Richard Clark
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Just had my 17″ MacBookPro stolen, now I need to deal with my insurance Co. I use the laptop for FCP, Lightroom, NIK and Pages etc. film, photography and writing basically. I have G-tech HD’s with eSata and FW800.
So, what to suggest to my insurer? The new books don’t have DVD slots or FW 800. They may have to add external storage to the plan . . .Any thoughts? Thanx.
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“who will continue to use it?”
I will, for a number of reasons.
1. it’s Apple
2. have worked on it since the get go
3. i am on FCP6 something and it is a rock solid platform
4. with over 44+ years of editing on all platforms from Moviola to Intercine to Prevost to Steenbeck to Kem and in 1993 a painful jump to AVID. I never cut linear, hated the concept. I have seen it all, systems come and systems go, with this Apple may have screwed up, who knows. I finished Jobs biography last night and he was a genius, anal & often mean but a genius. He had a vision and I can only hope that vision continues with Cook & Co.
5. i see no reason to change, FCP6 on my Desktop, maybe FCP7 on my Intel powered MacBookPro. It works for me.
6. i always saw it as a digital solution to film that gave me an instinctual software program for my editing. TVC’s, Indie Films, Docs. I do not want an editing system that takes the place of a professional colorist, a professional sound engineer, musician or effects people. I simply want a simple, rock solid system to edit the story.
7. it would have to be a damned good argument for me to consider something else. I have often thought of putting my hand up to design a system . . . don’t do it dickie 🙂 so I won’t.
8. Apple is Apple is Apple is Apple, simple really. They will be back!Richard Clark’s kiwicafe.com
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Simply program your G-raid as the capture drive, make sure you don’t change the name of the drive once you have captured material 🙂 back up the media, aka copy it to another drive as a safety back up. Good luck and enjoy the process, editing is fun. Don’t do any work on settings while you are hungry, angry, lonely or tired 🙂 HALT!
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Whew!
thanks Jon and the very best of a good career, have F.U.N. then we die 🙂Richard Clark’s kiwicafe.com
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“The connotative meaning of a single shot will always be related to the denotative meaning, e.g if someone was glum and it was raining etc for a simple example. To me this is stuff I pick up on intuitively and I suspect most people do too. Isnt that the point of this stuff you just have a sense for it. To me like you said this is one of the most enjoyable things about editing being able to insert subliminal ideas.”
my god guys, where do you learn this stuff, this is not rocket science or psychology, it is simply story telling with as much window dressing as you need to cover the lack of an idea. please, keep it simple and out of your heads.
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Maybe you should write to Terrence Malik and ask him to send you the footage because the five editors who worked on it simply added to one huge mess of a film. I found lars Von Triers melancholia to be clear, concise and simple, a beautiful film.
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Wow Rocco! I read, have done since I was a kid. Adventure, mystery, romance, political, classics. I have a couple of books on editing, I am sure one is by Walter Murch. Flicked a few pages, found nothing to change my thinking, style or direction. Never believed in theory. Never had a professor. My study of autuers was via film festivals and collecting the classics. i learned film editing off a guy my own age who never went to High School, possibly the best editor I have ever met. Instinct for story telling. Having a point of view. Building a body of work. Not suffering fools, even my self 🙂 90% of the media I have edited has challenged and inspired me to make something more, take it further, surprise, pleasantly, the client. The way to learn from people like Walter Murch is to study the films they worked on and little by little take what you like, leave the rest, start introducing it into your work, take a risk. Editing has been an awesome journey of over 40 years, I continue today. My goal is to bring my sensibilities to the table and so far directors and clients seem to approve. Have you considered other careers? think about it.
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You nailed it. Story Telling, plain and simple.
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Many, many thanks Kevin, I can but hope someone at Apple will respond and agree with your summation. I doubt it but hope it would, could, should happen. This release is a biggie but as you so eloquently put it, it is a BETA. There’s the rub. So thanks. I will not be updating anytime soon.
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and I believe, they spoke too soon. It has created a firestorm of misinformation. The same thing happened when Leica went Digital and Leica Lovers aka Strokers went Ballistic. Storm in a tea cup. Just my view and, of course, I may be totally wrong, I was once 🙂
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