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Hmmm, looks like a couple of folks here might be on the Adobe “dime”? One thread after another on the “mencace” of X….hmmmmm
Just saying (totally kidding of course. Adobe uses third party emissaries to pay…).
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Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
“If your bragging about shaving seconds or even milliseconds of an editing operation than our goals as editors are very different.”
That speed is good only if the accumulation of time savings allows you to do more creative editorial for your client. My goal is to give my client the best possible product they can get. If the time savings allows me to try a few more options for them, then yes, it is important.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
“I’ve said it before – I dont want to go faster – Speed is not something I advertise in my skill set although I’ve proven to be fast enough to compete in broadcast and theatrical marketing which is has blazingly fast turnarounds. I just want to create and be creative and have tools that help me facilitate that – lucky for us – no matter what road you head down, there’s plenty of tools available.”
You are looking at speed in terms of a race. That’s not correct. What speed does is allow time for more creative options to be tried. In the advertising world, I never found NLE’s made the rough cut phase shorter. Agencies still pushed to limit to air-date as they did in the linear days. What the “speedy NLE” did, however was allow us to try more ideas and versions. So they still booked the same amount of “Avid time” as they always had in pre-Avid days but we just got to try more things because of “speed”. In my mind, the inspiration comes out of the work. You don’t sit there with your feet up on the console waiting for the great idea to hit you like a bolt of lightening. You get material on the timeline and start crafting. The more efficiently you can do that, the better. If that’s speed, that’s better.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
Client in color correction session: “Which monitor should I be looking at?”
Colorist: “Which one do you like?”
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Oliver Peters] “How do you think the state of an application advances? “
Professionally versus whining. Maybe if he said “I know a bunch of colleagues talked about this idea and I think it would help”. Or “this is an idea I had that can help, whether you are doing wedding videos or films”. Instead he “I wants” us to death about his particular workflow. Just was annoying to me and possibly me only.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
Is it only me or are there others that watched this video and thought “why is this guy whining so much”? Perhaps some good ideas in there but most of what I heard was “I want, I want, I want”. I was waiting for that idea to be presented that jumped out at me but it never came. We have very different workflows and use very different NLE’s. Just my walk away feeling after spending 7 minutes watching.
Oh and he should add Apple to the list of companies he sends his ideas to….just sayin.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017TZTMBG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This one does the trick. Thanks.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
Thanks for posting.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
“Some of the Fusion capabilties such as Fusion tracking has made its way into the free version. While this is exciting I have to wonder if this is a good move.”
Based on this statement from David above.
[Oliver Peters] “BMD’s product strategy is very clear and concise.”
Do tell…
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
Reminds me of the Avid Media Composer, Avid Express, Avid Express Pro days from Avid. Confusing product line with odd pricing and an odd array of features that were either included or not in any one software. Foggy recall on my end, but I think those were the system names…
I started a company based around an Avid Express Pro (with an FCP-L suite) and could do about 90% of what a MC could do at a much lower price. National spot clients had no idea it was not a “real Avid”. Freelance editors barely noticed.
Plus, it was made known that if you loaded MC user settings onto the Xpress Pro system, you got a very nearly identical system.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Visual Storyteller
https://vimeo.com/channels/1322525
Managing Partner, Low Country Creative LLC
Professor, VCU Brandcenter