Scott Sheriff
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[MIke Guidotti] “To all the fanboys, please stop misusing the word Luddite. Us “old folks” could be accused of being Luddites if FCP X were actually a labor reducing or productivity increasing technology. If we then (we meaning the “haters”) were protesting the product on the grounds that it increased productivity and therefore would jeopardize the ability of skilled laborers (“old folks”) to find work then yes we would be Luddites.”
No doubt that this is the traditional and correct meaning of the word. Since the ’80s it has generally been used in a generic way to label someone is a “technology hater”. Anyone that is using an NLE, is probably not a technology hater. So either way it’s being used, it is wrong.
In my case I’m a skeptic, not a Luddite.
[MIke Guidotti] “Perhaps I should replace “fanboy” with “apologist?””
Fanboy and Apologist. You can be a fanboy, and not be an apologist, but not the other way ’round.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“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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Welcome to the club!
Maybe we need our own Luddite forum.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“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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Have you been to Joe’s FX Script reference?
https://joemaller.com/fcp/fxscript_reference.shtmlOr this is an interesting step thru of an FxScript using a specific example, with some good general tips.
https://provideocoalition.com/index.php/apple/story/fxscript_fcps_most_under_appreciated_feature/Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“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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Lets not forget that quite a bit of that editing software also sold a Mac Pro and/or a MBP. Some also bought memory, monitors, drives, graphics cards and other toys thru apple.
Lets say the pro’s that represents the small percentage of the over one million FCP licenses spends about 6k average with apple. And there are only about 20,000 of them world-wide. That alone is $120,000,000.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“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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[Mick Haensler] ”
Don’t know what “SL” is”Snow Leopard.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“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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Mick,
I’m in the same boat, except I went to SL.
Is your system stable? Does it do what you need? If the answers are yes and yes, run what you have.
I do understand wanting to have FCS3. I would like to have a copy ‘in case of’, but I probably wouldn’t install it without reason, since my system is pretty solid.
As far as the whole X boondoggle, I’m waiting to try Lightworks for Mac. And I use Motion a lot too, so it might be time to have a look at CS5. I don’t see much of a future in Final Cut, as I did six months ago.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“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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[Jamal Watts] “I’ve been thinking about this since FCPX was released last week. Wouldn’t it have been nice if FCPX was modular so that the user can pick the features that they need for their particular workflow?”
We already have that. It’s called Final Cut Studio.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“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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[Aindreas Gallagher] “…and bound to your ship before merrily throwing them back into the sea.”
Well, if I have a ship, then I might just keel-haul those behind this debacle!
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“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 Battistella] “I think that clearly answers pretty much every grave, heart stopping, business ending, I’m defecting, not professional, iMovie pro, how do I export?, how do I capture?, what about sound, open old projects, concern raised in the wild, frenzied, crazed, wild dog, rabid, uptight, passionate, heartfelt comment, discusion and debate raised in the past week.”
Maybe I missed the part where they talked about what those that want an upgrade path, or to buy more licenses for FCS3 are supposed to do.
If you can give me a link, I’d like to have a look at that.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“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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[Mark Suszko] “It’s only fair, since I showed you mine, you guys need to fess up and tell one on yourselves as well.
Don’t leave a bro hanging. You know you have a story.”OK, I will admit we did some dumb things back in the day.
We were doing a spot for a local appliance rental store, and it was my turn in the rotation to direct. Lucky me.
The running gag was a girl is having a bad day, and everything in her life is broken, she needs new stuff now.
She comes home and the sprinklers come on and get her wet. She’s carrying a bag of groceries, and the bottom falls out. She can’t dry her wet clothes because the dryer died. Trying to nuke a cup of hot water for tea, and the microwave goes up in smoke. Then the money shot. Disgusted, she plops down on the couch, grabs the remote, and flips on the TV. There’s a flash, and it goes up in a shower of sparks. Then the logo backplate and tag.
The money shot went off in one take. It all worked really well. Too well in fact.
The house we were shooting in belonged to a couple that rented the basement apartment to a station employee. The TV/money shot was done on the main floor, in their part of the house. We had to buy them all new drapes, furniture and rugs, as well as replace the actresses clothes due to little pinhole spark burns in everything from the flash gag. That cost the station some cash. Needless to say, this also didn’t make this guy their all time favorite roommate either.
The ‘flash’ was more of an explosion, and was a lot bigger than we thought. The producer procured the materials, but only bought enough for one take, so no test or rehearsal. Very dumb.
That is where I made mistake number one. I should have put the kibosh on the gag unless I saw a test first. But, there was a lot of pressure to just knock stuff out on these local spots with small budgets.
The shot was an OTS of the TV looking back at the actress through the rabbit ears, as she plops down on a big poofy ’80’s style couch. We rolled, she comes in, grabs the remote as she jumps onto the couch. Then the producer triggers the flash, and the actress didn’t have to do much acting! WOOF! Not really loud, but a huge flash, and a shower of sparks. She must have jumped back a good twelve inches in about one frame! And the look on her face was priceless. Well, actually it wasn’t priceless, it was 4 grand.
In the end, it was all good. No one got fired, or even a stern talking to. There wasn’t a person in the station that didn’t come down to the tape room to watch the footage, and get a laugh out of it. The worst part was we were still using a tube camera back then, and the flash bloomed the shot for about 10 frames. So we lost the best chunk of her initial reaction, but it still looked pretty funny despite that.
After seeing the footage, I realized where I made mistake number two. We probably could have faked it, and not done a physical gag. But it was the ’80’s, and we didn’t always think as clearly as we do now…
And then there was the time a six hundred pound pig escaped from the studio into downtown…….
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” —Red Adair