be the least effective software solution to managing the preliminary selection and assembly work on that sort of movie IMO.

If Ridley Scott going there – YT-type production – then many others will want to follow, not just CNN for news. (Again IMO).

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/21564
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My comment is taken out of context.

[Paul Dickin]

Quote from Timeline 2:
“Elsewhere at Apple company lawyers had completed the due diligence process on the Macromedia Final Cut deal, and cleared up all issues concerning the use of picture icons (picons) in the editing interface for a potential breach of the Montage patents owned by the Haberman family. “
Hi
Would that still have been an ongoing ‘issue’ in 2011?