Scott Sheriff
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[Greg Burke] “Why is everything Dumbed down so much?”
For the same reason DSLR’s have auto-focus and auto-exposure.
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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[Buddy Couch] “Interesting you guys use the term professional a lot. Professionals I know do not switch software packages in the middle of projects. I am not pointing you out in particular, but quite a few on here have obviously done so.
It certainly makes me not take their opinion seriously. As far as not posting, I read mostly. Its where you learn the most you know? Listening and reading. To be honest the only reason I signed up to post here was the simple fact FCP X is completely new. There are no existing forums to use the search function on. I was forced to inquire rather than read existing information.
There you go, now you know why my account was created on release day.”
Fair enough.
Do professionals change software in the middle of a job? Generally no, at least not on their main working system. Most will run it for a while on a second system until a few updates have come out, and it has proven stable.
There are over a million FCP licenses out there. If even a tenth are working professionals of some type, that would be a large population group. Too large not to expect a few of them to be knuckleheads.
I see posts all the time in the FCP forum that make me wonder how the poster is able to get paying gigs. And yet they do…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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[Paul Jay] “No no! We need to panic!!!”
“Who said anything about panic? This is just culture shock.”–Arthur Dent
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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[Buddy Couch] “but was discussing this situation with an editor I know. He has worked in television and such and ask me “who still uses tapes?”. He now works with HDSLR work flow.”
Are you for real?
Maybe you haven’t caught on but you have been talking to numerous television and film editors since you joined.
I personally have archive material on quad, 1″, 3/4, SX, SP and HDV.
HD’s and burnable media does not have an infinite life, and are not a viable archive solution.
As far as tape vs SS acquisition, both have their pro’s and con’s which have been discussed at length in numerous forums, and is actually a different subject than archival.
IMO using a DSLR and/or shooting tapeless doesn’t make you a bad-a$$, or the next Jordan Cronenweth.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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[Matt Callac] “I can totally understand lurking. I lurked for 3 years on a skatboarding online forum before I actually posted in it. A lot of message boards even show how many “guests” are viewing topics at any given time. At the cow we don’t really have that. I’ve been a member here since 2004 i think, and I don’t have that many posts, b/c I lurk way more than I post.”
I lurked here for about a year until we got fiber and could get off dial up. I also continued to lurk a while after I signed up, just to get the vibe.
I don’t know how many posts you have, but I do recognize your name when I see it. So obviously you post something once in a while.I’m sure you saw the post from Melanie Brands, bust on Walter and Richard.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/335/3920
Now there is a good reason to lurk for a while before you post. She just didn’t disagree, she trashed them.
Now like all people in a creative business, we don’t always see eye to eye. But agree or disagree there are some folks here that deserve respect because they put a lot of time in, and have a proven background. Those two guys fit in that category, and their opinion carries a lot more weight than someone that just showed up today.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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[Matt Callac] “hahahah
Scott, I love that you’re looking at how long poeople have been active members everytime they sound like a fanboy. It is oddly coincidental.”I look at the profiles of a lot of the names of people that post here. It is good to get a frame of reference as to how much experience they have, and in what areas.
It seems odd to me to have been on here for quite a while, and never seeing a post from some of these names. And when see they signed up on the same day as the X release and you bust them on it, they all claim to be ‘lurkers’. They smell like trolls to me.
There is plenty of fanboi action on here from names a I see on a regular basis.
But it is hard to believe someone could be a working professional for any length of time and not find something in at least one of the COW forums worth posting about in the last year or two.
Or to look at it another way, if you’re so disinterested in the goings on in the media world that you can’t be bothered to chime in until X comes along, I can’t really take your opinion seriously.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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[John Chay] “Another poster who joined today.
This is very fishy.”
I saw that too.
She is supposedly “Adobe and Apple Certified Professional”, but yet we have never heard of her, and she has never found anything previously in the forums worth joining and posting about.
I find that a bit curious.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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[Matthew Glasser] “All joking aside, let’s not lose sight of the fact that editing is an art not just a matter of pushing the right buttons. We are creative professionals. Many of us used to edit on basic tape to tape machines or with actual film. While the tech tools we use are important, let’s not lose sight of the artistry required in our work. No doubt we need certain features to do the job properly. No doubt that many of those features are missing from FCPX. But at the end of the day, it’s still about storytelling and creativity. And Apple can’t remove that feature from you.”
This is true. But for many of us editing and the associated arts are a business as well. And while FCP is a just tool, it is a tool I expect support for. Just like the vehicle I use to get to shoots. It too is a tool. And I expect to be able to get parts and service for that vehicle from the dealer. Removing FCP7 so that those running lower versions can no longer upgrade is removing a level of support I and others expect, and paid for.
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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All I saw in that article was a bunch of boiler plate from what sounds like an Apple PR that has appeared in several other ‘articles’.
I saw nothing that indicates apple cares about those that have spent big bucks buying their products in the past.
Nor did I see any willingness to servicing those commitments.I did see a lot of hype trying to gin up sales without a lot of substance to back it up.
Buddy, I see you signed up ‘coincidentally’ on the same day as the release. Every one of your posts all read like you’re a paid shill for apple.
Do you work for apple, or some affiliate marketing company?
FYI that is a rhetorical question…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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[Matt Callac] “IF the name wasn’t the same…the expectation wouldn’t be there.”
I think the expectation has been driven by Apple making hinted promises to get the next version dialed in, not so much by the name. FCE’s existence didn’t cause FCS users to go apoplectic, and you wont find me ranting about it, or it’s users.
I wouldn’t care if X was released, and sold parallel to the suite. Just like I don’t care about FCE or iMovie being sold. If those tools work for you, and your budget, thats great.
But I see no reason to take away my choice, so that others can get what they want.Objection #1. is now I can’t even buy the suite.
Objection #2. I have made a substantial financial commitment to the tune of thousands of dollars by buying Apple professional products. In return for those dollars I expect a level of commitment on Apples part.
Objection #3. is not getting an update for the suite, or any part of it.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