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Got it figured out. Pay no mind here!
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
Oliver –
My MBP is my main system. I use, however, a Henge dock to clean things up. I then connect my Promise array to the dock, via Tb connection, and the monitor via the display connector. Mouse and keyboard via usb on monitor. These docks are not cheap, but using it, I rarely even think “I am editing on a laptop” because I never see the laptop and it cleans up my work area. Just a monitor, mouse and keyboard on my desk.
https://hengedocks.com/pages/vertical-macbook-pro-retina
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
Just ordered a tricked out 2017 5K iMac. Looking forward to working on it.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Neil Goodman] “The know thier getting a editor at the top of the game, but also music supervision, graphics, finishing all from people who specialize it each profession.”
Exactly and this is what many freelancers, including myself, do. Back in the old days, I would handle all post after dailies (now it’s cards backed up twice!) and supervise through color. I would pay each of these specialists too. But I am still a one man shop who happens to manage the post process. I think mid-size post houses feel obligated to keep their employees busy (and the work in-house), so the client might not get the best person for a particular job, rather the person that is available.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
I wish I could say I control how the material is displayed, but I am not. Was just poking around for anyone who might have had experience with this company/product. Thanks!
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Walter Soyka] “A single-person “team” is self-limiting,”
Can you explain?
[Walter Soyka] ” I think the biggest opportunities lie in the middle.”
Once again?
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Oliver Peters] “My clients in many cases pointedly tell me not to use X”
Interesting, as I ask to have X installed and my clients agree (starting that gig end of this week). They trust me, as the editor, to choose the best tool for the job.
In fact I just got an email from a gentleman who just came off of an Avid assistant job on the series, Turn. This guy is an avid Avid die-hard. However, he is setting up a 4-wall room for freelancers to rent out and it has all three A’s plus an R. Editors choice. To me, this is a very smart way to go. Don’t bias your shop out of potential work.
[Oliver Peters] “I now use X on a very limited basis and it’s usually only laptop-based edits.”
Your choice or back to your clients?
[Oliver Peters] “I don’t see one-man bands as the future of video.”
Define “video”. Broadcast TV? Corporate? Educational? Social? There is so much “video” out there. Is your definition based on a budget or ANY budget?
I see the mid-level sized shops having more difficulty going forward, precisely because the 1-man/woman shop can compete on so many levels at an efficient cost and the large facilities can handle large jobs at an efficient cost. The squeeze is in the middle.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
It’s going to be a wide range of materials, from corporate history files to 4K newly shot stuff. It looks as if this system can take almost any media format.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Oliver Peters] “An “Applization” of Serif would destroy any innovation that they are headed in.
“Like DS and Symphony? 😉
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Walter Soyka] “I can only console myself with the the tale of Softimage/Avid DS, which Scott has alluded to elsewhere in this thread. DS (which I almost foolishly bought in 2013!) was 10 years ahead of its time when it launched. But it did not receive the level of continuous development required, so time time caught up and passed it by.”
So true. The good thing was that DS was so far ahead of it’s time that we got a lot of life out of them even as Avid foolishly let it languish. Softimage had an amazing team working on DS and it always was great to be in their HQ in Montreal. They knew that had something great.
Media Composer still hasn’t caught up with DS in many many ways.
Scott Witthaus
Owner, 1708 Inc./Editorial
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter