Shane Ross
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It’s not choppy at all. The first pan, possibly. And yeah, scrolling credits are always an issue, which is why many people use ENDCRAWL (third party app), or After Effects and a mathmatical formula for how fast it goes.
But no, this looks fine to me…at least the file I downlaoded.
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Don’t go to H.264 first. NO NO NO NO NO! You lose SO much information…good god no.
Export out DNxHD 175x, or Cineform….a good high quality codec. THEN take to a Mac that has Compressor (gonna need a mac with one Apple ProApp on it to convert to ProRes) and convert to ProRes.
You’ll cause a lot of damage outputtting to a highly compressed format first, then converting. Bad idea.
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How will you be delivering it to them and how will they be putting it onto their iPad? Handbrake has presets for iPad…so using that, and them putting it on their iPad thru iTunes will get it on there.
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Yeah, sorry man. Need to explain that you have no experience with Avid, and that he will have to do it himself. As an editor, he should know how to do it. One hopes.
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Why do you have to do this? What is your job in this project? Do they not have an assistant editor on board? If you have zero experience with Avid, as an editor, sorry, I wouldn’t want you to do any handing off of footage, because you aren’t familiar with how things work.
Guess you need to start learning Avid. But yeah, why do they want YOU to do this? This is assistant editor work.
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Transcode your footage into a QT format you can give them…DNxHD 175x, or ProRes 422. Resolve will do this, so will EditReady. Or Export out of FCX as ProRes 422.
Now…60p/24p, for “in camera slow motion.” Do they want the footage at 24p slowed down, or as 60p so they can play at normal speed, and slow if they need it?
What version of Avid are they running? If an old old version, then it’s not your fault their machine can’t import footage from a newer camera properly.
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[greg janza] “The film also suffers from having a lack of actual diversity. It’s nearly wall to wall white males.”
Yeah, I REALLY noticed that. I believe I counted two females in their entire list of people in the film.
[greg janza] “I’d also argue that a cut-down version of this film (20-30 mins) could get a lot more people to watch it.”
I agree with this too. There are several times I thought it made it’s point, and could have ended, but then went on. I agree, it could have been shorter, and still made it’s point clear.
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[Bill Davis] “Made FOR Apple? No in any way, shape or form. Utterly NO WAY.”
No, it wasn’t funded by Apple or sanctioned by them. That’s not what I meant. it’s like…a “love letter” to Apple about FCP-X.
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[Bill Davis] “I TOTALLY get that some editors want to cut with AVID or Premier. But it appears that the main problem is that THOSE programs are simply NOT currently powerful enough or optimized enough for Apple Hardware – the same way FCP X currently IS.”
Shows that Apple doesn’t care about any other editing professionals OTHER than the ones who use Apple products. “Hey, it works with OUR software…there must be something wrong with yours.” Closing the ecosystem even more. Nice.
[Bill Davis] “SO you’re saying that it’s APPLES requirement to NOT do what they want to do (which is offer solutions that are TUNED to the hardware and software choices they own) and manage to satisfy some of the most demanding users on the planet – in order to accommodate users of OTHER software solutions that they have absolutely no control over?”
Used to be a time when they made hardware for ALL creative professionals…not just those who use their stuff. We can see that more and more they are only caring about themselves, and not their userbase. Which is, I guess, perfectly capitalistic of them, so makes business sense. But can you now see why many of us who used to be served by Apple, and who now are in that group that Apple could give two shits about, feel a little miffed?
[Bill Davis] “Davinci Makes a track based editing program that handles video perfectly well on current Macs including Laptops. I’d merely ask you why can’t AVID and Adobe do the same?”
Guess you haven’t been using Resolve enough. Yeah, it works, with certain codecs, editing codecs. Throw H.264 at it…10-bit H.264? Maybe Red Raw 4K…and it’ll start to choke. Add two spendy GPUs to it, and it’ll do better.
[Bill Davis] “So at some point, doesn’t the problem get down to those other NLE software vendors NOT keeping up with THEIR customers needs – rather than it being something to blame Apple for?”
Nope. Avid is keeping well in tune with our needs, thank you. But making hardware that’s not ideal for quite a few workflows, thus turning many to PCs…sadly…because Windows still sucks.
Anyway…OFF THE TRACKS was, IMHO, an independent marketing film made for Apple by Apple fans. I know docs need to have a perspective. This one just seemed like a large marketing piece.
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[Bill Davis] “I bought my Wife a 12” Macbook two years ago – cuz she wanted something basic and super lightweight to carry on location in her shoulder bag…. looking back she got two years of solid general computing service out of it and toted it onto sets where it helped her earn at least 20 times its cost.
So was that machine a success or a failure in that context?”
Success. MacBook…MacBook Air. PERFECT for her and many others. This is why there are different models. MacBooks and Airs for one purpose, MacBook Pros for another. One that demands more processing power, better GPU, so better fans and cooling. Don’t tell me that you don’t understand this…I know you do. We ate pizza together. because you also said…. “I suppose It depends on what you’re looking for.” EXACTLY!! I would like a Mac Laptop for professional video toolsets…thus I need a fast processor, good GPU, non-throttled…good cooling. Bulk doesn’t matter to me, I prefer it be bulkier to accommodate that.
If people want slim and cool…HEY, they have that with the MacBook and Air. TWO OPTIONS! So give us professionals one option. Too much to ask? Apparently so. They make more money from consumers than professionals. GOBS MORE. Why do I like Avid and Adobe over Apple? Because professional video and audio and graphics is their MAIN FOCUS.
[Bill Davis] “It’s a wonder they make any money at all.”
Because they cater to the majority of their customers…as I stated before. Consumers…who will buy their products despite all this, and one big DRIVING factor is…”cool factor.”
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