Scott Sheriff
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Yep. Just like Bill and Dennis said. Lamps explode. Never run them in an open face instrument without some type of guard.
Skin oil will make them fail. Fast. Either wipe it off with alcohol, or use rubber gloves, or the bulb package itself to not touch the bulb with your bare hands. And even then they will occasional fail catastrophically. These are very high performance items, that have very little in common with consumer lamps. It’s like the difference between a race car engine, and a street car engine.
Crappy sockets can make them explode too. A poor connection causes resistance and arcing, creating heat in the socket, creating more resistance and arcing…and so on. Eventually they will die. Make sure the lamps are firmly in the socket, and it isn’t corroded.
Also try to avoid moving lights when they are on, or even off but still hot. This weakens the filament in the lamp and will shorten their already short life.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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You can use Color to get the film look.
Scott Sheriff
Director
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[shawn Bockoven] “Don’t kill the messenger.”
I don’t want to do that, but I have to say consider the source.
PC Magazine isn’t exactly my ‘go to’ source for information on professional editing apps.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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Bummer.
IMO getting a new camera depends on what you shoot and your budget, but probably the better option. Lets look at your choices.
Taking the component out would be a huge hit in the quality vs the FW capture. And then your going to re-encode component out to get that to get it into a recorder, taking another quality hit. And then there is the cost buying the stuff, which would probably be better spent towards a new cam. The 100u isn’t even the latest model in that line, the 110u is. So a 6 year old discontinued cam, older version, with a dead FW port is a boat anchor. I’d probably give you a hundred bucks for it, and use it for a parts, or for high risk shots, since I have a deck to capture tape with and the dead FW doesn’t matter that much. Getting the FW port repaired is probably going to be pricey. Probably more than you you would spend buying a used 110u. Sounds like recording to tape is not your preference, but another option is to find a used BR-50 deck to do tape captures with, if getting a used 110u and fixing the FW is out of the question. But a used deck will probably be more than a used camera unless you run into a smokin deal.
Really, it sounds like time for a new camera.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Thomas Frank] “Come on a professional means someone makes money is there a different levels of money?”
Sure there is. Shane pretty much nailed it. Just like there are different levels in quality of professional tools.
I see a huge difference between someone using X on a 15″ laptop that is pretty much dedicated to supporting something consumer oriented like a 5D, and someone with a dedicated facility with multiple NLE’s, and the I/O options to support whatever walks in the door from VHS to 4K.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Alan Okey] “By the same token, editors who like and use FCP X are not necessarily any less “professional” if it fits their needs.”
I would say there are levels of professionalism. Some more, or less than others. Just like there is a huge difference between the neighborhood handyman, a licensed plumber and and master pipe fitter that is certified for critical work such as nuclear reactors and high pressure boilers.
I see the noobs that can only cut on X as being in the ‘neighborhood handyman’ category. Certainly adequate for simple jobs, but woefully inadequate and over their head for other jobs and workflows.Scott Sheriff
Director
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I run into similar issues with clients that are doing internal use only projects that want to keep the footage out of the public. Using a private YT setting to display the project by invitation only usually satisfies their desire to keep proprietary info out of the hands of the general public, while still allowing me a chance to show other potential clients these projects.
Something like this may work for you.Scott Sheriff
Director
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Not because it will add in all the lost usefulness, just some of it.
But because it means that there is a chance that editors are actually being listened to, instead of dictated to.
I know this is a novel concept for some. That is, the idea that the users have some input on how the product performs.I’ve read the thread, and rather than point by point respond to some of the posts, let me just address (rant) all of it in one shot.
I’m weary of this vocal minority that worship at the alter of apple and ubillos. They act as if they can’t possibly make a mistake, or be pressured by market demands to fix this mess.
Since when do we as editors, let engineers and salesmen tell us how it is?
And why is Walter Murch being displeased about all this, the proverbial 800 pound gorilla in the room that the fanboys don’t want to discuss?
I’ll tell you why.
Because, as an apple FCP spokesman, undisputed world class authority on editing with everything from Movieola to multiple non linear platforms, and possibly the most respected editor alive today, his dislike for iMove Pro carries a lot of weight on the “it sucks” side of the argument.
Which is a really inconvenient thing for the Movie Hero fans.
A lot more than the guy trying to sell me something, that doesn’t actually use it. All the (fanboys) want to do is talk about what Randy, or others that earn a living from selling this and related products have to say. All the people that stand to make a buck from a million noobs jumping on the X bandwagon certainly have a dog in the fight, and can’t be trusted to give and unbiased opinion. Their business is selling stuff to new unknowledgeable people. They don’t earn a living editing, and they aren’t making a lot of money selling training and related services to those with any appreciable amount of seat time. That makes them shills, and I don’t really care what they have to say, or how much they like it since they don’t have the end user perspective. They have a salesman’s perspective.
They would be hurting their own business if they didn’t ‘like it’, or encourage noobs to buy into it. What part of that do the fanboys not get?
And Randy Ubillios is at the top of the stack. All he wants to do is keep grinding out crap for noobs to buy, so his stock and bonus doesn’t take a hit. So of course he is going to tout it as some new must have thing. That is what apple does. And if it’s a flop, they move on and pretend it didn’t happen. That is also what apple does. Apple doesn’t care if it devalues the trade, floods the market killing rates, or is an under-performing boat anchor for the pro users. The concern is how much apple-speak the marketing guys can come up with to lure in a million new users into paying for the privilege of being beta testers, and that it is ‘good enough’. Apple doesn’t care about you, your needs, your business or your clients. Apple cares about money. Their money. Which they should since its in business to sell this stuff, and make some Ducats. In any other context, this is where the crowd would start yapping about greedy corporations…(crickets)
The (fans) must live in a vacuum if they think apple hasn’t made huge mistakes before, and can’t possibly be making one now. Or they pretend these bombs aren’t some major apple cock-up, and dismiss the duds as being “ahead of their time”, and the critics as being Luddites, or some other similar lame excuse. And of course there’s the B-side of this worn out record called “it will be fixed in the next version”. This is very similar to ‘future work’. You know, that free work people expect us to do, so that in the bright (and distant) future there will be a big carrot on the end of the string. Future work doesn’t pay today’s bills, and I can’t use features to be included at a later time on today’s clients. The entire concept of this being an early version is just more of the same, along these lines. It’s as if the NLE was just invented, and we didn’t have a previous ten year history of knowing what works, and what people want.
If we were talking about any other multi-billion dollar corporation pulling the crap apple does, everyone would be going apoplectic, sitting in their basement blogging their little fingers off, trying to gin up an occupy Cupertino. But your not. Instead, you side with the billion dollar corporation that yanked the rug out from under some of its most loyal and knowledgeable professional users. It is inexplicable.
However, I wouldn’t be so smug as some of the iMovie Pro crowd. Past performance is an excellent predictor of future action. Apple killed Shake, the server, FCS. Seemingly without any thought of how it might impact the customer base. So you can love X all you want, defend it and apple all you want, and keep ‘rebuying’ stuff you already have instead of standing firm and insisting they fix what you already bought and paid for. But there will be a punishment for rewarding this behavior of treating the customer as a disposable item. History tells us that you too will someday be a victim of the irrational, no notice EOL of your favorite software and hardware that you have based your business on. So I wouldn’t get too attached to it if I were you. And I hope your not in the middle of a big gig when it happens.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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Jon,
Glad to hear you’re taking the comments in the proper spirit, and didn’t think we were harshing on your reel.
In my case, I don’t have a ton of time to beat around the bush, so I tend to just get to the point.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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[Charles Diaz] “Spoke with the client, too. I wasn’t fired, they’ve given me outstanding references to potential clients and my price line remains intact. A happy ending.”
That is a great outcome, so glad to hear that.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair
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