[Richard Herd]

Are you a clown?

[Richard Herd]

HUGE! VERY VERY HUGE!

Just this weekend I was watching Motion tutorials because I thought I was leaving AE behind.

I like 3rd party development.

[Richard Herd]

[Herb Sevush] “Such art does not have to be made with the 5 steps you outlined – the perceiving mind will create them for itself. Or as Godard once said – movies should have a begging, middle, and end, just not necessarily in that order”

Herb, that’s not what I said. I said, “As a literary interpretation method, all dramas have five basics:
1. Who is the main character?
2. What does the main character need?
3. Who or what tries to stop the main character?
4. Does the main character get the need?
5. What does the main character learn?”

A literary interpretation method…

This point has been belabored far too much.

[Richard Herd]

Is this it? https://www.hulu.com/watch/27800/koyaanisqatsi

[Richard Herd]

Have you seen/experienced THe Cremaster Cycle?

[Richard Herd]

Our nature is such that we can’t actually turn off the meaning making part of our brains. We call that catatonia, somnambulance.

I shall definitely watch Koyaanisqatsi. Thanks again!

I would also suggest Lyn Hejinian’s poem “My Life.”

[Clint Wardlow] “What if it is just a collection of images and sounds not showing a single living thing…only stuctures. What if it doesn’t embrace any of these elements. “

What if…then it ain’t drama. Many corporations do just this only its called “marketing video.” 😉 <–now that’s snarky

[Richard Herd]

The guys complaining about X missing tracks want them back. They feel limited by linearity. <– Okay I like that phrase “limited by linearity.” For me, editing is more of a feeling than a technical trade. I admit there have been times where I have stacked footage and just tried to feel it. For them I think a multicam technique in X might be useful.

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But that’s a silly request. Asking for an example of what Legacy did that X doesn’t do and then excepting the relevancy.

[Richard Herd]

That stuff you posted only confuses linearity and simultaneity. This happens with ballet, opera, theatre, rock concerts, where the wealth of experience can be shifted by subjective points of view. The but the events proceed linearly.

Regarding X, I just don’t care what NLE anyone uses. However, because this is the Cow and it is essentially a place for learning, I would hate for someone to miss the point of “P,” place editing, that turns off the magnetism/relativism, and also secondary storylines are tracks.

[Richard Herd]

[Clint Wardlow] “Stan Brakhage”

First, I shall watch his films immediately. Thanks!

Second, you got it exactly: human beings experience time linearly, which is why the exhibition is a linear experience. Not so coincidentally, so is video editing. 🙂

As a literary interpretation method, all dramas have five basics:
1. Who is the main character?
2. What does the main character need?
3. Who or what tries to stop the main character?
4. Does the main character get the need?
5. What does the main character learn?

I’d also argue these are hardwired into our brains in the process of making meaning. There’s been many noble attempts to abandon structure but alas you said it, [Clint Wardlow] “That is because it is how we experience time. In a linear fashion…so really, unless you magically transport your film to another dimension…it is the only way we can experience anything.”

Additionally, the editor is the one who literally assembles the stuff in a linear fashion.