Robert Brown
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Maybe in 8 months FCPX will “evolve” into FCP8. What will the next new/old feature be? Whatever it is it will plainly demonstrate the utter dominance of FCPX. Like “hey guys, now we have EDL out so take that!”.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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Yeah Kodak seems like a key player in my life since photography was the basis for my entire career in video and film. It’s hard to watch an old friend smashed against the rocks like that but the entire media industry has changed enormously over the last 10 years and we all knew it would happen. When I bought my first digital camera almost 10 years ago I never thought I would never shoot another frame of film. I wonder how much longer film will be available for purchase?
Robert Brown
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Uh, not quite but my bad. I have no idea why this just showed up today on my computer like it was hot off the press but I guess I should have read it closer. Shit happens.
Robert Brown
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Ok, don’t know why software update just showed it today. Who knows?
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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[Andrew Richards] ” FCP was always Mac-only, so why not this imaginary progeny? It isn’t like the legacy code would be all that portable after all this time.”
Wasn’t the original FCP Windows and Mac? I believe it became a Mac only platform after Apple bought it. But in any case I don’t think it will ever happen. I think Lightworks is a good example. Some will be enthusiastic about bringing an old favorite back from the past but it seems to take a pretty serious software team to tackle all the technical issues and iron out all of the bugs. And I guess in a way when you choose the editor you want to work with you are also choosing the software provider you want to work with and the one that’s going to be around a while and make decisions that make sense.
Robert Brown
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[Andrew Richards] “Except, why would anyone do that?
“There would probably be millions of reasons -$$$$$$- to. It’s what a lot of editors wanted, a better FCP.
It’s all I wanted. But I would guess there would have to be some legal hurdles to make a clone of FCP but if not maybe somebody should. It would take somebody with serious resources to pull it off though.Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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[Bouke Vahl] “De-interlacing is NOT a film effect in my book.
And i don’t like it either if it is for interlaced broadcast, the ‘feel’ of film comes from something else, not from progressive images. Eg limited depth of field makes for a film look, and you can emulate that a bit by masking and defocusing.”I disagree. Frame rate is to me the most obvious difference between film and video. The difference between 60 fps and 24 is quite drastic and 30I is in reality 60 fps – just 60 half rez frames per second. 60 fps says NOW which is good for sports and news. 24 or 30 says some other time which is by far better for drama.
Panavision in the 80’s made a video camera that used film lenses. I think it was a complete flop as it was still 30I. Robert Altman did a play with it called “Rattlesnake in the Cooler” and it just looked like video to me. It wasn’t until 24P came out in video cameras that the gap began to close as you could get a similar temporal effect while keeping all of your resolution.
Grain, gamma curve, color rendition, depth of field all play a part but when I see film played at say 48P it looks like video to me. Of course de-interlacing is a pretty bad thing to do as you do throw away half of your vertical resolution but it will get closer to the same temporal effect that 24P has. I also found if you blur video a fair amount and then add a significant amount of grain you can get a very convincing super 8 look as with super 8 the apparent resolution comes from the grain and not the image itself..
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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Sapphire has a nice field remove which uses a motion mask so non moving areas get full rez and only the moving areas are de-interlaced. Twixtor will do this but much slower than Sapphire. Sapphire also has a nice film look which adds a nice film gamma curve as well as grain. There may be others but if I only had one plugin set it would be Sapphire.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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[Walter Soyka] “Adopting FCPX doesn’t count as moving forward, though. FCPX offers some clever and interesting ideas about how an edit should be performed, but it isn’t actually transforming editorial, delivery, or consumption. In fact, FCPX is designed specifically to support the basic editorial model (A-roll driving the story, B-roll filling gaps and embellishing) we’ve been using for decades.
Instead, I think there’s a great benefit to moving up-market instead of down-market or staying still. I’d rather take on the harder jobs that new entrants can’t handle because they don’t have the skills or technical know-how, and I’d rather serve the clients that new entrants can’t serve because they lack the experience and project management skills. Isn’t that where the upside is?”
Exactly which is why I haven’t even touched X yet. What Apple has done is reduce a standout product into another mediocre product in a field filled with mediocre products. I mean pick any flavor you like, it doesn’t matter, they all do the same thing
The analogy I have used before instead of cars or sports is photography. At one point photography was a very hard thing to do with only a small number of guys who could do a good job at it or do it at all. Then throughout the 20th century, it became easier and easier and access opened up to people around the world. But the consumer products don’t necessarily have that much of an impact on the pro ones. Sure more and more people can now take pictures but it’s still a small number of people that take the time and spend the money to do print quality work. And every year there are new magazines, books and web-sites that display the work of people who clearly know what they are doing and their work stands out. Good pictures are emotionally compelling and there will always be a demand for them and there will always be people who can do it better than others regardless of the technology they use.
IMO X does nothing to “democratize” editing or anything like that. Simple products already existed and X isn’t even a simple product necessarily. Probably takes exactly as long to learn as anything else out there and probably more than some. To me X is just another product out there but one released in Apple’s “bull in a china shop” way and that doesn’t “revolutionize” anything because the “revolution” already happened.
I think Apple blew it. They could have maintained a pro line like many other large corporations do and introduced a pro-sumer line. Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic come to mind as companies who provide great products across the entire spectrum. Canon for example is well aware that all of those big beige lenses you see at sporting events help sell the cheaper cameras. They probably don’t even make much profit on their pro line but they maintain a large presence in the pro community which translates into $$$ on the consumer side.
But in any case as professionals, our livelihoods rely on doing what’s difficult. If anybody can do it then why pay us? So if editing becomes a piece of cake which it pretty much already is, we’d better focus on providing a product that not just anybody can do and that stands out or we’re toast. I see no reason to believe that X would in any way make my work more compelling or appealing or even easier. Technology is secondary to skill.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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I’m definitely in no hurry and in my experience it’s always a good idea to wait a while when new technologies come out. You get better products and it’s a much less frustrating experience. IMO TB is just a new way to do what you can already do so if you have a big investment in PCI based stuff there is simply no need to bother with it at least until you buy your next system.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos