Scott Sheriff
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I know I have posted this before, but this video tickles me:”
I love the pie chart! The “one episode of House” chart segment is priceless. If I had a dollar for every time some wannabe with a 5D mentioned that to up their cred, I could go out and by an Alexa.
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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I watched theis a couple of times, and I have to agree with DRW, in that Walter Murch really just said what many of us have been saying all along. I wonder if the ‘occupyfinalcut’ crowd will pull out their bullhorns and shout him (Murch) down with talking points for not liking it. Or if he will draw a bunch of criticism for repeatedly using terms like “pro” and “professional” in the interview.
I also agree with those that thought there was a large amount of skepticism, with hints of sarcasm in his thoughts of the future of FCP and apple for professional use, as well as some of the features and ‘workarounds’ like using the pointing tool to lock audio clips. You would have to expect a guy in his position to be a bit more PC then some of us, but it was still clear he had a lot of disdain for X in it’s current form for professional use.
The one thing that really struck me is that Murch was so underwhelmed with X that he didn’t even bother (so far) to personally try it out. Here is a guy that has always been interested in new techniques and edits really big projects. But all the background rendering, 64 bit and all the metadata on the planet doesn’t seem to make up for the lack of tracks and traditional two screen setup. He had people explain it to him, and observed demo’s, and obviously was up to speed on the latest versions new features. But yet he wasn’t interested enough to pick up the mouse and try it out for himself on even a small project. I think that has ‘it sucks’ written all over it.
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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[Angelo Lorenzo] “Speaking of RC helicopters, I second your comment about hiring a tech. I remember speaking to one who told me flying an RC with a camera is more difficult that a full blown helicopter.”
We hired a RC camera/copter crew to shoot a snowboard event in Aspen, and they used two guys. One flew the chopper, and the other did the camera. These are fairly large as far as RC goes, and working around them it becomes pretty obvious how dangerous they can be. Good to have experience behind the controls, and the operators should have a hefty liability policy.
If you’re not taking nat sound, they can give some great shots without all the rigging of the cable cam.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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The sled mounted camera is always a good choice. You can kludge skate blades to a doorway dolly and have someone that knows how to skate fairly well push the dolly.
Another idea is to use a camera mounted on a radio control helicopter. There are several companies that do this, and it is best to hire one of them and not DIY.
I’ll second the elbow pads. And strap on traction cleats for street shoes can be bought at Cabella’s, or other outfitter type stores. I’ve even seen them in the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog. If you spend a lot of time standing around on the ice, your feet are going to be killing you after a while due to the cold. It’s a good idea to have a bunch of anti-fatigue mats handy.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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[Bob Cole] “With FCP and high definition footage, in layers, I’m continually getting slowed down by rendering. I’ve done all I can with settings, fast hard drives, RAID, fast MacPro, etc. But I still get interrupted almost every time I move a shot.”
I hadn’t had this problem myself, even though I edit a lot of supposedly processor intensive HD footage on a MP system without a RAID. So I haven’t looked for alternatives to FCS.
So you didn’t mention what codecs/formats are giving you problems, but I’m guessing that you have not quite done all you can to optimize your system and workflow, and/or you are working with a codec that was never intended to be real-time in FCS.
For FCS, I guess a lot would depend on your source material (audio, video and still), and there are clearly formats that are not real-time in FCS, those that are, and those that are marginal as far as real-time performance is concerned. Optimizing this part of the workflow makes a huge difference in the amount of real-time playback once you get into post. And if you are not getting real-time playback of optimized formats (ProRes) do to large amounts of filters/plugins/layers, there is the concept of baking your FX laden, or heavily layered shots. Or at least turning off processor intensive filters once you have established your ‘look’ on a short piece of footage, and save all that rendering until the final cut.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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Not sure where you’re going with this? What did X do to facilitate this job?
I couda’ done this on a MBP with FCS2, and not been out 300 bucks for the privilege of being an Apple beta tester.
Maybe I missed something.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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[Jeremy Garchow] “…but what’s wrong with talking about it in a way that you don’t get accused of being a member of a suicidal cult? It is these new ideas that prevent intellectual suicide. Why is everyone so terrified?”
Jeez Jeremy sounds like your about one notch shy of Godwins Law.
What I find funny is that in your desire to talk about this, if the talk doesn’t go in a direction you like, or support some new whim of Apple, you resort to hyperbole and rhetoric. Is it that big of a deal that some don’t think this is all that handy, or can see flaws in the concept? In your desire to talk about things, try to remember not everyone has to adopt/buy every new thing that comes along just to prove their worthiness, and that pragmatism has it’s merits.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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[Jacob Kerns] “Um the people working around you!
A couple of people in my office bought the iPhone yesterday. you how stupid it looks and sounds talking to a phone instead of just typing in things. For people driving and disabled yes great Idea.”
Not to mention how annoying this would be.
We already have plenty of rude idiots with USI, who already don’t know when it’s proper to curb their cell phone usage, lets give them something else they can use to annoy the rest of the world.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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[David Roth Weiss] “Actually, I’m going to disagree with Rafa on this one. While you can cut very limited amounts of h.264 on the timeline, anything over just a minute or two will make all kinds of things crap out in FCP. Hence the Out of Memory error messag”
Gotta agree with David. Even if you can cut some H.264, if you push your system enough it’s going to crash. And then you risk corrupting your footage or your system files.
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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Geez Wally, H.264. Who woulda’ thunk it?
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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