Richard Clark
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from the WSJ article of FCP angst.
“If you need to get a project out I suggest using Avid. Yes, that truly professional tool made for true professionals for 23 years”
. . . No way Jose. Back in the 90’s, yep last century AVIG gave the finger to 40000 Apple users by stating they would no longer support Apple, how the worm turns, that was when I got off AVID and will persevere with FCP, my old version works just fine. I don’t buy a new car unless the old one is broke or is no longer cost effective, simple really.
thanks for the common sense Bill, all these 23 year old TV Producers make me laugh. She-it I didn’t get in the Biz til I was 24 and we had so many changes from Upright Moviolas to Flatbed KEM/Steenbeck et and then came the god aweful off line era and then I discovered AVID at NAB around 1988, saw the future but didn’t embrace it till 93 and then saw FCP and I was hooked into the future, 44years+ later, still there 🙂
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https://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/faq/
the beginning of the end to the obsfucation 🙂
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Come on guys, paranoia is now swirling the Cow, time to get back to editing.
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I have great images of Cake On Face 🙂
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I remember when I joined the Cow, way back in the ‘old days’ when I was one of, if not the 🙂 first Editor to have edited a national TV Spot on FCP. The gurus back then always advised me never, ever to upgrade during a project, they always advised me not to be the first editor on the block to buy new software or hardware. Did I always listen . . . NO!
I now LOL at the anguish I am seeing. Apple have begun listening to feedback, they have begun an information page. Apple will begin to address the issues, Apple possibly released too early, maybe, maybe not. I have heard Randy first hand over the years, LAFCPUG and he is not about to allow a great product to die. I have criticized aspects of fcp over the years, I have asked for upgraded media management, guess what Apple did all that and more. I edit Indie Films, Docs, TVC’s, FCP has been my platform of choice since the get go. It will be my platform of choice into the future. I don’t even have fcp7 yet. I edit from DVtapes and SDcards, not a hitch. No way I am changing whilst I am working and my version is working, which it is. Patience, Patience, Patience.Richard Clark’s kiwicafe.com
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“Businesses can’t just jump off a cliff with no connection to the past. They need to do their work the way the client wants, and many times that means building on what they’ve done with the client before. Apple really doesn’t understand business. I can’t believe how wrong they got this release. Didn’t they talk to any editing professionals before this release?”
I really disagree with this attitude that it is our clients who tell us how to work, life is about change, if we hang onto the past we die, however, it is healthy to learn from the past. I still use my film experience as my work attitude and process, FCP or whatever, is simply a tool. I would never, ever allow a client to dictate how I work and on what platform I work. I am an Editor, they are clients. I listen to them, take on board where they wish the project to be and then I take them there, simple really. So many post production businesses are dead in the water because of their refusal to consider new business plans. I created a very successful Post House way back in 1971 in Sydney Australia, I tried to recreate the same business model in Venice Beach California and fell on my face. I hung on too long. Now I am hopefully smarter, I must be 🙂 I moved back to Aotearoa NZ but seriously my new way of working IS smarter, faster, sleeker and much more cost effective. Outsourcing, virtual relationships, keeping lines of communication open and doing business in a very transparent manner all help. Again and I say it over and over, it’s all about attitude, simple really.
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It took me years and years to get a handle on where I got my rhythm.
Clients would refer to my ‘rhythm’, composers would, all sorts of film people would and did. It took me back into my childhood and the car trips I took with my family, I was a day dreamer and gazed out the windows and have come to realize, and accept, that the fence posts, telegraph poles, road markings were my metronomes, they embedded into my psyche a sense of timing and, dare I say ‘RHYTHM’. When I landed in the film world, no books, no film school, nothing but practice and the encouragement by my editor, to attend film festivals. I grew up with NO television! Whew! For 13 years straight I attended the Sydney Film Festival. That was the best suggestion anyone ever made. Trust and understanding of the intuitive process is a must but above all is, same as for a chef, a pianist, a drunk even :), practice, practice, practice! I took any project offered me, good money, no money. I edited day and night. When I started my editing company I edited docs at night, commercials by day, all on FILM.
That was key.
Film has a rhythm all of it’s own, it’s own language and a good editor will find and understand that language, bringing it to life. Standing at a Moviola with a hand on the fly wheel and one on the hand brake, boy did I get to practice my rhythm. I love standing at my desk today, editing with FCP, standing, not sitting. It is quite different. These are simply my thoughts after watching a great Documentary on New York Photographer, Bill Cunningham. Another key element I learned was, once the edit was close to finish, rewind, and play the image with no sound at all, that will tell you loud and clear if it has rhythm, period. I have used this for 10 second to 2 hour films. Still works for me.Richard Clark’s kiwicafe.com
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says it all . . . for today 🙂
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change is one of the guaranteed aspects of life but the one we struggle with the most, post production has changed remarkably since I began as a cutting room assistant back in the 60’s. I have loved staying on the edge of new technologies and today my studio is as powerful as anything I have ever worked with and . . . it all fits in my briefcase 🙂 my experience in Sydney, New York and Hollywood have shown me that ‘Bloat’ is a huge post issue. Bloated services and bloated fees and, of course, bloated egos. Back in New Zealand, continuing to edit, I look at Peter Jackson’s model of film making and post production and see a commitment to an Industry. From shoot to screen, they have just opened a fully restored Roxy Cinema in Wellington and they appear to have no shortage of clients flying to the South Pacific. Attitude is everything in my book and flavors come and flavors go, Wellington will have it’s day and then somewhere else on the planet will become the ‘In’ thing. Human nature I guess. So panic not and do the thing you most want to do in life, it may not even be in Film 🙂 Coming home to my roots I have discovered photography and writing, fancy that.
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The deck is multi format, because I also edit ntsc as well as pal it suits me just fine.
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