Scott Witthaus
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Editing jobs have suddenly taken off. Mostly small, all remote, but still suddenly bubbling back to life. My feeling is there is a back-log of content for clients that needs to be created and has been put off for four months.
My teaching gig will be interesting when that starts up in three weeks. If I were a student and could skip this year, I certainly would.
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12k. I can see my clients needing that tomorrow. Not really….
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I agree with Tony and I want to avoid FCPXML interchange if at all possible. I am hoping for an iPad version of FCPX for my work and for students.
Scott
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Just finished an “hour-long” doc that PBS might have an interest in. We had to be 56:45 on the nose. So we did two versions: PBS and a film festival version (1:04:00).
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Being in the commercial world mostly, I have been working in a modified WFH scenario for years. Granted, it’s a much smaller amount of footage and approvals are “email-able”, but I try to make the process as “dumbed-down” as possible and I am the only editor. Fed-Ex me the files. I cut proxy versions from home and email my first versions. Before Covid-19, take the show on the road to the agency for creative team tweaks (either my gear or their in-house suite). Go to finishing houses as needed. Salt and pepper to taste.
In the Covid world, I do everything at home with no agency visit. Zoom meetings with screen share allow the creatives to comment on an edit. Zoom playing video from FCPX is far from ideal, but it can be slogged through if necessary.
I just finished a doc that had to have color and sound done remotely. Far from ideal (thankfully the director got one color session in before everything shut down, so at least the colorist got a start on the look we wanted). The sound mix approval was a bit of a pain, simply do to environment and lack of quality monitoring.
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[Eric Santiago] “you get to really appreciate how much faster you are in FCPX.
“Just coming back to X from Premiere gig. I so agree!
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I have been hoping for the day that we can hand an incoming student a loaded iPad the first day of their graduate program. Ideally this iPad would be most or all they need. FCPX for an iPad could be a clincher.
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